Sunday, October 25, 2009

Sci-Fi, A.I. and Robotics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek#Etymology_of_robot ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. 1920
"The Robots described in Čapek's play are not robots in the popularly understood sense of an automaton. They are not mechanical devices, but rather artificial biological organisms that may be mistaken for humans."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.#Robots ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film) , http://metropolis1927.com ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)#Development_and_writing ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#2001:_A_Space_Odyssey 1968 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project 1970
The_Terminator was released on October 26, 1984
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Released 27 February 1984
Queen: Machines_Back_to_Humans ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Works_(Queen_album)
1977 News_of_the_World_(album)#Cover
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Released 12 April 1984
RUSH: TheBodyElectric , http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vy1g , 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Under_Pressure_(Rush_album) ,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220337/fullcredits#cast , http://www.2112.net
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W.Whitman was so far ahead of his time.
{...the line "I sing the body electric" was not added until the 1867 edition. At the time, "electric" was not yet a commonly used term.} 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman#Leaves_of_Grass ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sing_the_Body_Electric_(poem) ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3LDpCH3_eM
1867
http://www.bartleby.com/142/19.html
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Ray_Bradbury and the Bradbury_Building:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sing_the_Body_Electric_(The_Twilight_Zone) 1962
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sing_the_Body_Electric_(short_story_collection) ,
So Ray_Bradbury wrote a story about humanoid robotics. Decades later a building that shares his surname was used in the 1982 Blade Runner movie.
http://bladerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Bradbury_Building ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_Building#In_popular_culture
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1980 Machine_Messiah
Yes performing Machine Messiah live at the Amphitheater @ Station Square in Pittsburgh PA on July 21st 2009!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAb-7bERSRA&feature=related
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_takeover#In_fiction

Faint (Official Video) - Linkin Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYU-8IFcDPw

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Millennium Timescape

Physical time travel is quite a concept to ponder. The implications to observe & even interact has astounding implications. Even just having the ability of precognition has startling implications. To be able to FlashForward to a certain point in time would be mind bending, indeed.
The_Lone_Gunmen_series starts with a plane that's under remote control towards the WTC. The actual WTC Vertical_Impact_Locations were above the 77th & 93rd floors, or about 924' & 1116'. A TV show can't prove that tower 2 was hit at just over 900' & tower 1 was hit just over the 1100' level. Such impact accuracy could be achieved by remotely controlled planes. Otherwise, its just another interesting coincidence in earths timeline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_(1989_film)#Plot
Grand_Tour:_Disaster_in_Timescape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)#Plot
http://digilander.libero.it/flavio.cenni/
http://www.lux-aeterna.co.nz/Titan.htm
Futility,_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan#Similarities_to_the_Titanic
http://www.jamesmdeem.com/timepage.facts.htm
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http://multiverseextra.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

John Eldridge, Jr. and the Lion Portals

"From 11 September 1941 he was Commander, Scouting Squadron 71, attached to Wasp (CV-7)."
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e2/eldridge.htm
"Eldridge departed New York 28 May 1945 for service in the Pacific. En route to Saipan in July, she made contact with an underwater object and immediately attacked but no results were observed." http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/e2/eldridge.htm ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eldridge,_Jr.#Biography
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On 15 January 1951 she was transferred under the Mutual Defense Assistance program to Greece, with whom she served as HS Lion. Believed to have been sold as scrap metal some time after the year 2000. http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/USS-Eldridge
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{Fans of science fiction works believe LEON to have taken part in the 'Philadelphia experiment', an experiment which more than likely never took place having never been substantiated. Of course the ship itself having none of the attributed mysterious characteristics. She was decommissined on November 15th 1992, and later at 11 November 1999, was sold at company 'V&J SCRAPMETAL TRADING L.T.D'...}
http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/leon51_92_en.asp ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_destroyer_Leon_(D54)
Of all the names to call a ship that wasn't officially used in portal experiments, LION is a curious choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(disambiguation) ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_(given_name) ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Part-Dieu_(Shopping_Center)
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The Lion has been a symbol of a gateway or portal since ancient times.
The Forbidden_City_Imperial_Guardian_Lions hold a symbolic portal sphere.
This portal sphere is depicted in a larger form in the movie, Event_Horizon.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2760218880/tt0119081 ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_guardian_lions ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Lion#Poetry
The Lion Tower pinnacle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_du_Cr%C3%A9dit_Lyonnais

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

II IIIIII II II IIIIII IIIIII I IIIII

{In 1948 Bernard Silver (1924–62), a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, overheard the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to research a system to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his friends Norman Joseph Woodland (1921-) and Jordin Johanson about the request, and the three started working on a variety of systems. Their first working system used ultraviolet ink, but this proved to fade and was fairly expensive.[2]
Convinced that the system was workable with further development, Woodland quit his position at Drexel, moved into his father's apartment in Florida, and continued working on the system. His next inspiration came from Morse code, and he formed his first barcode from sand on the beach when "I just extended the dots and dashes downwards and made narrow lines and wide lines out of them."[2] To read them, he adapted technology from optical soundtracks in movies, using a 500-watt light bulb shining through the paper onto an RCA935 photomultiplier tube (from a movie projector) on the far side. He later decided that the system would work better if it were printed as a circle instead of a line, allowing it to be scanned in any direction.
On 20 October 1949 they filed a patent application for "Classifying Apparatus and Method", in which they described both the linear and bullseye printing patterns, as well as the mechanical and electronic systems needed to read the code. The patent was issued on 7 October 1952 as US Patent 2,612,994. In 1951 Woodland and Johanson moved to IBM and continually tried to interest IBM in developing the system. The company eventually commissioned a report on the idea, which concluded that it was both feasible and interesting, but that processing the resulting information would require equipment that was some time off in the future.
In 1952 Philco purchased their patent, and then sold it to RCA the same year. In 1962 Silver died in a car accident.} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode#History
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http://multiverseextra.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-doodle-57th-anniversary-of.html

CSI: Las Vegas Synchronicity

CSI: LV, was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It premiered on October 6, 2000 & opens with, Who_Are_You. John Entwistle was born on October 9, 1944.

"The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Entwistle#Death


Recorded4 October 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_You_(The_Who_song)

"Had Enough" is a song written by the Who bassist John Entwistle, and featured on their eighth studio album, Who Are You. It was also released as a double A-sided single with "Who Are You", making it Entwistle's second single A-side..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Had_Enough_(The_Who_song)

Just some October synchronicity.
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As identification technology advances, practically anything & any part of it could become a traceable data system.
"I am not a number," (or a bar code) "I_am_a_free_man."



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