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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

DANGERS AWAITING HUMANITY ON EARTH

     DANGERS AWAITING HUMANITY ON EARTH
(Some guidance is taken from Times of India news paper dated 27-10-2015 of Hyderabad, India)
Ever since the formation of the planet Earth it is subjected to many impacts by space debris such as asteroids etc. It is also understood that the Earth when it was in a molten state was collided by another mass of its own size and as a result the two merged and the loose debris was scattered into space to form Moon. Earth is usually hit by an asteroid in every few hundred thousand years, sufficient to cause great damage to Earth and life on Earth.
     Modern world started about 10000 years ago, and research on the probable dangers to Earth is well established. I have already discussed about some dangers to Earth and life on Earth. Still there are many more dangers to be discussed. Hence I like to give a brief summary of all such dangers in this post.
DANGER FROM ROBOTS:
Artificial intelligence in robots is increasing rapidly. It is also feared that killer robots are being developed by some countries so that they may be used in war. These robots are capable of thinking and acting and acting on their own accord. United Nations recently called for a ban on development of killer robots. Inventor Elon Musk is also of the opinion that artificial intelligence might be the greatest existential threat to humanity. The world famous physicist Stephen Hawking said “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Humans who are limited by slow biological evolution, could not compete, and would be superseded.”
DANGER FROM GAMMA RAY FLASHES:  
Gamma ray flashes are caused by the merging of two collapsed stars. The energy liberated in these explosions is many times the energy of Sun. Though these flashes are many they are happening in the distant galaxies very far away. If this happens nearer to our solar system, the ozone layer of Earth which is protecting us so far gets destroyed, causing heavy damage to life on Earth. It is difficult to detect double stars and hence the danger cannot be ascertained in advance. Hence the danger can strike any moment either earlier or far away in time.
DANGER FROM MAGNETIC REVERSAL:
It is observed that the Earth’s magnetic pole reversals occur at some intervals. In the last million years there are about 170 magnetic reversals on Earth, at an average period of about 588000 years of interval. The last reversal occurred about 781,000 years ago . Hence the next magnetic reversal is likely in the near future. In this process of magnetic reversal, the magnetic field dwindles to nothing, and then over a century gradually reappears with the north and south poles flipped. The latest observation by the European Space Agency (E S A) indicates that the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening at a faster rate and is likely to flip within the next 100 years. In the absence of strong magnetic field of Earth, the cosmic rays from the Sun and other energetic particles from space are likely to damage ozone layer, resulting destruction to life on Earth.
DANGER FROM BLACK HOLES:
A black hole is a body that has a strong gravitational field to prevent even light escaping from its gravity. Most galaxies have super massive black holes as massive as several million Suns, at the centre. Even our galaxy, the Milky Way is full of black holes at its centre. In July 2015, scientists from Durham University discovered five previously unidentified super massive black holes, billions of times the size of our Sun, increasing fears that one could come closer to Earth than previously anticipated. In some others opinion, one such black hole passing nearby could eject Earth from the Solar system and send us hurtling into deep space. But in my view this may not be a possibility since the Solar system is nearer to the edge of our galaxy, whereas the black holes are nearer to the centre of galaxy.
DANGER FROM ALIEN INVASION:
The universe is vast and our planet is only a speck when compared to the present size of the universe. There is intelligent life on our planet. Our planet is revolving around the star, Sun. Many such habitable planets were discovered revolving around other stars. It is quite possible that a more intelligent life than on Earth may exist there. Ours is carbon based life. Silicon has similar properties to form silicon based life. Or there may be some other element not existing on Earth to form life on exoplanets. If aliens come visit Earth can we expect them to be friendly with us or they may act as our enemies is a matter to be considered. Stephen Hawking thinks it more likely that such creatures would come to Earth in search of resources and bent on our destruction. Other cosmologists even support that extraterrestrial invaders might plunder a vital natural resource, such as the water from our ocean, bring with them pests with a taste for human flesh or upset our planet or solar system causing Earth’s destruction.

DANGER DUE TO ERUPTION OF SUPER VOLCANOES:
One of the major dangers to earth from the Earth itself is from the eruption of super volcanoes. About 252 million years ago an eruption of super volcano in Siberia wiped out about 95% of all Earth’s species. A super volcano is discovered under yellow stone National Park in Wyoming in America. It erupts at the interval of about 600,000 years. The last eruption took place about 640,000 years ago. Scientists have discovered that the ground in yellow stone Park is 74 cms. Higher than it was in 1923, indicating a massive swelling underneath the Park. If it explodes within minutes tens of thousands would be dead and the long term effects would be more devastating. Such eruptions would result in planet wide cloud of debris in atmosphere, obstructing sun light, destroying plant and animal life on Earth, besides considerable loss in human life. Also temperatures would go down by 21 degrees, rain would turn to acid.
DANGER FROM ASTEROID IMPACT:

Beyond the orbit of planet Mars, there is asteroid belt. The largest of the asteroids in this belt, Ceres in only of 600 miles in diameter. Some asteroids, such as Hermes cross the orbit of Earth and are known as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (P H As). Future collisions with Earth cannot be ruled out. A collision of asteroid of one mile in diameter is enough to wipe out civilization on Earth, and such impact is possible once in million years or less, according to experts. It is believed that the dinosaurs were wiped by a six mile wide asteroid impact about 65 million years ago. The path of the asteroids is constantly watched by astronomers. There are plans to divert the path of any dangerous asteroid by using nuclear weapons, but it is doubtful whether a large sized asteroid can be diverted by this process. There seems to be no danger from the asteroid impact in the near future. It has been more than a century since the large major asteroid  impact took place in a remote and uninhabited region of Siberia. It was powerful enough to fell trees in an area of 800 square miles (2000 square kilometers). An asteroid known as Apophis which is 984 feet (300 metres) across will pass much closer to Earth than Moon, within the orbits of geostationary satellites only 22,236 miles (35785 kilometres) above the surface of the Earth, on Friday 13th April 2029, but without any collision with Earth. Earth's gravitational pull may change its orbit, but nobody knows the likely changed orbit.


DANGER FROM GLOBAL WARMING:
Global warming is the increase in Earth’s surface temperature due to effect of green house gases such as carbon dioxide emissions by burning fossil fuels, or from deforestation which trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth. We will soon see carbon dioxide concentration that have not been reached on Earth for the past 50 million years. There is a total worldwide emission of carbon dioxide of 22 billion tons to the atmosphere each year. About a third of it comes from electricity generation and another third from transportation and a third from all other sources. The concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 60 times than it was in 1860. A rise of 2 to 3 degrees of celsius of temperature in the polar region would have serious effect, where it would cause the glaciers to melt. This can cause the rise in ocean levels by about 250 feet (75 metres). 50% of world population is in coastal areas.   They will become homeless. Cities like London, Newyork, Losangeles, Sydney, Tokyo, Hongkong, Bombay and Rio De Janeiro etc. are likely to be submerged in ocean water. There are attempts to control global warming, but how far it will be successful we have to wait and see.
DANGER FROM WORLD WAR III: (Please go through my post on world war iii for details).
Many scientists believe in the possibility of world war at any time. Most of the countries have developed biological and chemical weapons as well as devastating nuclear weapons. Besides this they are even training robots to take part in world war for accurate bombing at a desired place. Currently 9 countries are known to have nuclear capabilities. In 2006 the physics Today journal concluded that the detonation of 100 nuclear bombs (which is only a negligible fraction of the total number of available nuclear weapons) would bring about a “nuclear winter” causing temperatures to drop to the lowest in 1000 years and “likely eliminate the majority of the human population.” Even there is danger to humanity if the biological weapons are used in the war. If anthrax was released into the air, it could cause fatalities in 90% of the population exposed to it. There is astrological tendency that the world war iii is likely to start in the year 2026 as a biological war and is likely to turn into nuclear war. The war seems to cover many years and most of the world population are likely to suffer heavily.

DANGER DUE TO PANDEMICS:
Throughout history many deadly pathogens have emerged which have wreaked havoc on the human race. The Black Plague killed one in every four Europeans in the 14th century while in just two years the 1918 Spanish flu took at least 50 million lives.
Recent possible pandemics including SARS, bird flu and MERS, a corona virus which originated in Saudi Arabia, have eventually died down, but experts say that it is only a matter of time before one goes global. If nature was not enough to worry about, scientists have been accused of engineering mutant versions of diseases, which, if they escaped from the lab, could threaten the future of humanity.

Last year after researchers at the Wisconsin-Madison created a life threatening virus that closely resembled the 1918 Spanish flu, many disease experts were appalled. Simon Wain-Hobson a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said: “It is madness, folly. If society, the intelligent lay person understood what was going on, they would say, “What are you doing?”


Sunday, January 17, 2016

MIND CREATURES

MIND CREATURES
     Powers of mind are unlimited.  Our basic operating system is thought power. It is linked to the entire universe and to God. These were understood by our ancients especially in India. The Indian saints even meditated in Himalayas and achieved great powers of mind. They achieved powers to live without eating, and staying inside water for any long length of time without losing life, leaving body and going on excursion into the universe and returning again into the body at will duly maintaining the body in good condition free from decomposition meanwhile. They were able to control others who are less powerful in mental strength compared to them. They were even able to enter the fresh dead body of an animal and return back to their body at will. They were able to create a great decorative building by mental powers for others to go inside and enjoy its decorations and get it disappears later. So to speak there is no limitation to these mental powers. Methods to develop most of these powers were not recorded in the ancient times except teaching these powers to their disciples only. Hence most of these powers were lost by the time we entered the modern times.
     In spite of this, even the modern world has understood about the out of the body experiences (O B E) otherwise known as astral travel or astral projection which is connected to the mental powers and it is developing at a faster rate in the present days. Science has not at reached the stage of connecting the relation between body, mind and soul, matter in the universe and God. The universe is vast and we can expect correspondingly vast number of secrets, for some we must depend on our ancients as well as modern investigators who developed mental powers and tried to understand the secrets between human life and the universe and God.
     One of the hidden secrets under creation is MIND CREATURES. By concentration and visualization and other occult powers of mind one can create more perceptible externalized manifestations of something whose existence is originated in mind of the creator. This practice is in Tibet. Creation of this kind is called ‘Tulpa’ in Tibet.
     A French scholar lady by name Alexandra David-Neel who spent 14 years in Tibet, also studied about ‘Tulpa’ and practiced it, wrote about her experiences in her book ‘Magic and Mystery in Tibet’. She could prepare a mind creature of a monk, short and fat and of jolly type. It took few months for her to form the phantom monk. It started living with her in the apartment. When she travelled, the monk also accompanied her as a traveler too. At times she felt that a robe was lightly rubbing against her, and once a hand seemed to touch her shoulder. Gradually the phantom monk became more troublesome and escaped her control.
      Once a herdsman who brought a present of butter to her also saw the ‘Tulpa’ in her tent and took it for a live Lama. She succeeded in dissolving the phantom only after a struggle of six months.

     This phenomenon of mental creatures is still a mystery. How this mental creatures are formed by concentration of mind and imagination, visualization and other, more occult, efforts of mind is not clear and not well defined.

Friday, January 1, 2016

DO YOU KNOW? -1

DO YOU KNOW? -1
     There are about 10 million good bacteria (not harmful) in a glass of drinking water, which may help purify water and keep it safe. These bacteria grow in the drinking water treatment plant and on the inside of our water pipes. Formerly one could hardly see any bacteria at all and now, thanks to the techniques such as massive D N A sequencing and flow cytometry, we could suddenly see bacteria in drinking water. Hence this is a recent discovery.
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     Cockroaches take bath in water soon after they come in contact with human body.
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     World’s largest leaf is about 20 m long. It belongs to raffia palm. Tallest grass is bamboo and is about 25 m height.
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     . Over five trillion plastic pieces are floating in world’s oceans.
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     Scientists grow sperm, egg in lab. This may help treat age-related diseases and fertility problems.
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     The tropical pea tree known as Albizia Falcate is the world’s fastest growing tree. It grows up to 10 m in a single year.
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     The green blooded skink is the only vertebrate to have green pigment in its blood. Its function is not yet known to the scientists.
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     Girls’ brains mature faster.
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     Anti-aging drug may be just five years away.
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     Venus fly-traps sometimes catch small frogs; and rajah pitcher plant is said to eat mice.
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     A snake may accidentally be eaten by another snake when both try to devour the same prey.
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     A giant tortoise can support a one tonne weight.
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     D N A could be used to build future computers. D N A is the next big thing in data storage.
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     Sex offenders are influenced by genes.
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     Scientists turn blood cells into neurons. It paves way for pain drugs sans numbness.
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     A star war-like planet is discovered. It also orbits two stars.
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     Our universe is dying, but not for 100 billion years.
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     The Mozombique spitting cobra can accurately spit its venom into the eyes of an approaching person up to 3 m away.
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     After eating a huge meal such as a leopard, a python may not need to eat again for up to 12 months.
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     In many salamander species, if the animal loses one eye, a limb or its tail, the body part will regrow within few months.
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The Duelist
Henri Tragne of Marscille, France, fought five duels between 1861 and 1878. In the first four his opponents fell dead before a single shot had been fired; in the fifth Tragne himself had died – again before shots had been exchanged. (Max Jouvenot, Champs d'Honneur, p.113)

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Similar Assassins
An assassin named Claude Volbonne murdered Baron Rodemire de Tarazone, of France, in 1872. Twenty one years earlier Baron’s father had also been murdered – by Claude Volbonne. The two assassins were not related. (Repley’s Giant Book of Believe It or Not)
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Franz Ritchter Times Two
Franz Richter, a 19 years old volunteer in the Austrian Transport corps was admitted in the hospital suffering from pneumonia. In the same hospital was another patient named Franz Richter, also 19 years old, also suffering from pneumonia, and also a volunteer in the Transport Corporation. Both men were born in Silesia. (Scientific American, October 19, 1972, p.110)
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Deadly Kimono
A  kimono successively owned by three teenage girls, each of whom died before she had a chance to wear it, was believed to be so unluckly that it was cremated by a Japanese priest in February 1657. As the garment was being burned, a violent wind sprang up, fanning the flames and spreading them beyond control. The ensuing fire destroyed three quarters of Tokyo, leveling 300 temples, 500 palaces, 9000 shops, 61 bridges, and killing 100,000 people. (Noel Nouet , Historic de Tokyo, p.98)
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Clocking Out
An ornate clock belonging to King Louis XIV of France stopped at the precise moment of his death, 7:45 A. M. on September 1, 1715, and has never run since. (Ripley’s Giant Book of Believe It or Not)
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Three Men on a Train
Three Englishmen travelling by train in Peru, one day in the 1920’s, found themselves to be the only occupants of their passenger car. Introducing themselves, they discovered that the first man’s surname was Bingham, and the second man’s, powell, the third man was Bingham-Powell. (A first hand report to the Editors)

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     Soon solid state batteries are likely that can last forever.
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     New ‘velco’ tissue could help repair damaged hearts. It can be built disassembled as per need easily.
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     Li-fi internet is 100 times faster than wi-fi. It transmits data @1GBps via visible light, but it cannot pass through walls.
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     New substance harder than diamond is created. New technique helps to develop Q-Carbon at room temperature; can also make a carat of gems in just 15 minutes.
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     There are more than 100 billion wild birds in the world.
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     The sooty tern (bird) can spend three years or more in the air without needing to land.
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     The Australian pelican has the largest beak of any bird measuring up to 50cm long.
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     The eyes of birds of prey are five times more densely packed with light sensitive cells than humans. A peregrine can spot a pigeon flying up to 8 k m away.
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     An ostrich egg – the largest laid by any bird – is 24 times greater than farmyard chicken egg.
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     Albatrrosses can soar high over the waves for hours on end without flopping their wings, covering great distances with little effort.
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     Horror films do make the blood curdle. This is proved by scientists recently.
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     By 2100, global temperatures may rise by 8 degrees C, if significant efforts are not made to counteract climate changes. It would place billions of people at risk from extreme temperatures, flooding, draught, and food shortages. The finding breaches the UN’s safe limit of 2 degrees C, beyond which dangerous climate change can be expected.
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     Pollution making bacteria is antibiotic resistant. In samples from contaminated river, 95% microbes are found immune to drugs.
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     Midnight munchies may impair memory, learning. It reduces protein in brain which might lead to onset ofAlzheimer’s.
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     Graphene could be used to detoxify N-waste. It can act as a super sieve and separate different atomic isotopes of hydrogen, and create expensive heavy water.
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     The speediest mammal in the water is killer whale, moving at about 55 k m per hour.
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     Mammals might have lived on earth for about 200 million years, whereas microscopic bacteria have been around 3.5 billion years.
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     Tiger cubs depend entirely on their mothers to bring them food until they are 18 months old.
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     Mexican free tailed bats form the largest colonies to accommodate as many as 10 millions together in a single cove.
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     With feet up to 15 cm long, hares can reach speeds of 60 k m per hour when running flat out.
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     The sea otter has the densest fur of any mammal in the world, approximately 150000 hairs per sq. cm. of the sea otters’ skin.
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     Rino horns are not made of real horn, but very tightly packed hairs.
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     An adult male lion can eat up to 30 kg of meat in one go, and will not need to eat again for several days.
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     Domestic dogs are one million times better of smelling sweat than humans.
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     The world’s largest mammal herd consists of up to 1.5 million northern fur seals.

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