Dr. Plot and the Amazing Double Sunset

Its something i took time out to go and see for myself. Well worth the effort and the time.

www.mikeoates.org/mas/leek/sunset.htm

www.leekonline.co.uk/sunset

Rich exoplanet system discovered

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets that orbit a star called HD 10180, which is much like our own Sun.

The star is 127 light years away, in the southern constellation of Hydrus.

The researchers used the European Southern Observatory (Eso) to monitor light emitted from the system and identify and characterise the planets.

They say this is the "richest" system of exoplanets - planets outside our own Solar System - ever found.

Christophe Lovis from Geneva University's observatory in Switzerland was lead researcher on the study. He said that his team had probably found "the system with the most planets yet discovered".

The discovery could provide insight into the formation of our own Solar System "This also highlights the fact that we are now entering a new era in exoplanet research the study of complex planetary systems and not just of individual planets," he said.

The research has been submitted for publication to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Eso's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (or Harps) instrument was responsible for the discovery.

Harps measures the wobble of a star this gives a measure of how much it is being tugged on by an orbiting planet.

"If there is one planet it will induce a little movement - the star will come towards us and move away," Dr Lovis explained.

"And what works for one planet works for many."

With many planets orbiting the star, its movement becomes a very complex "superposition" of several different planet-induced movements.

Using Harp, Dr Lovis and his team were able to measure this and break it down, in order to calculate how many planets were in the system, how great each of their masses was, and even the path of each individual planet's orbit.

The researchers said the system around HD 10180 as unique in several respects.

It has at least five "Neptune-like planets" lying within a distance equivalent to the orbit of Mars, making it more populated than our own Solar System in its inner region. And all the planets seem to have almost circular orbits.

Dr Lovis said: "Studies of planetary motions in the new system reveal complex gravitational interactions between the planets and give us insights into the long-term evolution of the system."

So far, the astronomers have picked up clear signals from five planets, along with two slightly "fuzzier" signals. One of these possible sixth and seventh planets was estimated to be just 1.4 times the mass of the Earth; if its presence in the system was confirmed, it would be the lowest mass exoplanet yet discovered.

It is also predicted to be very close to its host star - just 2% of the Earth-Sun distance, so one year on this planet would last only 1.2 Earth days.

Dr Lovis said he was 99% certain that this small planet was there.

"There are five signals that are really strong that we have no doubt, but we have another two with a 'false alarm' probability of 1%," he said.

Martin Dominik, an astronomer and exoplanet hunter from the UK's University of St Andrews said the complexity and structure of this system made it an interesting discovery.

"The richness of the system of planets around HD 10180 with its many characteristic features marks the way forward towards gathering the information that will put our own existence into cosmic context," he told BBC News.

He cautioned against describing this as the "richest system" saying that it was not clear whether other systems that had already been detected hosted further planets.

Dr Dominik added: "I am tempted to consider the detected system as one of the most 'informative' ones.

"Like most discoveries in science, the findings come with more questions than answers; but in my opinion, this is what really advances a field."

Congratulations to my niece

2 A stars and an A, woo hoo she off to university to become what shes always dreamed of doing.

18 GCSE'S (some of which self taught) mostly A's and a couple of B's and now a brilliant set of results for her A levels.

This young lass has worked so hard to achieve this goal, I'm so pleased shes got it.

Thousands of people have applied to do the university course she is about to embark on but only just over 100 places were up for grabs. Nerve-wracking interviews and waiting for results is all over for now.

Sorry, it's woo!

http://sorryitswoo.blogspot.com
"Sorry, it's woo!" is Beetzart's blog a welcome new member of the HPANWO forum www.hpanwo.tk

Heres how Beetzart describes his creation in his own words:

This blog is an attempt, possibly poor, to try to ridicule/make fun of as many types of woo as possible. They may seem harmless at first but when you dig deep enough they can be potentially dangerous.

I found the blog a great read and would encourage others to take a look.

Ruthless England hammer sorry Pakistan in first Test

James Anderson completed his first 10-wicket haul in international cricket as England romped to a 354-run victory in the first Test against Pakistan.

After a quiet first half hour at Trent Bridge, Anderson (6-17) removed Imran Farhat for 15 and followed up with the wickets of Umar Amin and Umar Akmal.

Steven Finn struck in his first over to dismiss Mohammad Aamer before Anderson (11-71 overall) ran through the tail.

Pakistan were 80 all out before lunch, their lowest score against England.

It was a dismal performance on the fourth morning from Pakistan, whose inexperienced batting line-up has been ruthlessly exposed by England's swing bowlers.

And there is sure to be a clamour for one or both of Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan to be recalled for the second Test in the four-match series, which begins at Edgbaston on Friday. Both have Test averages over 50, but were jettisoned from the side by the Pakistan Cricket Board having been blamed for the infighting which undermined their disastrous tour of Australia last winter.

Resuming on 15-3, Pakistan got off to a surprisingly comfortable start as England bowled too many balls which did not require the batsmen to play a shot.

Anderson took time to find a threatening line from around the wicket but once he did, he was back to his deadly best.

After beating Farhat with a ball that straightened slightly off the seam, he delivered a vicious inswinger which took the edge and was comfortably caught by England Test captain Andrew Strauss.

Man of the match Anderson, continuing to revel in conditions tailor-made for his brand of bowling, removed Umar Akmal with another inswinger before Steven Finn snared nightwatchman Aamer, who drove uppishly and steered a thick outside edge to Kevin Pietersen in the gully.

Finn then dismissed Kamran Akmal lbw with a ball that was probably missing leg stump, the batsman unable to review the decision because Pakistan had already used up their two referrals.

Umar Gul failed to repeat his first innings heroics, although it took a spectacular catch from Paul Collingwood to dismiss him, the Durham all-rounder leaping to claim the ball with both hands as it flew above his head.

Collingwood was on hand again to snaffle an edge from Shoaib Malik to give Anderson his second five-wicket haul of the match.

And after a rapid 16 not out from Danish Kaneria, Anderson wrapped things up when Mohammad Asif nicked one to Graeme Swann in the slips.

NASA faked England 1966 World Cup win

A leading ex-NASA scientist has gone on record to confirm one of the longest standing conspiracies in the football world, that the American space agency faked footage of the 1966 tournament in order to imply an England win.

Dr Robert Wellington who worked for the agency throughout the sixties and seventies spoke out following ongoing speculation on the internet.

“We needed a practice run for the moon thing” he said from his home in Florida. “And the Football world cup seemed just the job. We wanted to see if we could fool an entire nation that they could achieve something that was frankly impossible. It worked perfectly.”

“But we had absolutely no idea that it would become a recurring delusion” he added.

The ‘live broadcast’ of the famous 1966 final was, in fact, pre-recorded at Shepperton Studios, then best known for the Boulting Brothers series of comedy films.

“We set up a goal at one end and then used a mixture of live action and models to simulate the game,” recalls Dr Wellington.

“It was very advanced for the time, although we did make mistakes that eventually people picked up on. A couple of shadows faced in opposite directions, and we presented Alan Ball at completely the wrong scale.”

“The US government were happy to pay, as long as we figured out a way to incorporate a Russian looking stupid.”

The hoax paved the way for NASA’s famous moon landing footage of 1969. But in its way, the English dry-run proved more successful.

“Even forty years on, everybody still talks about our world cup work,” comments Dr Wellington. “Whereas if you come to the States, nobody really mentions the moon landings any more.”

“Except Buzz Aldrin,” he adds.

“The English FA did approach us with a view to recreating the project for 2010. They sent us some tapes and everything,” reveals Dr Wellington.

“But what you have to realise is that for hoaxes to work, they need at least a small element of plausibility. We now have immensely powerful GCI techniques, green screens and animatronic facilities. But we’ve looked at your Emile Heskey – and we can’t do anything with that.”

Hospital porters you're days are numbered.

A fleet of robots is to carry out day to day tasks at an NHS hospital, it was revealed today.

The robots will be used to transport clinical waste and dirty linen, deliver food and dispense drugs at the new Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Stirlingshire.
They are currently being tested at the £300 million hospital ahead of its opening in August.

It is the first time a UK hospital will use the state of the art technology, which is already in place in hospitals in Japan, the US and France.



A guide robot moves through a hallway of the Aizu Central Hospital in Japan, where robots are often used in hospitals for various tasks

The fleet will be divided into 'clean' and 'dirty' tasks, with each being given their own corridor to avoid the risk of cross- contamination.
NHS Forth Valley spokesman Elspeth Campbell said the new system would help with infection control.

Google Pac-Man eats up work time

The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study.

The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google's front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan.

The search giant reworked the game so the layout was arranged around letters forming its name.

The Pac-Man game proved so popular that Google has now made it permanently available on its own page.

Time delay

The statistics on how many people played and for how long were gathered by software firm Rescue Time. It makes time-tracking software that keeps an eye on what workers do and where they go online.

On a typical day, it suggests, most people conduct about 22 searches on the Google page, each one lasting about 11 seconds.

Putting Pac-Man on the page boosted that time by an average of about 36 seconds, the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users.

The firm believes this is a relatively low figure because only a minority realised that the logo was playable. To play, people had to click on the "insert coin" button which replaced the more familiar "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on 21 and 22 May.

Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day, this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours - equal to about 549 years.

In dollar terms, assuming people are paid $25 (£17.50) an hour, this equates to about $120m in lost productivity, the firm said.

For that money, suggested Rescue Time, it would be possible to hire all Google's employees and put them to work for about six weeks.

Ariane 5 rocket makes 50th flight

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has made its 50th flight from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

The rocket lifted away from the launch pad at 2201 GMT, carrying two telecommunications satellites with a combined mass of almost eight tonnes.

After failing on its very first mission in 1996, the Ariane 5 has developed into a highly reliable vehicle with a dominant role in the launcher market.

About half the world's large commercial comms satellites now launch on Ariane.

Friday's dual payload included the SES Astra 3B spacecraft, which will deliver TV and broadband services to Europe and the Middle East, and the ComsatBW-2 platform which will provide secure data links for the German armed forces.

The 5.4-tonne Astra 3B was the first to be deployed by Ariane some 27 minutes into the flight; the 2.4-tonne ComsatBW-2 was released six minutes later.

Ariane's departure ended two frustrating months for the rocket's operator, Arianespace.

The mission had been postponed three times since late March. The previous launch attempt in early April even got to within a minute of blast-off before the countdown sequence was halted.

Inquiries set up to investigate the delays and quality control issues in the rocket's preparation resulted in a regulator that maintains pressure in the vehicle's super-cold (cryogenic) hydrogen and oxygen propellant tanks being exchanged.

The generic Ariane 5 launcher went into full commercial service in 1999, and was followed a few years later by the beefed-up version, the ECA, which is capable of lofting nearly 10 tonnes of payload into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) some 36,000km above the Earth.

The rocket has two solid boosters to lift it off the ground, a cryogenic main stage to do most of the work of getting into orbit, and an upper-stage to place the satellites in the target orbit, or GTO.

Friday's mission marked the 36th consecutive successful launch for an Ariane 5.

Highlights in the vehicle's 14-year-history include the launch of Europe's flagship Herschel and Planck space telescopes last year; the bloc's 2bn-euro Envisat Earth-observation spacecraft in 2002; and its "Jules Verne" robotic supply ship that went to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008 weighing more than 20 tonnes.

European ministers have approved a programme to upgrade the rocket. This "mid-life evolution" should enter service later this decade and give the vehicle a GTO capability of 13 tonnes.

Despite the late start to its 2010 launch campaign, Arianespace promises to fly six further Arianes this year, including a second ISS freighter called "Johannes Kepler".

Farage injured in plane crash on election day

The former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said he was "lucky to be alive" after his plane crashed in Northamptonshire.

The aircraft came down at Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield near Brackley.

Mr Farage is being treated at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for broken ribs and other minor injuries. Pilot, Justin Adams, is also in hospital.

It is thought the aircraft came down when a trailing campaign banner became entangled.

A star is born - an awesome occasion captured in one of the most amazing pictures of the Universe ever seen.

This image of stars forming 7,500 light years away has been released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble space telescope.

Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula which is three light years high. The top of the pillar, in the Carina Nebula galaxy, is being eaten away by light from nearby stars and also being pushed apart from within as infant stars fire off jets of gas.

The Royal Astronomical Society said: "Astronomy's in a golden age.. Hubble's playing a great role in this."

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Knock him right out Dave

Good luck to David Haye the world WBA heavyweight champion who tonight faces John Ruiz former double world champion.

Gorilla 199

Ive heard a lot of praise for this chap from Tiswas so i looked into his videos on YouTube. It didn't take long to realise the chap is mentally ill, not very bright or having a laugh. The first video i watched he was claiming rockets cannot fly in space because they need something to push against. Straight away the woo woo alarm went off and sure as chips is chips the more i watched the more i realised just how deluded this chap is.

His latest video has really got the Ickeoids rocking because it claims David Icke is a Freemason. It uses some old photo shopped photographs and a spoof web site as evidence. The Ickoids have all turned on Gorilla 199 including Tiswas who after bigging the chap up over time has now been banned from his YouTube channel.

Turns out Gorilla 199 who claims to be a Christian is not an honest man. According to him hes been done 12 times for selling fake DVDs and games. On top of that he admits he has serious metal issues, like we didn't know lol.

The "Killer Mile"

The Mow Cop tradition of the "Killer Mile" takes place each year late April. A mile long race up Mow Cop Hill, a really STEEP hill. Take a look at the photo - 25% - It can't be THAT steep can it?

How religion has held back scientific advancment

We all know that religion holds back scientific advancement. Stem cell research, genetic engineering etc.

But it's hard to quantify it. Hope this graph helps you understand just how much woo woo religion can hinder scientific advancement.

Large Hadron Collider

The organisation that operates the Large Hadron Collider has set a date for the start of its science programme.

On Tuesday 30 March, engineers will make their first attempt to collide beams at an energy of 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeV) per beam.

The LHC reached this beam energy last week, breaking its own particle beam energy record.

But, among other things, engineers will need to ensure the beams are stable at 3.5 TeV before trying for collisions.

"With two beams at 3.5 TeV, we're on the verge of launching the LHC physics programme," explained Steve Myers, director for accelerators and technology at Cern, where the LHC is based.

"But we've still got a lot of work to do before collisions. Just lining the beams up is a challenge in itself. It's a bit like firing needles across the Atlantic and getting them to collide half way."

Between now and 30 March, the LHC's team will be working to commission the beam control systems and the systems that protect the machine's detectors, or experiments, from stray particles.

All these systems must be fully commissioned before collisions at 3.5 TeV can begin, Cern says.

"Symbolically, the start of the LHC research programme is when we start systematically colliding beams for physics at the energy we have chosen for this year," Cern's director of communications Dr James Gillies, told BBC News.

"That's what we're hoping for a week today."

The LHC is being used to smash together beams of proton particles in a bid to shed light on the nature of the Universe.

It is the world's largest machine and is housed in a circular tunnel which runs for 27km under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

Some 1,200 superconducting magnets bend proton beams in opposite directions around the tunnel at close to the speed of light.

At allotted points around the tunnel, the proton beams cross paths, allowing particles to smash into one another.

Detectors located at the crossing points will scour the wreckage of these collisions for discoveries that extend our knowledge of physics.

Singular adventure in Staffordshire

DR. PLOT, who was a very well known and reliable man, and a painstaking antiquary and writer of natural history, in his History of Staffordshire, published by him in the time of Charles the Second, relates the following strange story:

That a countryman was employed, at the close of a certain dull summer’s day, in digging a trench in a field in a valley, round which the country rose into sombre, silent woods, vocal only with the quaint cries of the infrequent magpies. It was some little time after the sun had sunk, and the countryman was just about giving over his labour for the day. Dr. Plot says that, in one or two of the last languid strokes of his pick, the rustic came upon something stony and hard, which struck a spark, clearly visible in the increasing gloom. At this surprise he resumed his labour, and, curiously enough, found a large, flat stone in the centre of the field. This field was far away from any of the farms or 'cotes', as they were called in those days, with which the now almost twilight country was sparingly dotted. In a short time he cleared the stone free of the grass and weeds which had grown over it; and it proved to be a large, oblong slab, with an immense iron ring fixed at one end in a socket. For half-an-hour the countryman essayed to stir this stone in vain. At last he bethought himself of some yards of rope which he had lying near amongst his tools; and these he converted, being an ingenious,inquisitive, inventive man, into a tackle--by means of which, and by passing the sling round a bent tree in a line with the axis of the stone, he contrived, in the last of the light, and with much expenditure of toil, to raise it. And then, greatly to his surprise, he saw a large, deep, hollow place, buried in darkness, which, when his eyes grew accustomed a little to it, he discovered was the top-story to a stone staircase, seemingly of extraordinary depth, for he saw nothing below. The country fellow had not the slightest idea of where this could lead to; but being a man, though a rustic and a clown, of courage, and most probably urged by his idea that the staircase led to some secret repository where treasure lay buried, he descended the first few steps cautiously, and tried to peer in vain down into the darkness. This seemed impenetrable; but there was some object at a vast, cold distance below. Looking up to the fresh air and seeing the star Venus--the evening star--shining suddenly like a planet, in encouraging, unexpected brilliancy, although the sky had still some beautiful placid sunset light in it, the puzzled man left the upper ground, and descended silently a fair, though a somewhat broken staircase. Here, at an angle, as near as he could judge, of a hundred feet underground, he came upon a square landing-place, with a niche in the wall; and then he saw a further long staircase, descending at right angles to the first staircase, and still going down into deep, cold darkness. The man cast a glance upward, as if questioning the small segment of light from the upper world which shot down, whether he should continue his search or desist and return. All was stillest of the still about him; but he saw no reason particularly to fear. So; imagining that he would in some way soon penetrate the mystery, and feeling in the darkness by his hands upon the wall, and by his toes to make sure first on each step, he resolutely descended; and he .deliberately counted two hundred and twenty steps. He felt no difficulty in his breathing, except a certain sort of aromatic smell of distant incense, that he thought Egyptian, coming up now and then from below, as if from another, though a subterranean, world. 'Possibly', thought he--for he had heard of them--'the world of the mining gnomes: and I am breaking in upon their secrets, which is forbidden for man'. The rustic, though courageous, was superstitious.

But, notwithstanding some fits of fear, the countryman went on, and at a much lower angle he met a wall in his face; but, making a turn to the right, with singular credit to his nerves, the explorer went down again. And now he saw at a vast distance below, at the foot of a deeper staircase of stone, a steady though a pale light. This was shining up as if from a star, or coming from the centre of the earth. Cheered by this light, though absolutely astounded, nay, frightened, at thus discovering light, whether natural or artificial, in the deep bowels of the earth, the man again descended, meeting a thin, humid trail of light, as it looked, mounting up the centre line of the shining though mouldering old stairs, which apparently had not been pressed by a foot for very many ages. He thought now, although it was probably only the wind in some hidden recess, or creeping down some gallery, that he heard a murmur overhead, as. if of the uncertain rumble of horses and of heavy waggons or lumbering wains. Next moment, all subsided into total stillness; but the distant light seemed to flicker, as if in recognition or answer to the strange sound. Half-a-dozen times he paused, and turned as if he would remount--almost flee for his life upward,. as he thought; for this might be the secret haunt of robbers, or the dreadful abode of evil spirits. What if, in a few moments, he should -come upon some scene to affright, or alight in the midst of desperate ruffians; or be caught by murderers! He listened eagerly. He now almost bitterly repented his descent. Still the light streamed at a distance; but still there was no sound to interpret the meaning of the light, or to display the character of this mysterious place, in which the countryman found himself entangled hopelessly like a knight of romance in an enchanted world.

The discoverer by his time stood still with fear. But at last, summoning courage, and recommending himself devoutly to God, he determined to complete his discovery. Above, he had been working in no strange place; the field he well knew, the woods were very familiar to him, and his own hamlet and his wife and family were only a few miles distant. He now hastily, and more in fear than through courage, noisily with his feet descended the remainder of the stairs; and the light grew brighter and brighter as he approached, until at last, at another turn, he came upon a square chamber, built up of large hewn ancient stones. He stopped, silent and awe-struck. Here was a flagged pavement and a somewhat lofty roof, gathering up into a centre, in the groins of which was a rose, carved exquisitely in some dark stone or in marble. But what was this poor man’s fright when, making another sudden turn, from between the jambs, and from under the large archivolt of a Gothic, stone portal, light streamed out over him with inexpressible brilliancy, shining over everything, and lighting up the place with brilliant radiance, like an intense golden sunset. He started back. Then his limbs shook and bent under him as he gazed with terror at the figure of a than, whose face: was hidden, as he sat in a studious attitude in a stone chair, reading in a great book, with his elbow testing on a table like a rectangular altar, in the light of a large, ancient iron lamp, suspended by a thick chain to the middle of the roof. A cry of alarm, which he could not suppress, escaped from the scared discoverer, who involuntarily advanced one pace, beside himself with terror. He was now within the illuminated chamber. As his foot fell on the stone, the figure started bolt upright from his seated position, as if in. awful astonishment. He erected his hooded head, and showed himself as if in anger about to question the intruder. Doubtful if what he saw were a reality, or whether he was not in some terrific dream, the countryman advanced, without being aware of what he was doing, another audacious step. The hooded man now thrust out a long arm, as if in warning; and in a moment the discoverer perceived that this hand was armed with an iron baton, and that he pointed it as if tremendously to forbid further approach. Now, however, the poor man, not being in a condition either to reason or to restrain himself, with a cry, and in a passion of fear, took a third fatal step; and as his foot descended on the groaning stone, which seemed to give way for a moment under him, the dreadful man, or image, raised his arm high like a machine, and with his truncheon struck a prodigious blow upon the lamp, shattering it into a thousand pieces, and leaving the place in utter darkness.

This was the end of this terrifying adventure. There was total silence now, far and near. Only a long, low roll of thunder, or a noise similar to thunder, seemed to begin from a distance, and then to move with snatches, as if making turns; and it then rumbled sullenly to sleep, as if through unknown, inaccessible passages. What these were--if any passages--nobody ever found out. It was only suspected that this hidden place referred in some way to the Rosicrucians, and that the mysterious people of that famous order had there concealed some of their scientific secrets. The place in Staffordshire became afterwards famed as the sepulchre of one of the brotherhood, whom, for want of a more distinct recognition or name, the people chose to call 'Rosicrucius', in general reference to his order; and from the circumstance of the lamp, and its sudden extinguishment by the figure that started up, it was supposed that some Rosicrucian had determined to inform posterity that he had penetrated to the secret of the making of the ever-burning lamps of the ancients--though, at the moment that he displayed his knowledge, he took effectual means that no one should reap any advantage from it.

The ancient Romans are said to have preserved lights in their sepulchres many ages by the oiliness of gold (here steps in the art of the Rosicrucians), resolved by hermetic methods into a liquid substance; and it is reported that at the dissolution of monasteries, in the time of Henry the Eighth, there was a lamp found that had then burned in a tomb from about three hundred years after Christ--nearly twelve hundred years. Two of these subterranean lamps are to be seen in the Museum of Rarities at Leyden, in Holland. One of these lamps, in the Papacy of Paul the Third, was found in the Tomb of Tullia (so named), Cicero's daughter, which had been shut up fifteen hundred and fifty years (Second edition of N. Bailey's Φιλόλογος, 1731).

So the Moon was a holographic projection, an illusion but now its a spaceship?

David Icke had this to say in 2003

At one stage during the night I saw the Moon appearing above the clouds and the voice said:

"Ah the Moon, the Moon, how the poets wax lyrical about the Moon, the Moon. Illuuusion! The Moon is a holographic projection to give the illusion of the movement from past to future, the passage of "time". That is what it is there for, to capture the mind in the time illusion. Do you think the Infinite needs the Sun to survive? Do you see a Sun in this place you are now? You are the Infinite so why do you need the Sun to sustain you? You are the Infinite and all is the Infinite. Why do you feel heat from the rays of the Sun? Because that is what the Matrix mind and body is programmed and conditioned to feel and so it does. It is all illusion. The Sun and Moon are projected holograms to provide the illusion of night and day the movement of time".

I was told that what we call the universe is a holographic illusion akin to looking up at the "sky" projected on the ceiling of a planetarium. The only difference was that in the "universe" the projections appeared to be in 3D because they were holograms. The "universe" was a figment of our conditioned imagination, the voice said, and it was only part of our reality because we believed it was. The universe was also far smaller than people perceived. "Look at the sky in a planetarium and it seems so vast, yet it only goes as high as the ceiling."

In his new Book our Dave claims the Moon is a spaceship which was flown here and parked in orbit by the Aliens that live inside.

Anyone spot a contradiction here?

Two two teenagers die after taking "legal" drug

Why is it we always have to wait for something like this to happen before the government acts? For years people have been campaigning for these "legal" highs to be banned and now this happens.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8571599.stm

Setting up a flash header

A simple way to have a flash header without much tweaking of your template's HTML code.

www.dualtranz.com/2008/10/setting-up-flash-header-in-blogger.html