Month: June 2020

Je pense que la grande faiblesse de l’être humain est de vouloir se faire plaisir à tout prix.  Il faut apprendre à se contrôler nous-même sinon on se fait contrôler par d’autres.  Les méthode de contrôle passent aussi par les “petites drogues” (ie: Café, Nicotine, Alcool, etc.) ainsi que les drogues produites par notre propre corps (endorphines, sex, jeux, etc.).

“L’exportation d’opium de l’Inde britannique vers la Chine, financée par l’État, a été sans doute la plus grande et l’opération la plus persistante de trafic de drogue de l’histoire.”

https://fr.sott.net/article/35852-Le-trafic-de-drogue-colonial-et-l-Empire-britannique

Something happens around 12800 years ago and that led to some big changes in our way of life.  Some people thinks that agriculture and civilization started at that time.  Maybe we had some previous civilizations but, for me, the more important question is why we started agriculture in the first place.

I do not think agriculture is an easier way of life or an easier way to get food.  When I look at fishermen, I see hunting and specially trapping is a lot easier than agriculture.

There is a point to make about the stability of food supply with agriculture.  Then again, we are starting to see the benefits of fasting in our current time.

I suspect also, that a fixed system (agriculture) is subject to variations in the environment (flood, drought, hurricanes, twisters, etc.), the same as moving systems (hunting, gathering, fishing, trapping, etc.), but the advantage of moving systems is that they can go to more stable places.

Civilization is based on trade.  In the case of modern fishermen, it is easy to see that they are trading.  Maybe it would be possible to create an entire civilization not based on agriculture.

“Earth Sciences Professor Edward Keller of the University of California at Santa Barbara writes as follows: “If the hypothesis of the impact is correct (and I am very impressed with the data) it is perhaps the most important hypothesis in the Earth Sciences,…”

https://www.sott.net/article/437195-Younger-Dryas-Impact-Hypothesis-receives-support-in-new-book-by-eminent-geologist-Graham-Hancock

I think that smoking has been with us since we started to control fire.  When you think about it, making a fire in the wilderness, you are already “smoking” some king if vegetable.  It is not a big step to start experimenting with other herbs.  It looks like these people had good results with some other herbs.

“Until now, the use of specific smoking plant mixtures by ancient people in the American Northwest had only been speculated about. ”

https://www.sott.net/article/437198-Non-tobacco-plant-identified-in-ancient-pipe-for-first-time

I have been obsessed with gravity since my teenage.  It looks like another thing that we, as human, can’t wrap our head around.  We need more and more “observations” and less “theorising”.  We desperately need more ways to observe and “out of our head”, so to speak.

“The pendulum itself is not a quantum object. But it’s operating at the interface where gravity and quantum mechanics can play together.”

https://www.sott.net/article/437187-Pendulum-may-reveal-gravitys-secrets

Many people think that bitcoin is heading for bigger value, but on a near future, this might also be true;

““This is a new model I’m working on, it picks the start of exponential bull runs,” Woo tweeted.”

https://news.bitcoin.com/popular-analyst-reveals-new-bitcoin-pricing-model-prediction-suggests-bullish-run-a-month-away/

May you live in interesting time.  The sky in July 2020;

“The lunar eclipse…  And more moon magic…

…Jupiter and Saturn will blaze in the sky…

…Alpha Capricornids and the southern Delta Aquarids showers peak on the same nights, …”

https://www.sott.net/article/437202-A-trifecta-of-astronomical-shows-coming-in-July

We should study the sun more.  I am happy that some of us, like them,

do study it more thoroughly.  I was not aware that you could study the sun using sound waves (helioseismology) to study the sun.

“At the beginning of a solar cycle, sunspots emerge at mid-latitudes. As the cycle progresses, they emerge closer and closer to the equator. To explain this “butterfly diagram,” solar physicists suspect that the deep magnetic field is carried toward the equator by a large-scale flow.”

https://www.sott.net/articleMotions in the sun reveal inner workings of sunspot cycle/437136-Motions-in-the-sun-reveal-inner-workings-of-sunspot-cycle

Copyright is not a good way to give money to a creator.  Alexandre Dumas became very rich and there were no copyright laws in his time.

“A quiet rebellion against copyright is being waged on a single website by a freelance coder, using cryptocurrency where PayPal won’t do. ”

https://www.coindesk.com/blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-paper-pirate-takes-bitcoin-donations

Most often that not, exercising will not help reducing anxiety. This might tells why.  We should, maybe, take it more lightly.

“So apparently all of that exhausting, red-faced, full-on push-push-push I had been doing had given me only a 4 percent boost. I could just take it easy and get 96 percent of the results. ”

https://sivers.org/relax

It is set to become more volatile..

“Traders are eying bitcoin (BTC) derivatives contracts that are set to expire at the end of the trading day. ”

https://news.bitcoin.com/over-1b-in-bitcoin-options-set-to-expire-today-crypto-speculators-expect-massive-shakeup/

I think the sun is the real boss on earth and he is in the process of taking a break, so watch out.

“The Sun is at the heart of all Earthly catastrophes, not Man and his inconsequential activities. Man plays about as much part in the grand climate cycles as ants on mound of dirt — we can shift that dirt; ravage the local environment even; completely alter our surroundings, but we have no say in the multimillennial will of the cosmos.”

 

https://electroverse.net/you-think-2020-is-bad-think-again-wait-for-the-real-catastrophes-to-kick-in-volcanic-eruptions-global-cooling-crop-loss-and-famine/

We are probably not the only planet to have been bombarded by meteorites, so maybe that is the universal way of creating life.  I also read somewhere that comets were the primary source of water to our planet.

““Materials needed for the start of life may have been generated over long periods, offering a chance for life to appear,” said Yoshihiro Furukawa, an associate professor of geochemistry at Tohoku University.”

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13445748

I think this is interesting;

“Water (H2O) and other volatiles (e.g. CO2 and sulphur) that are cycled through the deep Earth have played a key role in the evolution of our planet, including in the formation of continents, the onset of life, the concentration of mineral resources, and the distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes. ”

https://www.sott.net/article/437071-How-water-in-the-deep-Earth-triggers-earthquakes-and-tsunamis

I find this interesting;

“Libertyx has expanded its network to include 20,000 7-Eleven, CVS, and Rite Aid Pharmacy stores where customers can buy bitcoin with cash.”

https://news.bitcoin.com/7-eleven-cvs-rite-aid-libertyx-20000-stores-buy-bitcoin/

I find this interesting;

“Massive swarms of locusts have devastated large swathes of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East since January, threatening food supplies for millions.

This year, Kenya had its worst infestation in 70 years, and India, Ethiopia, and Somalia had the worst infestations they’ve had in 25 years.”

https://www.sott.net/article/436977-450-billion-locusts-have-been-killed-this-year-but-devastating-swarms-still-ravage-Africa-India-and-the-Middle-East

I find this intersting;

“Iran says it will send in the “next few days” the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian airliner to France for analysis and expresses readiness to resolve the issue of compensations to the families of the victims.”

 

https://www.sott.net/article/436955-Iran-to-send-black-boxes-of-downed-Ukrainian-airliner-to-France

Reading this, I kept thinking about Alfred Korzybski’s book “Science and Sanity”. In his book, he is describing the process of abstracting in a human beings.  We can only have an image of the world around us and all representations are imperfects because we leave characteristics behind when trying to “picture” the world.

He made the famous statement that “The map is not the territory”.

I think, we can only describe the micro-world (atomic and sub-atomic) with our very limited macro view.  Because of this limitation, we are stuck with “strange” duality of wave and particles.  That is what we “know” (wave and particles).  To get an better understanding of the micro-world, we would need to get  out  of  ourselves  by using tools that are independent of our experiences . Mathematics is probably not an answer because it is only a very high abstraction of the same world we live in. We should invent a tool a little like mathematics that does not depend on our perception or view of the world.

This is the article;

“One of the weirdest theoretical implications of quantum mechanics is that different observers can give different — though equally valid — accounts of the same sequence of events. As highlighted by physicist Carlo Rovelli in his relational quantum mechanics (RQM), this means that there should be no absolute, observer-independent physical quantities.”

https://www.sott.net/article/436854-The-Universe-A-cosmic-dashboard-with-no-objective-physical-world

I find this interesting;

“CEO Markus Braun resigned on June 19, after nearly 20 years at the helm. James Freis has been appointed interim chief executive”…

https://news.bitcoin.com/wirecard-ceo-quits-as-crypto-card-firm-reveals-missing-2-1-billion-does-not-exist/

I find this interesting;

“NASA has raised the alarm over yet another five space rocks headed our way. Fortunately, researchers have also revealed a potentially ingenious new strategy for dealing with such threats should they come too close to Earth.”

https://www.sott.net/article/436879-NASA-warns-of-FIVE-more-asteroids-set-to-blaze-past-Earth-as-scientists-devise-method-of-planetary-defense

I find this interesting;

“The association of habitual coffee consumption with a lower risk of diseases, like type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic liver disease, certain cancer types, or with reduced all-cause mortality, has been confirmed in prospective cohort studies in many regions of the world.”

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/6/1842

I find this interesting;

“Located in Africa, Nabta Playa stands some 700 miles south of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. It was built more than 7,000 years ago, making Nabta Playa the oldest stone circle in the world — and possibly Earth’s oldest astronomical observatory.”

https://www.sott.net/article/436831-The-worlds-first-astronomical-site-was-built-in-Africa-and-is-older-than-Stonehenge

I find this interesting;

“When the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was launched in 2017, only 6% of the global ocean bottom had been surveyed to what might be called modern standards.

That number now stands at 19%, up from 15% in just the last year. ”

https://www.sott.net/article/436826-One-fifth-of-Earths-ocean-floor-is-now-mapped

Cette femme est vraiment brillante;

“Ce mélange de vrai et de faux, a pour objectif ultime de laisser croire aux individus que l’état civil lui-même est frauduleux ; la conclusion qui s’impose naturellement serait donc, dans l’idéal, de renoncer au susdit état civil et donc à son nom et à sa filiation.”

https://strategika.fr/2020/06/21/lescroquerie-de-la-pretendue-fraude-au-nom-legal/

 

“This is a three-day workshop that took place during the MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) in January, 2019. This workshop aims to provide information for students to prepare for the FAA Private Pilot Knowledge Test.”

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-687-private-pilot-ground-school-january-iap-2019/index.htm

“The more I’ve learned about wifi, Bluetooth and related protocols, the more I’m convinced that they’re often worse, on net, than wires.”

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8hxvfZiqH24oqyr6y/wireless-is-a-trap

I find this also interesting;

“I used to believe as many do, in a story called “the American Empire”. Over the last decade of research, that belief has changed a bit.”

https://www.sott.net/article/436750-From-dodgy-dossiers-to-the-sacking-of-Whitlam-the-British-Empire-is-revealed