Monday, June 18, 2012

Solar Activity and Planetary Alignments

Apparent Relations Between Solar Activity
and Solar Tides Caused by the Planets

Ching-Cheh Hung 
Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Summary

A solar storm is a storm of ions and electrons from the Sun. Large solar storms are usually preceded by solar flares, phenomena that can be characterized quantitatively from Earth. Twenty-five of the thirtyeight largest known solar flares were observed to start when one or more tide-producing planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Jupiter) were either nearly above the event positions (<10° longitude) or at the opposing side of the Sun. The probability for this to happen at random is 0.039 percent. This supports the hypothesis that the force or momentum balance (between the solar atmospheric pressure, the gravity field, and magnetic field) on plasma in the looping magnetic field lines in solar corona could be disturbed by tides, resulting in magnetic field reconnection, solar flares, and solar storms. Separately, from the daily position data of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter, an 11-year planet alignment cycle is observed to approximately

match the sunspot cycle. This observation supports the hypothesis that the resonance and beat between the solar tide cycle and nontidal solar activity cycle influences the sunspot cycle and its varying magnitudes.

The above relations between the unpredictable solar flares and the predictable solar tidal effects could be used and further developed to forecast the dangerous space weather and therefore reduce its destructive power against the humans in space and satellites controlling mobile phones and global positioning satellite (GPS) systems.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

What if ?

From:medgadget.com
Interesting mouths!

People reading this may or may not believe in "Aliens" ...
I put forth only theory, speculation...

In reading "Alien Interview"...the Alien, "Arial" Says

"Personally, it is my conviction that all sentient beings are immortal spiritual beings. This includes human beings. For the sake of accuracy and simplicity I will use a made-up word: "IS-BE". Because the primary nature of an immortal being is that they live in a timeless state of "is", and the only reason for their existence is that they decide to "be".

She goes on to explain that:
The space craft is operated by IS-BEs who use "doll bodies" in much the same way that an actor wears a mask and costume. It is a like a mechanical tool through which to operate in the physical world. She, as well as all of the other IS-BEs of the officer class and their superiors, inhabit these "doll bodies" when they are on duty in space. When they are not on duty, they "leave" the body and operate, think, communicate, travel, and exist without the use of a body.
and tells that their bodies :
are constructed of synthetic materials, including a very sensitive electrical nervous system, to which each IS-BE adjusts themselves or "tune in" to an electronic wave length 56 (Footnote) that is matched uniquely to the wavelength or frequency emitted by each IS-BE
Supposing aliens are real:
What if supposed alien abductions are not at all aliens attempting to splice human genes with Alien genes, but in fact Humans wanting immediate immortality, thus testing the possibilities with the humanity on earth?

What if?????

Monday, June 11, 2012

Cyborg Yeast Cells



Cyborg Yeast's Genes Are Controlled By a Computer  
The ability to make cells do our bidding would be a major advance in everything from drug production to biofuels, but it’s difficult to hack into nature and make cells obey. A team of Swiss researchers have one way to do it: Create cyborg cells connected to, and controlled by, a computer.
Researchers at ETH Zurich were able to form a feedback loop between a common form of yeast and a computer, which controlled light pulses to precisely control the expression of genes. It’s different from other cell-control techniques we have seen, like simple genetic modification or synthetic circuitry. Instead, the Swiss team modifies some light-coding proteins and connects the cell to a computer model, which uses algorithms to read out the light responses and determine cellular feedback. It’s an in vivo, in silico network.
Andreas Milias-Argeitis and colleagues started with Saccharomyces cerevisiae — brewer’s yeast — and focused on a molecule called phytochrome, which can be activated in the presence of red light. The activation of this molecule starts or stops the transcription of a gene that codes for a specific protein. Then the team used a fluorescent gene marker to watch when this protein was being produced.
Once they figured this out, the team built a computer model to determine how long each light pulse should last in order to control gene expression. This was especially tricky, as the researchers explain, because the reporter molecule (the fluorescent marker) takes a while to fire up and it stays active for awhile, interfering with their precise timing. At first, their model worked in simulation but not in cells, which can be blamed on "inevitable intracellular fluctuations," as Milias-Argeitis et al. put it.
To improve matters, the researchers built a closed-loop system: Shine a red light; start gene expression; monitor said gene expression and calculate optimal inputs with a feedback algorithm; then shine a darker light to stop expression.
"By interfacing electronic control with biological responses, in silico feedback provides an approach for unprecedented, quantitative control over the activity of living cells," the authors write.
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Science, Rebecca Boyle, biological computers, cells, circuits, fluorescence, loop, proteins, synthetic biology, yeast
The paper appears online in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-11/computer-controls-genes-new-cyborg-yeast-systemcyborg cells


Living cells interfaced with a range of polyelectrolyte coatings, magnetic and noble metal nanoparticles, hard mineral shells and other complex nanomaterials can perform functions often completely different from their original specialisation. Such "cyborg cells" are already finding a range of novel applications in areas like whole cell biosensors, bioelectronics, toxicity microscreening, tissue engineering, cell implant protection and bioanalytical chemistry. In this tutorial review, we describe the development of novel methods for functionalisation of cells with polymers and nanoparticles and comment on future advances in this technology in the light of other literature approaches. We review recent studies on the cell viability and function upon direct deposition of nanoparticles, coating with polyelectrolytes, polymer assisted assembly of nanomaterials and hard shells on the cell surface. The cell toxicity issues are considered for many practical applications in terms of possible adverse effects of the deposited polymers, polyelectrolytes and nanoparticles on the cell surface.
Tutorial Review
Cyborg cells: functionalisation of living cells with polymers and nanomaterials
Rawil F. Fakhrullin , Alsu I. Zamaleeva , Renata T. Minullina , Svetlana A. Konnova and Vesselin N. Paunov
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012,41, 4189-4206
Received 23 Sep 2011, First published on the web 16 Apr 2012

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/cs/c2cs15264a

BioEngineering and Horizontal Gene Transfer

GM Products: Benefits and Controversies
Benefits

Crops Enhanced taste and quality(???)
Reduced maturation time
Increased nutrients, yields, and stress tolerance
Improved resistance to disease, pests, and herbicides(????)
New products and growing techniques
Animals Increased resistance, productivity, hardiness, and feed efficiency
Better yields of meat, eggs, and milk
Improved animal health and diagnostic methods
Environment "Friendly"(????) bioherbicides and bioinsecticides
Conservation of soil, water, and energy
Bioprocessing for forestry products
Better natural waste management
More efficient processing
Society Increased food security for growing populations
Controversies


Safety
Potential human health impacts, including allergens, transfer of antibiotic resistance markers, unknown effects
Potential environmental impacts, including: unintended transfer of transgenes through cross-pollination, unknown effects on other organisms (e.g., soil microbes), and loss of flora and fauna biodiversity

Access and Intellectual Property
Domination of world food production by a few companies
Increasing dependence on industrialized nations by developing countries
Biopiracy, or foreign exploitation of natural resources
Ethics Violation of natural organisms' intrinsic values
Tampering with nature by mixing genes among species
Objections to consuming animal genes in plants and vice versa
Stress for animal
Labeling Not mandatory in some countries (e.g., United States)
Mixing GM crops with non-GM products confounds labeling attempts
Society New advances may be skewed to interests of rich countries
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml

horizontal gene transfer is the movement of genes between two different organisms. Bacteria use horizontal gene transfer to exchange resistance to antibiotics. Recent studies have shown that plants can also use horizontal gene transfer, especially parasitic plants and their hosts due to their intimate physical connections.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120608100846.htm

Until recently, scientists did not fully understand why viruses only affected a small range of host organisms. This discovery shows that the accompanying satellite gene of CMV must directly match the host plant's genes to cause the yellowing disease.

When the viral satellite's genes match the host plant's genes, the satellite genes 'lock' onto and slice the host's genes, preventing the host from forming green chlorophyll pigment.

"Think of it as like doing up a zipper on your jacket -- two opposing but different sections have to come together for it to work," Dr Wang said.

"So one half of the 'zipper' genes come from the virus and the other half of the genes from the host, and when they match up the virus causes disease."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110810093833.htm

Apparent Relations Between Solar Activity and Solar Tides Caused by the Planets

Apparent Relations Between Solar Activity and Solar Tides Caused by the Planets Ching-Cheh Hung
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Glenn Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio 44135


SummaryA solar storm is a storm of ions and electrons from the Sun. Large solar storms are usually preceded by solar flares, phenomena that can be characterized quantitatively from Earth. Twenty-five of the thirtyeight largest known solar flares were observed to start when one or more tide-producing planets

(Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Jupiter) were either nearly above the event positions (<10° longitude) or at the opposing side of the Sun. The probability for this to happen at random is 0.039 percent. This supports the hypothesis that the force or momentum balance (between the solar atmospheric pressure, the gravity field, and magnetic field) on plasma in the looping magnetic field lines in solar corona could be disturbed by tides, resulting in magnetic field reconnection, solar flares, and solar storms. Separately, from the daily position data of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter, an 11-year planet alignment cycle is observed to approximately match the sunspot cycle. This observation supports the hypothesis that the resonance and beat between the solar tide cycle and nontidal solar activity cycle influences the sunspot cycle and its varying magnitudes.

The above relations between the unpredictable solar flares and the predictable solar tidal effects could be used and further developed to forecast the dangerous space weather and therefore reduce its destructive power against the humans in space and satellites controlling mobile phones and global positioning satellite (GPS) systems.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Veils of Medicine and Pharmacueticals

From Wikipedia:
PANDAS is an acronym for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections. This term describes a hypothesis that there exists a subset of children with rapid onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or tic disorders and these symptoms are caused by group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) infections.[1]

From: NIH
At initial onset, the symptoms may have followed an asymptomatic (and therefore untreated) streptococcal infection by several months or longer, so the inciting strep infection may have gone unnoticed. However, on subsequent infection recurrences, the worsening of the neuropsychiatric symptoms may be the first sign of an occult ("hidden") strep infection. Prompt treatment of the strep infection is often effective in reducing the OCD and other neuropsychiatric symptoms.
The strange phraseology prompted this post....

Children with PANDAS appear to be unusually sensitive to the side-effects of SSRIs and other medications,

Monday, June 4, 2012

Theocrats

"In War in Heaven, the spirits that do this are termed Theocrats, probably because for long millennia the vehicle they have used to capture and destroy weaker spirits has been religion. The Theocrats obtain victims by posing as gods and persuading religious believers to come to them voluntarily after death thinking they are entering "eternal bliss in Heaven.""
http://openseti.org/SoulTech.html