Check this out. I recently found this on a few feeds in my Google Reader setup. Stare at the 3 dots on the nose of the woman in this image for about 30 seconds. Then look at some sort of white space (a blank piece of paper, or a white background on a computer screen) and blink your eyes really fast.
Pretty awesome huh? Well, at least I think it is. I found this on Wikipedia (the best source of completely reliable information evar!) and it seems to fit, it’s called “Negative Afterimage“.
Negative afterimages are caused when the eye’s photoreceptors, primarily those known as cone cells, adapt from the overstimulation and lose sensitivity.Normally the eye deals with this problem by rapidly moving small amounts (see: microsaccade), the motion later being “filtered out” so it is not noticeable. However if the color image is large enough that the small movements are not enough to change the color under one area of the retina, those cones will eventually tire or adapt and stop responding. The rod cells can also be affected by this.
When the eyes are then diverted to a blank space, the adapted photoreceptors send out a weak signal and those colors remain muted. However, the surrounding cones that were not being excited by that color are still “fresh”, and send out a strong signal. The signal is exactly the same as if looking at the opposite color, which is how the brain interprets it.
Scientists may soon have a direct image of the black hole in the center of our galaxy. Using a virtual telescope as big as the earth, they may have for the first time a picture of the actual shadow a black hole.
Scientists met recently to discuss this project. It has probably one of the coolest names for a telescope project: The Event Horizon Telescope.
This just in: it turns out that the Apollo 16 mission was our first encounter with alien life/technology.
According to a “psychic R&D operation” based in Austin, TX called Tranception Inc., the Apollo 16 astronauts deserve the Congressional Space Medal of Honor for the first ever alien encounter with some ”shipwreck elements”.
If you are wondering what makes me think that the debris field surveyed, filmed and photographed by the crew of Apollo 16 during its EVA-3 is a “shipwreck”, please refer to EXHIBIT “E”, in that a total of eight Controlled Remote Viewers (six professionals and twotrainees) worked that target using standard CRV single-blind protocols and they all describeelements of a “shipwreck” or at least contact with “structures” and/or “people”, “biological”, “alien”, technology, their plight, etc.
Well there you have it folks. There’s no arguing with that awesome bit of logic. This is definitely proof of our encounter with aliens.
The Apollo 16 mission doesn’t need the whole alien shipwreck angle to make it great, it was pretty damn awesome to begin with. Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972 and was manned by astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly. Their primary mission was to collect samples from the lunar highlands then believed to have been the result of volcanic activity. The samples proved that hypothesis incorrect. The mission included over 20 hours of moonwalks and returned 211lbs of lunar samples. They safely landed in the South Pacific on April 27, 1972.
Sorry to be so coarse in the title, but this person makes me furious.
As reported by The Smoking Gun today, Michael West of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin was arrested by police on January 15th. This douchebag told police that a a ghost was responsible for strangling and battering his wife.
First, thank goodness the police did not fall this bullshit, though there was probably a near-zero possibility of that happening. Alas, we can’t take anything for granted these days.
Second, I’m willing to acknowledge that perhaps, just perhaps, West is mentally ill. If that turns out to be the case, then this is a sad and unfortunate instance on many levels. But if you read the report, about how West changed his story once the cops discovered hand marks on his wife’s neck, I’m inclined to believe that this person is “sane” and was well aware of his behavior.
Third, men hitting women is repugnant. Its one thing for a man to have to defend himself from an attack by a woman, and as a student of Krav Maga for 4 years I know about the capabilities of a woman on the offensive. But a man attacking a woman is cowardly and despicable and inexcusable.
Fourth, if this POS pleads not guilty and stands by his ghost story, what are the chances he’d wind up arguing his case in front of a judge whom has a disposition to believing in ghosts? The chances are against that happening, but is it out of the realm of possibility? Well …
Just remember that when we underestimate the influence of the paranormal, which is so saturated within our culture, don’t be surprised when it rears its ugly head in places you might least expect.
Now, how does this apply to science? Let’s say you are greatly displeased that a science journal posted a result that disagrees with you in some way. Maybe it’s business, ideology, religious, or a personal vendetta.
Read the entire article to get the rest of that quoted text. It’s a really interesting read.
Something I don’t get though. How do the blinds protect your privacy if the screen is only one way?
Pointless Geeky Quickies
I finally decided to watch the Smallville series. I’m on season 3. So far it’s an interesting take on pre-Superman Clark Kent. I’m not liking the whole “Kryptonite can mutate humans” thing.
Been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic since I got it Tuesday. I’ve got a Jedi Consular going and I’m thinking of starting up a Bounty Hunter or a Smuggler. Or both. It’s a great game.
I found this on Wikipedia (the best source of completely reliable information evar!) and it seems to fit, it’s called “Negative Afterimage“.
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