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The Final Frontier

Astronauts are more than cosmic travelers. They’re also research subjects in the careful study of what exactly outer space does to the human body.

A decade ago, scientists started noticing that astronauts who spent months on the International Space Station came home with swollen optic nerves, slightly flattened eyeballs, and changes in vision. NASA started putting glasses on board the station for astronauts who found that their eyesight had worsened. Scientists have suspected that the cause involves an accumulation of the body’s fluids such as blood and water. Free from the steady tug of gravity, the fluids float toward the head and can increase pressure inside the skull.

Fortunately, the effect appear to be of short duration. But so have been the flights - it's a seven-year trip to Mars. Nobody's ever been in space for that length of time.

 

The Eye Of Sauron

Yes, it's a real thing, but rare among humans.

However, those who have the condition don't get to be a Dark Lord. On the other hand, their stares don't land them in a kangaroo court, these days. Not that long ago, they'd have faced summary execution.

 

Bugs Again

Drug-resistant "superbugs" infect 2.8 million people and cause more than 35,000 deaths each year, underscoring the enormous public health threat of germs in what one official describes as a "post-antibiotic era," according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

It was a good run while it lasted. Maybe it's a bit late in the game, but it might be a good idea to quit spiking animal feed with antibiotics.

 

Step Away From The Stove, Citizen

We're from the Government, and we're here to Save The Planet.

SAN FRANCISCO – Fix global warming or cook dinner on a gas stove?

That’s the choice for people in 13 cities and one county in California that have enacted new zoning codes encouraging or requiring all-electric new construction.  

The codes, most of them passed since June, are meant to keep builders from running natural gas lines to new homes and apartments, with an eye toward creating fewer legacy gas hookups as the nation shifts to carbon-neutral energy sources.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel, mostly methane, and produces 33% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas causing climate change.

Some of the cities ban natural gas hookups to new construction.

Wrong on a number of levels: natural gas is not derived from dead dinosaurs and dead plants; it's formed by heat and pressure. It is also not the primary driver of global warming/global cooling/climate change. Contrary to widespread belief, our planet doesn't maintain a circular orbit around the sun - it's elliptical. This means that the Earth warms during periods of closer approach, and cools as we reach the elliptical perihelion. Obviously, human activities exert no impact upon the planetary orbit.

Moreover, CO₂ is not the primary greenhouse gas on our planet; that distinction goes to water vapor. And as our planet is largely bathed in water, it produces a lot of water vapor. Again, human activities exert no effect upon the natural process. Nor will bans on the use of natural gas for activities such as home heating and cooking.

But it's a great bogyman to use in order to impose ever more controls upon your life.

It's interesting that governments are moving to essentially require you to depend upon electricity, when as noted above, much of that electricity is generated by natural gas-fed power plants. And given California's most recent experiences with widespread power outages and conflagrations sparked by downed power lines, it seems a bit ironic to force people to rely upon electricity. Oddly, for some reason, natural gas lines were unaffected.

No word regarding the amount of CO₂ and particulates resulting from the wildfires. How curious.

 

 

Florida's Magic Beans

In promotional materials and patents, Joi Scientific has claimed to have found an efficient way to generate hydrogen from seawater, something that would be a major scientific breakthrough. (Joi Scientific)

Presumably, they've also found a way to turn lead into gold.

A Florida-based hydrogen company that received millions of public dollars from New Brunswickers has told shareholders that its technology doesn't work as previously described, CBC News has learned. NB Power paid Joi Scientific $13 million Cdn to license a technology that claims to be able to efficiently generate hydrogen gas from seawater to generate electricity on demand, something that would be a major scientific breakthrough. 

One of the company's patents claims it can generate hydrogen at 200 per cent efficiency. For one watt of input energy, the patent says two watts of energy in the form of hydrogen gas are produced.

Evidently, the geniuses running that Canadian power company are unaware of Florida's long-standing history of scams. 200% efficiency? Really? Somebody must have flunked high-school physics.

Hydrogen is magic, all right....

 

Kamal-Toe

Kamala Harris is an ardent abortion activist — no pro-life voter could be addlepated about that.

But Harris wants to make sure Democrat presidential primary voters know she’s staunchly in favor of aborting as many babies as possible, right up to birth. Harris is so pro-abortion she just told an audience that killing babies in abortions is something that should be declared “a priority.”

Naturally, Harris wrapped this horrific reality in language about so-called “reproductive rights.”

“We need to have presidential candidates indicate where they stand on it, and we need to declare it a priority like any other health-care priority,” Harris said in an interview with The Daily Iowan. Harris told the DI that states such as Alabama that drastically tightened their abortion laws are “completely out of touch with reality.” Harris highlighted reproductive rights in her stump speech, saying that state legislatures “dare to impede on a woman’s right to reproductive health care.”

Sorry, Kamal-Toe - abortion is not "reproductive health care". In fact, 96% of biologists agree that human life begins at conception.

As the usable responses began to come in, I found that 5,337 biologists (96%) affirmed that a human’s life begins at fertilization, with 240 (4%) rejecting that view. The majority of the sample identified as liberal (89%), pro-choice (85%) and non-religious (63%). In the case of Americans who expressed party preference, the majority identified as Democrats (92%).

Even Democratic biologists disagree with Kamal-Toe. It's pretty simple, really: if you don't want a baby, then don't make one. With all of the inexpensive birth control options available today, such as condoms, the pill, etc., there really is no justification - in the vast majority of cases - for murder. As Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii recently observed, abortions should be “safe, legal, and rare.”

Kamal-Toe is the one who's out of touch with reality.

“Top-level employees of Planned Parenthood admit to changing their procedures to harvest intact bodies of unborn children for body-part trafficking,” said Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice.

Day one of the preliminary hearing for pro-life activist David Daleiden kicked off Tuesday morning at the San Francisco Superior Court with testimony from an abortion technician, a third-trimester abortionist, and a vice president of the National Abortion Federation, who testified she doesn’t know what a human tissue procurement company is or does.

NAF Vice President of External Affairs Melissa Fowler also testified she recognized StemExpress—a human tissue procurement lab exposed in Daleiden’s undercover videos that is now under federal investigation—as a repeat vendor of her for-profit organization. NAF is a third-party abortion trade group.

After Fowler, Doe 7 took the stand, a non-physician who performed surgical abortions for Planned Parenthood Northern California. She testified she regularly provided fetal tissue from the abortions she did and heard of money exchanges with StemExpress.

Planned Parenthood is not in business for the measly $350 it charges for killing babies. They do it for the baby parts. Just the eyeballs are worth $10,000. Pure evil.

 

 

 

The Science Is Settled - Or Not

It all seems to come down to whether or not the science has the blessing of the Left:

University of Chicago Ph.D. graduate Steve Jacobs discovered that more than 90 percent of biologists agreed that life begins at conception, but it is a fact that has made him a target of destruction by radical leftists. Jacobs identified the names and workplaces of thousands of certified biologists and he asked them a series of questions, the most important of which was “when does human life begin.”

As the usable responses began to come in, I found that 5,337 biologists (96%) affirmed that a human’s life begins at fertilization, with 240 (4%) rejecting that view. The majority of the sample identified as liberal (89%), pro-choice (85%) and non-religious (63%). In the case of Americans who expressed party preference, the majority identified as Democrats (92%).

Since Democrats love “scientific consensus” when it come to the global warming debate, Jacobs assumed that liberals would accept his research, even though they might be a bit shocked over the results. It turns out that instead of accepting science, liberals turned on him and began attacking him on a personal level and attempting to get him kicked out of school and his dissertation suppressed.

Let me assume my shocked face.

But in other health news:

Bal Gill, 41, from Slough in Berkshire, was at the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions at the top of the Royal Mile with her family in May. When she went into the museum's thermal imaging camera room she noticed her left breast was a different colour.

When she returned home she saw a doctor who confirmed she had breast cancer.

She discovered that thermal imaging cameras can be used as a tool by oncologists.

Cancer cells grow and multiply very fast. Blood flow and metabolism are higher in a cancer tumour as blood flow and metabolism increase, which makes skin temperature rise.

Andrew Johnson, general manager of Camera Obscura and World of Illusions said: "We did not realise that our thermal camera had the potential to detect life-changing symptoms in this way. It's amazing that Bal noticed the difference in the image and crucially acted on it promptly. We wish her all the best with her recovery and hope to meet her and her family in the future."

Non-invasive thermal imaging. Who knew? That's more science - so will the Left pile on her as well?

 

 

 

 

The Poor Polar Bears

Whoops! They're doing fine.

There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn’t yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking. The proposed plan — which is to go to public hearings in Iqaluit on Tuesday — says that growing bear numbers are increasingly jeopardizing public safety and it’s time Inuit knowledge drove management policy.

“Inuit believe there are now so many bears that public safety has become a major concern,” says the document, the result of four years of study and public consultation.

“Public safety concerns, combined with the effects of polar bears on other species, suggest that in many Nunavut communities, the polar bear may have exceeded the co-existence threshold.”

In its submission, the Kitikmeot Regional Wildlife Board expresses frustration with how polar bears are used as an icon in the fight against climate change. “This is very frustrating for Inuit to watch … We do not have resources to touch bases with movie actors, singers and songwriters who often narrate and provide these messages,” it says.

An estimated 25,000 to 40,000 polar bears live in the Arctic -- up from just 5,000 a half-century ago. Perhaps unsurprisingly, "scientists" from down south, who don't live with the bears, scoff at the observations by First Nation inhabitants - who actually do live among polar bears. I'll take First Nation observations for $1000, Alex.

 

Cue Up The Twilight Zone Theme Music

The U.S. Army has signed a contract to study and exploit materials from unidentified flying objects. It intends to use what it learns in order to develop new weapons platforms.

The facts are provided in a newly agreed cooperative research and development contract between the U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command (specifically, the Ground Vehicle Systems Center) and the UFO technology exploitation group To The Stars Academy. The U.S. Army's stamped and signed 26-page contract is quite stunning.

"The government is interested," the contract explains, "in a variety of the collaborator's technologies, such as, but not limited to inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural metamaterials, electromagnetic metamaterial wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion." The contract also entails the research of metamaterial exploitation for the purposes of "active camouflage and directed photo projection."

In other words, people appear to have been scavenging materials from crashed UFOs and the military wants to determine their usefulness in future weapons systems. Sounds like science fiction, but the Army doesn't issue contracts on a whim.

The government's rationale for the contract is simple. "If the government can verify materiel solutions claims by [To The Stars Academy]," it says, "then significant advancements can be made in the capabilities of Army ground vehicle platforms in terms of security, force protection and weight reduction."

Likely, they're also interested in developing new propulsion systems as well. Anti-gravity, anyone?

 

Going To Court To Contest A Red-Light Camera Ticket?

BEAVERTON, Ore. (KOIN) — After years of late-night research, frustration, ridicule and even lawsuits, Mats Jarlström of Beaverton could finally say, “I told you so.” But he didn’t use those words after learning his research into whether yellow lights are too short for drivers making turns was validated at the highest level. Instead, Jarlström expressed joy. ​

“I feel totally vindicated here,” Jarlström told KOIN 6 while holding back tears after learning the news Thursday, which happened to be his birthday.​

The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), which makes the traffic control policies for the United States and other countries, notified Jarlström that he’s right: drivers often get caught in a no man’s land when trying to make a turn and they end up running red lights.​

“This is a tremendous amount of work I put into this and the impact this will have for everyone in the world, it’s going to be dramatic,” said Jarlström. “The yellow lights are too short in the U.S.”​

It took Jarlström 6 years of research (and facing indifferent authorities in Beaverton, Washington County, and the state of Oregon), but he finally prevailed. Most entities responded that they follow best practices determined by ITE. And yesterday, ITE notified him that he was right and they had screwed up:

“The existing Kinematic Equation does not fully cover several dilemma-zone situations for left-turn and right-turn movements,” concluded members of an ITE panel considering Jarlström’s research. “The Panel suggests that this item be properly reconsidered by ITE.”​

This is going to tick off a lot of bureaucrats in cities across the country. They're going to have to recalibrate all of those cameras.