Wrapping Up 2008

Gift Day: Lisa (out of autofocus) is waiting patient for her gift...


The Day After Gift Day: No snow, just some frost in the ground (-5C). The fourth time in 16 years with no snow at the end of the year at North of Dröbak...

Late october (29th) this year: Still some snow left... but whose sleigh has been here??

Happy New Year To All Civilized People... (that make shoes instead of bombs...)

The Answer Is: Reversed 42!

At December 19th 2008: Just A Little Snow Left (Today Nothing!)




Soon Bart (The Seagull) Shows Up To Get His Free Meal...
(Too little fish in the sea, folks !!)

Season's Greetings From Me (MR Underpants 2008) To All Of You

(Except Osama Bin Laden, and..., and...., and....., and......)

Symmetry Is Balance

It's easier to remember symmetric positions of objects (in groups they belong) for example, than random. The brain wants to simplify and give us control and balance so we can make schedules that will give us an advantage for the future - symmetry with respect of the part of the year compared with the following years lets our life be more predictable.

But too much control and predictability let us be vulnerable to sudden, unexpected events. Therefore evolution lets us also enjoy unexpected endings of books, movies and so on - besides art that lets us get the impression of something new in a picture thats not all regular when looked upon from one time to the next.

Children do a lot of sudden, unexpected behavior - like boooh! - to frighten and prepare each other (and grown-ups!) to more difficult times that may happen during childhood. They who enjoy living a little on the edge then have an advantge over they who have much more regular (sort of symmetric) habits and behavior. Predators and enemies studied human groups, and they who had clothes or behavior not common in a group then attracked those unwanted elements in a greater degree. Also regular behavior attracted those elements - so they who were a little "irregular" then survived easier. That's why many people dress in dark clothes.

But "the irregular people" may be everyone of us if we get extreme stimuli - that has helped our ancestors to survive, and will aid us selves in the future. This explains conflicts, wars, crime and insanity among people and is part of our heritage. From the most peaceful (dressed with regular patterns an bright colors) to the most sadistic and violent persons (so stay away from extreme, violent stimuli from PC, TV, books, movies...)


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120073130.htm

http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2008/november/200217

Chapter IVa: Climate issues, part 3

DIG, MAN.... DIG!!!!

Find some already destroyed sea bottom aeas (that won't be to difficult?) and begin to dig giant holes. Put the digged out soil and rocks along a sea coast, like that of Israel, and in deserts, together with some concrete etc to bind the new materials.

Then you get lower sea level and much new fruitful land areas and solve the Palestine problem at the same time! Much new vegetation may grow in the areas to remove a lot CO2.

Four world problems solved!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026803.100-time-to-rank-the-best-ideas-to-engineer-the-climate.html

At Last A Better Start Of Winter!

From my kitchen window today: A little snow... may it last! Must be at least seven years ago that winter started this early. Snow in the middle of October and skiing in November was common here fifteen or more years ago. Too much CO2, removing of vegetation and manmade buildings and roads are the main culprits for global warming.

Chapter IVa: Climate issues, part 2

So what is there to be done with violent turbulence around buildings, cars, etc?

We have the possibility to break up air current into small eddies by altering the texture or shape on the outside of flat or smooth surfaces. We know that the fish scales reduces the energy that a fish must use to get from A to B; a fish scale pattern on the boat hull is shown already in US1894256 (free of use), and combining this with other technologies, like US4320920 (also free of use), like for instance the outside of the leading edge 46 shown there, will give small eddies along the flat surfaces and cancelling out much turbulence at the corners.

(I'll keep this short and explain more of this in the book and some more of how stable turbulent air particles in a tornado gain energy and avoid much of the thermal convection that other air particles would use to break up turbulence.)

So what are you waiting for? Tell the good news to your local newspaper...
It's not too good to be true - the reason why the technology doesn't catch on (yet) is that it is free for everybody to take advantage of. Don't pay me - buy and read my book in 20-2020.


Source:
http://ep.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_EP

RE: Chapter IVa: Climate issues, part 1

Everything seek out stability. Both thermal convection and air molecules seek out patterns that means domination of a weather system. The most stable, less energy consuming and lasting (compact) pattern is a hexagon, like in (bee) honey cubes. Then other polygon shapes. If a pattern can't be hexagon in a system, then it is preferred to be quasi-hexagon (instable) before breaking up in both regular turbulance and irregular turbulence.

A first weather system with a seemingly stable situation might turn unstable, but more energy efficient (path of less resistance) if a second weather system with higher (turbulent) energy clash into the first one. The second weather system prefer to "attack" where the first weather system is most vulnerable - at areas with steady flow (that beeing (quasi)linear or regular nonlinear) and put some of the energy from that into itself by little energy transitions as possible. Then use more energy to take over irregular areas with nonlinear, unsteady (turbulent) flows of air molecules.

So the new combined weather system will be much the same (or in "upgraded" shape) like the second one and devastate more or less the surroundings if there is a much of the monoculture that is man made in the surroundings.

Both open fields with little or low vegatations and cities with much asphalt roads and buildings with smoth walls will "encourage" the weather systems there to gain or build up energy with some help from outside weather systems.

This probably was the reason that a big hurricane took weather forecasters by surprice when it struck southern Britain exactly 21 years today (at 15th october 1987). And this probably explain erratic behavior of hurricanes at the coast of southern USA - the hurricanes origin at a western bay of Africa, and the build up of energy there is perhaps caused by more monoculture instead of great variations of vegetations, and by more buildings that block energy travel inward land.

A lot of different air molecules (aerosols) from vegetations and a lot of small animals or insects (like butterflies) all participate to break up weather systems so they won't become quasi-regular and powerful to create swirling storms or hurricanes. More varied vegetations and less flat areas counter the effect of energy building up in the weather systems. This seems to be difficult for scientists and politicians to understand.

Chapter IVa: Climate issues, part 1

Some people think that the solutions to the climate troubles are to reflect the surplus energies away, perhaps all the way to outer space... Here's some corrections that prove that can't be done, and that the article in the end of this part GOT IT ALL WRONG:

Ice reflects the radiations from the sun - not effectively to outer space, but to the surrounding air and moisture (clouds) that bring the hotter weather systems with the currents to other places, that heat up. Reflected rays to outer space from ice (in Arctic or Antarctic) are mostly of low frequency.

Collections of hotter air that gather instead of spreading doesn't solve anythiing! Rather, it cause more melting or heating were the air isn't so cold (and dense). Same goes for concrete building and asphalt roads that likewise give more uniform heating of surroundings - hot currents from cities are the main problem!

Analogic: A butterfly can't cause a storm on the other side of Earth - but rather prevent the storm by dividing up the surplus energies (turbulence and heat). More organisms (plants and animals, big and small) to divide up energies means less turbulence and more spread out of heat. Realize this, folks!

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg20026775.000-the-greenhouse-effect-that-may-be-cooling-the-climate.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=env1_head_The%20greenhouse%20effect%20that%20may%20be%20cooling%20the%20climate

Chapter IIIa: Sleep

Keep some light in your bedroom. Your parents are/were wrong. Early man lived for hundreds of generations in dangerous environments with not much more than his fire to protect against enemies or predators. If the camp fire got completely out, wild animals could attack. So it was important to let some of the fire shine toward the sleeping place. Otherwise our ancestors could not get to sleep or woke up too early. It was beneficial to wake up before the animals attacked if the camp fire got out during the night - to restart the fire. That could take some time, so if you wake up during the night because of no or little light in your bedroom, you should not try to sleep again right away. Put on some warm clothes, and get some more light/heat in your bedroom (or get this outside the bedroom) and you soon are ready to sleep again.

Curtains should not cover the window in your bedroom completely, or at least not be too dark if they cover the whole window. Then your sleep (dreams) is regulated accordingly to the nights and the mornings. You will feel more rested.

If you live in a country with little sunshine at least part of the year: Two hours or less before bedtime take a vitamin D tablet (most effective: vitamin D3) or two. (But don't call me in the morning!).

RE: Fall

Seems that I should have mentioned why (some) leaves turn red in fall: The leaves produce anthocyanins (a reddish stuff). If there are little nitrogen (and other elements) in the ground, the leaves produce more anthocyanins. The trees get (some of) the nutritionts from the leaves when they fall on the ground near the trees and decompose (and perhaps also some of the nutritionts when the leaves are still left on the trees). See link below.

Anthocyanins occur naturally in some plants with red leaves, especially if the photosynthesis isn't so active in those plants. That means they get more of other nutritionts directly from the leaves (perhaps some antioxidants) by use of the anthocyanins.

Red berries and blue berries in the woods also protect the plants they grow on against microbes and plant illnesses (and probably other plants) by their content of antioxidants. Blueberry plants often have some red leaves, especially if they live in the shade of other plants or trees (or the ground make much shade). So anthocyanins is (at least in some degree) a sort of replacement for photosynthesis among several plants.

If you look at trees getting reddish leaves, you see that leaves in cold or windy parts are more reddish. They still contribute with some temperature protection of the more green leaves on the inside parts, so the green leaves still have some photosynthesis.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071025112042.htm

Chapter II: Why (Most) Africans Are Poor

During Ice Ages (and somewhat between) some Neandertals, living in the North or the Middle of Europe, probably were moving South, but (old) Erectus or (new) Sapiens on the other side were travelling North to avoid too much heat and thereby little resources even further South. Besides, the South of Europe and North of Africa had a much wetter climate due to glacier melting or the blocking of downfall in the North of Europe. Ice and snow areas blocked much of the downfall in North of Europe, and rivers of melting water and rainfall nearby in the south meant that more food resources were available there.

Because the Neandertals had been living in the North and the Middle of Europe, they knew how to claim the food, that gradually were much of the same type that they got further north. The Sapiens were probably driven somewhat south by the Neandertals, but after a while a few smarter individuals adapted to both food in the north and south. They who could not adapt, went to stay back in the North of Africa. There they built large villages that meant a lot of people on a familiar diet, but the resources of food there got smaller and smaller. War between tribes had to arise; that meant the best warriors got rewarded on the expense of more intelligent or creative people. "Brawn over brain".

After a lot of generations the savage genes dominated much of the populations in Africa, while the Sapiens in the north (and partly south) had to keep together and cooperate to outwit the Neandertals, that probably got scared off to barren land in the end. Ingenuity were rewarded in the north, while strength and quick abilities were rewarded in the south (the best athletic people are often Africans, while inventors and discoverers are most often people with origins in the northern parts of Earth).

With the most aggressive men to be rewarded with the best resources (women, cattle and land) in Africa (and partly Asia) during hundreds of generations, there is no wonder that Africans (and some Asians and Latinos) are inferior to other people (with origins in the north) by running the societies in a peaceful and democratic manner. This the politicans must learn and understand to ever manage to reverse the bad developments we have seen the last hundred years.

Chapter I: We All Do Math

To make fast decisions we all calculate by guessing the (almost) right number of items. Why do we all have that ability? The scientists are puzzled... And who do they "call"?

Well, it seems that some other animals (other primates, birds and perhaps dolphins/whales) have this ability too. Some of the reasons are obvious - if you belong to a group it's an advantage to have a sense that tells you that something or someone belonging to that group is missing - this give the group better survival conditions.

By fast guessing a number of items, qualities or persons (at least almost correctly!) crises have been avoided from one generation to the next in increased manner. By knowing almost in advance that another (hostile) group would be equally matched by your own, there were no reason to go to war about resources.

This changed much by religions in mankinds later periods ( "The god is on our side"). Neandertals probably didn't believe in any gods judging in their favour, but lived in peace or harmony with their neighbours. Of course, they were chased off by the superstitious Sapiens. If the Neandertals believed in anything superstitious, it would be that the world was full of demons or spirits that all were hostile. Neandertals with less advanced societies were often prey of Nature - so why should they believe in any gods??

Inventions or ideas by the smart Sapiens showed on the other hand that life really could be good. The persons that made the inventions or discoveries and so on were soon forgotten... so who or what could be behind "all the good stuff in life"? Like Neandertals, they probably also believed in evil... so there had to be something (or someone!) that counteracted that evil... and what could that be, you wonder? You guessed it: Gods!

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36601/title/FOR_KIDS_Math_and_our_number_sense

The Nature Behind It All

Just some updates for my future book with the same name...
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1- The power of four...

Four leaf clover has a sort of propeller shaped leaves... this make it easier for the leaves to wave in the wind since this compact lump is heavier than three leaf clover. And why is it important to clover to wave in the wind? If you look carefully, you see a V-shape pattern on each leaf, which look a bit similar to birds at distance in the air.

When insects approach, they discover the V-shape patterns and try to avoid the (animated) leaves. So they won't lay eggs there (to develop leaf eating worms). If a farmer get propeller like leaves of paper also with a similar V-shape pattern around his crop, his crop will be more left alone from insects, I guess.







2- BUurrr... ("goodbye to Summer..." "...seal it with a kiss" - Hyland)
One most likely reason why the leaves turn reddish is to gradually prepare for winter. It's more cost effective to have the left green (wind and cold protected) leaves to gather the increasing weaker sunlight to produce some nutrition still, while the more cold exposed, reddish leaves don't draw cold nutrition to the three (or plant) - which might be harmful. So it's a bit like us humans - we more likely get a cold when fall is at our doorstep (aaatschooo!).

The Purpose Of It All?

PUurrr...pose? Why, you poor, lonely guys... (Agneta F)

We may never know what made the whole world, but at least we know that the world will not sustain life forever. There's a rapid increase of space in our universe, but the energy amount here is constant, so the energy possible to exploit will be increasingly difficult as it spreads out in an increased volume of space as the billion years pass by. We will be trapped in our own galaxy - The Milkyway (together with Andromeda and some small neighbour galaxys) with stars that at the later stages won't radiate enough heat. Even the black holes will eventually disappear.

This goes for every galaxy in the universe - there's no escape. What to do then? There's no other option but to find out everything about the nature of 1-particles, 2-energy, 3-time, 4-space and 5-dimensions and how they relate to each other. The sooner we find out, the better... there might be some sort of loopholes that let life survive by altering one or more characters belonging to some of 1-5, or all of those - meaning we have to take the ultimate step by creating a whole new universe.

The "old" universe, our own, may not survive into a new universe... so a sort of doomsday machine will be constructed, either by us (our descendants) or an alien civilization. An AI will calculate the exact moment before a civilization in our galaxy will not be able anymore to slurp up enough energy from their nearby stars and be forced to invade other star systems with life already present, and decide to "push the button".

There's a possibility that this type of AI already is constructed by an alien civilization... so possible hostilities between aliens and natives at a star system might get the AI there (or at the other star system) to push the button EARLY. This threat will keep civilizations at peace with each other. So there's little chance of Earth ever being invaded by hostile aliens. Every civilization would want to build a doomsday machine that has this ability to keep the civilization from going to war with other civilizations. If a primitive civilization doesn't have a doomsday machine, one will be placed nearby, but out of reach for that civilization. Probably would it have a scrambling effect on intelligent signals that reach a primitive civilization (to be on the safe side).

What Is Real?

Hmmmm.... clones... blueprints... zombies...

At last a book with some REAL science! Or perhaps unreal...?

One of man's biggest mysteries... Who are we? What are we?

Why are we? Where are we? Are you more than me? Am I more than you?

In the beginning of reading a lot of "weird" stuff I understood less and less...

It's like having scrambling piles of jig saw puzzles belonging to totally different themes.

But suddenly you find a few pieces that belong together, and you see at least a few outlines that explain in a rough manner how some stuff in this weird universe is related. I want to find those outlines an put'em on this blog... further explanations of mysteries (even women!) will be presented in a book (or books!) I am planning to write.

Get your cow, cowboys and cowgirls...

...and let it lead you to Santa with your wishlist:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2623809/Cows-point-north-thanks-to-in-built-compasses.html

But seriously, the reason why cows point their head north might be that wind from north is cooler than wind from south, and then they avoid in larger degree udder (and bladder or uterus) infection if their udder and other vulnerable parts nearby is protected from cold wind. Combining that with daylight and the tendency of facing north is preferred through evolution.

Mystery solved?

Higgs Boson

If it's there, then perhaps another particle that it interacts with? I can't imagine just one single type of particle (and perhaps only Higgs field?) that just stays there... everything is in motion and interact with (opposite) particles with near same physical qualities.

My guess would be two particles that change phase so swift that they don't annihilate each other, and that the interaction/vibration between the particles curves space so that the motion inward is slightly faster than outward - explaining both mass and gravity.

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/lp708818-cern/

Based On a True Story (?)

Preliminary valuations in my future book (?) about The Star Systems

About 5 billion years ago the Solar System was made from the leftovers of a much earlier star that went nova. Spiral matters of dust and ice particles reached billions of miles from the centre of the nova explosion.

During many hundred thousand years the spirals lumped together (through flocculation) to make even thicker spirals, until those got so heavy that they began to contract and curve around a common centre of gravity while giving the proto star rotational velocity (analogue to a skater pulling her arms together to make a pirouette).

At the formation of spirals the dust particles and the ice particles split (due to different density and vibrations) to shape "countless" mingled layers of ice and dust. Through gravity the spirals contracted within and got closer to each other, which meant that dust particles from different layers got tighter and the temperature in each spiral rose due to friction, so that much of the ice particles eventually turned into water.

The process of turning ice into water was chaotic and uneven, and much of the water froze and melted over and over again to make bigger lumps of water and ice at a certain distance from the spirals common centre of gravity. The lumps easily froze together, and since ice are less dense than water, large layers of ice and water vibrated the dust layers tighter and tighter to shape "countless" rocks of different size and density by the extra influence of gravity and increasing temperature near the centre of the proto star (later the Sun).

At the centre large layers of water quickly turned into steam, and in a serial like explosions caused by the quick expansion of hot water, huge parts of rocks, water and ice broke loose, and like sledge hammers the parts (or prototype planets) were slung out from the centre.

At a certain distance much of the water at the prototype planets froze to bigger or smaller lumps of ice, and due to less density only tailed along with a lot of dust. Some of the lumps of ice got loose through the sledgehammer effect to become (dirty) comets. A sort of sledgehammer effect also happened inside the prototype planets themselves (due to hot steam and gravity from the proto star) to form several satellites - or moons - of different size already when the p-planets were travelling from the centre of the glowing protostar to find a stable orbit many millions of miles away.

Lighter elements (like helium) and water particles near the centre of the proto star were in the hot stage too little dense to follow the "sledgehammers" in a large degree, and much of the heavier elements (like metals) were in the centre too compact, and by the influence of too great gravity, not able to tag along with the sledgehammers.

So the central parts of the proto star were soon hotter, while the prototype planets melted and partly froze over again on their travel from the centre of the proto star. Much of the lighter elements lumped together and through the heat around the rocks they got less dense. So gas prototype planets (with a heavy rock core) suddenly lost much of their mass (to the proto star) and gained speed to travel further than the lighter rocky prototype planets (with more water/ice than gas layers).

Through gravity from the newborn star - the Sun - the planets found their orbits. If the Moon had been twice as big and the Earth had been 50% smaller, they could have been a double (or binary) planetary system with a shared (or almost shared) atmosphere and a stable spiral orbit around the Sun, so "the one Earth" in a few hours would be ahead of "the other Earth" - and vice versa.



Probably are binary planetary systems quite common around stars in the universe, and life probably occurs more often in such systems than on "lonely" Earths. The days are perhaps 50% longer than the days on our Earth due to the spiral delay by orbiting along a common centre of gravity, but the year is perhaps 50% shorter than the year on Earth. The tidewater at a binary planet follows curves that give rapid and expanded distrubution of water together with weather systems. Predictable, but rapid shifting levelling conditions like that would help and stimulate evolution of life.

Age Of Sonja...!

Sonja and her latest prey: Rudolph Jr

- Grrrr... reindeer punks, make my day...!

He Walked Among Us...!

Some humans never learn, do they...?

Still some sceptics here, eh???

- BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY !!!!

(Entity has left the building...!)

Do You Waste Your Life...?

Do you follow the path or road to nowhere...?





Or do you use your talent to do something that benefits other people...?

Wasting your life with lazy people doing no good? Fight back!

North Of Dröbak...!

Easter Sunday: Almost no snow left for the Easter bunnies to hide into...!






Heavy traffic in Oslo seen from my balcony (north of Dröbak - Santa's place). But that is probably not the explanation...!

Just a little snow left last Friday. What is going on??

Beware Of The Greys!

The cakes at my 50year-party at my mom's place....yummy!


One of the greys at my 50year-party: Guess who!



Another one of the greys: Mom 82 years young!



The slurpy BigBrother that doesn't see me... and mom very often!



The Entity that made The Big News.... also at the party!

Men In Grey (Suits)

Good (?) Old Late LP-days...

Red-eyed me (left) and sleepy-eyed Peter N...

Snap-shot by one of the "hot" girls at a "wild" party in the early 90-s.

(Seems to be a nostalgic year, this 2008... I'll turn fifty soon...!)

From 15 To 50

My Life As A Total Failure

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I got the fast train... but I missed the slow train...

My life just went down the drain, with everything I did in vain...