Space Zen, The Overview Effect

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Edgar Mitchell an Apollo 14 astronaut experienced a profound and little understood phenomenon, a sort of space zen.   In February 1971, Apollo 14 had taken off and Edgar was in space, and looking back on earth he described feeling completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness.  He had become instantly and profoundly aware that each of his atoms were connected to the small planet he saw in the window and to every other atom in the Universe.  He described experiencing an intense awareness that Earth, with its humans, and other animals,  were all one systematic whole, a sense of interconnected euphoria.
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Because Edgar was not the first or the last astronaut to experience this feeling of wholeness, Andy Newberg a neurologist has done some research in to the matter and he found that there is a neurological difference within the brain between someone who has experienced this space zen, and someone who has not.  Presently Andy is preparing a brain scanner to go up with the next space exploration to study (live) what happens within once the mind enters space.

3,600-foot SPACE CANNON!

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Currently it costs NASA $5,000 PER POUND to send things into space, but someone has a solution.  Starting in 1992 John Hunter has been continually working on an easier less expensive way to send things into space.   His solution? SPACE CANNON!  The Cannon works by initially compressing hydrogen gas, then pressurizing it further with the application of heat to eventually build up enough energy that when released can shoot 1000 pounds of supplies at 13,000 mph.  The downside is its not so probable for humans to use because of the 5,000 G’s during acceleration.  The cannon will initially cost  $5,000,000 but through the use of the cannon NASA’s bill for sending one pound of supplies into space will cost a mere $250, compared to the current cost of $5000 per pound, making the project defiantly worth the start up price of $5 million.

The N.S.A needs the fastest computers in the world for code breaking, ect, These super computers are nicknamed ‘THE THINKING MACHINE’ for a very good reason
all to crack encryption codes. pretty neat!
Not exactly water cooled. Refrigerated fluorinert bath
A supercomputer generates large amounts of heat and must be cooled. Cooling most supercomputers is a major HVAC problem.
Information cannot move faster than the speed of light between two parts of a supercomputer. For this reason, a supercomputer that is many metres across must have latencies between its components measured at least in the tens of nanoseconds. Seymour Cray’s supercomputer designs attempted to keep cable runs as short as possible for this reason, hence the cylindrical shape of his Cray range of computers. In modern supercomputers built of many conventional CPUs running in parallel, latencies of 1-5 microseconds send a message between CPUs are typical.
Supercomputers consume and produce massive amounts of data in a very short period of time. According to Ken Batcher, “A supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems.” Much work on external storage bandwidth is needed to ensure that this information can be transferred quickly and stored/retrieved correctly.

Could The Experience Of Space Really Be Yours?

YES!

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Do you know Virgin? The cell phone company that dropped out of  popularity a couple years ago, well this is because they’re working a (FUCKING SWEET) new project.  For the wopping price of $200,000  you could be able to enjoy the weightlessness and beauty of space!  At the moment it’s in the final stages of construction but should literally be UP, and operational in early 2010.  This will be the first privately funded (300 pre-payed, 82,000 in waiting) space craft!

I think I’m going to start saving now!