Thorn Bugs (Umbonia crassicornis) mimicking thorny twigs, males, female and young nymphs. Thorn bugs are considered Treehoppers and are true bugs (Order Hemiptera). They are impressively marked. The male (below) has a horn with a flattened tip, the female (above) has a spinelike horn. The young nymphs have different color patterns. Designed to look like sharp thorns or a plant spike its bizarre shape helps it blend in with plants and avoid predators. About 10mm long these tiny insects are found in the northern part of tropical regions of northern South America to Mexico and Florida where temperatures are consistently above zero.
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“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”
–attributed to Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1926) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Wikipedia
analog36 • Sep 19, 2010 Someone else put this video together in tribute to one of Tom Lehrer’s greatest songs, but the original upload was out-of-sync, so I re-sync’d it and added several new slides.
Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in te abstract” comparing and contrasting what you think is the truth with what you can syllogistically, axiomatically and mathematically (using word equations) prove is the truth.
The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore sole, therefore one, therefore united, therefore harmonious. I think, therefore I am. Since I and snd since truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth. Since I, being, am Truth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore I, being, am all, total, whole, sole, one, united, harmonious. Since I am mind (self-evident) and since I, being, am Truth, therefore Truth is mind/consciousness. (Two things being equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)
2) Giving birth can be scary, painful and entrapping.
Word-tracking: give: to deliver something that you own to somebody else birth: bear, carry, born born: brought into life, brought into existence, begun bear: to be able to endure scary: to frighten, to avoid, fear, unpleasant apprehension pain: contraction of the womb, punishment, penalty entrap: snare, to put under somebody else’s power
3) Truth being one, there is no other, therefore there is no other person to entrap. Therefore Truth is always free. Since Truth is true, therefore right, therefore legal, truth cannot commit crime, and without crime there is no punishment or pain. Therefore Truth is law-abiding, crime free and pain free. Truth being mind is therefore understanding, therefore apprehension. And truth being united and harmonious, therefore pleasing, pleasant, cannot be unpleasant apprehension (scary), therefore Truth is always calm, cool and collected consciousness. Truth being all cannot have limits in time or space, so there can be no beginning or ending, birth or death in Truth. Therefore all is already present, always has been and always will be. Giving is delivering something that you own to somebody else. But since there is nobody else in truth, therefore all giving is Truth giving to Itself.
4) Therefore Truth is always free. Truth is law-abiding, crime free and pain free. Truth is always calm, cool and collected consciousness.. All is already present, always has been and always will be. All giving is Truth giving to Itself.
5) The gift of Truth is already present, always has been and always will be free.
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death.
In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning.
Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness, and a desire for higher love-making sweeps you upward.
Distance does not make you falter. Now, arriving in magic, flying, and finally, insane for the light, you are the butterfly and you are gone. And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.
–Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1f49 – March 22, 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Wikipedia
From Switzerland comes a new technology that aims to decarbonize the transportation methods we use right now.
Through a thermochemical process driven 100% by solar power, the energy startup Synhelion can synthesize gasoline, diesel, kerosene, or any other fossil fuel currently in use.
Their colloquially termed ‘solar fuels’ are carbon neutral, as they emit only as much CO2 as was used in their production, compared to fossil fuels that come from deep underground and add to the global carbon cycle.
The technology that powers the DAWN solar fuel plant pictured above relies on concentrated solar radiation reflected from a bank of mirrors into a receiver that creates temperatures as high as 1,500C°. This not only powers the production of fuels through synthesizing H20 and CO2, but also is fed into a storage system that powers the production after dark.
Launched in 2016, Synhelion has needed some time to get its feet under itself, but with its first industrial-scale plant in operation, transportation services are starting to take notice.
In September, Swiss aircraft manufacturer Pilatus Aircraft signed a five-year agreement with Synhelion that includes a commitment to purchase solar kerosene for their aircraft starting in 2027. Under the agreement, Pilatus will acquire 200 tons of solar fuel per year.
Just 8 days later, Lake Lucerne Navigation Company (SVG) and Synhelion announced an identical five-year agreement for 100 tons per year. The company’s iconic steamboats, integral to Lake Lucerne’s landscape for over a century, were originally powered by coal and later by heating oil.
With Synhelion’s solar fuels, neither these ferries, nor Pilatus’ aircraft, nor anyone else for that matter, need to retrofit or replace their existing vehicles. The solar fuels combust exactly the same as their fossil fuel equivalents, offering the chance for these firms to save tens of millions in the process of getting to net zero.
“We believe that solar fuels are, as of today, the best way to rapidly defossilize aviation,” Markus Bucher, CEO of Pilatus, said in a statement.
“Synhelion’s renewable solar fuels offer the ideal solution to defossilize our historic steamboats,” said Stefan Schulthess, Managing Director of SGV. “We’re excited to support this disruptive technology.”
The 2027 date for both agreements reflects when RISE, the first commercial-scale production facility for solar fuels is slated to be ready for operations, with the capacity to produce 1,000 tons of fuel per year from its location in sunny Spain.
Studies show that even at the current pace of electrification, there will be many remaining internal combustion engine vehicles around the world that will also need to be powered sustainably to meet net-zero emission targets by 2050.
While they still emit CO2, solar fuels also consume CO2 from the air during manufacture, and because the process is synthetic, nitrous oxide and other emissions harmful to human health are absent.
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Scientists are getting closer to giving humans the power to communicate with their thoughts alone. In a live demo, researcher Chin-Teng Lin shows how brain-computer interfaces can translate a person’s neural signals into text on a computer, potentially opening up a new realm of communication that turns silent thought into words.
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