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Chapter Sixteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

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Chapter Fifteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

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Chapter Fourteen of The Ancients of Eden, written and read by Lucian

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• Scientists heat matter to 10 million degrees Celsius
• Algae Startups at Crucial Moment in Algae Oil Refinement
• Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
• Cyber/Steampunk Futuresque Sci-Fi Hand Gun
• Hard Science Fiction: 10 Books that Prove Science Fiction Just Got Harder
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• Mitochondria and Aging - Interview Dr. Douglas Wallace
• One of last remaining ‘uncontacted’ tribes spotted in Brazil
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• How to use Australian slang like a local
• Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet
• Heavy Welded Hinges - Hardware for your dungeon
• Why every Guy should by his girlfriend a Wii
• Nintendo Wii Girlfriend’s response to video
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• Scientists create new nanotube structures
• Nanoparticles of a Different Stripe
• Lilium Urbanus
• Russia Opens Monument to Space Dog Laika
• The Legacy of U.S. Space Chimps
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Show notes and references
* Prism geometry
* Mathematical concept of area
* Math concept of surface area
* Math concept of volume
* Early patent for carbon coated artificial tendon
* Hydrogel artificial tendon that dissolves
* Early patent on permanently attached artificial limb
* Augmentation of tendon attachment to porous ceramics by bone marrow stromal cells in a rabbit model
* Effects of interconnecting porous structure of hydroxyapatite ceramics on interface between grafted tendon and ceramics
* Hybrid bio-artificial ligament and tendon reconstruction devices prepared by combining synthetic and natural materials with tissue engineering techniques
* Where tendons and ligaments meet bone: attachment sites (’entheses’) in relation to exercise and/or mechanical load
* Direct tendon attachment and healing to porous tantalum: an experimental animal study
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1) The Earth’s magnetosphere.

a) There is in fact a hole in the Earth’s magnetic field (magnetosphere). It is an area of reduced magnetic protection from the Sun’s rays. The amount of reduction is not constant. In fact its size is not constant either… It’s getting bigger…
b) It’s currently located over the South Atlantic ocean and is called the South Atlantic Anomaly. It’s also moving slowly to the northwest. Which is heading toward the Caribbean… and the United States after that if it keeps on its heading…
c) Some scientists believe the magnetic anomaly is the possible side-effect of an imminent geomagnetic reversal (a flipping reversal of the north and south poles). Many computer models show that this is possible… Some scientists believe it might be an indication of imminent collapse as well… Some computer models tend to agree…
d) Not really a rare event on the geologic scale, the magnetic field has reversed many times before… and we have no idea what happens when it does. Or how long the reversal may last. Or how long the process of reversal may take. Or much more about it… at all…
e) Some computer models show that the field might collapse completely during a reversal and the duration of this collapse is also unknown. It could be minutes… or hours… or centuries…
f) Nobody knows what causes a reversal… but some scientists have speculated that the Sun may be involved in the process in some way. Solar wind and Cosmic rays interract directly with the Earth’s magnetic field. Even from 93 million miles away.
g) The magnetic field keeps deadly radiation off the planet surface and without it, no living creature could survive for long… even in the normal sunlight. Almost nothing in the Animal Kingdom, from bacteria to insects to anything with legs could survive in direct unfiltered sunlight. The Plant Kingdom would not fare much better. Even the rocks would complain after a while…
h) A small planet-wide reduction in the shielding effectiveness of our magnetic field will cause a relative massive amount of radiation to hit the living creatures on the Earth’s surface… from normal Sunlight. The radiation dose from a partially filtered Solar Storm would be like Hell on Earth. The radiation from an unfiltered Solar Storm would be like the inside of a massive microwave oven… on extra, extra high power…

2) The Sun
a) Our Solar parent does in fact go through cycles of activity. The Sun doesn’t know what an Earth year is… What we call cycles may only be regular rhythms as fast as a heartbeat to our Star. The natural pulses of the mechanics behind a fusion furnace… are a bit beyond our range of understanding at this time…
b) We do know that every eleven years, the Sun has a period of increased activity and these cycles vary in intensity. Solar storms and Solar flares are increased during these times.
c) The cycles of intensity also seem to follow certain rhythm and timing cycles. Sometimes the cycles are less intense. And sometimes the cycles are more intense. So far there does not seem to me a pattern to these cycles. Which could mean that the range of intensities that we know about could be only a portion of the range of intensity. The only way the intensity of these cyclical storms can change is to increase. These rhythmic cycles are much longer.
d) Sunspot and solar storm activity release enormous and deadly waves of Solar Cosmic Radiation that pummel the planets in the Solar System. These waves of radiation do not lose any of their deadly punch by the time they make their eight and a half minute trip to Earth. The radiation can kill members of the Space Station if they are directly exposed to them for any length of time. They also play havoc on satellites and can destroy equipment.
e) The Sun also reverses its own internal magnetic field like clockwork every eleven years. The reversal occurs exactly at the peak of the Sunspot activity eleven year cycle. Although we do not know the mechanics of it, we know that they are connected.
f) The magnetic field of the Sun is the seed field of the magnetic field for every planetary body in the Solar system… including Earth. We do not understand enough of the nuances and nature of interstellar geo-astro-magnetics to even guess the nature of the Sun’s interaction with the Earth’s magnetic field.
g) We know the Sun has cycles that last for decades. More detailed analysis of historical records have suggested that it might have subtle cycles and rhythms that last centuries. The Sun could have cycles that last for more than a few thousand years, but we would have no way of knowing. We haven’t been paying attention that long.
h) The effects of these long term cycles could last for hours, decades or centuries. If the effects last only in the hundred to two hundred year range or less, we would have no way of knowing… because the geologic record may not be sensitive enough to pick up these geologically short aberrations. Humans don’t live by the geologic time scale. Two hundred years is eight to twelve human generations.

3) The bottom of the Atlantic seabed.
a) There really is a gigantic hole in the bottom of the Atlantic seabed floor. It also really is located between Africa and the Caribbean, which is the closest point between the continents. And the point where island chains are reaching out from the mainlands.
b) It was only discovered in March of 2007 and is currently being explored by scientists using remote submersibles. It is larger than the island of Jamaica, and it could be much bigger as more of it is uncovered. It hasn’t been discovered before because it is very deep.
c) At this deep hole under the Atlantic Ocean, the Earth’s mantle is in direct contact with the sea. This is a new phenomenon to geologic science. No where else on Earth is this seen other than in active volcanoes. And this is not a volcano. Nor is it a result of tectonic activity. At least not any kind we have ever seen before… Anywhere… Ever…
d) This is such a strange and unique phenomenon, we have no scientific explanation, or even an IDEA, of what caused it, or how it was formed. We also don’t know when it formed. Or what’s underneath it. Or anything scientifically useful at all… really…
e) Atlantic based weather patterns from before about 100,000 years ago, patterns that had existed for millennia, seem to have changed some time after that. Starting about 70,000 years ago, they have not been the same since. And we’re not talking Global Warming. Or Atlantis…

4) Quantum computers and components.
a) A true quantum computer would be the most powerful computer ever developed. It would faster and more powerful than all of the computers ever created by man added together… and it would not be a close race.
c) A quantum computer could crack any known code almost instantly and a quantum computer could encrypt a code that could never be broken… even with another quantum computer. Quantum encoded data is the ultimate in digital security theory.
d) Currently carbon 13 crystals (Diamond) are the leading candidate for the development of quantum computer components. Quantum computers and quantum computing technology will become the only real development being pursued by any major player in the computing field in the next twenty years to fifty years. Only quantum computers.
e) A quantum computer can accurately model anything from the sub-atomic to the astronomic. Quantum computing memory devices will be able to hold astronomic amounts of data in very little physical space. Compared to current technology, the storage capacity would be virtually infinite.
f) A quantum computer would be required to run a nano-manufacturing operation because of the complexity of working with the physical numbers of actual components involved in molecular and atomic operations. It would also take a quantum computer to even figure out how to run a manufacturing operation in the realm of the quantum universe, which governs the behavior of many, if not all, things at the atomic level. It’s no better at the molecular level.
g) A quantum computer is NOT science fiction. It’s the next step in computing and it is currently being hotly pursued by everyone in the experimental computing business. It is not a question of “if” technology like this will exist… It’s a question of “when”… This is the Jurassic Park of Computing Technology.

5) Nano devices and nano manufacturing
a) Nano devices are most easily built from carbon (graphite) and Nano devices are more easily controlled externally by electro-magnetics rather than by any type of internal or built-in hive-mind… or collective-mind artificial intelligence.
b) Nano devices could be used to manufacture or build virtually anything, and they will build it atom and molecule at a time. It is such a radical disruptive technology that it has the potential to completely redefine fields that cannot even be imagined at this moment.
c) When we reach the nano-manufacturing stage of development, we could build everything out of crystal diamond… because carbon is prevalent and cheap. The finished product can be formed into virtually anything with the added benefit that it is also virtually indestructible.
d) Nano capacitor batteries could theoretically hold a charge for years. Nano-technologies could change the concept of power storage devices. Nano-techniques will revolutionize how we manufacture all future electronic devices… as we are able to build functionality into the actual molecular make-up of the electronic devices. Everything will be an electronic device…
e) Nano devices will someday be used to repair damage to a human body at the cellular level… fast. Nano devices will someday eliminate the field of surgery. This is not a prediction. It is a fact. The field of Medicine will change very soon as we begin to master the art of controlling remote devices inside the human body in real-time.
f) Nano devices are also NOT science fiction. It’s the next step in both Manufacturing and Materials Science and it’s currently being hotly pursued by a large and varied array of research institutions and businesses. The number of Industries affected by Nano-Technology is much more easily calculated by counting the number of Industries that will NOT be able to use the science. It also is not a question of “if” technology like this will exist… It’s a question of “when”… This is the Jurassic Park of Manufacturing and Materials Science. It is also the “Fantastic Journey” modernized if you consider what nano-technology could offer to the Medical field.

6) Modern Humans
a) Modern humans, identical to ourselves genetically but shorter and hairier, evolved 200,000 years ago in the Interglacial period two full cycles back. Not much changed until about 30,000 years ago.
b) From about 150,000 years ago until about 70,000 years ago, we have almost no fossil evidence showing what happened to our ancestors. By almost nothing, we actually mean nothing… nada… zilch…
c) We are the only primate with a pale variation that is not from albinism. Some scientist believe that our pale coloration must be from some extended period living in the dark in our distant past.
d) Oddly, our pale variation is very strongly represented in the genes. Modern mixing of racial variations has not eliminated the trait in the same manner as if it were a typical recessive variant to a standardized modern gene pool. It acts like an ancient trait.
e) We are the only primate that is virtually hairless over its body. And our body hair is not like other primates. We are also the only primate that seems to be evolving into a less hairy version of ourselves over time.
f) We are the only primate that has subcutaneous fat (under the skin, the kind that makes us look fat). Except in captivity, no primates get obese either… but that is a different book.
g) Some scientists have theorized that our ancestors must have been forced to fish from shallow seas in the past. This would account for the loss of hair and the layer of blubber (like whales and dolphins developed when they went back into the water).
h) It would only take a small increase in human infertility rates, spread over a few hundred years, to create a decline in population that could threaten extinction. This has happened before… it could happen again. Nothing within our technological capabilities could stop it either. Our success rate at treating infertility… sucks.
i) The most sensitive parts of the body to radiation damage are the eyes. The second most sensitive parts are the reproductive gonads. Even relatively small doses of radiation can affect humans. The younger the child, the worse the effects of radiation. Reproductive tissue and embryonic cells can be completely destroyed in a matter of minutes. They can irreversibly damaged in seconds.

7) Pyramids
a) It is currently theorized that the internal blocks of the Egyptian pyramids were not quarried, but were in fact poured using an old-world natural concrete recipe that is indistinguishable from real stone except by nano-scopic material analysis.
b) Recent nano-scopic material analysis of the Egyptian pyramids has confirmed the presence of nano particles that are not natural. This is an indication that the pyramids were at least partially poured using a form of limestone concrete.
c) Central