Tuesday, November 26, 2013

What could be the best LG 42 inch LED TV on the market at the moment

If you believe long and hard about it, you have maybe owned a piece of LG electronic gear at some point in your life. The corporation has been supplying class products since 1947, beginning with chemicals and plastics and going from there. LG in reality make rather a lot of things, but the South Korean firm is perhaps best known for its electronics products.


 


The latest LG 42 ” LED Television is to be one of those most noticeable of that aforementioned LG products in the coming months. New for 2013, this innovative all-singing, all-dancing smart TV is, to state it mildly, utterly gob-smacking.


 


Having a MASSIVE 42-Inch Full HD 1080P widescreen (that also allows for Cinema 3D), you realize that you’ll be looking at one of the clearest, most dazzlingly stunning displays on the market today.


 


In addition of that, this TV has, well, all the added extras. Downloadable apps, built-in Freeview and an all-inclusive WiFi only add to the fun. So when you hook this bad boy up to your Blu Ray player and your surround sound speaker system, you will be considering a cinema quality experience in the comfort of your apartment.


 


In truth, having a Television this good, you may preferably be getting at an experience so immersive that it in reality bests the cinema for ambience. As for gaming? Forget about it (and I mean that in the good way), your games will never have looked so cool. The sounds and images won’t ever of been sharper or better defined.


 


As for this Internet, you might be able to make use of the WiFi connection that’s at the least as good as your android tablet/Smart phone, if not even better. Brilliant apps like ‘LoveFilm’ ‘Facebook’ and ‘Youtube’ will bring the best of that World wide web away from titchy devices or isolated desktop pcs and into the front room for all to share and enjoy.


 


What we’re looking at right now, without exaggeration, is one of those best Televisions in the world today. Crisp picture, wonderful sound output and many more choices than it is possible to shake a Television Guide at. You really can’t go wrong.


 


Today’s movies, games and also TV are being made for systems like this. High definition cameras are used to fully take advantage of formats like 3D, HD and Widescreen. In case you really want to get the most out of your Blu-ray library, you then owe it to yourself to upgrade to the new LG 42 inch LED Television.



What could be the best LG 42 inch LED TV on the market at the moment

Friday, November 15, 2013

Tech We’d Like to See: Cities on the Moon

What it is:


Placing a city (or several) on the moon has long been a dream of science fiction writers, futurists and ambitious scientists. Recently however, renewed public interest in space exploration, together with a growing realization that the world is becoming dangerously overpopulated, has lead some scientists, artists and zealous would-be lunar colonists to start taking this ages-old dream extremely seriously. 


Why we want it:


Because it could potentially be one of the only non-genocidal solutions to the eventual overpopulation of planet earth. Also, who wouldn’t want to sit on the moon and watch the Earth rise?


When can we expect it?


A couple of years ago, a group called Moon Capital launched a high profile competition, allowing scientists, architects and aspiring artists the chance to create scientifically plausible scenes of moon colonisation (in the style made famous by super-artist Chesley Bonestell).


The competition had (hypothetical) moon colonisation taking place in the year 2068. This estimate was good enough for the entrants of the competition, so it’ll be good enough for us, too. Hopefully, then, you’ll get your lunar colony in about 55 years time (just under a hundred years after Neil Armstrong took that one small step….)


Of course, the problems posed by such a feat of engineering are many-fold. For starters, the moon is some 380,000 km away from us at any given time, (which is quite a trip for a moving van, even taking speed cameras out of the equation), then there’s the difficulty of actually building a working city in such a hostile environment…


We’ve built space stations, of course, so we know we can construct things in space, but they aren’t exactly desirable places to live. Also, we can get people to the moon and back (we’ve been at it since the 60’s, no matter what the conspiracy nuts tell you), but the trip is still intensely dangerous and requires a great deal of training and preparation.


Finally, we come to the complete lack of breathable atmosphere on the moon; this would require scientists to create some sort of artificial environment (or else speed up development of terraforming methods, but that’s a story for another time).


Oh yeah, there’s no food either, not unless you like your Selenite steaks rare.


Yes, the idea of colonising the moon poses a number of mind-boggling obstacles, but if there’s one thing that we as a species excel at, its overcoming obstacles.


So, while it may seem far-fetched to imagine something like this actually happening, consider this; the first powered flight took place in 1903 and just 66 years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were hanging out on the moon. Think on that for a second.


Cool Factor: 5/5


Cities on the moon? Now that’s cool. 



Tech We’d Like to See: Cities on the Moon

Sunday, November 10, 2013

‘Jewel Encrusted Skeleton ‘Saints’ Make Headlines Around the World’

Paul Koudounaris, who is also identified by his nickname ‘Indiana Bones’ is an novelist, photographer and leading specialist on bone-decorated places and ossuarys. Earlier this year, Koudounaris released a hardback that includes high definition imagery of that 400-year-old ‘catacomb saints’ of Rome, a group of corpses that was meticulously adorned with charms and finery ahead of being offered as the ruins of saints to congregations across Europe.


Throughout the Protestant Overhaul of that 16th Century, Catholic churches were routinely stripped of these relics, cryptogram and finery. So as to defy this, The Vatican had ancient skeletons removed out of the Catacombs of Rome and lavishly decorated as a remnants of recognized saints.


Though regularly forgotten until Koudounaris published his book, the catacomb saints continue to fascinate concerned parties; they can still encourage religious zeal. In 1977, the town of Ruttenbach in Bavaria worked hard to raise enough funds to purchase back 2 of the primary saints from undisclosed collectors, the ornamental skeletons had initially been auctioned off in 1803.


The book, that Koudounaris has surreptitiously titled ‘Heavenly Bodies’ sees its author attempt to find and photograph each of the surviving catacomb saints.


In his heyday (a period that lasted over 200 years before finally coming to a close within the 19th century), the saints travelled far and wide, being transported at vast expense by the Church. They were venerated as things of devotion, or conduits for prayer.


Although the saints could appear unusual to contemporary eyes (one Telegraph reporter described these as ‘ghastly’), it’s crucial that you understand that those who prayed at the feet of the gilded cadavers were considerably closer to demise than their contemporary counterparts. In the wake of The Black Death (which recurred repeatedly right through Europe from the 14th to the 17th Centuries), art, literature and also worship had moved to embrace such ghoulish, macabre imagery.


The remains were regularly decked out by nuns and sometimes located in different natural poses, before being secured in glass cabinets. Some of the thorough decoration took as long as 5 years to finish, with jewellery and costumes being acutely impressive.


Koudounaris’ book, ‘Heavenly Bodies’ is available now.  



‘Jewel Encrusted Skeleton ‘Saints’ Make Headlines Around the World’

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Is after death actual fictional

A brand new scientific analysis has suggested that dying rats experience an strange surge of intense brain motion throughout their last moments of life. This enlarged brain use could be in line with (and thusly describe) Human accounts of near or after death experiences, as reported by some people around the world.


 


Roughly a 5th of all folks who have survived a cardiac arrest have reported having an ‘After Death Experience’ or ADE.  This is sort of an alarming stat, principally as ADE tends to have a very profound effect on the life of the survivor. Having an ADE is seen by many as indisputable evidence of an life after death or perhaps a continuance of the person’s soul after death.


 


In the same way, a ‘Near Death Experience’ (or NDE) is considered to be similar to the ADE, but clearly occurs while the patient remains to be technically living. Many people who encounter NDE’s report a floating sensation or ‘From Body Experience’ (OBE), also as encounters with angels, deceased family and cherished ones. Both NDE and ADE survivors often explain traversing an extended tunnel towards an extreme light.


 


Negotiations of life after death seems in early scriptures, archaeological sites and many subsequent works of philosophy and also have fascinated (and frightened) Human beings, regardless of creed, race or culture, since time immemorial.


 


After recovering from surgery in 1979, Jazmyne Cidavia-DeRepentigny of Hull, Georgia, USA, reported a stereotypical NDE account that was eventually published in the book ‘Beyond The Light’ by P.M.H Atwater in 1994. Like many individuals, Jazmyne recounts details of her surgery that may be very difficult to obtain were she lying.


 


Jazmyne says that “I was floating over my body.  I could see and listen to all that was being said and done.  I left the area for a minute after which returned to where my body lay.  I knew why I died.  It was because I could not breathe.  There was a tube along my throat and the medical staff didn’t have an oxygen mask on my nose.  I had also been provided excessive sedative”.


 


She went to describe her attempts to get rid of the tube from her throat in a considerably disturbing account.


 


Prior to the aforementioned study, it is accepted fact that brain activity ceases once the heart stops. This has now been demonstrated as being untrue, at the least so far as rats are concerned. It’s also the strongest presumption to date concerning the causes of ADEs, OBEs and NDEs.


 


One of those scientists responsible for these results, Dr. George Mashour of the University of Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA said that the team was “astonished with the high degrees of motion” within the rodents. “In truth, at near-death many recognized electric signatures of consciousness exceeded levels found within the waking state, suggesting that the brain is capable of well-organized electric activity throughout the early phase of clinical death.” He said.


 


The team’s lead scientist, Dr. Jimo Borjigin added that “This research paper tells us that decrease of oxygen or both oxygen and glucose throughout cardiac arrest can stimulate human brain activity that is characteristic of conscious processing,”


 


However, Dr. Martin Coath from the University of Plymouth, UK was a little critical of the team’s findings.


 


Dr. Coath said, because the rats were anaesthetized, the findings better demonstrated the unconscious brain’s reaction to the life-threatening deficit of blood flow and oxygen. He also said that the study hadn’t necessarily showed that any ‘heightened conscious processing’ had actually taken place, suggesting that the wording of that conclusion was “a bit of a stretch”. He commented that, while the consequences were “genuinely interesting” they were as well “hardly amazing”.


 


The results of this study will no doubt be of great notice to numerous within the scientific community, as well as religious groups, those engrossed in the paranormal and those who have experienced an ADE or NDE.


  


SOURCES:


 


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/paranormal-death-experiences-explained-204403437.html#7mbMENa


 


http://www.iands.org/nde-stories/17-nde-accounts-from-beyond-the-light.html



Is after death actual fictional

Extraterrestrial Life Discovered...Maybe

A team of Uk scientists believe that they have revealed organisms in earth’s atmosphere that originally come from space.


 


As hard as that may be to judge, Professor Milton Wainwright, the team’s leader, insists that this is unquestionably the instance.


 


The team, out of the University of Sheffield, exposed the little organisms (misleadingly referred to as ‘bugs’ by a great deal of overeager journalists) living on a research balloon that was sent 16.7 miles into our environment throughout last month’s Perseids meteor shower.


 


In keeping with Professor Wainwright, the minuscule creatures could not have been carried into the stratosphere on the balloon. He said, “Most people will presume that those biological particles must have just drifted up to the stratosphere from Earth, but it is normally accepted a particle of the volume found can’t be lifted from Earth to heights of, for example, 27km. Really the only known exception is by a violent volcanic eruption, none of which occurred within three years of their sampling trip.”


 


Wainwright maintains that the only salient conclusion is that organisms originated from space. He went on to mention that “life is not restricted to the planet but it almost definitely did not originally come here”


 


However, not everyone seems to be so convinced. Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) project said, “I’m very skeptical. This claim may be made beforehand, and dismissed as terrestrial contamination.” The team responds to this by saying that they were thorough when they prepared the hot-air balloon before the experiments started.


 


Yet, they do acknowledge that there might be an unknown reason for those organisms to reach such altitudes. It must also be renowned that microbal organisms discovered within the 1980’s and 1990’s and called ‘extremophiles’ shocked the scientific community by living in environments that would instantaneously kill the bulk of life on earth.


 


These creatures have always been observed living deep under Glacial ice or 1900 feet below the sea floor. In March of this year, Ronnie Glud, a biogeochemist at the Southern Danish Uni in Odense, Denmark was quoted as saying “Inside the most isolated, harsh areas, you are able to actually have higher motion than their surroundings,” which “Yow will discover microbes in all places – they’re exceptionally adaptable to circumstances, and survive where they are,” so it seems more plausible that any the team is in error, or that this is solely one more case of microscopic life showing up in an unusual place.


 


In addition, it is not the 1st time this unique team has come under fire for making such claims, either. Back in January of this year, astrobiologist Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe reported that ‘fossils’ found from a Sri Lankan meteorite were evidence of extraterrestrial life, an assertion that is commonly criticized by the scientific community.


 


Other scientists have complained that there basically is not enough indication to make this type of claim, as a theory this important would need a sizable body of proof to prove its authority.


 


What that says to the reporter is that microorganisms can exist pretty much anyplace and that it simply is not good science to jump to wild conclusions like aliens when a more plausible solution is most certainly present. Science shouldn’t be subject to such wild leaps of elaborate. Imagination is a great aid to science, but it really is not a science in and of itself. Unfortunately, Dr. Wainwright and his team seem to be seeing what they need to see.


  


SOURCES:


 


http://www.livescience.com/27954-microbes-mariana-trench.html


http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/09/22/news/entertainment/have-we-found-alien-life/


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/alien-bugs-discovered-earths-atmosphere-152253962.html#13B0NDB



Extraterrestrial Life Discovered...Maybe