Twenty-first post

19 posts ago, I talked about swine flu and how we will all turn into zombies. But now, swine flu has come into the news again with an interesting conspiracy; not about the virus but about the vaccine.

Could it be that the Government wishes to exterminate much of the population like the mass killings in ‘V for Vendetta’? Surely not, you would think. But then again, this is a Government which spends its people’s money on duck houses, moats and other odd purchases that I will not go into right now. Would you trust that their advice on so-called ’swine flu’ was correct and their vaccine should be administered? Probably, although you might think twice before allowing a Government wizard in white to stick a fine, sharp tube into your body and inject a mysterious liquid.

Plus, the vaccination is to be given to more ‘vulnerable’ people first, i.e. pregnant women and children, i.e. people fuelling the ever-growing saturated population and the people who will inevitably fuel it. So it makes sense that the Government would want to reduce the numbers of these groups of people.

But what of swine flu? Could the fools in the Government really have the intuition to stage a global pandemic? Maybe not them, but with the right number of power-crazy people, it might just be possible.

However, it isn’t. Hopefully.

Twentieth post

“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it” - Albert Einstein

It’s been a whole month since my last blog post, so I felt that one was due. But what to talk about? Water was found on the moon, which was a pretty big revelation. Does this mean the possibility of life on the moon? Probably not, as there is only about 32 ounces of it. But this, of course, assumes that life cannot exist in conditions any different to Earth.

Which is pretty ignorant.

There may be aliens monitoring us right now who laugh when they hear us say that life can only exist in Earth’s conditions. Then humans will nonchalantly voyage to other planets, safe in the knowledge that ET will not spring up behind them and bite their heads off, because of the toxic atmosphere or uninhabitable heat conditions… When suddenly, ET springs up behind them and bites their heads off!

Aghast, Scientists will have to re-think all their assumptions, while they suffer their embarrassing defeat at the hands of their conclusions. Humans will become the laughing stock of the Galaxy and the scourge of civilisations.

Tut tut, humanity.

Nineteenth Post

Hello everyone. It was ten posts ago that I said how Google could become self aware and dominate the Internet and in turn could have the power to dominate the whole of the Human race!

It seems that this week new evidence has arisen for that very scenario.

Google's "Unexplained Phenomena" logo.

Google changed its logo in a mysterious move. What could this mean? Is Google part of a plot for an extra-terrestrial invasion? Surely Google would not be involved in such fiendish schemes.

In a statement, Google said: “We hope to have an update in the coming weeks.” This could mean several things.

An update suggests an update to the system, and the ever growing sophistication of Google’s technology. But the statement could also imply an update not for the system, but for the Human race.

Ponder for a moment the notion that Google, with all it’s omniscience, pities the Human race. By ‘update’, it could mean the human race will be abducted into laboratories in the sky and converted into cyborgs, wired up to petabytes of data.

Is this the vision of the future? Probably not, but it’s good to keep an open mind.

Eighteenth post

"All is not butter that comes from the cow."

Over the past few weeks, I have been in Ireland (you can see my pictures here). There, you will find many cows, which could be the dominant species of Earth in many ways.

Firstly, they co- exist with each other with social benevolence. They do not mess in the mindless extremities of war, but this could all be a cover as they plot the downfall of humanity.

Secondly, they are vital to fertilise the ecosystem. If they understood how important they were they could use the power against us, enslave our race and create soylent green to they could sit on a throne of poetic justice.

Finally, they are possibly very intelligent and are thought to have sophisticated meteorological capabilities. They could also have a good understanding of the current economic situation. There have been reported cases of cow suicides, an act synonymous with recession.

Bearing all this in mind, the question is, are we dominant over cows, or are they dominant over us?

Seventeenth post

Tomorrow I will go to Ireland, which is quite a nice place. So here are a couple of pictures from my last visit.

View from Connor Pass

Running sheep

This picture depicts one of my favourite moments in all of my life. We drove behind a group of sheep, who were suddenly driven by a swarm intelligence to run towards us. Ah, good times.

Sixteenth post

"We can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way." - Buzz Aldrin

Hello there. What should I discuss today to use up some time in my epically large seven-week holiday.

I went to the National Space Station in Leicester on Thursday, which was interesting, although slightly annoying when I found out that there was an Apollo exhibition the day after.

Still, I saw a space toilet (pictured).

It disgusts me that some people still think that the Apollo moon landings were hoaxes. Tsk, tsk. How ignorant of people to disregard the program that brought us the fuel cell and the integrated circuit, as a fraud.

Still, being reasonable, the Apollo missions were partly a medium for the USA to spite Russia for winning the space-race in the Cold War.

But it is still silly to believe that the Apollo missions were staged. Look at the overwhelming evidence.

So I will settle this:

Please do not be swayed by negative suggestion.

Update:  So far the results stand at 50/ 50. I really hope that only two people voted.

Fifteenth post

Holy Moley; it’s been a while since my last post, and quite a lot has happened. Google Chrome OS was announced, which sounds incredibly awesome.

“Google? Releasing an Operating System?” I thought as I heard a passing reference on the radio. I needed to investigate…

Later that day, I dissected a heart, which was very good.

After that, I went home and took some pictures, as I like to do. Mostly macros of hoverflies, as they seem quite abundant.

Then I remembered the small article on Chrome OS I heard and decided to do some extreme browsing. First impressions: it is Linux, Google style.

Once I was satisfied, I went to bed.

Also, I saw a fox, but that was on the previous day.

Thus concludes this blog entry.

Fourteenth post

This is what you get when you search 'everything' in Google images.

Hello there. Now that I have covered life and the Universe, it is time I moved on to everything. But is life and the Universe not everything? Is there something else other than life and the Universe? As Douglas Adams was a devoted atheist, I doubt he meant anything spiritual. But I suspect he put it into the phrase so it sounded better. Life, the Universe and Everything sounds a lot more epic than life and the Universe.

But how can a theory of everything be produced. A theory of everything would suggest that everything is relative to everything else.

A ripening pear would go by the same fundamental meaning as Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC1.

Stephen Fry would be governed by the same basic principle as a rotting onion.

In a World of these crazy hypothesizes, do we really want a simple theory of everything?

Yes.

Thirteenth post

"The Universe is big" - Douglas Adams

It is thought that the Big Bang theory will be disproved as Science develops and a more accurate picture of the Universe will emerge.

Could this mean that Science will develop an answer the the Universe to replace the current ‘42′?

There is also a theory that nothing physically exists unless it has a conscious observer. By this logic, the Universe could not have existed before it spawned conscious life-forms.

That is also like the seemingly paradoxical theory of Schrödinger’s Cat. A cat that is both alive and dead at the same time? An intriguing argument.

On the subject of paradoxes there is the age old Grandfather Paradox. If the space/time continuum can be warped then it is thought that a person could theoretically go back in time. If they then killed their Grandfather before their father was born, then technically they should not exist.

The Universe is awesomely complex, and as Douglas Adams said, “there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.“

For more of my ponderings on the subject of the Universe, look here.

Twelfth post

Life is a very strange thing. What makes the molecules that make up living organisms different from any other molecules. How does Deoxyribonucleic Acid live yet potassium oxide does not? This is what Douglas Adams asked in the first part of the answer to life, the Universe and everything.

It was in 1953 that James D. Watson and Francis Crick said that they had discovered the secret to life, which they had partially, but this was not enough for humanity.

Tests were done by passing electricity through methane to see if they act like living cells.

Also questioned is the origins of life, some people think that the first cells were brought to Earth in comets as this was how water came to the Earth.

But what is the answer to life? Does life have an answer or a meaning? I think not. Life is an accident of the development of molecules to multiply and eventually build a fully functionally being, that is completely pointless.