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ASWIN joined StumbleUpon on Jun 13, 2005
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Saturnia--Pyri rated 2 weeks ago- Un jour j'irais jusqu'à la fin de ses 443 pages...
- seaturtle rated 4 weeks ago
- Ashwin's home is a treasure of interesting things, like coffee, orgasms, politics and philosophy. Some examples: All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone -Pascal And one more on the same theme: Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties -Thoreau But to the following: It goes without saying that those who strive to maintain the status quo are the most immoral of all. To them the great sin is to question the prevailing order. Yet every great thinker, every great artist, every great religious teacher did just that -Henry Miller I would respond with one of my favorite quotes: It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness -? Another one: There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution -Aldous Huxley And: The Superior man loves his soul, the inferior man loves his property -Confucius
- Succes rated 5 weeks ago
- Thanks for gathering so many very interesting websites for us to see. You have a great and intelligent blog.
- Droidydoo rated 5 weeks ago
- Cool shpongle pic from Aswin's great blog ..reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers.. (Terence mcKenna)
- applznorngz rated 6 weeks ago
- ok, between ASWIN's site and the labyrinth of the psychonauts ... I'm going to be busy for quite awhile...
- universalove rated 6 weeks ago
- Great stumbles full of thought-provoking comments, pictures, ideas, and information. Keep raising people's consciousness~~~~*
- aluis rated 8 weeks ago
- From the page: ""My Grandfather taught me to follow the Twelve Cycles of Truth and the Pathways of Peace to preserve my wholeness and help me walk in balance and fulfill my life's mission. They are: learn the Truth, honor the Truth, know the Truth, see the Truth, hear the Truth, speak the Truth, love the Truth, serve the Truth, live the Truth, work the Truth, share the Truth and be thankful for the Truth."
- sharkat rated 2 months ago
- It's easy to see why this Stumbler has so many fans.... A reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles could happen sooner than we think, according to Dutch scientists who report that the planet's magnetic field is becoming gradually less stable. A reversal could affect everything from navigation and communications equipment to the composition of the atmosphere, say experts. The report, published today in the U.K. journal Nature Geoscience, found that reversals have been far more common in the last 200 million years than they were deep in the planet's history. Wandering poles Researchers, led by Andrew Biggin of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, made the discovery by analysing rocks formed between 2.45 to 2.82 billion years ago. The story of the Earth's magnetic field is written in rocks over time. Because these rocks become 'magnetised' at the time of their formation, scientists can discover which direction the poles were facing and how strong the Earth's magnetic field was at that time. The magnetic poles wander around the vicinity of the geographic poles all the time - the north magnetic pole currently resides in the Canadian Arctic. However, at relatively regular intervals throughout the 4.5 billion year history of the planet, the magnetic poles have flipped completely. A few thousand years before a reversal, the magnetic field gradually gets weaker; something which could cause problems for inhabitants of the planet. "The Earth's magnetic field is important for shielding the atmosphere, and us, from damage caused by the solar wind," explained Biggin. "It's also used by us and other species for navigation". An increase in solar wind would disrupt communications equipment and power grids. Current records suggest that we are long overdue for our next reversal, he said. "On average, there is a reversal around every 400,000 years, but this varies a lot." The geological record suggests that the last reversal was around 800,000 years ago. Furthermore, there is already evidence to show that the field has been weakening over the last few centuries - some archaeological remains suggest that the field was far stronger in the time of the Roman Empire, some 2,000 years ago. Don't throw away your compass Don't throw away your compass just yet though - major changes may not even happen in our lifetimes. "The reversal process is very unpredictable," said Biggin. "We could be heading into a reversal in the next few centuries, or we might be waiting another million years". Even then, reversal is a slow process, which can take some thousands of years to complete. But what about the effect on living organisms? Another paper, published in Nature in March suggested that some species that rely on the field for navigation or orientation have taken a knock from pole reversals in the past. >>>>>>>>>> SHARKAT has been reading and seeing documentaries about the weakening of Earth's magnetic field for many years now and thinks that this is a very real phenomenon. Whether it ties into long Solar cycles with the complex magnetic fields of the Sun is still unclear. Whether it connected in any way with the so-called Long Count calendar of the Maya (which has the current "fourth world" ending at winter solstice 2012) is also an intriguing question, but who really knows?
- tindink rated 2 months ago
- Thanks to Aswin for this awesome image which manages to say so much without the need for words.
- chicotree rated 4 months ago
- isn't it all related? thanks for sharing with the community!