Final approach to LAX (RWY 24)

How one cannot feel awed by such a magic? I don't know but I do LOVE it and I never have the right words to describe this feeling. I hope you can share the feeling with me and the people that come here to taste it.

See Venus crossing the disk of the Sun

Live broadcast by Ustream

I do LOVE FLYING!

This is pure bliss and exhilarating awe!

Exponential Growth - You must understand it!

“Smart growth destroys the environment. Dumb growth destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.” Albert Bartlett

You must understand that Exponential Growth in a finite space is impossible! From all problem of the world at the moment, the biggest and mostly overseen if the exponential growth of our population. Or we stop it (Zero growth) right now or our sons will suffer the consequences. And they are not good! Please watch the movie from Dr. Al Bartlett about it. It is a very nice lesson on the most fundamental problem we face nowadays. PLEASE! Do this favour to yourself!

“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive [overpopulation]. Convenience and decency cannot survive [overpopulation]. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears.” Isaac Asimov

“Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?”

Albert Bartlett

What do you think about this figure? Make no mistake! This is NOT a GUESS! This is FACT! Very basic arithmetic.

Midway by Chris Jordan

Svetlana Kapanina!

Flight Magic!

Top 10 Low Fly by

Dog plays piano and sings!

Air Con-The real Inconvenient Truth

Green Hell

Very enlightening book on the Greens real agenda.Worth reading!

The Dreams of Our fathers

Free diving world record

The guy - William Trubridge - dives 88m in 3:30 min with no fins!

Freediving World Record - 88m without fins from william trubridge on Vimeo.

Was Spacetime a Glorious Historical Accident?

Julian Barbour

Exactly half a century after Minkowski’s justly famous lecture, Dirac’s efforts to quantize gravity led him “to doubt how fundamental the four-dimensional requirement in physics is”. Dirac does not appear to have explored this doubt further, but I shall argue that it needs to be considered seriously. The fact is that Einstein and Minkowski fused space and time into a four-dimensional continuum but never directly posed the two most fundamental questions in dynamics: What is time? What is motion? It was an historical accident that Einstein attempted to implement Mach’s principle after he had created special relativity; otherwise he would have been forced to address these questions, which have never been properly considered. I shall show how they can be answered and suggest that: 1) time and space are utterly different; 2) the dynamical law of the universe may define absolute simultaneity in a manner that is still consistent with local validity of Minkowski’s marvellous notion of spacetime.

This is Julian Barbour presenting his beautiful theory at the Perimeter Institute.

It is a flash file so you should have the latest Flash version in your computer to be able to watch it.

You should watch this!

String theory is finally gone!

After being sick and tired by the fuzz on the String Theory, I finally found a book that has made my mind to come back to calm waters again. After years and years of discomfort with the completely crazy status of present particle physics, which was mostly dictated by the String theory prevalence of nowadays.

The book is amongst the best I ever read and its title is:

Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit. If you have any interest on the present status of theoretical physics you might have an agreeable surprise when having a look at his blog.

Trouble with Physics

Lee Smolin, has open my eyes to a problem that was bothering me for years. Why physics is becoming so far away from reality? Why are we (again) becoming Platonists looking for an ideal universe, mathematically perfect and absolutely impossible to measure or probe? How can scientists state things such as dark matter, or dark energy that are purely imagination and maths as "real things if they have no proof whatsoever? How they dare state that the Universe has a beginning in time if there is no proof about it? How science became so corrupt to avoid to mention those things are pure theories, unproven theories? And finally, why science allowed models to be taken as reality (in climate change or global warming issues) if not for pure degradation and greed? This guy is really brilliant! I strongly recommend his books! Trouble with Physics

Most things I've wanted to spread around are here!

Today, I found this blog and it contains the gist of what I always wanted to make available for people with a minimum interest in science.
If you feel you have "some" interest in things like quantum physics, relativity and cosmology, I believe you will be happily surprised.
Good trip!

First map of threats to marine ecosystems shows all the world's oceans are affected

First map of threats to marine ecosystems shows all the world's oceans are affected from PhysOrg.com

As vast and far-reaching as the world’s oceans are, every square kilometer is affected by human activities, according to a study in the journal Science by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and others.

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