A group of scientists have published the claim that no amount of environmental regulation will save us now, “Instead it would need dramatic leaps in technology, such as working fusion reactors, solar panels the size of Manhattan floating in space, and a ‘global grid’ of superconducting power transmission lines to distribute electricity without loss around the world.”
Full Story: The Independent: Only technology revolution can save the Earth
(via Drudge Report).
Industrial noise artists TCHKUNG have posted their “Post World Manifesto” online:
The Post World Movement maintains that the apocalypse has already happened and you missed it. It concerns itself not with reforming the excesses of the dominant culture, but rather with forming the culture that is to come after its last death throes. A virulent hybrid, Post World architects manipulate the scrap, garbage, and artifacts of the “real” world to create new forms of art and technology. Everywhere that you see a sculpture forged from industrial refuse, musical instruments created from car parts, baling wire and duct tape, and vehicles that run for no apparent reason. Whenever you see coyotes and raccoons dumpster diving in the heart of the urban metropolis, rogue clowns, predatory computer viruses cobbled together on makeshift systems, and squatters fabricating furniture and tapping into power lines; whenever you see these things you know the Post World Movement thrives.
Post World Industries: The Post World Manifesto
See also: 10 Chapters on Tchkung (live show review)
Australasian Science, a “well respected” scientific journal suggests that recently discovered giant squid may occupy more mass than humans.
The Independent: They came from the deep
(via Post Atomic)
See also: The Cephalopod Uprising
Since the media has decided to scare everyone with predictions of chemical, biological, or nuclear warfare on our turf I decided to write a paper and keep things in their proper perspective.
Experts are speculating that future wars will be fought over water. Here’s some info:
Village Voice: A World Without Water (via New World Disorder)
“Destructive artist” Otto Muehl’s ferociously nihilistic manifesto ZOCK, originally published in 1967 and translated in the most recent Exquisite Corpse, is one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in a long time. It calls for the complete destruction of pretty much everything. However, one idea in it blew my mind: “ZOCK will eliminate the race problem in a very simple way: 1. A general ban on sexual intercourse between people with the same skin color.”
The US government is calling together scientists to draft a plan to combat asteroids. I think this is a great step in the right direction for foresight.
National Geographic: U.S. Summons Experts to Draft Asteroid Defense Plan
(via New World Disorder).
In high school I had this biology teacher named Mr. May that showed The Hellstrom Chronicle to all his classes. I saw it twice: once in biology and once in AP Environmental Science. I thought that it was a real documentary about a particularly cracked-out scientist but it turns out that it’s a mocumentary. I’m sure that May knew all along, but he never let on. I wonder if any of my peers ever knew it was fake or if I was the only sucker who thought this kook was for real. Anyway, it’s worth watching if you happen to find it for rent somewhere.
A brilliant idea: encode works of art into the DNA of cockroaches (one of the toughest species on the planet). A project from virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier and friends:
All living things contain DNA, including some strands, called introns, which have no known function. Lanier and his colleagues Dr. David Sulzer, a Columbia University assistant professor of neurology and psychiatry, and Lisa Haney, a conceptual illustrator, propose putting these introns to good use. They would translate the contents of every issue of the magazine this year from two-digit computer code (0-1) into four-digit DNA language (A-G-C-T) and then splice that information into the introns of . . . a cockroach.
They don’t stop there. They have worked out a careful program of interbreeding that would ensure the genetic transmission of this information. Thus, after 14 years, every cockroach in New York would be an archival cockroach.
Maybe we should be looking at cockroaches and beetles to see if there’s ALREADY anything encoded in their DNA.
New York Times: The Times Capsule
(via Boing Boing).
According to the Telegraph, scientists have discovered that although the sun will expand in 7.7 billion years earth will survive. As the sun expands its mass will decrease which will lower its gravitational pull, allowing the earth to orbit further and further away from it:
According to the team from Sussex University, however, these calculations missed out a crucial effect: the loss of mass by the ageing Sun as it expands and its gravity weakens.
Taking this effect into account, the team found that the Earth would manage to dodge a fiery fate, its orbit expanding away from the swelling Sun.
According to Dr Robert Smith, one of the team that made the discovery, the dying Sun will make two attempts to destroy the Earth. In the first, about 7.7 billion years from now, it will expand to about 120 times its current size, engulfing the two innermost planets, Mercury and Venus.
Telegraph: Good news: Doomsday has been postponed
(via Fark).
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