Archive for February, 2008

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Posted in ET on February 20, 2008 by zcarmichael

Can we find any trace of extraterrestrial life? And, if we do happen to discover another civilization, can we communicate with them Click here.

Mysterious red cells might be aliens

Posted in ET with tags on February 19, 2008 by zcarmichael

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“As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.”

Click on the picture for the full story.

Smoking “Monkey” Kicking the Habbit

Posted in Strange but true on February 19, 2008 by zcarmichael

A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit. Read more »

NAZI flying saucer

Posted in ET, UFO, science with tags , on February 19, 2008 by philipvonk

NAZI UFO

It is believed by some people that the Germans were working on a flying saucer during the 1940. The principle of this vehicle is based on the Coanda effect. It is also believed that the development of the AVRO CAR comes directly from the work done in Germany during the 1940.

The fact that world governments have hidden this knowledge from the rest of us and the existence of flying saucers is only revealed by the crop circles found in the South of England shows that the major governments of the world are hiding something!

Dark Matter Halo

Posted in science on February 19, 2008 by zcarmichael

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We believe that most of the matter in the universe is dark, i.e. cannot be detected from the light which it emits (or fails to emit). This is “stuff” which cannot be seen directly — so what makes us think that it exists at all? 

We believe that our galaxy is surrounded by an enormous spherical cloud of dark matter: material which is not composed of ordinary protons, electrons and neutrons, but of some other sort of elementary particles. As its name indicates, this material doesn’t emit as much light per kilogram as stars do.

Why do we believe in this mysterious material?

 ”Keplerian rotation.”

 Information from http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys301/lectures/mw/mw.html

Crop Circles

Posted in Crop Circles on February 12, 2008 by rsidman

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Over the years, crop formations have evolved from simple circles to doubles, triples and multiples. Rings then began to surround the circles until around 1990, when new design elements began to appear, including lengthy hieroglyphics

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A724204

For those of you who are interested in  aliens and crop circles, link to the above website.

Is there anybody out there, or are crop circles just a complete hoax. whatever you believe, one cannot help but admire the intricate and complex geometric patterns, that for some strange reason, usually appear in wheat fields mostly in England. Wheatabix has never been more interesting.

You can use Excel to produce sound

Posted in Music on February 9, 2008 by philipvonk

As most people know sound is a wave motion. The frequency of middle “C” is 440Hz, this means that at this frequency 440 revolutions are made per second. As one revolution mathematically is 2pi or (2 x (22/7)) then a time scale (x axis) can be built up using these two factors. The amplitude (y-axis) is found from the sin of the value on the x-axis.

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An whole octave can be made up using the relationship f = 2^(n/12) x 440 Hz. on an Excel spreadsheet.

Middle C octave

And by combining the appropriate notes a chord can be simulated.

Chord of C

  

So sound is made using Excel