Alfedo Reinado, shark and kayak, Rudd says sorry, Dorothea Waley Singer

Relatives of renegade soldier Maj. Alfedo Reinado and his bodyguard Leopoldinho da Costa mourn over they coffins in Dili, East Timor, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. Reinado was killed during an attack on East Timor's president, Jose Ramos-Horta Monday which left Ramos-Horta seriously injured
- there is a school of thought that claims Reinado was a defender of Timor against the Australian oil thieves. But the attack on Xanana indicates R was a murderous idiot, unless Xanana faked his own attack, which is too paranoid to imagine. X did embrace Suharto (literally) rather too soon but...

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white shark and kayak
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Rudd says sorry. The PRN (professional rednecks) crawl out of the woodwork
Our own creepy denialist Denis Dutton links to the even creepier denialist Keith Windschuttle. (now Quadrant editor) ... saying (quelle surprise) .Stolen generation - never happened
Denis does link to independent fisk ... chomsky
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Giordano Speaks:
pantheism

It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, possibility, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit. In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as out own. [De Infinito Universo e Mondi, v, Singer p 59]

To a body of infinite size there can be ascribed neither centre nor boundary . . . Thus the Earth no more than any other world is at the centre. [De Infinito Universo e Mondi, ii 40-41 Singer p 58.]

so GB is the first to say Centre everywhere, circumference nowhere...

Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno, Henry Schuman, New York 1950.
His Life and Thought (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer

Singer looks like an accessable route to Giordano's texts:
positiveatheism
positiveatheism
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Inflation, what actually happened E-32 secs post big bang?
Having read Silk's "Big Bang" I am still confused:
thinkquest

A similar transition, Guth realized, also occurred between two phases of matter in the very early universe. The ensuing latent-heat release had a substantial effect on the expansion rate of the universe. The two phases corresponded, at very high temperature, to a state of symmetry and unification between the nuclear and electromagnetic forces. .... When the temperature dropped below a critical value, this symmetry disappeared, and a new, asymmetrical state of matter developed in which the nuclear force overwhelmed the electromagnetic force, just as it does today. The release of latent heat during this transition temporarily maintained the energy density of the universe, and for a brief period, light was able to traverse almost the entire universe. The light-travel distance grew exponentially large. Prior to this period of inflation, any homogenizing process at work in the universe could have acted over only a small scale—at most over the distance traversed by a light ray since the big bang—in today’s units of length, this would correspond to about a centimeter. But inflation stretched this scale out to a distance of hundreds of billions of light-years, well beyond the observable edge of the universe...

. This is a very poor explanation... it seems that space can (and did?) expand much faster than light,.. but Silk seems unable to bring himself to state this...
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turbine. Helix Wind has come up with a small turbine that will harness wind from any direction and thus can make use of even the lightest breeze. The company currently manufactures a 2kW model, with a larger 5kW turbine in development and expected to be on the market in January of 2008...
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Psychedelica, hooray
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Hate to plug artnews, but they do feature this historic image (1962?)
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Last week at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Dahlgren, VA, a seven-pound bullet emerged from a truck-sized contraption at seven times the speed of sound and sent a visible shockwave through the air before crashing into a metal bunker filled with sand. With 10.6 megajoules of kinetic energy, this aluminum slug was propelled not by explosives but by an electric field, making this the most powerful electromagnetic railgun ever fired. The device is part of the navy's railgun development program.

[ I thought Dahlgren was a fictional city with 2 suns and a lot of homoerotic shenanigans...]
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Kiwi JPL space robot pioneer:
William H. Pickering: America’s Deep Space Pioneer
by Douglas J. Mudgway
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Good book on Climate (apparent;y, I've not seen it)
The Hot Topic by Gabrielle Walker and David King
reviewed in New Scientist * Magazine issue 2642
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Blue Eyes:
Jan. 3 online issue of the research journal Human Genetics.

Eye colour variation from brown to green is all caused by the amount of melanin in the iris of the eye, Eiberg explained, but the blue-eyed have only slight variation in this amount. “From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor… they have all inherited the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA.” Unlike them, brown-eyed people vary considerably in the area of their DNA that controls melanin production, he added.

Eiberg and colleagues examined DNA from the mitochondria, a cellular compartment passed down only through mothers. They also compared eye colour of blue-eyed people from in countries as diverse as Jordan, Denmark and Turkey. The findings are the latest in a decade of genetic research that Eiberg said began in 1996, when he first implicated the OCA2 gene in eye colour.

I am not clear if OCA2 in a mitochondrial gene, if so why eye colour from there?
Alfedo Reinado, shark and kayak, Rudd says sorry, Dorothea Waley Singer