10: Earth swallowed by a black hole
Richard Wilson is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics at Harvard University in the US:
"Around seven years ago, when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider was being built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, there was a worry that a state of dense matter could be formed that had never been created before. At the time this was the largest particle accelerator to have been built, making gold ions crash head on with immense force. The risk was that this might form a stage that was sufficiently dense to be like a black hole, gathering matter from the outside. Would the Brookhaven labs (and perhaps the entire Earth) end up being swallowed by a black hole created by the new accelerator?
"Using the information we already know from black holes in outer space, we did some calculations to find out if the Brookhaven particle accelerator was capable of forming such a black hole. We are now pretty certain this state of matter won't form at Brookhaven and that the Earth won't be swallowed when these particles collide."
Chance of Earth being gobbled up by a black hole in the next 70 years: Exceedingly low
Danger score: 10
• Naked Science: Clash of crises, is a free event at the Science Museum's Dana Centre on Wednesday April 20. The event is free but tickets should be prebooked on 020 7942 4040 or tickets@danacentre.org.uk. Please see www.danacentre.org.uk for full details. You can also take part in the Dana Centre's survey, investigating the nation's biggest fears for the future at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
SOMETHING VEDIC THIS WAY COMES
"In this age of nescience, men have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky, and above all, always disturbed.
"Religion, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, mercy, duration of life, physical strength and memory will diminish day by day because of the powerful influence of ignorant behaviour. Wealth alone will be considered the sign of a man’s good birth, proper behaviour, and fine qualities. And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one’s power.
"Men and women will live together merely because of superficial attraction , and success in business will depend on deceit. Womanliness and manliness will be considered and will be judged according to one’s expertise in sex .
"A person’s spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols and a person’s propriety will be seriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar. A person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be accepted as virtue, and beauty will be thought to depend on one’s hairstyle. Filling the belly will become the whole of life, and one who is audacious will be accepted as one who is truthful.
"As the earth thus becomes crowded with a corrupt population, whoever among any of the social classes shows himself to be the strongest will gain political power. Harassed by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, flowers and seeds. Struck by drought they will become completely ruined. The citizens will suffer greatly from cold, wind, heat, rain and snow. They will be further tormented by quarrels, hunger, thirst, disease and severe anxiety.
"The kings will mostly be thieves, the occupations of men will be stealing, lying and needless violence and the social classes will be reduced to the lowest level. Clouds will be filled with lightning and homes will be devoid of piety and all human beings will have become like asses.”
–from the Vedic Scripture, the Shrimad Bhagavatam, circa 3000 B.C.
GEORGE’S NEW WORLD ORDER MARCHES ON…
With the likely acceptance of the proposed candidate for Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, George W Bush’s agenda for bullying the world continues apace. This Bolton fellow has a history of unleashing disrespectful remarks about the United Nations and has recently said, “Where the U.S leads the U.N will follow.”
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Marching on...
With ex-Pentagonian Wolfowitz in place as Chair of the World Bank and now Bolton as shadow leader of the United Nations, the American leader’s pro-business version of globalization is taking form. Soon, we’ll see better what precisely that form will mean for all us more meek sorts sitting on the sidelines. When our water rights have been usurped and our military policies cajoled, and our oil and mineral reserves traded into trans-national programs our protestations may well be too little too late.
HORRORSCOPES
With Ms Urble
HORRORSCOPES
With Ms Urble
Read at your own risk
ARIES
Focus on your inner child and anticipate its next outburst. When Jupiter aligns with Mars and the Star of Bethlehem inclines to gluttony, give the little fart a good whack.
TAURUS
Overhearing the domestic troubles in the House of Aries, you are not allowed to lull into lassitude and submission. Pay extra for the role of Domintrix this Monday p.m. and all will become clear. Shopping tip: Camilla has spurs on sale til Wednesday.
GEMINI
The twins are at it again. To placate their disagreeabilities take two Atavans on Monday a.m. and play a diversionary tactic by accessing your Cardinal’s ethereal configurations in the Akashic Sky. Tell him you’ve got three to one on Tattrazini in the fourth.
CANCER
Just shave. Thank me later. Who loves ya baby?
LEO
Give media appearances a rest. Too much intensity in Saturn’s third lip-ring will prove to be an eating disorder… and you know how the press just love it when you go anorexic. Borrow some chocolate from Mars and stay in this week with coco-buttered popcorn and Michael’s throw-offs. (Don’t keep his underwear.)
VIRGO
On the cusp of the Rising House of the Sun-Drenched Cancer of the Colon, ask to switch with Capricorn. Can’t hurt to wear those shoes for a week. Use in-soles to prevent lesions.
LIBRA
Feeling half-hearted? That’s because your moon is not shining where it counts. But the sun is. Now is a good time to schedule a colonoscopy. He who hesitates is apt to go astray, darkly.
SCORPIO
The passing owl missed its moment. Lucky you. More fur on those legs might help too. The sun changes signs on Wednesday so make up your mind: For Sale by Owner or Not Hiring? Or flip over, wiggle those furry jobs and use neon: This Place For Rent.
SAGITTARIUS
Striving to make sense of it all dimishes the good humour. With your Moon in retrograde and Marjorie’s House in view, buy a truck and sell ice cream. Try not to salivate.
CAPRICORN
Borrow a bunion from Virgo and exercise your authority with an extreme sense of caution as you navigate around the debauched detritus emanating from Leo’s House. DO NOT borrow the panties.
AQUARIUS
When the moon is in the seventh sun, you’ve been watching too many retro movies and munching on Leo’s popcorn was a serious misplay. Stay up on Sunday to watch pro football to rekindle your sense of machismo and timing, then risk it all watching another moon passing over the ambisexual content of Footballers' Wives.
PISCES
You’ve been passed over by the gruntisaurusly-sexual nature of an episode of Desperate Rugby Players. Wait until your House in is Leo’s undies before asking him “What’s it all about, Leo?" (accent on “O"). If you hear Hey Jude, you know you’ve been eclipsed by David Cassidy’s moonwalking impersonation of Frank Zappa. Another toke?
THE DAY BEFORE A NEW POPE
Well with all this punditry and guesswork going on as to who the next Pope will be, Allow Yours Truly to throw in his uneducated wild guess: Dionigi Tettamanzi. He’s Italian and in a way that’s a safe bet for a traditional institution, charming, and non-threatening. The radical shift to a South American or African Pope can wait a few years yet.
Focus on your inner child and anticipate its next outburst. When Jupiter aligns with Mars and the Star of Bethlehem inclines to gluttony, give the little fart a good whack.
TAURUS
Overhearing the domestic troubles in the House of Aries, you are not allowed to lull into lassitude and submission. Pay extra for the role of Domintrix this Monday p.m. and all will become clear. Shopping tip: Camilla has spurs on sale til Wednesday.
GEMINI
The twins are at it again. To placate their disagreeabilities take two Atavans on Monday a.m. and play a diversionary tactic by accessing your Cardinal’s ethereal configurations in the Akashic Sky. Tell him you’ve got three to one on Tattrazini in the fourth.
CANCER
Just shave. Thank me later. Who loves ya baby?
LEO
Give media appearances a rest. Too much intensity in Saturn’s third lip-ring will prove to be an eating disorder… and you know how the press just love it when you go anorexic. Borrow some chocolate from Mars and stay in this week with coco-buttered popcorn and Michael’s throw-offs. (Don’t keep his underwear.)
VIRGO
On the cusp of the Rising House of the Sun-Drenched Cancer of the Colon, ask to switch with Capricorn. Can’t hurt to wear those shoes for a week. Use in-soles to prevent lesions.
LIBRA
Feeling half-hearted? That’s because your moon is not shining where it counts. But the sun is. Now is a good time to schedule a colonoscopy. He who hesitates is apt to go astray, darkly.
SCORPIO
The passing owl missed its moment. Lucky you. More fur on those legs might help too. The sun changes signs on Wednesday so make up your mind: For Sale by Owner or Not Hiring? Or flip over, wiggle those furry jobs and use neon: This Place For Rent.
SAGITTARIUS
Striving to make sense of it all dimishes the good humour. With your Moon in retrograde and Marjorie’s House in view, buy a truck and sell ice cream. Try not to salivate.
CAPRICORN
Borrow a bunion from Virgo and exercise your authority with an extreme sense of caution as you navigate around the debauched detritus emanating from Leo’s House. DO NOT borrow the panties.
AQUARIUS
When the moon is in the seventh sun, you’ve been watching too many retro movies and munching on Leo’s popcorn was a serious misplay. Stay up on Sunday to watch pro football to rekindle your sense of machismo and timing, then risk it all watching another moon passing over the ambisexual content of Footballers' Wives.
PISCES
You’ve been passed over by the gruntisaurusly-sexual nature of an episode of Desperate Rugby Players. Wait until your House in is Leo’s undies before asking him “What’s it all about, Leo?" (accent on “O"). If you hear Hey Jude, you know you’ve been eclipsed by David Cassidy’s moonwalking impersonation of Frank Zappa. Another toke?
THE DAY BEFORE A NEW POPE
Well with all this punditry and guesswork going on as to who the next Pope will be, Allow Yours Truly to throw in his uneducated wild guess: Dionigi Tettamanzi. He’s Italian and in a way that’s a safe bet for a traditional institution, charming, and non-threatening. The radical shift to a South American or African Pope can wait a few years yet.
"Soul-ripe emerging market?"
And while we’re on such mind-staggering matters as papabilia, how’s this for a strange remark used when describing one papal candidate, “- qualities highly valued in the modern Catholic church, where the competition is tight from other faiths in the soul-ripe emerging markets of the developing world.”?
Death by injection: the last lie
“This won’t hurt.”
Recent studies have shown that for all these years that death by injection has been considered painless and humane, findings indicate that in fact not enough anesthesia has been administered to the death row inmate to insure a peaceful passing. For that last few moments of his life, while his face may be paralysed showing no grimacing he is acutely aware of extreme pain. And probably conscious, thinking that ‘this is no accident.’
Death by injection: the last lie
“This won’t hurt.”
Recent studies have shown that for all these years that death by injection has been considered painless and humane, findings indicate that in fact not enough anesthesia has been administered to the death row inmate to insure a peaceful passing. For that last few moments of his life, while his face may be paralysed showing no grimacing he is acutely aware of extreme pain. And probably conscious, thinking that ‘this is no accident.’
This won't hurt?
Imagine being one of the unlucky few who were innocent at a time when DNA wasn’t available to prove your case? And then enduring this last few minutes?
This form of final punishment is so cruel and unusual that it easily surpasses the gravity of the crime of even the correctly accused.
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This form of final punishment is so cruel and unusual that it easily surpasses the gravity of the crime of even the correctly accused.
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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Sunday, April 10, 2005
The English Bay Banner, Number 3
CALL FOR WITNESSES
Have you ever witnessed beatings around the Davie Street Super Valu store, possibly related to accused shoplifters? If you have any information you would like to impart either anonymously or otherwise, please contact the publisher of The English Bay Banner by posting your message here.
All related correspondence can be managed electronically via this site.
SUPER VALU BOYCOTT NEWS IN BRIEF
Mr John Lederer, President of Loblaws, has been contacted for a comment as to why his suppliers, including President’s Choice, continue to supply and thereby allow to profiteer, this Super Valu store while it is owned by a member of the Hells Angels.
Chairman of Loblaws, Mr Gaelon Weston, has deigned not to comment after several attempts to reach him and leaving messages. Obviously he has more important things to do than worry about how the operation of that outlet affects our spiritual climate here in the west end. Perhaps he is consulting the Hells Angels Guide to Ethics and Morals (ghost-written by Martha Stewart) before responding to our queries.
ROT AT THE TOP
(As this commentary will be touching upon politics, don sewage suits please)
The trickle-down effect was a term once favoured by bankers and economists who actually expected all us plebes to anticipate that once the mega-corporations declared their obscene profits the wealth they generated would disseminate all the way down to benefit the lower classes. This term, as applied to that economic theory, has become laughable in the last decade but it does suit very nicely what’s happening in the rot department.
Now that we are all witness to the grotesque goings-on of the Liberal Party and its desperate and illegal kickback schemes in Quebec, and while we can still recall with a putrid taste in our mouths the corrupt shenanigans of the Mulroney regime, is it any wonder that young people think nothing of lying and stealing; or are becoming so despaired that suicide appears like a rational act in this age of ignobility?
Kiddie thugs engaging in park beatings and swarmings and high school mass murderers can seriously claim to be victims of the slithering goop trickling down into their lives from the remnants of the Chretien and Mulroney regimes.
(cartoon below by Graeme MacKay of Hamilton Spectactor)
Have you ever witnessed beatings around the Davie Street Super Valu store, possibly related to accused shoplifters? If you have any information you would like to impart either anonymously or otherwise, please contact the publisher of The English Bay Banner by posting your message here.
All related correspondence can be managed electronically via this site.
SUPER VALU BOYCOTT NEWS IN BRIEF
Mr John Lederer, President of Loblaws, has been contacted for a comment as to why his suppliers, including President’s Choice, continue to supply and thereby allow to profiteer, this Super Valu store while it is owned by a member of the Hells Angels.
Chairman of Loblaws, Mr Gaelon Weston, has deigned not to comment after several attempts to reach him and leaving messages. Obviously he has more important things to do than worry about how the operation of that outlet affects our spiritual climate here in the west end. Perhaps he is consulting the Hells Angels Guide to Ethics and Morals (ghost-written by Martha Stewart) before responding to our queries.
ROT AT THE TOP
(As this commentary will be touching upon politics, don sewage suits please)
The trickle-down effect was a term once favoured by bankers and economists who actually expected all us plebes to anticipate that once the mega-corporations declared their obscene profits the wealth they generated would disseminate all the way down to benefit the lower classes. This term, as applied to that economic theory, has become laughable in the last decade but it does suit very nicely what’s happening in the rot department.
Now that we are all witness to the grotesque goings-on of the Liberal Party and its desperate and illegal kickback schemes in Quebec, and while we can still recall with a putrid taste in our mouths the corrupt shenanigans of the Mulroney regime, is it any wonder that young people think nothing of lying and stealing; or are becoming so despaired that suicide appears like a rational act in this age of ignobility?
Kiddie thugs engaging in park beatings and swarmings and high school mass murderers can seriously claim to be victims of the slithering goop trickling down into their lives from the remnants of the Chretien and Mulroney regimes.
(cartoon below by Graeme MacKay of Hamilton Spectactor)
Recognizing righteousness cont'd.
This country has been seriously leaderless for a lot of years and couple that fact with the war-machine recently re-elected just south of our porous borders, and you’ve got a very tenuous foundation for any form of civilization.
A people can always inherently recognize the presence of moral indignation in a man of righteousness. He has a kind of steady passion for the truth and a drive to do the right thing. His integrity is visible somehow, and a nation will warm to him. His words become beacons of hope and give good reason for young people to believe again that their efforts to change the world for the better are not in vain. Young people can still be impressed and deeply influenced by the seeing and the hearing of such a leader. We have all seen that recently in the attention given to the life and passing of Pope John Paul II. No matter what anybody’s arguments might have been as to his policies and dictates, no one could legitimately deny that man’s sense of commitment and personal pleading for the welfare of the world. Young people responded to that presence. That manhood. They spied something in themselves that they wanted to see enlivened. Could it be they were seeing what their birthright is all about: a growth into magnificence, living a life of purposefulness and meaning? And the real desire to discover others of similar appetite?
As we remain leaderless in this country, with no examples of human splendor to be showcased in this time of insatiable media, we squander our young people and allow them to be threatened by the influences of, for example, moronic biker gangs.
(One has to wonder: Where are the fathers in these biker gangs and how do they explain to their 12 year olds precisely what they’re doing? What heroes do they offer their children?)
CUE THE SACRED FLUTE
It was during the ‘90’s that the Nuu Chah Nulth native group of the west side of Vancouver Island regained control of some of their lands and were then empowered to husband it the way a true aboriginal nature lover would. Shortly after, the Hesquiaht band, one of their member tribes, clearcut its timber just north of Tofino in the general Clayoquot area.
The Cheam Indian band have been front and centre in the act of diminishing the salmon stocks of the Fraser River due to their untraditional use of nets cast across the river. The salmon stocks on this river are at risk of becoming extinct. This event would be an ecological disaster of extreme proportions.
The native salmon fishers on the west side of Vancouver Island, due to a favoured status, have an extended fishing season and plunder with gusto, uninterested apparently in stock counts.
A people can always inherently recognize the presence of moral indignation in a man of righteousness. He has a kind of steady passion for the truth and a drive to do the right thing. His integrity is visible somehow, and a nation will warm to him. His words become beacons of hope and give good reason for young people to believe again that their efforts to change the world for the better are not in vain. Young people can still be impressed and deeply influenced by the seeing and the hearing of such a leader. We have all seen that recently in the attention given to the life and passing of Pope John Paul II. No matter what anybody’s arguments might have been as to his policies and dictates, no one could legitimately deny that man’s sense of commitment and personal pleading for the welfare of the world. Young people responded to that presence. That manhood. They spied something in themselves that they wanted to see enlivened. Could it be they were seeing what their birthright is all about: a growth into magnificence, living a life of purposefulness and meaning? And the real desire to discover others of similar appetite?
As we remain leaderless in this country, with no examples of human splendor to be showcased in this time of insatiable media, we squander our young people and allow them to be threatened by the influences of, for example, moronic biker gangs.
(One has to wonder: Where are the fathers in these biker gangs and how do they explain to their 12 year olds precisely what they’re doing? What heroes do they offer their children?)
CUE THE SACRED FLUTE
It was during the ‘90’s that the Nuu Chah Nulth native group of the west side of Vancouver Island regained control of some of their lands and were then empowered to husband it the way a true aboriginal nature lover would. Shortly after, the Hesquiaht band, one of their member tribes, clearcut its timber just north of Tofino in the general Clayoquot area.
The Cheam Indian band have been front and centre in the act of diminishing the salmon stocks of the Fraser River due to their untraditional use of nets cast across the river. The salmon stocks on this river are at risk of becoming extinct. This event would be an ecological disaster of extreme proportions.
The native salmon fishers on the west side of Vancouver Island, due to a favoured status, have an extended fishing season and plunder with gusto, uninterested apparently in stock counts.
Disappearing feathers cont'd.
And now it has been reported that the poacher of dozens of eagles (supposedly sacred to native people) is indeed a native who has been selling the parts to other natives for use in sacred dances and other holy rituals. It is simply not plausible to believe that this poacher has been slaughtering all these eagles all this time and widely reported about in the press without the knowledge of other reserve natives in that area bordering North Vancouver.
The holier-than-thou-native keeper-of-the-sacred-environment image is now getting seriously tarnished.
For halo polish, order soon from that arthritic snake-oil salesman before it’s all gobbled up by Quebec Liberals and that strange lawyer acting for Ahenakew.
THEY’RE AT THE POST!
Scientists have reported on two-headed toads, the unusual and inexplicable deaths of whales, the extreme negative impact on the world environment of the harvesting of the Amazon forests, rainfall so polluted it causes the head fungus which creates dandruff, the dramatic increase in the numbers of asthmatics, and how we can expect more extreme weather situations thanks to all this greenhouse gassing we’re doing to ourselves. Specifically, that would be the mega-corporations doing to it to us, who have refined the business of industrialization to a deadly T.
The holier-than-thou-native keeper-of-the-sacred-environment image is now getting seriously tarnished.
For halo polish, order soon from that arthritic snake-oil salesman before it’s all gobbled up by Quebec Liberals and that strange lawyer acting for Ahenakew.
THEY’RE AT THE POST!
Scientists have reported on two-headed toads, the unusual and inexplicable deaths of whales, the extreme negative impact on the world environment of the harvesting of the Amazon forests, rainfall so polluted it causes the head fungus which creates dandruff, the dramatic increase in the numbers of asthmatics, and how we can expect more extreme weather situations thanks to all this greenhouse gassing we’re doing to ourselves. Specifically, that would be the mega-corporations doing to it to us, who have refined the business of industrialization to a deadly T.
Horse race cont'd.
Soon the cows won’t be coming home, due to smog inhalation.
So the industrialists are using scientists, new technicians and engineers to improve their raping capacity while other scientists are trying to use their power to alert the world of a coming calamity if we don’t pull back our industrial claws.
The thoughtful, conscientious scientists are inventing alternative means of transporting and entertaining ourselves which doesn’t leave a massive footprint on the delicate face of earth while the other private researchers are inventing ways of hurrying everybody’s demise in the name of “protecting our shareholders.”
Well, to all you shareholders: Take a good look at your portfolio and if you have or hope to have any grandchildren now is the time to divest yourself of any suspect stock which may be contributing to these rationales for strangling our earth. No shareholders = no poisoning activity.
See? You really can change the world. Just don’t buy or keep stock in these outdated crony-driven companies that are irresponsible to our earth.
This is one horse race mankind must win.
AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS
The appearance of hundreds of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square, and entire cities like Rome closing for a religious purpose and whole countries like Poland praying to God, gives this writer reason to rejoice.
In the witnessing of this outpouring of desire for holiness and the coming to life of communal goodness on a vast scale, it appears as though we as a global civilization are only a few baby steps away from acknowledging the real meaning of monotheism.
One God the celestial father and one people as His children. (And even atheists can be happily brooked in an enlightened world).
So the industrialists are using scientists, new technicians and engineers to improve their raping capacity while other scientists are trying to use their power to alert the world of a coming calamity if we don’t pull back our industrial claws.
The thoughtful, conscientious scientists are inventing alternative means of transporting and entertaining ourselves which doesn’t leave a massive footprint on the delicate face of earth while the other private researchers are inventing ways of hurrying everybody’s demise in the name of “protecting our shareholders.”
Well, to all you shareholders: Take a good look at your portfolio and if you have or hope to have any grandchildren now is the time to divest yourself of any suspect stock which may be contributing to these rationales for strangling our earth. No shareholders = no poisoning activity.
See? You really can change the world. Just don’t buy or keep stock in these outdated crony-driven companies that are irresponsible to our earth.
This is one horse race mankind must win.
AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS
The appearance of hundreds of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square, and entire cities like Rome closing for a religious purpose and whole countries like Poland praying to God, gives this writer reason to rejoice.
In the witnessing of this outpouring of desire for holiness and the coming to life of communal goodness on a vast scale, it appears as though we as a global civilization are only a few baby steps away from acknowledging the real meaning of monotheism.
One God the celestial father and one people as His children. (And even atheists can be happily brooked in an enlightened world).
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