This is a very interesting video dealing with non-local quantum entanglement and consciousness. The presentation was held at the Genesis II Symposium, Munich 2008.

Click here to watch the Consciousness and Quantum Coherence on Dailymotion. 

Speakers include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, and progressive CEO Ray Anderson, hero of The Corporation. Granted, there’s no obvious youth appeal in these subjects, but the presence of the Titanic heartthrob-turned-Scorsese star, who keeps his on-screen narration to a tasteful minimum, plus atmospheric tracks from Sigur Rós, Coldplay and Mogwai seems likely to attract a younger crowd. And that seems to be the point, since The 11th Hour is, at heart, a call to arms. It begins by taking a look at the causes of global warming before exploring solutions, from eating organic to building with solar power.

The other one is called The Age of Stupid featuring oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? Click here to watch the full documentary.

History

This nebula was discovered by Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix in January, 1779, who reported that it was "...as large as Jupiter and resembles a planet which is fading." Later the same month, Charles Messier independently found the same nebula while searching for comets. It was then entered into his catalogue as the 57th object. Messier and William Herschel also speculated that the nebula was formed by multiple faint stars that were unable to resolve with his telescope. In 1800, Count Friedrich von Hahn discovered the faint central star in the heart of the nebula. In 1864, William Huggins examined the spectra of multiple nebulae, discovering that some of these objects, including M57, displayed the spectra of bright emission lines characteristic of fluorescing glowing gases. Huggins concluded that most planetary nebulae were not composed of unresolved stars, as had been previously suspected, but were nebulosities. 

Characteristics

Ring Nebula is located in the northern constellation of Lyra, and also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 or NGC 6720. It is one of the most prominent examples of the deep-sky objects called planetary nebulae (singular, planetary nebula), often abbreviated by astronomers as simply planetaries or PNe.

Despite their name, planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They were named originally because their discoverers observed them visually and they did not appear as stellar point sources, but rather as small diffuse objects that resembled the outer planets in our solar system such as Uranus and Neptune when seen in a telescope. Planetary nebula are shells of gas shed by stars late in their life cycles after using up all of their nuclear fuel. The star then ejects a significant portion of its mass in a gaseous shell, which is illuminated by its extremely hot central star, which is just the core left from the original star. The star at the center of the Ring nebula has a surface temperature of 216,000 degrees Farenheit or 120,000 degrees Celsius. Our own star, the Sun, is expected to undergo the same process in a couple of billion years. Planetary nebulae do not last long at all in cosmic terms, the shell of gas expands and diffuses, becoming invisible, and the star turns into a white dwarf. 

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History

M13 was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714 and whose notes said: "This is but a little Patch, but it shews it self to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." It was later catalogued by Charles Messier on June 1, 1764: "In the night of June 1 to 2, 1764, I have discovered a nebula in the girdle of Hercules, of which I am sure it doesn't contain any star; having examined it with a Newtonian telescope of four feet and a half, which magnified 60 times, it is round, beautiful & brilliant, the center brighter than the borders"

Characteristics

Hanging out in space at a distance of 25,100 light years, this 24 million year old beauty is one of the most impressive globular clusters for the northern hemisphere. Containing over a million stars packed into a 145 light year sphere, the center of this glorious object is 500x more concentrated than its outer perimeters. And out of all of those stars there stands one stranger,Barnard Number 29, which is a spectral type B2 – a young, blue star that was apparently collected on one of M13's journeys around our galaxy. However, radial velocity measurements have proved that it does belong to the globular cluster! When the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed towards this object they found 15 blue straggler star candidates. The stars in the blue horizontal branch of M13 appeared to be centrally depleted relative to other stellar types and the blue stragglers in the combined sample are centrally concentrated relative to the older red giant stars. However, the Stromgren photometry work done Frank Grundah (et al) suggests this is a normal occurrence in evolution. "We also note the existence of what appears to be two separate stellar populations on the horizontal branch of M13. Among other possibilities, it could arise as the result of differences in the extent to which deep mixing occurs in the precursor red giants."

I though I would write this very short article to demonstrate why there is so much ridicule going on when it comes to people who are into alternative stuff, whatever that might be. To me it seems that most people who are looking for alternative explanations and theories often lack the skepticism and perhaps knowledge that is necessary to distinguish disinformation from what is actually going on and what is based on scientific methods that can be verified. More often than not, these seeking people blindly believe in theories that are based on semi-truths or unreasonable subjective claims. As a result of their excitement about a particular theory or claim they are often trying to spread the world without realizing that what they are spreading the world with is unfortunately a misinformation, which can often be easily debunked with a bit of common sense and reasoning.

Just as a demonstration I will show you a SOHO footage of an object seemingly passing by the Sun. A video of this hit YouTube and spread quickly and people got really excited because it showed an object that was passing by the Sun and in theory it could be anything. Of course, it can also be a UFO. How can we say for sure? However, the point here is that first and foremost we should try to reason whether the claims we are making are logical and UFO and other phenomena should really be the last option after we fail to explain particular phenomena differently. 

I understand that people often wish that there are UFOs going to save us etc. but that desire as such should not get in the way of finding the truth ourselves. Consequently, a logical, critical but also an open-minded viewpoint is required if we want to get anywhere on our journey towards the truth. This is often not the case, many of us believe something lacking any reason just because it fits with our model of reality that is incredibly shaped and influenced by our hopes, desires and needs. The video claims to show a mothership passing by the Sun.  

The video captured by SOHO, which orbits on L1 Lagrangian point meaning that SOHO is constantly in front of Earth where its orbital period is exactly equal to the Earth’s orbital period. In this way SOHO can constantly monitor the Sun. The video below shows you a quick demonstration of this kind of orbit.

SOHO is looking at the Sun and the ‘mothership’ is simply a background star that appears to be moving with respect the Sun.  Click here to watch a video that I made form the simulation of this kind of orbit and you will soon see that the motion is caused by the Earth orbiting the Sun.

The video is taken approximately during the same time as the SOHO video above but I did not simulate precise SOHO orbit and hence do not claim that any of the stars in the video is the actual star in the ‘mothership’ video, however, I hope the video clearly shows the point and dramatically decrease the probability of the bright object being a mothership since there are billions of stars in our galaxy so you get the likelihood. I wrote this article to encourage, whoever needs it, to be an open-minded skeptic, not just open-minded and not just a skeptic.

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After nearly a one month, we had a semi-clear sky so I tried looking at Jupiter and sunspots (1092,1093). Visibility was not was good as I hoped but nonetheless we pulled out some detail from the recorded data.

Kurt Gödel - (April 28, 1906, Brno, Moravia, Austria–Hungary – January 14, 1978, Princeton, New Jersey, USA) was an Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.

Ludwig Boltzman - (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for atomic theory when that scientific model was still highly controversial. 

Leonardo Da Vinci - (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype  of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest  painters  of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

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