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Check Out What Bill’s Been Doing Lately

Well sorry I haven;t posted in awhile but times are kinda tough so I’ve been getting a few local clients that like me to build blogs for them and create video’s for their blogs. I’ve been working on Skin Deep Tattoo And Cafe alot lately. You should go check it out at http://www.skindeeptattooandcafe.com

Re: Salvia 1 – Conversations with Light-Beings

Re: Salvia 1 – Conversations with Light-Beings

This is a video response to a friend on youtube who filmed himself talking to astral beings while tripping on salvia divinorum.

Here’s a link to the original video that I am responding to in the above clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mzNPT7aAU

In his original video while this guy is on his Salvia trip he’s talking to a being that’s in the room with him and he’s asking him questions and he tries to relay what the being is saying to him. This is a really trippy video you should check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30mzNPT7aAU

The Truth Channel

One Of My Favorite Channels On Justin.tv

The Truth Channel

This Channel is for everyone looking for alternative views to what’s presented in the mass media. If you take some time and approach the given information open minded it will surely affect your view of the life we live in.

This Is Interesting : All About 2012

All About 2012

Find out what the worlds governments will do “When The UFO’s Arrive”!

Perhaps one of the most revealing documentaries aired on The History Channel before 2007 (Not sure of the exact air date)

If you’re seeking truth this is a MUST SEE!

Part 1:

Part 2:

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Affordable Space Tourism Is Almost Here Folks.

Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space. So if that’s been a dream or aspiration of yours or if it’s on your “Bucket List” :-) Read on…

As of 2009, orbital space tourism opportunities are limited and expensive, with only the Russian Space Agency providing transport. The price for a flight brokered by Space Adventures to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft is $20–28 million!

Infrastructure for a suborbital space tourism industry is being developed through the construction of spaceports in numerous locations, including California, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Florida, Virginia, Alaska, Wisconsin, Esrange in Sweden as well as the United Arab Emirates. Some use the term “personal spaceflight” as in the case of the Personal Spaceflight Federation.

A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, hoping to create a space tourism industry.

Guy Laliberte, the Canadian acrobat and founder of Cirque du Soleil is set to become the seventh private space explorer when he lifts off Sept. 30 aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft.

Laliberte booked his trip with the Russian Federal Space Agency through the U.S. firm Space Adventures, which usually charges about $30 million for the excursions. Laliberte is set to visit the International Space Station for about 12 days.

Laliberte is calling his voyage the “first social/humanitarian mission in space,” and says he is devoting his trip to raising awareness of worldwide water issues. In 2007 he founded the non-profit One Drop Foundation, which fights for better access to clean water for people around the world.

Laliberte, 50, is married and has five children. He is currently training in Russia’s Star City cosmonaut training center to prepare for his mission.

“The Russian Federal Space Agency really puts you through some tough tests,” he said. “My main concern is to make sure that I am ready and I will not have to be babysat by my crew.”

The last space tourist to fly was Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian software executive who made his second paid trip to the space station in March, also through Space Adventures. Laliberte will be making the eighth space tourist flight.

Laliberte could be the last private citizen to travel to space for a while. If NASA retires its space shuttle fleet in 2010 as planned, the Russian vehicles will be the only way to transport people to the International Space Station. In that case, available Soyuz seats could become scarce for space tourists.

Laliberte will be making the eighth space tourist flight (he is the seventh private spaceflyer, since Simonyi flew twice). He, like all the other private spaceflyers so far, opted not to participate in a spacewalk, which would have cost an extra $15 million.

Laliberte is part of Space Adventures’ elite Orbital Missions Explorers Circle program, which requires a $5 million deposit to join, and allows members to skip to the head of the waiting list when space tourist opportunities become available.

You wouldn’t believe the list of startup companies that are planning to get into this business.

Here’s the big list if you wanna check them out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_tourism_companies

One company worth mentioning is Virgin Galactic. They are planning on offering sub-orbital flights cheaper than their Russian competitors. Much cheaper in fact. Somewhere along the $200,000 per flight range.

It seems to me that Virgin Galactic Tours would be a good company to look into buying stocks from. They look very promising.

Virgin Galactic’s sub-orbital space trips promise to be the most intense and wonderful experiences that passengers have ever had. Astronauts of the past 45 years have all returned to earth struggling to convey the enormity of what they have discovered and with their perceptions clearly changed. To be able to extend that privilege to people from all walks of life has been a long held ambition at Virgin. To date more than 200 tickets have already been sold!

Astronauts will spend 2 to 3 days of training at or near the Virgin Galactic New Mexico Spaceport before embarking on their sub-orbital flight, although the first flights will depart from the Mojave Spaceport. You will fly in SpaceShipTwo (SS2) designed and built by Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites and based on SpaceShipOne which has completed 3 sub-orbital flights and won the X Prize in 2004.

Virgin Galactics SS2 (Space Ship 2), which has had many successful test flights, will be carried by a revolutionary mothership called WhiteKnightTwo. She will climb to a height of around 50,000 feet (approximate cruising altitude of Concorde) where SS2 will be released before firing her rockets and accelerating in a vertical climb reaching a speed of 3.3 mach. Shortly afterward SS2 will slow to allow you to enjoy zero g and continue to climb to a total altitude of 110km or 360,888 feet – that’s 10 kilometers or 33,000 feet into space! After enjoying some of the most spectacular views and sensations ever experienced by humankind, the wings of the spacecraft will feather to allow a safe re-entry at around 6 g’s. After re-entry the wings will re-configure to allow a gentle glide back to the spaceport. On your return to terra firma you will be given your Virgin Galactic astronaut wings!

The cost of the flight is US$200,000 and there are three deposit options available that link to the order in which astronauts will fly along with the level of involvement they wish to have with the project…

My next question is: How are they gonna hide all the UFO’s from these “Space Tourists” when they start going up more frequently and the odds of someone seeing something they’re not supposed to goes up? :-) Huh? Answer me THAT. :-)


62 school children see aliens in Zimbabwe/Africa

Breaking News: Russian passenger films strange UFO

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Sunday, 31 May 2009
Passengers on a Russian Airliner headed from Moscow to Perm, filmed an incredible, and rather strange looking UFO.Just last night, Russian Media published a story that workers in the city of Sarapul early morning witnessed a UFO, which they believed was the Russian rocket Soyuz, launched earlier from Pletsk.However, after reviewing the footage from the facility, analysts and experts believe it is the same UFO which was filmed later in the day by airline passengers.

It’s not the typical ‘flying saucer’ UFO usually seen around the globe. This one is a bit more spectacular looking.

“A robot that performs hundreds of repetitive experiments.”

The robot, called Adam, is the first machine to have independently “discovered new scientific knowledge”.

It has already identified the role of several genes in yeast cells, and is able to plan further experiments to test its own hypotheses.

The UK-based team that built Adam at Aberystwyth University describes the breakthrough in the journal Science.

Ross King from the department of computer science at Aberystwyth University, and who led the team, told BBC News that he envisaged a future when human scientists’ time would be “freed up to do more advanced experiments”.

Robotic colleagues, he said, could carry out the more mundane and time-consuming tasks.

“Adam is a prototype but, in 10-20 years, I think machines like this could be commonly used in laboratories,” said Professor King.

…..click here for the story at BBC News

Robotic planning

Adam can carry out up to 1,000 experiments each day, and was designed to investigate the function of genes in yeast cells – it has worked out the role of 12 of these genes.

Biologists use the yeast cells to investigate biological systems because they are simple and easy to study.

“When you sequence the yeast genome – the 6,000 different genes contained in yeast – you know what all the component parts are, but you don’t know what they do,” explained Professor King.

Robots express scientific findings in a much clearer form than humans

Professor Ross King
Aberystwyth University

The robot was able to work out the role of the genes by observing yeast cells as they grew.

It used existing information about the function of known genes to make predictions about the role an unknown gene might play in the cell’s growth.

It then tested this by looking at a strain of yeast from which that gene had been removed.

“It’s like a car,” Professor King said. “If you remove one component from the engine, then drive the car to see how it performs, you can find out what that particular component does.”

Expensive assistant

Duc Pham from the Manufacturing Engineering Centre at Cardiff University described the robot scientist as “a clever application of robotics and computer software”.

But, he added, “it’s more like a junior lab assistant” than a scientist. “It will be a long time before computers can replace human scientists.”

Professor King agreed that the robot was in its early stages of development.

Professor Ross King explains how robots Adam and Eve work

“If you spent all of the money we’ve spent on Adam on employing human biologists, Adam probably wouldn’t turn out to be the cost-effective option,” he said.

“But that was the case with the first car. Initially, the investment in the technology wasn’t as cost-effective as sticking with horses.”

He also pointed out that his robotic associate is able to express scientific findings in a clearer way than humans.

“It expresses its conclusions in logic,” he said. “Human language, with all its nuances, may not be the best way to communicate scientific findings.”

The same team is developing another, more advanced robot scientist called Eve, which is designed to screen new drugs.

Happy Holidays!

Okay the holidays are coming up fast so I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

I also wanted to let you guys know about my other websites. Yes they are blog stores. One is Bills Computer Deals and the other is Gadget Kingdom. Go check ‘em out. You might find some good prices for some of the stuff on your Christmas list.

I deal with Tiger Direct and a few other associates but the prices are usually cheaper if you order from my sites since they give me associate deals to pass along to my friends.

I put a Santa cartoon up on the computer site that’s kinda funny too. So now you have to go check it out just to see Santa. :-)

http://billscomputerdeals.blogspot.com
http://gadgetkingdom.blogspot.com

Merry Christmas Everybody!