The above surveillance tape was recorded in the Omaha, Nebraska compound, and offers up an excellent exhibit of the effect of introduction of feral males into the workplace environment. The disruptive male’s chemical makeup had not been sufficiently altered to allow him to submit to cage harmony. Researchers should note the following:

1. In a normal cage environment, all of the specimens in this compound are subdued by mere psychological intimidation. Subjects are seemingly indifferent towards one another even as living in a confined space, and so do not exhibit openly aggressive or promiscuous behaviors.

2. Alpha male domination is not apparent in this film, as those males do not display within the cage environment. But all cage inhabitants are aware of the presence of the alpha, referred to as “mybos” or “”myboses”.

3. Subordinated males of the species wear uniforms to indicate submission to the alpha. The long piece of cloth hanging observed hanging from the necks of these males serves as a leash, but others have noted that it also resembles an arrow pointing at the male genitalia, indicating angst within the confines of an emasculated environment. Some have suggested clipping off the arrow-like end of this leash, or tying it in a bow around the neck to avoid the sexual signalling implications.

4. Females of the species or often seen in the wild wearing varied and suggestive clothing that highlights their curved buttocks and enlarged breasts. However, within the compound, they are uniformed in cloaking apparel that hints at but conceals the buttocks and breasts. Females seek to tantalize but at the same time repel overt sexual advances. (The species is promiscuous, but mates in private.)

5. The cage environment is gender-neutral. The behaviors performed within the compound are of a kind that require no particular male or female attributes. There is no need for male strength or female nurturing. Cage behaviors are limited to staring into and entering symbols into computer interface devices, communicating via telecommunication devices to other compounds.

6. The artificial barriers installed by the alphas are easily overcome by the mere act of standing erect. However, standing is only allowed on the periphery of the cages where various devices serve as distractions to allow limited interpersonal communication. Those specimens that spend inordinate time at the periphery are often taken to private cubicles by alpha-agents and counseled about the need to stay within their sitting compound. (Not shown in this tape.)

7. Various females, though present in this emasculated and gender-neutral environment, nonetheless revert to their nurturing role when the feral male attacks the other males.

8. The normal, untamed male infiltrated the compound and was not spotted prior to his disruptive activity. His resistance to a cage environment and refusal to submit to domination both fascinates and scares the other specimens. However, it is a testimony to our skill at subordination training that the other males in the compound do not try to physically challenge the enraged male. Instead they wait for trainers to come into the compound to subdue the aggressive behaviors.

9. The trainer who enters the cage to calm the environment is faced with the dual task of restraining the feral male while not letting on to other specimens that he possesses the ability to inflict overt violence. He therefore tries to coax the male into submission, and when that fails, uses force, but not in such a way that other specimens are unduly intimidated.

The feral male was eventually sedated. He will be kept in a tight cage without stimuli to repress his normal aggressive instincts for a period of time. If that is not successful, he might be permanently caged, or possibly euthanized.

Recommendations: The aggressive traits exhibited in this film can be effectively contained by administrative of tricyclics or SSRIs into the food supply. Experimentation has revealed that normal male behavior in a natural habitat can be controlled, but is not totally effective in complete suppression of normal instincts without the administration of such mood-alternating substances.

The species is normally gregarious and active, but the caged environment will occasionally release the aggressive behavior seen in this feral male, classified as “gongpostil outrage.” However, surveillance tapes from the same compound the following day revealed that the captive members had returned to normal subordinate behaviors, staring incessantly into distraction devices, subtly emitting sexual signals, and communicating in normal tone again.

Better patrolling of compound fences is needed along with psychological profiling of any new admissions to compound to test for signs of feral instincts that have not been adequately drugged or suppressed.

Let me say at the outset that there are no UFO’s, and interstellar visitors cannot exist. The distances are too great, and even if such travel were possible, there would be no reason to visit here. At the outset of such a journey, no intelligent life would have existed here, and so there would be no reason for this destination.

I do suspect that intelligent life abounds in the galaxy and universe. But it’s a frustration, as I will never know for sure, as there will be no “Contact.”

I am curious about ‘seeding’ – the idea that life on one planet can seed life on another. So a scientist finding a rock in Antarctica showing evidence of microscopic life on Mars is intriguing, to say the least. But there is not enough evidence to test the hypothesis at this time, so it is idle speculation for sci-fi buffs. And fun.

All that said, there is an “Area 51” in Nevada, and top secret programs were run from there. They did reverse engineering of foreign technology (other countries – not planets), and developed high-speed aircraft that looked like flying saucers at certain angles. They had tunnels through which they transported rockets. Aircraft crashed, and civilians coming upon the crashed aircraft had to be bought off to keep them quiet. The U.S. government never officially acknowledged the existence of the facility, and its airspace was off-limits, all the way to outer space.

We know this now because parts of what went on there have been declassified and some of the men who participated are now allowed to talk. And they have.

A while back Bill O’Reilly got his panties in a twist when he found out that the vast majority of social studies teachers at an Oregon college were Democrats. He assumed hiring bias, and did one of his patented ambush interviews with the department head to make his point.

I suspect that if they did a study of the business school at the same college, they would find a preponderance of Republicans. There’s no bias involved – just an attraction of certain types of people to certain professions. I am a CPA, and a European-style socialist. But the vast majority of accountants and CPA’s are conservative and Republican. The profession does not attract many socialists, and tends to favor black/white thinking – hence, conservatives.

Pew Research did a study that gave me pause for thought – I never would have guessed this. Among the general public, 23% consider themselves Republican, 35% Democrat. Among scientists, the numbers are wildly skewed – only 6% Republican, and 55% Democrat. When pressed as to which party they “lean” to, it gets even wilder: 12% Republican, 81% Democrat.

There have been some self-selected and non-scientific polls showing that in journalism, most reporters are Democrats. Conservatives assume hiring bias, but a more likely explanation is that more Democrats are drawn to journalism than Republicans. I might even take it a step further – given their exposure to a wide variety of issues and people, and the need to examine all sides, journalists develop a more open and questioning thought processes (or had that tendency to begin with), and end up as Democrats because the party is less doctrinaire than the other.

But that’s just a guess. Regarding the wild skew in the number of Democratic scientists, I’m both surprised and at a loss. Hard scientists are trained in hard science, and would, in my mind, tend to be apolitical. There is no political indoctrination going on in science classrooms … maybe I’ve hit on something there.

Maybe not. I’m stumped.

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The above video is part of a larger series which you can access by Googling its title. I thought it would be four of five parts, but then started seeing “Part 28”, and realized that there are more parts to it than I will ever see. Part four is notable because of the magnitude of the error made by “Dr.” Kent Hovind in estimating the amount of water it would take to cover the earth to a depth of one molecule. Almost as large as the magnitude of fraud behind his “doctorate” degree.

This is way too big to be a blog post, though Dr. Peter Rost did it – it takes up the whole screen. Nonetheless, it is fascinating – for those of you into size comparisons, it’s priceless.

Check it out here. When the web page opens, there will be a small vertical bar on the left side. Click on it and the pictures will expand.

This is a fascinating visual graph of our fresh water supplies, from Buzz Feed.

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In the above scene, Dr. Emmett Brown is transporting his dog, Einstein, one minute into the future. Einstein arrives shortly after this cut ends.

Not so fast! Schechner at the blog Overthinking It has a few questions. He is troubled by the fact that Einstein arrives in exactly the same place as he departed from. Making a few rudimentary calculations, he figures that the earth would have moved 1,123.17 miles in space – this taking into account only the rotation of the earth on its axis and its orbit around the sun, with no mention of the distance traveled by the solar system itself, or the galaxy.

He arrives back at the parking lot exactly one minute in the future – well, not exactly. Schechner calculates that the departure and arrival watches might be off just a tad, say ~1 millisecond. For a dog to travel 1,122.17 miles in one millisecond, he would have to travel six times the speed of light in a vacuum – backward. Since we all know that is impossible (at the very least, he’d be traveling backward in time – not forward), there is only one conclusion to be drawn:

The movie is a hoax!

And the two sequels as well. Another government lie.

Will computers and human beings merge?

I actually have a slide in my talk that showed a computer that interfaces with us as a genetically designed species. If we can capture how diatoms lay down their silica circuits, we should be able to write a genetic code for making a computer chip – one that has nice interfaces for us as a species.

What do you mean – nice interfaces?

We can expand the power of the human mind by having plug-in modules. If you want to learn to speak French, you use your silica-based computer that is genetically driven – whether it’s a small, add-on chip that gets planted in the back of our skulls, or it’s something engineered into us. Our biggest limitation is mental. I would be happy to have five times the brain capacity I have. As I get older, any increase would be nice. If we came up with a magic pill to increase our memory, people would take it. And if there is some genetic engineering that would work, I think most people would do it. That is the direction that humanity will ultimately go, for sure.

But that’s still the future. In the near term, most of the focus will be on things like limb regeneration and eliminating late-onset dementia.

Limb regeneration?

Yes, A lot of other species do it, and a lot of these processes are based on stem cells. If we don’t understand stem cells, which are the translators of the genetic code, then we are wasting our time trying to understand the genetic code. There is probably nothing more important to study about human biology than stem cells. The fact that it has been blocked by the Bush Administration on religious grounds is one of the intellectual tragedies of the century.

From an interview with Craig Venter, genetics pioneer, Rolling Stone Magazine, 11/15/2007