Sybyl's Flight

For everyone to share since a lot of this has been just glanced at without further thought, controversy and discussion.

Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the ultimate question - what was there before the Big Bang?

The trouble is that researching them is next to impossible. Black holes are by definition invisible and there's no scientific theory able to explain them. Despite these obvious obstacles, Horizon meets the astronomers attempting to image a black hole for the very first time and the theoretical physicists getting ever closer to unlocking their mysteries. It's a story that takes us into the heart of a black hole and to the very edge of what we think we know about the universe.

RELEVANT FACTS:

Horizon: Black Holes (BBC)
Published on Mar 1, 2012
http://youtu.be/yqWNyR56jxo

''Black Holes: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong''

by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor
Date: 02 August 2012 Time: 02:01 PM ET

If most people know one thing about black holes, they probably know that nothing can escape from them, not even light.

space.com/black-holes-quantum-mechanics-theory

Black holes are some of the strangest and most fascinating objects found in outer space. They are objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that even light cannot escape from their grasp if it comes near enough.

Stellar black holes — small but deadly
Black Holes: Facts, Theory & Definition

space.com/black-holes-facts-formation-discovery

Last month, the Swiss government issued a travel notice for India that included a warning about “increasing numbers of rapes and other sexual offences” in the South Asian nation.

A Swiss woman has been gang-raped by a group of men in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police say. The woman was camping with her husband at a village in Datia district on Friday during a cycling trip when they were attacked by eight to 10 men. The assailants overpowered the husband before gang-raping his wife.

16 March 2013 Last updated at 15:08 ET
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21815966

'Deeply disturbing'

Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Tilman Renz described the case as “deeply disturbing” and said Swiss diplomats were assisting the couple.

The diplomats called on Indian authorities “to do everything to quickly find the perpetrators so that they can be held accountable,” Renz said in a statement.

Swiss woman gang-raped in India
cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/16/

It's impossible to understand how a young man is capable of betraying his own country, because he feels rejected by his own peers and just because he feels lousy because of his social life, as said in the video at 'The Guardian' link below. Has he really an ethical thought of helping out American citizens with excuses such as the text says below, or did he do it to spite everyone? Mind you, ever since Bradley Manning and Julian Assange meddled into secret files, thousands of people were killed in the Middle East and North Africa just to get a harsher dictator into ruling their lives with Sharia laws!

Manning plea statement: Americans had a right to know 'true cost of war'

After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of 'bloodlust' of US helicopter crew

Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of the biggest unauthorised disclosure of state secrets in US history, has pleaded guilty to being the source of the leak, telling a military court that he passed the information to a whistleblowing website because he believed the American people had a right to know the "true costs of war".

At a pre-trial hearing on a Maryland military base, Manning, 25, who faces spending the rest of his life in military custody, read out a 35-page statement in which he gave an impassioned account of his motives for transmitting classified documents and videos he had obtained while working as an intelligence analyst outside Baghdad.

Ed Pilkington at Fort Meade, Maryland
The Guardian, Thursday 28 February 2013 22.21 GMT

guardian.co.uk/2013/feb/28/bradley-manning-trial-plea-statement

Manning reveals motives for leaking military secrets to to Wikileaks

The US soldier accused of leaking large numbers of secret documents to Wikileaks has pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. But Private Bradley Manning, has denied the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, and may still be prosecuted and be sentenced to life in prison. Private Manning also revealed his motives for leaking the documents saying he wanted to generate public discussion.

abc.net.au/2013-03-01/manning-reveals-motives-for-leaking-military/

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As most of my friends here already know how allergic I'm on "stupid" and so forth, I found this quotation by Charles Bukowski quite to my liking, and here below is my response:

Intelligent people are full of doubts because there's always a possibility to explore, expand, research and find out more, as for stupid people - just follow blindly what the previous person said!

Henry Charles Bukowski (né Heinrich Karl Bukowski) est un écrivain américain d'origine allemande, auteur de romans et de poésie, né le 16 août 1920 à Andernach en Allemagne, mort le 9 mars 1994 à Los Angeles en Californie, aux États-Unis. Il est connu sous ses pseudonymes divers : Hank, Buk, Henry Chinaski, ce dernier étant celui de son alter ego dans ses nombreux romans autobiographiques. Il est l'auteur, en prose comme en poésie, d'une œuvre considérable.

Les trois premières années de sa vie se passent en Allemagne, avant que ses parents ne décident d'émigrer aux États-Unis (1923). Dans un contexte de crise économique, il passe une enfance marquée par la violence d'un père tyrannique, battant son fils et son épouse.

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans...

Bukowski VIDEO channel
www.youtube.com/user/BukowskiChannel/featured

Right now, more than 116,000 people are on the U.S organ transplant waiting list, what if they could just regrow their own livers, hearts, and kidneys?

Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is working to make that a reality. Speaking today at Ciudad de las Ideas, an annual conference about big ideas held in Puebla, Mexico, and sponsored by Grupo Salinas, Atala asked, “If a salamander can do it, why can’t we?”

slate.com/anthony_atala_of_wake_forest_is_working_to_regenerating

Anthony Atala: Growing new organs
http://youtu.be/7SfRgg9botI

Saving endangered Mexican salamanders for medical breakthroughs -

We started this segment with the sound of the water lapping in the canal of Xochimilco in Mexico City. The waterway attracts tourists and locals alike. And there's lots of fabulous colour along the water of the canals.

There's plenty of colour beneath the water as well, though many visitors are unaware of the salamanders that make their home here. The Aztecs called them Axolotls, which may mean water monster. But there's nothing terribly monstrous about them.

cbc.ca/thecurrent/2012/11/29/saving-endangered-mexican-salamanders

The Mexican Salamander: King of Regeneration

http://youtu.be/ymmpeeuyORk

The ghostly looking Mexican axolotl retains some of its larval features for life, including its feathery pink external gills.

PHOTO GALLERY
animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/amphibians/axolotl/

That's just one example of how appearance can be deceiving: salamanders might look like lizards, but they are very different indeed.

www.axolotl.org/

In time, Paget and Jones solved at least some of the Great Antrum’s mysteries.

The existence of the Sibylline Books certainly suggests that Rome took the legend of the Cumæan sibyl seriously, and indeed the geographer Strabo, writing at about the time of Christ, clearly states that there actually was “an Oracle of the Dead” somewhere in the Phlegræan Fields. So it is scarcely surprising that archaeologists and scholars of romantic bent have from time to time gone in search of a cave or tunnel that might be identified as the real home of a real sibyl–nor that some have hoped that they would discover an entrance, if not to Hades, then at least to some spectacular subterranean caverns.

October 1, 2012

The Unsolved Mystery of the Tunnels at Baiae
smithsonianmag.com/
history/2012/10/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-tunnels-at-baiae/

Russian scientists revive an ice age flower: A team coaxes back to life a plant frozen in Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years. Might woolly mammoths be next?

VIDEO:
REVIVING AN ANCIENT FLOWER
Published on May 9, 2012 by SybylFlight
http://youtu.be/icUZowC0Nm4

Ice Age flower brought back to life by Russian scientists
http://youtu.be/bZcQSNTr3V4

A plant that was frozen in Siberian permafrost for about 30,000 years has been revived by a team of Russian scientists — and borne fruit, to boot.

Using tissue from immature fruits buried in fossil squirrel burrows some 90 feet below the surface,

researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Pushchino managed to coax the frozen remains of a Silene stenophylla specimen into full flower, producing delicate white blooms and then fruit.

latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-ancient-plants

My sister is singing the SONG she is also playing the piano!!

An amateur footage claiming to show proof of Iceland's answer to the Loch Ness Monster, a gigantic mythical river worm, has sparked a lot of debates online.

The Lagarfljótsormur, Lagarfljót worm, (or simply Iceland Worm Monster) is an Icelandic lake cryptid which is purported to live in Lagarfljót in Egilsstaðir.

Sightings have been logged since 1345 and continue in the 20th and 21st century, and an origin of the creature is given in Jón Árnason's collection of Icelandic folktales and legends published in 1862 and 1864.

Mythos: The legend of the worm is first mentioned in the Icelandic Annals of 1345. Sightings were considered to portend a great event such as a natural disaster.

According to the folk tradition recorded by Jón Árnason, the great serpent in Lagarfljót grew out of a small "lingworm" or heath-dragon; a girl was given a gold ring by her mother, and asked how she might best derive profit from the gold, was told to place it under a lingworm.

She did so, and put it in the top of her linen chest for a few days, but then found that the little dragon had grown so large, it had broken open the chest. Frightened, she threw both it and the gold into the lake, where the serpent continued to grow and terrorized the countryside, spitting poison and killing people and animals.

Two Finns called in to destroy it and retrieve the gold said that they had managed to tie its head and tail to the bottom of the lake but it was impossible to kill it because there was a still larger dragon underneath.

Iceland's 'Loch Ness' monster spotted?

Amateur footage claiming to show proof of Iceland's answer to the Loch Ness monster - a gigantic mythical river worm - has sparked a debate online.

Something resembling a large snake was filmed winding its way through the Jokulsa river in the Fljotsdal valley last week and quickly posted online by Icelandic broadcaster RUV.
It has since become a viral sensation with many viewers heralding it as proof at last of a legend spanning seven centuries, that of the Lagarfljot river worm.

3:00PM GMT 08 Feb 2012

telegraph.co.uk/Icelands-Loch-Ness-monster-spotted

Iceland's 'Loch Ness' monster spotted?

Uploaded by telegraphtv on Feb 8, 2012
Amateur footage claiming to show Iceland's answer to the Loch Ness monster creates online buzz

VIDEO SIGHTINGS:
http://youtu.be/BgP_20Gd4sM

the Lagarfljot river worm
http://youtu.be/wz8pdkGliik

True or false?

Some people destroy lives with constant wars depriving their citizens of essential need such as food for their children, and some people pick up the pieces to give unconditional care, which side do you want to be?

In rural Ethiopia, community nutrition services save lives

UNICEF correspondent Anja Baron reports on UNICEF and ECHO support for life-saving nutrition services in rural Ethiopia.

Published on May 9, 2012 by unicef
http://youtu.be/ocnx9KKEZus

For more information,
please visit: http://www.unicef.org

Yet another abusive ritual on children, which is throwing babies off the roof of a temple as a symbolic reinforcement ... which I find absolutely ludicrous because the spine of the baby can be twisted or broken... the video below is spoken in Indian with French subtitle, these two first ones here are in English with a thought as well, one by the funny YoungTurks news video...

Baby Tossing Video
Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on Jul 23, 2010
http://youtu.be/BjiQBcOCk7w

Baby tossing ritual [Karnataka, India]

Published on Apr 8, 2012 by didyouknowthattv
http://youtu.be/xIsdNVVYbCY

An ages-old annual ritual carried in southern India, meant to bring participating infants good luck, health and prosperity.

Bizarre baby tossing ritual in India

In a bizarre ritual, Hindu priests in the south Indian state of Karnataka toss babies from the rooftop of a temple onto a cloth held by waiting men, believing that this will make them grow stronger.

7:36PM BST 09 May 2012

Thanks to their parents and a deep-rooted belief, babies in the Bagalkot district of south India's Karnataka state unwittingly found themselves being tossed off the roof of a temple onto a sheet held by men waiting below, in a ritual that is believed to make them stronger.

telegraph.co.uk/Bizarre-baby-tossing-ritual-in-India

[Vidéo] En Inde, un rituel impose de lancer des bébés depuis le toit d'un temple

Le Monde.fr | 09.05.2012 à 19h15 • Mis à jour le 09.05.2012 à 19h15

Durée : 00:45 | Images : Reuters

Dans l'Etat de Karnataka, en Inde du Sud, des bébés sont lancés depuis le toit d'un temple et attrapés dans un drap tenu par plusieurs personnes. Ce rituel a pour but symbolique de renforcer l'enfant et son esprit.

Toutes les vidéos

lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/video/2012/05/09/

en-inde-un-rituel-impose-de-lancer-des-bebes-depuis-le-toit-d-un-temple

India's 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven -activists believe eight million female fetuses may have been aborted between 2001 and 2011.

Sex-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the baby.

The Manish Jha film, Matrubhoomi-A Nation Without Women (2003), depicts a future dystopia in a village in India, populated exclusively by males due to female infanticide, and which is reduced to barbarianism.

Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women

Uploaded by rectian on Sep 7, 2008

This shocking Indian film deals with Female infanticide practice and it's impacts in the society. I am uploading first few minutes of the movie.
http://youtu.be/6AI9r0pnAhs

The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male children over female children, especially in parts of People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Caucasus.

Sex-selective infanticide is killing a child based on the child's sex, usually shortly after birth (sex selective neonaticide).

In 1994 over 180 states signed the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, agreeing to "eliminate all forms of discrimination against the girl child". In 2011 the resolution of PACE's Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men condemned the practice of prenatal sex selection.

According to the UN report on gendercide, "Sex selection in favour of boys is a symptom of pervasive social, cultural, political, and economic injustices against women, and a manifest violation of women’s human rights."

[...]

The stereotype of ignorant, uneducated peasants having a preference for baby boys was shattered in a report carried out by Doris Stump for the Council of Europe. She recalled being told by women in Armenia and Georgia: "Every women has a right to have a boy."

There, she found the incidence of sex selection is higher among women in urban environments, who have higher education, and a higher level of income.

Read more:

The oldest discrimination in the world

Analysis by Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

irishexaminer.com/analysis/the-oldest-discrimination-in-the-world

More similar slideshow on Hypselodoris Bullocki seen at the link below!

Hypselodoris Bullocki

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Arborant le plus souvent une couleur violette, il peut être rose voire même crème ou blanc.

Dans la plupart des cas, un liseré blanc borde son « manteau » mais celui-ci peut aussi être violet ou rouge. Ses rhinophores lamellés sont oranges, jaunes ou rouges. Observé dans l’océan indien et dans l’ouest du ...

Observé dans l’océan indien et dans l’ouest du Pacifique, il peut mesurer jusqu’à quatre centimètres à l’âge adulte.

zegreenweb.com/dix-nudibranches-aux-couleurs-resplendissantes

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