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Saturday, November 11, 2023

Scientists create green glowing monkey

Talker News, Stephen Beech via SWNS via MSN.com, 11/9/23; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Images show green fluorescence signals in different body parts of three-day-old chimera.

Primates – Intro to Anthropology: Biological, Cultural Evolution of Humans (nebraska.edu)

Scientists create first live chimera monkey

Am I transhuman now? Can I [blank] her?

FrankenScience has taken a new twist with the first live birth of a "chimeric" monkey. And it glows green.

[CHIMERA: hybrid of two creatures into one, such as a rat-bird or humanoid harpy, found in mythology because this fusion was done in the past.]

They'll never make a human-owl chimera, right?

Chimeras in mythology, particularly Greek

Scientists from China reported the “long-sought” birth of a male primate containing a high proportion of cells derived from a monkey stem cell line.

The contribution of stem cells in different tissue types ranged from 21 percent to 92 percent, according to the Chinese team.

The “chimeric” monkey is composed of cells that originated from two genetically distinct embryos of the same species of monkey, according to research published in the journal Cell.

Please stop testing on us and torturing us.

The process has previously been achieved in rats and mice but, until now, has not been possible in other species, including non-human primates.

Study leader Dr. Zhen Liu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), said: “This is a long-sought goal in the field.

"Please leave us alone."

“This research not only has implications for understanding naive pluripotency [ability of cells to do many things] in other primates, including humans, but it also has relevant practical implications for genetic engineering and species conservation.

“Specifically, this work could help us to generate more precise monkey models [to do torturous animal testing on] for studying neurological diseases as well as for other biomedicine studies.” More

Transhuman: genetically modified w/animal DNA

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Science: Levitation is real (video)

WIRED, 1/28/20; Harvard, 2/23/17; Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Scientist explains how to levitate objects with sound

(WIRED) Believe it or not, levitating objects aren't just the stuff of yogic powers (siddhis), science fiction, or stage magic shows. There are actually many different forms of objective, demonstrable, replicable levitation, including something called acoustic levitation, which uses powerful sound waves to trap objects in mid-air.

WIRED spoke with a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory to find out how acoustic levitation works and what it's used for.

Acoustic standing waves and the levitation of small objects

(Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations) Oscillations and waves acoustic levitation meets schlieren imaging:

By reflecting a sound wave back onto itself, one can secure a standing wave if the distance between the source of the sound and the reflector is equal to an integral number of half wavelengths.

Summary of Real Magic (Dean Radin)

In this demonstration we use 28 kHz ultrasound whose wavelength in air is 1.2 cm. The objects are small Styrofoam spheres, roughly 4 mm in diameter and 1 mg of mass. Images employing schlieren optics are very sensitive to changes in the density of air, and these changes refract light into the camera.

Note that the little spheres settle down where there are bright bands of light. The bright bands of light in the schlieren images are known to be the result of either increasing or decreasing air pressure with respect to vertical position — in other words, the pressure nodes.

Science can already levitate small animals.

For an excellent writeup by David P. Jackson and Ming-Hua Chang on the mechanics of acoustic levitation, see American Journal of Physics 89, 383 (2021).

For more information on our schlieren optics set-up, see sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard... Although 28 kHz is beyond the range of human hearing, ear protection should be worn whenever attempting this experiment to avoid damaging vibrations in some parts of the ear.

The sound you hear in this video is not ultrasound but rather a subharmonic and is not dangerous to the ears.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Ancient way to levitate (video)

What power of Vril, prana, sun chi or kyi can power things unseen and unknown to public science?

The Indian Emperor Ashoka, who became a Buddhist opposed to war, started a "Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men" -- great Indian "scientists" who were supposed to catalogue the many sciences.

Emperor Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian (Vedic) sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against, having become a Buddhist after defeating a large rival army in a very bloody battle.

The "Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of nine books, presumably one each. Book number [?] was The Secrets of Gravitation! This book, known to historians but not actually seen by them, deals chiefly with "gravity control."

It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet, or elsewhere (perhaps in North America). One can certainly understand Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists.

Ashoka was also aware of devastating wars using such advanced flying vehicles and other "futuristic weapons" that had destroyed the ancient Indian "Rama Empire" [with cities that may have included the great Mohenjo-daro and Harappa] several thousand years earlier.

Rama or Ram (Sanskrit राम), also known as Ramachandra ["Rama the Shining One," suggesting he was deva rather than a human], is a major figure in Hinduism. He is [said to be] the seventh avatar of the god Vishnu, one of his most popular incarnations along with Gautama Buddha and Krishna. In Rama-centric traditions of Hinduism, he is considered the Supreme Being. Rama was born to Kaushalya and Dasharatha in Ayodhya, the ruler of the Kingdom of Kosala. His siblings included Lakshmana, Bharata, and Shatrughna. He married Sita.

Ninth form of Durga, Devi Siddhidhatri

Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet [when they invaded Potala Palace, a kind of Tibetan "Vatican" for their Himalayan empire that extended from Mongolia to Bangladesh] and sent them to the University of Chandigarh to be translated.

Dr. Ruth Reyna of the university said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships!

Their method of propulsion, she said, was "anti-gravitational" and was based upon a system analogous to that of laghima, the unknown power of the ego existing in man's physiological makeup, "a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull."

According to Hindu yogis, it is this laghima which enables a person to levitate. Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called astras by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of people onto any planet, according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old.

The manuscripts were also said to reveal the secret of antima, "the cap of invisibility" and garima, "how to become as heavy as a mountain of lead." Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously but then became more positive about the value of them when the Chinese announced that they were including certain parts of the data for study in their space program!

This was one of the first instances of a government admitting to be researching anti-gravity. The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was ever made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon, though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried out.

However, one of the great Indian epics, the Ramayana, does have a highly detailed story in it of a trip to the moon in a vimana (or astra [as in astral travel, aster means "star"?]), and in fact details a battle on the moon with an Asvin (or Atlantean) airship. This is but a small bit of recent evidence of anti-gravity and aerospace technology used by Indians. To really understand the technology, we must go much further back in time. More