Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Oscar Push for Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis is Caesar, the ape

Fox Studio head, Jim Rothman, has been praising Andy Serkis's work in Rise of the Apes and is pushing for a Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor!

"I think we may be at the place where we will see a first-ever in Hollywood this year, which is to see Andy Serkis get nominated for a best supporting actor for Planet of the Apes, even though his face never actually appears," he told The Hollywood Reporter..."But his performance appears, so we are going to push that hard."

Further discussing Serkis' work Rothman said: "The emotionality - what you see and what you feel - he did it. I saw him. I watched him. Then they digitally overlaid - you can think of it as a costume - the skin and the hair of an ape. But I tell you the thing that people felt – and a lot of people where moved when they saw the movie - is because of his performance."

Andy is one of the nicest guys in the biz. We were lucky enough to meet him and his Oscar for Best Visual Effects at the TOR.N "Two Towers, One Party" in Hollywood 2003. To say it was an amazing experience is a total understatement.

Never before has an acting award been given to an actor not seen in the movie. Although "Ceasar, the ape" is on film, it's not Andy per se.

Odds are it's not going to happen, but with all the CGI going on anymore, it just may be a possibility.

Hollywood Reporter News Article

Thursday, October 6, 2011

R.I.P




He changed the world

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." - Steve Jobs

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

We're Number 3!

Limerick Power Plant.
We see these plumes easily EVERY DAY OF OUR LIFE

Residents of Philadelphia and its suburbs number in the millions. And did any of you know that we were number 3?

Three in what, you ask?

NUMBER THREE AT RISK FOR A CORE MELTDOWN AT THE LIMERICK NUCLEAR PLANT. RANKED #3 IN RISK BY THE NRC (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission).

The risk of an earthquake hitting this region has gone up 141% since 1989 geological data was updated in 2008.

As a matter of fact, Pennsylvania has 3 nuclear power plants in the Top 10 MOST AT RISK of ALL United States power plants. See? We're 3 again!

3) Limerick, Limerick, PA - 34 miles away from Philadelphia and it's 5.4 million inhabitants. We are the 5th largest most populous region in the Country.

5) Beaver Valley, Shippingport, PA - 34 miles away from Pittsburgh and it's 2.3 million inhabitants. The second largest population in PA. The risk here has gone up 269%.

10) Three Mile Island, Middletown, PA - 10 miles from Harrisburg, the Capital of Pennsylvania. Population: half a million people. It's 311 miles from Pittsburgh and 102 miles from Philadelphia. The risk from this plant has gone up 82%.

We're not even talking human or mechanical error which can cause a meltdown event at any time regardless of natural disaster. Mechanical error is what caused the partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979, but was compounded by human error as operators failed to realize the initial problem.

READ THE NEWS ARTICLE WITH ALL THE DATA


Wednesday, March 2, 2011

VIMANA FOUND!!???!!


It's being reported on independent news sites that an ancient East Indian Vimana has been found in a cave in Afghanistan!

Vimanas are the source for the mystical ancient Persian flying carpet. It is a vehicle that flies. Detailed schematics have been pieced together from the ancient Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, which accounts four different types of these machines. Reading the Mahabharata is like reading the most wild of science fictio and it was penned thousands of years ago.

From the Article:
"A peculiar report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) circulating in the Kremlin today states that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the latest in a growing line of Western leaders to make a ‘surprise’ visit to Afghanistan this month and follows visits by United States President Obama (December 3rd), British Prime Minister David Cameron (December 7th) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy (December 8th).

Only Sarkozy’s trip, this report says, was concealed as he was already in India on a state visit when ‘rushed’ by a US Military aircraft to the Afghan war zone.

What caused the sudden rush of these most powerful leaders of the Western World to go to Afghanistan, this report continues, was to directly view the discovery by US Military scientists of what is described as a “Vimana” entrapped in a “Time Well” that has already caused the “disappearance” of at least 8 American Soldiers trying to remove it from the cave it has been hidden in for the past estimated 5,000 years"

This story is probably a hoax, but the general content is not. Vimanas exsisted at one point in ancient history. We're not sure about the whole "time well" thing, though. ALTHOUGH, this would account for a US military incursion into Afghanistan the past 8 or 10 years. Hmmm....



FABULOUS RELATED ARTICLE - A MUST READ!

That's No Moon. It's a Space Station.


Fans of the Star Wars movies will recognize the above quote by "Obi-Wan Kenobi."

Referring to the object that closely resembles our moon, it turns out that the object was a space station built by the nefarious Emperor. It was actually a weapon of mass destruction used to obliterate an entire planet. Poor Alderaan.

This is all fiction of course, but truth is often stranger than fiction and there are MANY weird things about our own moon that should be pointed out.

From an excerpt of an interview with Chris Knight ("Civilization One" and "Uriel's Machine") current author of "Who Built the Moon?"

1) The Moon sits very close to the Earth yet it is widely regarded as the strangest object in the known universe.

2) The Moon does not have a solid core like every other planetary object. It is either hollow or has a very low-density interior. Bizarrely, its concentration of mass are located at a series of points just under its surface – which caused havoc with early lunar spacecraft.

3) The Moon is not only extremely odd in its construction; it also behaves in a way that is nothing less than miraculous. It is exactly four hundred times smaller than the Sun but four hundred times closer to the Earth so that both the Sun and the Moon appear to be precisely the same size in the sky – which gives us the phenomenon we call a total eclipse. Whilst we take this for granted it has been called the biggest coincidence in the universe.

"How does one explain the "coincidence" that the moon is just the right distance, coupled with just the right diameter, to completely cover the sun during an eclipse? Again, Isaac Asimov responds, "There is no astronomical reason why the moon and the sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidences, and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion." It has a stationary, near-perfect circular orbit." From: Informant News

4) Furthermore, the Moon mirrors the movement of the Sun in the sky by rising and setting at the same point on the horizon as the Sun does at opposite solstices. For example, this means the Moon rises at midwinter at the same place the Sun does at midsummer. There is no logical reason why the Moon mimics the Sun in this way and it is only meaningful to a human standing on the Earth.

5) If the Moon was not exactly the size, mass and distance that it has been at each stage of the Earth's evolution­ there would be no intelligent life here. Scientists are agreed that we owe everything to the Moon. This is because the moon acts as a stabilizer that holds our planet at just the right angle to produce the seasons and keep water liquid across most of the planet. Without our Moon the Earth would be as dead and solid as Venus.

Main Article link

This is only the beginning of what's "wrong" with the moon.

Some other facts:

Galileo was the first person "in history" to use a telescope from Earth to make scientific observations of the moon in 1609.

The Moon is the only object in the Universe in which mankind from Earth has set foot.

Flashes of lights, tracks and other anomalies have been seen on the moon.

When struck by an object, say the lunar landing module of November 20, 1969 from the Apollo 12 NASA mission, the moon rings like a bell. In this particular case it rang and reverberated for more than an hour.

The moon is FAR older than Earth. A billion years older (Earth: 4.6 billion years old, the moon 5.3 billion) AND the dust on the surface at LEAST one billion years older than the rocks. Hmmm?

The moon rocks do not match the chemical composition of the dust/dirt around them. They CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.

The moon rocks are also MAGNETIZED. Yes, they are Magnetic Rocks. Sounds silly, but think about it. The moon has no magnetic field!

The moon "suffers" hundreds of "moonquakes" a year. These are not attributable to meteor strikes. There is no explainable reason for such seismic activity. There are no volcanoes on the moon.

The moon contains "rustproof" particles.*

There are strange structures on the moon including "The Lunar Bridge", "The Shard", "The Tower" and "The Obelisks." WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP! Check out this video and then go ahead and google these words. There are hundreds of pages of material out there.



Twelve astronauts walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. We've never gone back.

We did bring back 842 pounds of Moon rocks.

We're not even getting to the Apollo conversations with NASA Control which contain censored material regarding the astronauts seeing UFO's, structures and God knows what else, including the warning from "aliens" to never go back to the moon.

So is the moon an artificial object?

Several early civilizations wrote that they remembered a time without the moon and the time it came into being:

"Greek authors Aristotle and Plutarch, and Roman authors Apolllonius Rhodius and Ovid all wrote of a group of people called the Proselenes who lived in the central mountainous area of Greece called Arcadia The Proselenes claimed title to this area because their forebears were there "before there was a moon in the heavens." This claim is substantiated by symbols on the wall of the Courtyard of Kalasasaya, near the city of Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, which record that the moon came into orbit around the Earth between 11,500 and 13,000 years ago, long before recorded history."

Conan Arthur Doyle wrote his protagonist Sherlock Holmes this apt saying: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

Given all the weird anomalous facts about the moon, its mysteries, its in your face defiance of analysis, its worthy to consider that this may be a possibility.

So if it is an artifical structure, who built it, drove it here, parked it here and WHY?

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare

In other words, there are no words. Something like this is beyond our comprehension. Until we had television, we had no word for "box with moving images". Until we get the alien memo detailing what the moon really is and what is for and why, everything else is pure speculation.

And we think it's worth speculating.

Note: * The Pillar of Delhi is over 1,600 years old, made of iron and has never rusted. Is it made from material from the moon? It even has the word moon inscribed on it!

"He who, having the name of Chandra, carried a beauty of countenance like the full moon, having in faith fixed his mind upon Vishnu, this lofty standard of the divine Vishnu set up on the hill Vishnupada."

Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Coolest Beer Dispenser Anywhere

We're not a fan of beer. But we are amazed at this technological wonder of a beer dispenser at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia...