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Packing the home for storage

kikbot — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:58:53 +0000

Well my original plan to leave on 3/15 has well passed and now there could be more delays. If everything goes as planned I should leave this week, fingers crossed

Walking the Appalachian Trail

kikbot — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:32:10 +0000

Well the time has arrived for me to begin my journey on the AT. The most optimistic prediction is that I last two weeks. 2000 people try to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail every year about 50 complete the journey. The odds are against me, no doubt, but the one thing I enjoy more than being right is proving people wrong.

Math is the Real Magic of this World

kikbot — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:23:11 +0000

What child is not fascinated by magic. The ability to make objects appear from thin air or even levitate seemingly defying gravity. One thing that every student should realize is that math is the real magic of this world. With some numbers and a algorithm an you will receive an answer to any question you may have. What if you need to know how much carbon you need to make the strongest steel. Or maybe you need to know the volume of that container before it’s created. It can even tell us what decisions another might make using game theory. There really is no end to what can be answered as long as you know how to write and interpret the algorithm.

Powerline Exploit Allows Keylogging via Ground or Laser

kikbot — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:01:09 +0000

Hackers are now able to log keystrokes via grounded outlets or remotely by laser. Pretty ingenious when you think about it but even more to worry about if your security conscious. The exploit is achieved by monitoring the grounded electrical circuit within 15 feet of the target. When a keyboard is used it generates a different frequency from 10 to 20 Kilohertz. When the computer is plugged into a power source the the frequency from the keys are seen on the ground output. The same results can be achieved at greater distances but using a laser. By shining the laser on the computer or even objects around the computer they are able to capture the reflections from the vibration of the keys. Amazing work really and something work noting if security is important to you. Networkworld has the entire article and it’s worth a read so check it out.

How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data.

Laser is more than a word

kikbot — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:56:55 +0000

Laser is more than a device that emits light it’s an acronym for how it is achieved; Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Lasers emit mostly Coherent light which means light of one particular wavelength conversely light bulbs and our own Sun are not coherent light sources. Lasers also emit light in the visible spectrum from 400nm (nanometers) to 800nm as well as in the invisible from Ultraviolet below 400nm to Infrared above 800nm. Lasers that emit the three primary colors Red, Blue and Green are called “White lasers” and although each laser is coherent the combined output is not.

Green lasers are the easiest to see because our eyesight is most sensitive to those wavelengths. Everyone see the other frequencies of the the visible spectrum differently but green is the one color that most people see clearly. Some people see our yellow sun as different colors but some of that is due to the angle we are viewing the sun.

The sun is considered yellow because of it’s temperature it’s not because it looks yellow.

Know what one percent of the world knows

kikbot — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:48:21 +0000

Bill Gates said only that one percent of the world knows about his Internet Explorer shortcut. When typing the URL in the IE address bar hit CTRL+ENTER and .com will be added to the address. It’s not very useful but now you know.

How to avoid a colliding Galaxy

kikbot — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:45:59 +0000

Get out of the way! Only speculation exists about how we arrived on Spaceship Earth. Some will say it was God and others will say evolution. Now that we are here we need to make sure we stay. We can’t afford to go the way of the dinosaur and yet that may be our fate if we can’t get of this rock. Our spaceship may be the final resting place for the human race, but I highly doubt it. Even the largest meteor would kill billions of people but man could still survive.

Ever since the big bang set this world in motion there has been an order to the chaos. Stars spin, as do planets and galaxies; those planets orbit stars and those stars orbit the galactic center. All this motion increases the chances of a collision and not just from a meteor. When galaxies are colliding with other galaxies planets and stars become the weapons. Earth may be able to handle a meteor the size that took out the dionsaurs but nothing is going survive a panet collision. The only way to avoid a planet buster is to leave Earth and live amongst the stars. Eventually we will need to leave Spaceship Earth and let’s hope when that time comes we are ready.

Life, Probability and Fractals

kikbot — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:43:04 +0000

What is the probability of life outside of Spaceship Earth, most people will say it is pretty slim. Now more than ever we are finding life in inhospitable places and in places we have been unable to look previously. We may have even found life in our own solar system. Mars is already showing signs of the life and now it’s just a mater of finding it.

Fractals are a great model for showing repetitions in nature. These fractals can be found in all manner of life on Earth. These same fractal algorithms should be applied to the stars, planets and galaxies.

As technology advances we are able to do things that were otherwise unachicveable. At one time the mircoscopic world was beyound our sight and now we are contsructiong machines in that same space. The space among the stars has been more difficult and because of this we rely more than ever on technology. We need this technology to help us find more life in our solar system. With life found so close to our own home the probability of life in the universe must be increasing. Life finds way and after all this time thinking that nothing can live in those conditions it may be time to start thinking what does live there.

We start with a point …

kikbot — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:40:49 +0000

This model on building out the dimensions is pretty spectacular. Quantum physics tells that there may be other dimensions but infinity upon infinity sounds more like the model I believe.

Imagining the 10th dimension

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Quantifying Human Potential

kikbot — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:32:26 +0000

Human potential is not difficult to quantify. We all know those who excel for they are hard to keep hidden. Well then why don’t we all excel? Genetics. There are differences in all of us, some of those differences limit our abilities. However, our greatest asset is our mind.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.

- Watson, Lyall

What about those who genetics are not a deterrent. The answer is our minds and everyone in this group has that potential. I believe this quote sums up all there is to be said about what we can achieve.

Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds himself heavenly mansions of Joy, Strength and Peace.By the right choice and true applictaion of thought man ascends to divine perfection. By the abuse and wrong application of thought he descends below the level of the beasts. Between these two are all grades of character and man is their make and master. Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence is this; Man is the master of thought the molder of character and the maker and shaper of condition, environment and destiny.

- As a Man Thinketh by James Allen