Nanotechnology

[Sadsack]

In this thread I am going to be posting scientific articles that involve the discussion of nanotechnology. I am not an expert nor am I trying to convince anyone of this being the cause of Morgellons. I am offering it up for your consideration.
Even if you decide to reject the theory (advanced by Dr. Staninger) it is important that people know exactly what is going on in the world of science and how it impacts each of us directly.
The first link I am providing is an article written by a respected columnist who writes for the NY Times, etc. It is not quite as long as it looks like it will be, but it is important to read all of it.
The author describes a very real movement that is taking place (and has been for many years) in Silicon Valley. Nanotechnology is a part of it, but the overall theme may provide hints about the origins of what is going on in our world. Some of the wealthiest and most influential scientists of our era are central to this group:

Immortality 2.0: a silicon valley insider looks at California's Transhumanist movement. | North America > United States from AllBusiness.com

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[Kritters]

Sadsack~

Thanks so much for bringing this thread. I love it. It is absolutely fascinating. I took a break and breezed through it because I'm working right now, but look forward to perusing it.

I know I will have something to comment since it is major food for thought and could have implications in every direction of life.

I think quantum physics can explain EVERYTHING in life and nano technology is showing us how. A quick thought about transhumanism and singularity for me is....there has to be a plan for overpopulation and I already have thoughts on that subject, as you can imagine.

My mind is flying right now.

thanks again.

Kritters

[Sadsack]

Kritters -
Yes, I know. My thoughts ran wild when I first read this. The implications are enormous.
Hard as it may be for me, I am going to really try to stick with the science and away from the speculations as much as that is possible for me.
One thing that did not escape my attention is that the epicenter of this movement is very close to and just south of the Bay area in CA - what may be "ground zero" for Morgellons. At the least, it is one of biggest and oldest hot spots for Morgellons....so close to Silicon Valley.
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[Baraka Obam]

Could I possibly get my BANANO with no NANO SAUCE, the song may change, to YES we have no BONANO we Have NO BONANO with NANO sauce today.

This kind of huge play on Natures good is at best mad mans play. Nano tech delves into somthing we have no idea if we can stop or control. You see storys about a rat brain tied to a computer, driving a jet simulator, that is very special. I see the use for this, yes I do, it would be wonderful if they could make new brains for polititians, brains that at least know how to find the cheese.

[Kritters]

Hey, SS~

Maybe this transformation into singularity is what the prophets of both Armageddon and Nostradamus were referring to.

The end of the world........AS WE KNOW IT.

YouTube - It's The End Of The World As We Know It...

Kritts

[Sadsack]

Well, if the successful fusion of man and machine (via nanotech) is achieved, then the world will most certainly be transformed. And the effort to do so is very serious. Even NASA is involved. See the article below:

Google, NASA, Kurzweil take tech into the future with new university
Singularity U. looks to meld human enhancements, AI, nanotech and robotics

http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti....ntsrc=hm_to pic

February 3, 2009 (Computerworld) Google Inc. is teaming up with NASA and world-renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil to create a university designed to help people learn how to handle "humanity's grand challenges."

Singularity University (SU) will bring students together from around the world to study subjects like nanotechnology, biotechnology, human enhancements and artificial intelligence to see how the technologies can work together. SU's goals also include fostering professional networking and business creation.

The university, unveiled today at the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference in Long Beach, Calif., will offer nine-week graduate-level classes. SU will be temporarily housed on the on the NASA Research Park campus.

Google is SU's first corporate founder. Kurzweil will service as chancellor and trustee of the university.

"We are now in the steep part of the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a broad variety of fields, including health, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence," said Kurzweil in a statement. "It is only these accelerating technologies that have the scale to address the major challenges of humanity, ranging from energy and the environment, to disease and poverty. With its strong focus on interdisciplinary learning, Singularity University is poised to foster the leaders who will create a uniquely creative and productive future world."

Kurzweil co-founded the university with Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, a a nonprofit group that sponsors contests encouraging innovation. Just a year and a half ago, Diamandis worked with Google to launch the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, which aimed to find someone who could build and land a privately funded spaceship on the moon in just over five years. Diamandis also co-founded the International Space University.

Now Diamandis and Kurzweil are focused on getting Singularity University up and running.

"We are reaching out across the globe to gather the smartest and most passionate future leaders and arm them with the tools and network they need to wrestle with the Grand Challenges of our day," said Diamandis in a written statement. "During the year, between the Graduate Summer Programs, SU will offer a unique 3-day and 10-day program for CEOs and executives that will give them the forward looking radar they need to determine how these key technologies might transform their companies and industries in the next 5 - 10 years ahead."

The university, according to its web site, will be offering a 9-week graduate-studies program, along with 3-day and 10-day programs.

[Kritters]

hmmmm....and I wonder which segment of our populace will be the lucky ones to end up as soylent green crackers for the trans-human appetite.

[Sadsack]

Let me introduce Charles Ostman, an affiliate of Kurzweil:

KurzweilAI.net

"Charles Ostman
Charles Ostman is currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures, a strategic technologies consulting group which provides research, analysis, and business development services to Fortune 500 companies and institutions worldwide, with a particular focus toward examining the synergistic relationships between emergent advanced technologies, and the business environments in which they may be fostered. Charles is also currently chief scientist with Evolutionary Networks, a company which is developing unique methodologies for creating "intuitive cognition" forms of artificial intelligence for the Internet, "smart" instrumentation, media appliances, and other applications.

Charles Ostman has 25+ years experience in the fields of electronics, physics, materials sciences, computing and artificial intelligence, including eight years at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Subsequent professional experience encompasses a diverse range of technical development projects at facilities including GTE Lenkurt, Litton Industries, Lucas Films, Phoenix Laser Systems, Omni Scientific Instruments, and a variety of other technology related companies and institutions.

He is an active participant with a number of technology related institutes and publications, has served as an advisory member of various technology related development organizations and privately held companies, and has been a featured instructor / faculty member at San Francisco State University, and at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco, in Information Technology, Electronic Media, and other related departments and venues.

Charles has authored numerous technical papers, lectures frequently around the country, has contributed content featured in a number of books, including CyberLife, Secrets, the SIRS Applied Sciences journal, and is involved in numerous other book projects. He has presented and published papers at numerous conferences and symposia, including the European Symposium on Cybernetics and Systems Research, World Multiconference on Information Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Multi-Agent Spatial Modeling Symposium, International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis, SIGGRAPH, Alife, AAAI Conference on Computational Anthropology, Entcon, Comdex, InterMedia World, Digital Biota, and many others in the US and abroad.

His current primary interests are in the development of distributed intelligence systems and engines, and the next generation of distributed computing systems which mimic the physiologies of living systems, best described perhaps as "self evolving virtual machines".

Charles Ostman

I will bring some of his writings to this thread in the coming days. He has written some very clear explanations of what nanotechnology is and what it can do and has done.
Tighten your seatbelts.

SS

[Sadsack]

Stimulus debate highlights need for focus on nanotech risks
New nano reauthorization bill includes crucial safety research mandates
Washington, DC – The nearly $800 billion stimulus package being debated in Congress contains a number of measures intended to improve information technology, infrastructure and the energy economy in the United States – all areas that will be greatly aided by nanotechnology. However, without an increased focus by the federal government on possible risks posed by engineered nanomaterials, many of the potential societal advancements created by the emerging technology could be compromised.

The importance of understanding the possible risks posed by engineered nanomaterials is a centerpiece of legislation passed February 11 in the House of Representatives. The bill, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2009 (H.R. 554), which passed by a voice vote, highlights the growing need to learn more about the possible environmental, health and safety dangers posed by some nanoscale materials. The Senate is expected to take up a companion bill later this year.

Nanotechnology – which some scientists and business leaders hail as the next Industrial Revolution – is a key part of President Barack Obama's research and development strategy, particularly in the energy sector. Nanoscale-lithium batteries will be in the next generation of electric cars, and nanoscale materials are being used in solar panels that will deliver power to countless homes, businesses and government buildings.

"Nanotechnology is going to be one of the most important drivers of innovation and economic growth in the 21st century. Passage of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2009 in the House is a significant step in the right direction," says David Rejeski, the director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). "The bill contains a number of measures that will increase transparency and help improve science-based government oversight of nanotechnology. It also will help to ensure that the potential risks posed by nanomaterials do not pose a threat to public safety or undermine investor confidence."

Passage of the bill comes only months after a National Research Council (NRC) panel issued a highly critical report describing serious shortfalls in the Bush administration's strategy to better understand the environmental, health and safety risks of nanotechnology and to effectively manage those potential risks.

The NRC report, Review of the Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health and Safety Research, calls for a significantly revamped national strategic plan that will minimize potential risks so that innovation will flourish and society will reap nanotechnology's benefits in areas like medicine, energy, transportation and communications.

NRC's assessment follows a PEN evaluation of the overall federal spending on nanotechnology risk-related research. Of the annual $1.5 billion investment by the government in nanotechnology research, PEN determined that in 2006 (the most recent year for which data was available) just 62 federally-funded projects were highly relevant to understanding nanotechnology risk, with an estimated annual budget of $13 million. In contrast, the Bush administration estimated that $37.7 million was invested in highly relevant risk research in fiscal year 2006. By either calculation, highly relevant risk research is only as little as 1 percent or as much as 2.5 percent of the annual federal nanotech research budget. Most experts have been calling for an annual minimum of 10 percent.

"Passage of the House bill is a sign that lawmakers believe that protection from the possible risks of nanomaterials is important not only to the safety of Americans, but also to help advance beneficial technologies for the next generation – a key in helping improve the economy," says Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor for PEN.

Stimulus debate highlights need for focus on nanotech risks

[Sadsack]

I just posted this on another thread, but realize that it really belongs here. Someone on Lymebusters (Ruth) has been researching and documenting Morgellons for 12 years (and she has a medical background). She has Morgellons.
The post is over a year old, but it is a great description of how nanotech relates to the things we see. She is in the process of videographing the actual transformation so that we can actually see these things forming, melting, and re-forming. Pay close attention to the last paragraph:

"i am sorry you don't believe dr. staningers' work,
as she employed reputable and expensive labs
in her report relative to the fibers.

i have been infected for 11 years. i am also a nurse
in contact with other nurses that have this.

i have spent thousands of hours under the microscope.
i have seen insects melt down
into a silicon material and try to reform into the insect (probably
like the worm of harveys' you mention)

Pictures by ruthlyons_2007 - Photobucket
go to video's. ( i need to download more to share when i feel
a little better)

i am in an episode right now. jan. it will start letting
up a bit for me, until the next 'episode', every 6 months. so with
the buildup to and recline from doesn't leave much good time.

i am a patient of Dr. Staninger. i sent her a 80 min. video of insect formation.
she gets samples and information from people like me,
who allow her my medical records for information to be
correlated. i have paperwork 5 miles long!
she requests a variety of blood tests to do the same.

i will start her protocol in january. the protocol is custom to each person.
she is knowledgeable about chemicals and reactions.

as i have violent allergic reactions to the "chemtrail" plane spraying........
i am doubly glad she is onboard! she is an environmental toxicologist.
she is very aware of all aspects of this, as i talked to her for 3 hours
in one conversation.

she has my full support. i will budget in $ to tithe, as this is for all of
us and the future. i am in grieving over the state of the world.

i understand how hard it is to understand this,
totally thinking "out of the box" is required.

i understand darpa sponsors claytronics, which
is the closest i can come to understanding how
this works.

http://labs.pcw.co.uk/2006/09/intel_works_on_.html

no insect material will ever show in a lab, because
it forms from the materials of our body."


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