the antikytheran mechanism. the world's first computer!

the antikytheran mechanism. the world's first computer; 1800 years before charles babbage.
the original, and only one of it's kind was found by pearl divers of the coast of antikythera, a small greecian island, near crete, in 1900. the device itself is from the 1st century bc, and is most likely from 86bc. however, this type of device was used throughout the ancient world from at least a century before.

the antikytheran mechanism was used to keep track of important dates, the future olympic dates, but most importantly, it was an astrological calendar and calculator. it could determine the astrological signs for any given day, as well as the moon cycle. this was most important to ancient peoples and certain events would not begin until the astrology was just right.



watch a video of a reconstructed model, built with identical materials and designs as the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfMFhrgOFc

SETI: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

the possibilities:

there are :
100 billion galaxies in the known universe (approx.)
each galaxy contains 400 million stars (approx.)
each star can have several or many planets, many of them capable of supporting life.

within our own solar system, there are two strong possibilities that could contain microbial life, europa and titan. evidence confirms that mars once sustained liquid water and life; however it was most likely low on the evolutionary scale and not advanced or intelligent . (the molten iron core of mars, which generates the magnetic field, cooled long ago. when this happened the magnetic field could no longer protect the atmosphere and within approximately 10,000 years, the atmosphere was stripped from the planet by solar radiation, at which time any and all life disappeared. this event has been dated to 4billion years ago by an impact crater at that time that displaced only rock, no water or atmospheric debris. this date is doubted by some, as the formation of the planet would have been in its infancy and may not have had enough time to form an atmosphere. mars is smaller than earth, so it would make sense that the molten core of mars would cool sooner than the earth's, but not 4 billion years ago.if this can be proven in more than one way, i think it will be more accepted.).


within our own galaxy, there are approximately 10,000 possibilities of planets that could currently support intelligent life.
is that figure the same for every galaxy in the universe?
possibly.

10,000 possibilities (within the milky way galaxy) times 100 billion galaxies = a highly probable and possible number that life exists and is intelligent.

is this intelligent life advanced enough to communicate? that remains to be seen....

is there life elsewhere in the universe?
yes.   definitely without question.

 is this life intelligent and as advanced as humanity or beyond?
most likely.

earth's magnetic field and pole reversal. the science, not the hype

the magnetic flow of the earth's magnetic field.

the earth's magnetic field has reversed many times in the past and will reverse again in the future. but the reversal will not happen on a specific date and will not happen within our lifetimes. evidence from many different areas, including clay pots throughout history, computer models from super computers, pre-historic volcanic lava floes, nautical navigation records and more, has shown we are entering the beginning phase of a pole reversal.

the earth's magnetic field deflecting solar radiation.

the earth's magnetic field can be measured in clay pots. small amounts of magnetite within clay heat up in the kiln and reform according to the earth's magnetic field. so a record of the magnetic field can be measured and recorded from ancient clay pots. the trend observed, over the last 11,000 years indicates it has weakened in the last 2000 years, and especially within the last 300 years, signaling the beginning of a pole reversal. measured analysis of the current field has shown a weakening of the field in the south atlantic, confirming these results.

data obtained from ancient clay pots.

geophysicists, astrophysicists and geologists all agree that poles will reverse again and will reverse soon. but "soon" to these branches of science is roughly 3000 or more years from now. and the shift will not happen over night, but take several thousand years to complete the reversal. during this weakening of the field, the earth's protective layer, will let in more cosmic radiation, which could increase the amount of cancer and cause other variant results to life on earth. it is interesting that when this shift begins to happen, there will be 3 or 4 magnetic poles and the northern lights, auroras, will be visible from just about everywhere on earth.

the pole reversal process.

according to results measured from lava flow samples, the poles reverse, on average, every 200,000 years.

the last time the earth's magnetic poles reversed was 780,000 years ago.

image of earth sowing multiple poles.

(this is just the science, not the psychic doomsday predictions.)