The Information Age

On my first visit to CERN, accompanying my genius of a 12-yr-old niece, I learned ...

The first web page went live on *August 6, 1991. It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee. It ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

The very first website:
http://www.businessinsider.com/flashbac ... ike-2011-6

We have recently exceeded 1 billion websites (watch the total increase), a milestone which, according to our estimates, has been reached in September of 2014. Given the monthly fluctuations in the count of inactive websites, the 1 billion mark will need to be confirmed in the months ahead. From 1 website in 1991 to 1 billion in 2014, the chart and table below show the total number of websites by year throughout history:
http://www.internetlivestats.com/total- ... -websites/

A billion websites. It's like cellular automata and the Game of Life.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shar ... W-L-lAHkKw

http://youtu.be/C2vgICfQawE

The Wide World of Webs is just too large to not become ensnared, but much too large to view it all. How much of this wonderful World Wide Web have you missed? My calculations revealed, mine eyes have seen less than .000005%. If you have come across or will come across an interesting website or video you judge as a must see, or interesting or intriguing that you can't not share, then don't. Let us see it too, won't you?

Here are a few of mine, posting on a grapevine.


Interesting Websites:

The Truth Behind - The Truth Behind the Devil's Bible
http://youtu.be/YLANwXrZmvw

The Lost 40 Days of Jesus - Full Documentary:
http://youtu.be/zz9cuRxN4Ug

Gnosis - Secret Gate to Garden of Eden.:
http://youtu.be/-TndLzFZI9A

Mysteries of the Garden of Eden - Decoding the Past
http://youtu.be/kfOLA_4iyR8

The Girl Who Survived Rabies Extraordinary People
http://youtu.be/yj8IXFuybxg

The Boy With The Incredible Brain - Extraordinary People
(Among whom you'll meet the world's most famous savant, the character in which the Rain Man was based on.)
http://youtu.be/qiAzE3LdsO0

The Tribe In The Picture | Uncontacted Amazon Tribe
http://youtu.be/r2agilNsulA

Largest black holes in the universe
http://youtu.be/xp-8HysWkxw


There must be some jewels out there. On your next interesting and intriguing vacation through cyberspace, don't forget to bring us back a souvenir.


* Just over a decade of the WWW and unlimited information, America is hit with a civilian version of Pearl Harbor, September 1, 2001, the attack on the World Trade Center, two days that will live in infamy. In itself, interesting.

The Information Age!

Search for Muppet Christ Superstar. Parody, but the type of thing that makes you wish yhey really would.

Or this:
http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink ... y_iceberg/

WTF! ... Just because you can, don't mean you should. Manufacturers!

The Most Shocking Children's Toys
http://youtu.be/mdMVDdahVKs

http://youtu.be/iL6RPk1Z2ys

20 Most Dangerous Kids Toys
http://youtu.be/PXfOWMgWYLk

And my mother was worried I'd shoot someone's eye out with a BB gun?

And have you ever seen the Bump 'Em Hump 'Em Robots?
What is this world coming to?

Please, everyone. Do drive safely!!!

****** *

Worst car crash ever recorded. Woman thrown 15 meters
http://youtu.be/61lAetwci6I

http://www.bestgore.com/road-accidents/ ... er-brazil/

http://9gag.com/gag/3904668/top-10-wors ... -the-world

http://oneclickwonders.wordpress.com/wo ... uto/494-2/

http://mentalfloss.com/article/26053/6- ... us-history

Amazing accidents:
http://youtu.be/KOXrhh6szgA

WARNING!
http://i.imgur.com/3Jk9X.gif

The mission was named Rosetta and the probe landed on a big stone.

Anyone else along with me who thinks this is incredible?

(CNN) -- Scientists who pulled off a huge achievement in space exploration showed numerous black-and-white images Thursday of where they think the Philae probe landed on a comet 310 million miles from Earth.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/13/world/com ... index.html

Is this the precursor to sending Bruce Willis and his team up to land on an asteroid, thus saving the world from Armageddon?

310 million miles, approximately thrice the distance of Sun<->Earth.

Talk about reaping the fruits harvested by the many hours of a joystick and flight simulator.

One giant step for probe, one giant leap for probekind.

The space probe weighs about 250lbs and was ejected from spacecraft Rosetta about seven hours ago, falling at a slow speed due to the gentle gravitational pull of the 2.5-mile-long comet. At one point during the first-of-its-kind mission, one of the thrusters on Philae wasn’t working properly and was feared to be an obstacle in a successful landing.

But, all’s well that ends well.

Rosetta took ten years to reach 67P. *It had to orbit the earth three times to build up enough momentum and speed to catch up, and then go into a hibernation mode to conserve power, until finally reaching the comet and ejecting probe Philae.

The ESA has confirmed that they are receiving signals from Philae, and that harpoons used to land and anchor the probe have been successfully fired and reeled in Philae.

Update: It’s unclear what happened with the harpoons. Philae definitely landed, but the ESA tweeted that the harpoons fired and reeled properly and Philae tweeted that they did not. Mysterious.

This mission and its success is significant because comets are hunks of planet that are hurling through space, and likely contain information about complex molecules that may contain the building blocks for life.

Philae’s lead scientist Jean-Pierre Bibring told The Verge that “comets have the beauty of having preserved the ingredients with which the solar system formed,” and that 67P’s ice may contain the building blocks for life.

Now that it has landed, Philae will conduct experiments for approximately 60-hours at full power before its battery is depleted. Solar panels will recharge the probe, as long as it hasn’t landed in a shadow.

You can follow along as the story develops here and we’ll be updating you as we learn more.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/the-ro ... comet-67p/

Also, look at this sick photo taken on Philae’s way down to the comet:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/the-ro ... comet-67p/

After doing some serious speeding (> 135,000km/h) to catch up, the little probe has to slow to a 1m/s (3ft/s) crawl to a stoplight (landing).

Talk about a serious speed trap in space to make any officer proud huh?

*All of this technology comes down to a simple toy that I coveted as a kid ... Is that a slingshot or what?

Rosetta took off from Earth 10 years ago, aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, and traveled a total of 6.4 billion miles before rendezvousing with the comet in August.

Can we say ... ridonculous roadtrip?!

Replies Interspiresed.
HTM

cthia wrote:The mission was named Rosetta and the probe landed on a big stone.

Anyone else along with me who thinks this is incredible?

HTM replies:
No, I credit it.
HTM

(CNN) -- Scientists who pulled off a huge achievement in space exploration showed numerous black-and-white images Thursday of where they think the Philae probe landed on a comet 310 million miles from Earth.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/13/world/com ... index.html

Is this the precursor to sending Bruce Willis
and his team up to land on an asteroid,
thus saving the world from Armageddon?

HTM replies:
Yes. (Except it would be Ragnorak.)
HTM

310 million miles, approximately thrice the distance of Sun<->Earth.

Talk about reaping the fruits harvested by the many hours of a joystick and flight simulator.

One giant step for probe, one giant leap for probekind.

Camp Century, Greenland
http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id9.html

http://youtu.be/1Ujx_pND9wg

Project Iceworm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm

Internet images of Camp Century are amazing.

Kursk Submarine Disaster
http://youtu.be/vihv_cQBawo

Pure Science Specials - The Devil's Sea - Beyond The Bermuda Triangle
http://youtu.be/CQ7eC2Npfp4