Posted on 12/06/2003 9:14:26 AM PST by John W
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA is relying on Russian-made thrusters to steer the international space station following a new malfunction with the U.S. motion-control system, officials said Friday.
Flight controllers detected spikes in current and vibration in one of the station's three operating gyroscopes on November 8. Last week, when the gyroscopes were used again to shift the position of the orbiting outpost, all three worked.
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More striking insights, RW! Thank you! Is it reasonable to draw the conclusion that the "theoreticians" had better get together with the "practitioners" pretty soon?
Actually, this sort of thing seems to be happening all over the Earth -- except in America, where established theoreticians seem to think it is beneath their dignity to talk to an actual practitioner....
I read Cayce in my late 'teens, early '20s. I was extraordinarily impressed with his works, which seemed to be so detailed, thorough, and independently attested to by third-parties. I didn't know what to make of him, then. I still don't -- but my mind is definitely open. It may well be that further researches into a universal field theory of consciousness will put us in the way of finding out.
Thanks so much for writing, RW.
Indeed, Alamo-Girl -- Hungarian theoretic astrophysicist Attila Grandpierre has proposed some interesting experiments that seem eminently testable immediately, as a result of his efforts to elaborate the critical criteria of life and consciousness in terms of an astrophysical model that is itself predicated on a primary universal vacuum field that, at bottom, mediates all physical and "spiritual" (in the above-elaborated sense) phenomena. This would be a stunning development, integrating classical physics, quantum field theory, mathematics, and information science. I hope that when this article is published (details to follow), theorists and experimentalists alike -- not to mention the general public -- will give it the serious attention it deserves. JMHO FWIW.
Thank you so very much for your kind words of encouragement.
Nobody's talking about "implementing programs" here, RW.
Notwithstanding, I think we humans are all already "spiritual beings." And so I agree human cloning is most likely a "bad idea" .... [For it has no principle or method whereby it can integrate spiritual phenomena into the realm of the immediately observable facts of nature.]
Among other things, Grandpierre's article places in stark relief the fundamental, unavoidable difference that subsists between a machine and a living organism.
A person could read this paper and disagree with its conclusions -- yet still be grateful for the amazing insights into seemingly routine events in experienced human thought that accrue along the way....
Seriously, you know how to "strike the funny-bone" just right. At least I'm laughing. (Point is, I don't think that's an isolated event.)
Attila Grandpierre is one of my favorites! He has refreshingly unique way of looking at just about everything I've ever seen him approach. I anticipate there will be a very large audience for his article here in the U.S. Hopefully it will be on-line too!
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