END OF THE WORLD

End of the World? Any one who says that to you is surely a lunatic, Right? Well maybe. You have to ask yourself questions such as what was before man. Who knows? Maybe this is the tenth time around that man has existed. Maybe even more. The Y2K bug was the millennium's biggest joke. But this time around can things be a little more serious? 21st December 2012. That is the date that people are curious about. Seer's or Doomsday oracle's such as Nostradamus have also mentioned that this would be the day the world would end.
The Mayan civilization predicted the exact same thing and even their calendar stops on this day.
Maybe a religious act of God's wrath or a simple scientific explanation where, all the planets are aligned with the sun and this phenomena would shift the Earth from it's revolutionary axis and ice age 2 would commence.
This could be the term – Armageddon or the apocalypse or in Norse mythology – Ragnarok. Different names but each pointing to the same thing. Or maybe it is just a paranoid conspiracy but, religious fanatics do mention, how long would a world filled with sin survive?

NANOTECHNOLOGY

What is Nanotechnology? To break down the term – nano which means at a small scale and technology I am guessing needs no explanation. When we speak about nano being at a small scale, we mean tiny and miniscule. Things which are not visible to the naked eye. Scientists have managed to create microscopic robots which have properties beneficial to humans. Imagine the possibilities. Robots living in the host body of humans fighting off foreign bodies, strengthening our immunities, healing, and fighting diseases and viruses. Nanotechnology has reached quite ahead in the sphere of science but it should be a while when they are advanced enough to help us regenerate blood and tissue almost instantaneously at the cellular level or maybe, it has already been done but governments shy away from letting the general public know of such achievements. Who knows?

MAN ALMIGHTY

Man has forever tried to play God. Though all have been major failures up until today, some have reached almost the last stage of their pursuit and perished, never to return again. Scientists have since time immemorial tried to prove that science is and always has been above faith in God. And yet they have tried to emulate The Almighty but trying to create or re-create man-made wonders that only God has been known to be the creator of.

One example of such a wonder is in fact the Biosphere 2, but that we’ve already talked about. Sighting another example of man’s endless pursuit we would like to share something else that some of us might have known for quite a while now…consider this a reminder.

For years artificial intelligence has been on every scientist’s list of things to do. John McCarthy was the first ever to have coined the term. He defined AI as the study and design of intelligent agents”. Steven Spielberg on the other hand was the first to show ideas of AI to the rest of the world. Machines were built to that were touted out to possess intelligence that only humans would’ve had in an otherwise non-scientific world; i.e. the world that God built.

In the 1940s and 1950s, a number of researchers explored the connection between neurology, information theory, and cybernetics. Some of them built machines that used electronic networks to exhibit basic intelligence. Prosthetic arms and legs were built with cybernetic intelligence that was linked to the human nervous system. This made sure that the prosthetic body part could do everything that the original organ was capable of and in some cases even more. Variations were built; hands and legs that could stick to walls, organs that could move at an accelerated pace and other parts that possessed more strength than what God’s body part could ever achieve.

No matter how far man reaches in the world of artificial intelligence, it always seems as though he is at the starting point. However strongly man may feel like playing God, no matter how hard he tries, it will definitely take him much more than 7 days.

BIOSPHERE

The Biosphere is all our ecosystems in totality and synchrony. It is an integration of all living things with the elements, atmosphere, lithosphere etc. The biosphere is said to have started evolving since the past 3.5 billion years.

Have you ever thought about what it must have taken for the earth to be created; the vast patches of land, oceanic water bodies, plants, the atmosphere, oxygen, carbon dioxide and everything else that makes the earth complete in every way? How did everything fit perfectly in place? How did the ecosystem take form? How was the food-chain created? How did man evolve?

Is Biosphere 2 the answer to all these questions? The Biosphere 2 is a 3.15-acre structure originally built to be a man-made, materially-closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona (USA) by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO. Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it was used to explore the complex web of interactions within life systems in a structure that included five areas based on natural biomes and an agricultural area and human living/working space to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology with the rest

Well it seems like someone did think about the answers to all those questions doesn’t it? Allow us to explain this a little more.

The first closed mission lasted from September 26, 1991 to September 26, 1993. During this first mission, the oxygen inside the facility, which began at 20.9%, fell at a steady pace and after 16 months was down to 14.5%. Daily fluctuation of carbon dioxide dynamics was typically 600 ppm (parts per million) because of the strong drawdown during sunlight hours by plant photosynthesis, followed by a similar rise during the nighttime when system respiration dominated. This basically meant that people could not survive under such extreme atmospheric conditions.

The second mission was a little more successful than the first. During the transition period between missions, extensive research and system improvements had been undertaken. However, mission two was ended prematurely on September 6, 1994. The entire thing was sold later in 2005.

The University of Arizona was then the new management taking care of the entire facility. They used the site as a laboratory to study climate change, among many other things. Today Biosphere 2 stands tall and wide as the pride of Arizona.

Beats imagination doesn’t it?

More about this in due course of time.

Information Source: www.b2science.org

OUR FIRST BOOK

Here it is folks - The cover of our first book - FIELD. We took more than a month but after a lot of thought and a million iterations we finally came up with this concept (Thank you all those who helped....you know who you are). The concept itself speaks about various aspects of the book which will surely become clear to the reader once they have read it.....after they have bought it from a legitimate retail store...haha. Books should be available by late September 2009.

WHY ?

Well, first thing's first. Why on earth did we write a book when there was a time when we could'nt get ourselves to come near a book. Well, the answer is simple. We wanted to share our idea of a story with the world. There are so many movies, comics, novels etc. with a million concepts and even more idea's. What is different about ours? Well apart from the fact that we wanted to make sure that each chapter leaves the reader thinking about what happens next, we wanted to create a novel which leaves the reader thinking, what is going to happen in the sequel. It is a complete book in all aspects but there are so many unanswered questions that it gives the reader tonnes of idea's to play around with in their heads. Also, we have tried our best to make sure that we touch upon a plethora of scientific topics, action, thrill and of course a bit of romance. At the end of it all, we would like to say, "Give our first book a read, and, even if you don't like it, remember, a little white lie never hurt anyone! Cheers!"