Ablogalypse Now

take off, to the great white north...

it's not only a beauty way to go, but according to james lovelock and a host of others, it appears to be the only way to go if the human race is going to survive...fuck your hybrid car, fuck green living, fuck recycling, sustainable development, and reducing our individual carbon footprints - we're all collectively fucked....global warming and catastrophic global environmental change are here to stay, and shit is going to get really fucking ugly far sooner than most people think...

At the age of eighty-eight, after four children and a long and respected career as one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists, James Lovelock has come to an unsettling conclusion: The human race is doomed. "I wish I could be more hopeful," he tells me one sunny morning as we walk through a park in Oslo, where he is giving a talk at a university. Lovelock is a small man, unfailingly polite, with white hair and round, owlish glasses. His step is jaunty, his mind lively, his manner anything but gloomy. In fact, the coming of the Four Horsemen -- war, famine, pestilence and death -- seems to perk him up. "It will be a dark time," Lovelock admits. "But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting." 

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...fuck me freddy, it looks like i picked the wrong century to stop smoking dope...

Meteorite sparks mystery illness in Peru

I'm sure the Coast to Coast crowd is going apeshit over this.

Big Brother Rising

It's the End of the World As We Knew It, and We Feel Fine.

UK Greenlights Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos

Weird shit from across the pond.

Toyota Unveils Single-Seat Electric Car

Although these do look pretty cool, what are people supposed to do when it rains?

Hydrogen Tablets May Spark Energy Revolution

From Fuel Cell Today:

"Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have invented a technology which may be an important step towards the hydrogen economy: a hydrogen tablet that effectively stores hydrogen in an inexpensive and safe material.

With the new hydrogen tablet, it becomes much simpler to use the environmentally-friendly energy of hydrogen. Hydrogen is a non-polluting fuel, but since it is a light gas it occupies too much volume, and it is flammable. Consequently, effective and safe storage of hydrogen has challenged researchers world-wide for almost three decades. At the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, an interdisciplinary team has developed a hydrogen tablet which enables storage and transport of hydrogen in solid form.

“Should you drive a car 600 km using gaseous hydrogen at normal pressure, it would require a fuel tank with a size of nine cars. With our technology, the same amount of hydrogen can be stored in a normal gasoline tank”, says Professor Claus Hviid Christensen, Department of Chemistry at DTU. "

Read the full article here.

$5 Million DOD Grant to Develop 'Robot Swarms'

Swarming, insect-like robots capable of 'sniffing out' bombs and other substances? What's next, bald-headed psychics that predict the future?

Researchers to Grow First Computer-Based Society

A team of leading academic researchers in artificial intelligence, language evolution, agent-based simulation and evolutionary computing are planning to create a virtual society populated with artificial beings capable of learning and evolving.

I'll admit that this sounds like the stuff of video games and science fiction but it's definitely well worth the read.

Immortality: Science Fiction, or Potential Science Fact?

Famed inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil is banking on the latter.

Building a Perpetually Shiny, Happy America...

....one electronically stimulated mind at a time.