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            GUYS! The hunt for dark matter is on again. We all know what this means. The possibility of time travel is very much possible now. Dark matter is the entire basis of true time travel. The cool time travel I mean, not the lame one. This article talks about the increasing evidence for dark matter and it starts to convince me too.

            I remember back from when I was just a wee young lad, that I was being propagandized by my peers, it was a pretty traumatic situation, because they kept talking about the apocalyptic black hole that someone was going to create in Sweden or some unbeknownst to me random European country. This was going to happen because these people were trying to shoot two protons at each other, which is harder than hitting two tips of some needles together from across the room. This would then theoretically create a black hole which would suck in the rest of the Earth. Now, I feel like it is probably worth sacrificing the entire human race. I know, it sounds bad, but in the greater picture, nothing bad came out of it right? And all humans ever do is kill the environment and its native inhabitants, even when they happen to be other humans, which is then followed up with reproducing to leave a legacy.

            Well from watching this YouTube video, I figured out how to travel through time the cool way, and apparently dark matter is the main reason we still cannot have it yet, and it is horrible. How cool is time travel though really? I mean not the linear time travel, but the loops. Think of how much of our mysteries we could find out! We could find out about Roanoke, Atlantis, and why some of you are still reading this blog. All in all, it would be a fantastic discovery and journey, but may lead to the destruction of the human race, but would be so totally worth it.

Homicidal Robot Human

             Some days I just sit in my thinking spot and think, “Self, if you were confronted by an insane psychopath, would you rather them be very flamboyant about how much they wanted to kill you and reveled in the pain that they dealt, whether it be to themselves or to you, or would it be better for them to be cold and emotionless without feeling pain?” Yeah, trust me, I am taking therapy from a couple of people, just in case that was what you were wondering. Well, this is brought up because of this article, which tries to explain why humans find robots innately creepy and then tries to play down that fear, and please note, a couple of the pictures in there are kind of creepy. If I saw one of those pictures in the middle of the night, I guarantee that I would lose it, and once you see it, you will know exactly what I mean. I mean, sure I am in the robotics club at my school, but non humanoid robots do not creep me out, but instead it is the human ones.

            As this article states, the creepiest things about human robots is the fact that they do not actually look too far off from being human, but it is always that slight difference that throws us off. Probably because of humans natural tendency to judge people based on their difference from what the judger is. Seriously guys, I am in high school, there is absolutely no way you can tell me I am wrong on that, I see it happen like twelve times a minute. This also reminds of the Salem Witch Trials long ago, where people would burn witches because they survived being tied up and thrown in a lake, and obviously this was not that fair to the people, but did the “jury” care? No.

            Although I am scared of robots only slightly not looking human, I really would rather them keep it like that because if they looked completely human, I would be even more scared and probably extremely paranoid while I was at it. Just stop and think about it, homicidal maniacs and murderers look the same as the rest of the humans, but they at least can feel pain. If a robot were to malfunction and go on a rampage, it would be difficult to stop it, because they do not feel pain, and cannot really guarantee their death unless a robot were to be smashed to bits. Later on, as human technology advances with reinforced metals on robots, it would be hard to take them down, even with an EMP, or possibly a nuke. The problem with the EMP is that humans have been developing other sources of electricity in case something like that would happen. The problem with the nuke is the fact that, well, they do look almost exactly like humans, so what? Nuke all humans to make sure the robots are dead? A robot apocalypse might be worse than a zombie apocalypse.

If it ain't broke, Don't fix it

            It may not seem important now, but this is the future happening right here. Scientists can now determine a person’s ethnicity just from the bacteria inside their mouth, or, you know, they could look at the skin color, but that would just be too easy. Congratulations America, this is what your tax money is being spent on. With this new discovery, people who like white but really are not, can be even more racially profiled than they ever were before. Of course this is not all that bad, because now, scientists know that there are different types of bacteria in a person’s mouth and so are able to use different medicines to address different issues.

            I really do have to admit that I was being kind of unfair in my first assertion in the previous paragraph. I really do not know what I was thinking. A leopard cannot and most likely will not be able to change its spots, unless it goes through some deeply intensive therapy. Like I said, or meant in the badly created metaphor, just because there is a new way to identify different ethnicities, it should not matter too much, because the people who were going to judge people based on their ethnicity before, probably will not change their opinion on them even if new evidence comes out or laws declaring against it. I do appreciate the fact that instead of using race, this article does use ethnicity, because as one of my teachers said, “Race is not a real thing, only ethnicity, so you can’t be racist, only ethnicist,” Yeah, as you can see, I had wonderful teachers throughout my academic career. Although, even though I said it was another way to profile a person from above, this really is not all that accurate, a whopping 62% which, if I got that on a test, I would be disappointing my family. It also does not give specific ethnicities, only the general area, like not Ethiopian, but African, not Japanese, but Asian.

            At first glance to me, it seems like experimenting even further in depth with some of the bacteria found in different people’s teeth, seems helpful since it is a new scientific breakthrough, and would help scientists a lot in their beneficiary practices. Then, I started to wonder, if we have already come this far with little to no trouble, why we should then try to change it. Like many a people have said, “If it isn’t broke, then don’t fix it,” This has not been all over the news, about how bacteria is killing people, and if it has not reached that level of importance, then I guess it should not be important enough to acknowledge, according to a majority of people I talk to.

MC Quant Is in the House!

            Some people just do not think that learning and playing go together. I am here to tell you that those people are absolutely right, unless you are one of those genius freak outcasts that think learning is fun. Well, let me rephrase that, school is not fun, but learning is. A new mod on Minecraft allows the player, or Steve, to mess with quantum physics. I mean, if I had a choice between either Minecraft or a physics textbook, it would most definitely be Minecraft.

            Of course, like all simulations, they do not flawlessly represent the actual thing, but this is pretty close, and it gives freedom of movement and basically freedom to do whatever someone wants to do. It is much better than the constricted boundaries that school gives you, high school for that matter, and instead it allows a person to freely explore their boundaries. This, I believe teaches much better than restrictions, because when babies are first born, they do not know the rules of the world as soon as they escape from the womb. Instead, they learn through exploration and interaction of the objects surrounding them. In fact, one of the reasons some kids learn so much, is because of the freedom of their actions, of course, it is then strictly inhibited once they get into school with heavy regimented policies and mistakes everywhere.

            Another reason that this is a great idea is that somebody actually gave a thought to furthering education. Other games are all about fun and money and drugs and sex and stuff and more and more and more! Not saying that those games do not have low moral standards, actually I am, they are also not educational and only teach reflexes while also reinforcing the will to buy the sequel, because, "WHEE! It is an exciting game, the sequel can only be better!"

            Then again, if one would look at it from the gamer's point of view, this makes an immensely more exciting game, because now it is based upon whether or not a series of events has been completed yet, and only when these events are completed do the results happen. It would be great for computer programmers too because their programming is strictly regimented and if one thing is not completed than the whole thing falls apart, it is actually pretty depressing to be honest. Then again, anything that wastes time is depressing like watching a couple movies of a sparkling vampire.

Living on Cloud 9

          Technology is becoming more and more important in modern times, and soon humans probably will not even be able to function without it. Of course, it is not like this innovation makes it seem any better, but it is a pretty cool idea. Have you ever looked at a piece of technology and just thought, “I know there is going to be a better version of this, but I need it now!” Yeah, instant gratification, a very large part of human nature. Well, this new idea makes it so that everyone can save thousands of dollars, not even exaggerating right now, on new pieces of technology, but as happy as it makes us consumers, the business owners would have to be at least slightly miffed by this.

            With this, nobody has to ever worry about not saving anything or not having a file saved. Well, now it is completely based around the cloud system, and so updates are sent wirelessly. This means that everything now can become a computer, like a television, everything would be connected. Of course, I really do not like this too much. For instance, my school has apparently given us this cloud program so people are able to leave flash drives at home, but they work about as much as I do. I am currently unemployed, which means I do not have a job, and so do not do anything. AP Chemistry is a fairly difficult class, and we have to write a lab report that is a couple of pages long. One time, I had a lab report almost completed, but was saved on a couple of tablets, so we had to either save it to our student, flash, or cloud drive. To say the least, I forgot my flash drive, and my student drive is not that useful at home, so I decided to give this cloud drive a chance and let it work its magic. It just did not. I got the first page, but the others were lost in cyberspace.

            The other reason I find this idea a particularly bad idea is that an EMP, electro-magnetic pulse, which knocks out every electrical functioning thing in a certain radius. These would end up being the bane of our country. The government could easily use it to subdue people, and people would have no way of communicating. I am sure most of you think this is stupid, but if you heard your loved one got shot and wanted to know if he or she was okay, and the government would not let you call them, because you were an anarchist, it would make many people angry. I mean, having every single thing someone owns online and no tangible proof that it exists? Thinking that will be sufficient proof is almost like a mental disease and tosses common sense out the window.

Warning! This is Not A Fun-Gi (Guy)

           Has anyone watched Contagion? It is about this virus thing that kills off people in the strangest way possible, through bubbling through the teeth and having a seizure. The first time it happens, it is actually quite scary and leaves a person with a kind of shaky feeling about it. The creepiest thing about it though, is that it honestly is not quite far off from what could actually happen. In fact, frogs have the same immune system as us, or at least close to it, but are being afflicted with a hostile pathogen that these frogs seem to not be able to fight off. It is pretty gruesome because this article shows that this fungus infiltrates their body then just kind of shuts everything down, making the frogs really lethargic and basically crawl out of the water and just die because they cannot find any food to eat.

            This is just like the zombie apocalypse. Imagine that these were humans, humans who have strange growths out of them and drag themselves across the floor with their hands. Imagine one lying on the floor, incredibly hungry, incredibly lethargic, but knows it needs food. Now imagine accidentally leaving a door open, and as someone crosses a dark threshold, one darts out and latches on eating, because it is not that far out of range. Creepy, is it not? One of the reasons that I brought up Contagion is because this virus has been around these frogs for about ten years, and yet this is the first time anyone has obtained a clue or an inkling of what is actually going on, and why it cannot combat it. We may not have a clue, or may not even care, because all humans think they are better than anything else, including other humans.

Of course, if this virus ever spreads to humans, we are probably screwed, us internet folk, because we are lethargic enough without anyone else’s help. Then again by the time we figure out it could spread to humans, people will research like madmen in order to “preserve the human race” when animals die every day of unknown diseases, which do not affect the human race, and so they are inconsequential. Have any of them never heard of the canary in the coal mine analogy? We, humans, basically depend on animals to survive. If a polar bear with its large amounts of fur, dies in the arctic of hypothermia, it says something about the arctic. Inversely, if a camel dies of thirst in the Saharan Desert, it starts to say something about the livability of the desert.

Some People Just Know How To Celebrate Christmas

            Has anyone had one of those teachers where they divide the class up into separate groups depending on when their birthday was? No? Just me? Okay. Anyway, in one of my classes, we would, for some reason, have a large abundance of people born in September in the class, and so my teacher made a comment, "Wow, some of your parents really knew how to celebrate Christmas," which caused the class to burst into hysterics obviously. See, if hamsters had the same gestation period as humans, there would be no hamsters born in the fall months, because hamsters apparently have this gene in them which controls their reproductive capabilities, and so it shuts them off during the winter months. If you are into this kinda stuff, I know I am, it gives a more detailed explanation in this article.

            Think of how much the world population would go down if people were limited with this gene. That would be three or more months, all depending on the groundhogs, of not reproducing and conservation of energy and thus, money. Do not get me wrong on this, I really do not think that people are a waste of time and a severe drain on resources, well most of them anyway, and it is worth it to raise them, but I would not like to see the human race self destruct all because some people just get a little more "festive" during holiday seasons. Unfortunately, we do not have this gene, and unless some people want to injected with hamster DNA or have everyone reproduce with a hamster until we successfully insert this gene into every human, it probably will not be that possible. Another choice is to dip a hamster in radioactive material then have it bite a person which they can obtain most of the hamster's DNA and mix it with theirs. Afterwards he or she can proceed to save the world with its other useless compatriots, Aquaman and Squirrel Girl.

            Actually, I really wrote this because I find the abilities kind of impressive, I mean, us humans cannot really tell the season if we stand outside with our eyes closed, but these hamsters can internally distinguish between seasons. Although, a reason that we do not have this is we really do not need it, but it still would be kind of nice to have more energy to do stuff during the holidays instead of "celebrating" but other than that, I do not really have a clue about its significance. It did clear up something that was unknown before, but nothing really important that everyone wants to know, such as "Do aliens exist?" or "What does the fox say?"