Pistorius is not human: he’s an extraterrestrial

Yesterday the International Olympic Committee refused Oscar Pistorius’ request to join Olympic Games held in Bejing next Agoust, as an athlete. How to disagree? Let fell apart all your loving kindness; done? Ok now let all that sort of “politically correct” do the same; done too? Ok! Now we can start to talk, as reasonable individuals

I come from a very similar ambient to the track field: the swimming pool! I read an interesting point made on Corsia4 Forum. What about a swimmer with no legs, whose new one are flipper-shaped? That would be obviously an advantage for the swimmer, who would, with the same training, obtain better results. That’s the matter we should focus on with more attention: training! Yeah! Because for most of you Olympics are just a running of a few seconds; a final, eight contenders for a title. And all of them are directed by De Coubertin’s motto. No, No, No!! That’s no more that way. Many things have changed. People who compete in the Games no more have their own job as doctors, bakers, traders etc but they are professional athletes.

That means that preparation involves the whole Olympic year; no, what am I saying? It involves a life! A life of sacrifices and i underline sacrifices in training.

No matter! For how much you could considerate emotionally Pistorius’ case, you could not deny the advantages he gets from his prosthesis. And who’s gonna talk about racism don’t know anything about muscle phisiology. When we run we consume oxygen, and produce lactate; not only in our thigh, but even on calf. Pistorius’ ones do not feel pain, and that’s a great psychical advantage. Not taking in account the physical permanent energetic state. Pistorius will never be as tired as a normal athlete! With a good training he could even become the next world record holder.

Today, on Gazzetta dello Sport, a notorious italian sportive newspaper, an analysis about advantages he could get has been presented by a universitary professor. It emerged that:

1. Elasticity of Pistorius’ leg receives an impulse from the ground which is twice the one received from human leg.

2. Pistorius’ prothesis weights 1,5 kilos, whereas human one weight on average 6 kilos

3. Minor nervous energy spent, so that it can be used for other muscles

4. Problem of lactate does not exist!

What do you think about it?

Notebook + Linux = Genius!

 

I’ve always thought big results come from simple ideas! That’s what I call a “colpo di genio”, but I don’t know how to say it in in English, so i’ll leave to you the taste of this cultured italian idiomatic phrase!

I had noticed it two days ago, thanks to my father, and immediately understood that was kind of revolutionary idea in conception of pc portable, and clear symptom of culture. The subject of my post is the new (at least for italian market) Asus eeepc , a compact notebook whose operative system is no more Windows or Mac, but Linux! That’s the matter, that’s what’s worth to talk about! A system which is totally free, as Wikipedia is for culture, has finally be recognised as something good, which deserves to become “official”.

It’s not that Linux required advertising or something, but it’s good, in my humble hopinion, to see that what is done by common people has the same worth of what is done by recognised experts, held under an economic contract. As for Linux I always believed in Wikipedia, and all those project which are continuously changed, made up, adjusted sometimes, by anyone (underlining anyone!); anyone who thinks his culture can contribute in some way to improve our world.

That’s why even we are writing on our blogs; to provide with information, even if we are not part of a bigg press agency. We believe that our way of writing, free and indipendent can be the new source for information and development. Detaching ourselves from official powers and official information we can afford to make good information, aren’t we? Due to totally freedom in the net, everyone could even criticize me and make my work function better, like in Linux, Wikipedia, or our blogs, our ideas! That’s the base of a good society, where no one can really control the steering wheel, but cooperation is the best way to create and make things.

So here’s my clap to Asus for his choice. This idea, apart from the ideological reason exposed above, also allowed people to buy a pc with 300 euros, which is very cool! So my advice for you is to visit Asus website to see all you need to.

Butterfly Effect in climate

 

Six deegrees (C°) can change our world; that comes from the same source that stated, trough a metereologist in the ’60s, who declared that a flap of wings of a seagull would have changed climate forever. Now the perspective, thanks to new instruments is even more realistic and precise. National Geographic produced a documentary, based on the book “Six degrees: Our future on a hotter planet” by Mark Lynas, in which describes real consequences coming from imperceptible variation of temperature. The scale presented reveals that a difference of one Celsius degree, would mean the difference between life and death for entire population.

That sounds

I hope National Geographic would be considered a better source than me, to whom someone blamed a bit of exageration, while I was talking about the Butterfly Effect.

But let’s come back on track, and see in detail which changes we would notice step by step.

+ 1° : Artic will be lacking ice packs for one half of the year. The rise of the water level will submerge part of Bengala. But in Great Britain new cultivations would be possible.

+ 2° : Tuvalu islands will be submerged by waters. Tropical coral reef will be in serious jeopardy

+ 3° : Here’s the turning point. That’s what’s likely to happen: Amazon Rainforest in fire; no more snow on the Alps. North-African climate in central Europe

+ 4° : Countries like Egypt and Bangladesh will be devastated. Venezia will disappear. Canada would become one of the fertilest regions on Earth

+ 5° : The temperate areas in the two emispheres would become off-limits for human beings. Millions of people would be forced to move.

+ 6° : Cities like New York or Tokyo will be abandoned or submerged. Part of the planet would undergo the risk of returning to the Cretaceous period.

What is quite striking about this topic, is the fact that such small variation to the initial status of the system, can bring such incredible consequences on the entire planet. That’s where Butterfly Effect comes in.

For many years, scientists asked themselves if it was possible to interpretate nature’s mechanism; in other words, to translate into a mathematical language natural misteries. Many attempts have been done since Reinassance. Now, after many years, we succeded in our purpose, creating a specific brench of mathematics called “The Chaos Theory“.

Chaos theory tries to find out regularity and simplicity, in other words predictability from aspects that seem to be irregular and chaotic. This science entraps into a rule what in nature seems so unpredictable; let’s see an example

When we light up a cigarette, for how much effort we can make to create the same initial conditions, smoke will never rise and go about the same way. Otherwise you’ll never found a cloud perfectly equal to another. How can we explain that? At this point you should already know the answer: sensitive dependence on initial conditions; that’s the proper and scientific name for the more poetical expression involving the Butterfly.

However this post had not a precise aim; but Chaos Theory was the first thing which came out in my mind when i read an article on the newspaper; and maybe that i’ll come with new exilarating application for these theories in our everyday life in the next posts.

So climate is just the first…

Society rules against human being

Man’s full of aspirations and among these, wedding is one of the most common; a wife, vociferous children wandering trough your own house, your so well-preserved garden. That’s what is usual to find out in our society. Otherwise, for some people it’s difficult to afford to make all this, why? That’s because of Francis Bacon.

Some days ago, a young newlywed couple discovered their family relationship, finding out they were twins. Following English laws, the wedding has been nullified, and the love story verged on tragedy. My aim isn’t certainly the one of asking myself why these two people were unaware of their state of consanguinity. That’s totally another question; what I’m here for, is reflect if it’s right to separate a wedding between family members.

Let’s go back to Francis Bacon: the Industrial Revolution’s Philosopher (and the ’s is not casual). He’s been the first to introduce mechanicism to explain natural phenomena. He reduced the role of organs to simple machines or gears, which allow us to maintain our vital functions. He’s the inventor of our so well-praised “world machine”, where human body, plants, animals and nature lose their integrity and fall to pieces. These ones can be switched, turned, expanded, improved, in order to create the perfect being.

The consequence is obvious and quite strict. Like pieces of a washing machine which are good no more for working are eliminated and replaced with others, in a similar way we are brought to do the same with our body and with nature in general. That’s the most likely origin for GMOs and…

Discrimination for disabled and ill people.

They have been considered, through a natural philosophical development, unuseful. Our society, brought by industrial revolution to the unlimited research for profit, simply cannot accept an individual who is not productive. Because of the small quantity of moral principles that still permain down here, People of this sort are not certainly condamned, but volountary creation of human beings which are not sane, provoke strict reactions.

So that it’s impossible for two twins to marry, because of health risk their child could have at the moment of his birth.

That’s not a reversable process i suppose; due to our enormous profit expectation in life. We live in a society where we’re not going to accept to live a little worse in order to allow other people less fortunate than us experiencing the gift of life. Even our lives aren’t perfect, but we’ve been given the right to live them, not letting other decide what is proper for us.

Every single one should live, or we’ll go right to the creation of another perfect race.

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