(BBC)A real-life "tractor beam", which uses light to attract objects, has been developed by scientists. It is hoped it could have medical applications by targeting and attracting individual cells. The team at the University of St Andrews worked with colleagues at the Institute of Scientific Instruments (ISI) in the Czech Republic. In science fiction programmes such as Star Trek, tractor beams are used to move massive objects towards a light source. The tractor beam is very selective in the properties of the particles it acts on, so you could pick up specific particles in a mixture." "Eventually this could be used to separate white blood cells, for example." Usually when microscopic objects are hit by a beam of light, they are forced along the direction of the beam by the light photons. That radiation force was first identified by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1619 when he observed that tails of comets always point away from the Sun. Dr Cizmar's team's technique allows for that force to be reversed which he said some people might find counter-intuitive. "It's surprising," he said. "Only when we looked in detail at the process did we see the reversal. It's quite a narrow field it occurs at." "Unfortunately there is a transfer of energy. On a microscopic scale that is OK, but on a macro scale it would cause huge problems. "It would result in a massive amount of heating of an object, like a space shuttle. So trapping a space ship is out of the question."
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Star Trek style 'tractor beam' created by scientists
Star Trek Elder of Zeon
(israellycool.com) From this 1968 Star Trek episode:This episode is now in the news since it is about to be aired in Germany for the first time. In case you are wondering: The similarity between the name “Zeon” and the word Zion is no accident. Throughout the episode the Nazis spew insults at the Zeons and refer to the “Final Decision,” clearly hinting at the Nazis’ Final Solution.
Elder of Zeon
Sounds like a great name for a blog. also, btw… a great episode that also deals with the Nazis is the one with Joan Collins as Edith Keeler in The City on the Edge of Forever. [PREVIEW] I have a hunch (but can’t prove it) that this will be the plot line for the next movie. The episode isn’t just great… it is one of the best
written stories in Sci Fi history written by Harlan Ellison.
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Enough of this humane war! Enough of the compassionate war! Let the Horror begin!
I don't want any more humane wars. I want war to be cruel and bloody... the way it is supposed to be. There is no incentive to avoid war if we are always going to Nation Build. People like Ron Paul talk about the free market as being natural, but then he fails to realize that the fear of bloodshed and horror is what keeps us from war. If we fight our wars compassionately then we will continue to not try to avoid conflict. Such institutions like the Red Cross and the Geneva convention has made war pragmatic and clean... or at least for the party that has greater chance of attrition. Where was the Red Cross during the Holocaust? Let there be blood! Let there be fatality so that when some angry horde gets beaten they don't come back for more.
(Wikipedia) In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon", people who were deemed war casualties by the government of Eminiar VII were required to enter suicide booths. Treaty arrangements require that everyone who is calculated as "dead" in the hypothetical thermonuclear war simulated using computers actually dies, without actually damaging any infrastructure. In the end, the computers are destroyed, the war can no longer be calculated in this way, the treaty breaks down, and faced with a real threat, (presumably) peace begins.
Star Trek - A Taste of Armageddon

Richard WeissmanAlthough I appreciate the point that a low tech desert culture will not easily come under the differential reinforcement of market incentives, I also recognize that the issue is too serious to be solved through rash polemics. I think you h...ave raised an important issue that is worthy of serious study by a group of us. A quick persual of literature led to the following relevant links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361111/ ?tool=pmcentrez To Prevent, React, and Rebuild: Health Research and the Prevention of Genocidewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.govJohnson WD, Diaz RM, Flanders WD, Goodman M, Hill AN, Holtgrave D, Malow R, McCl...ellan WM. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Jul 16; (3):CD001230. Epub 2008 Jul 16.26 minutes ago · ·
Gary KatzProposed psychological risk factors for genocidal behavior include: moral exclusion, authority orientation, action in self-interest, desensitization, and compartmentalized thinking. Violence and injury prevention models, incorporating what ...is currently known about the societal and behavioral risk factors for genocide in high-risk populations, may be modified to address the primary prevention of catastrophic violence on a population-wide scale. A number of existent global peace building initiatives [???] may serve as models for the design of future prevention initiatives in high-risk, pre-genocide jurisdictions.
Conclusions
Our analysis suggests that genocide is one of the most pressing threats to the health of populations in the twenty-first century. Recent advances in the public health discipline of violence prevention provide a blueprint for approaches to primary genocide prevention based on epidemiological methods.
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Richard Weissman Here is a link from a different epistemological perspective selected to enhance the ultimate integrative outcome of our summarizing dialectics: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1266108/ ?tool=pmcentrez.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Kuhn SL, Stiner MC, Güleç E, Ozer I, Yilmaz H, Baykara I, Açikkol A, Goldberg P,... Molina KM, Unay E, et al. J Hum Evol. 2009 Feb; 56(2):87-113. Epub 2008 Dec 25.See More
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Richard Weissman Here's a third article. I realize and apologize that I am being remiss in not summarizing but right now I'm short on time and am just dropping references related to the topic for future research and discussion. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1859891/ ?log%24=activity

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National Center for Biotechnology Information, ... U.S. National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD, 20894 USASee More
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789942/ ?log%24=activity

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Arver S, Sinha-Hikim I, Beall G, Guerrero M, Shen R, Bhasin S. J Androl. 1999 Sep-Oct; 20(5):611-8.
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900985/ ?log%24=activity

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Whiten A, Hinde RA, Laland KN, Stringer CB. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2011 Apr 12; 366(1567):938-48.
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2251321/ ?tool=pmcentrez
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National Center for Biotechnology Information, ... U.S. National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD, 20894 USASee More
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633549/ ?tool=pmcentrez
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National Center for Biotechnology Information, ... U.S. National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD, 20894 USASee More
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2461237/ pdf/brmedj07591-0044b.pdf War and Peace: A manifesto by psychiatrists
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Noah David Simon I don't have time to look at it all... but I'm going to put this thread in the post... so I can look at it in the future.
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1084199/ ?tool=pmcentrez
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National Center for Biotechnology Information, ... U.S. National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD, 20894 USASee More
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292414/ ?tool=pmcentrez

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Wischniewski J, Windmann S, Juckel G, Brüne M. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2009 Mar; 33(3):305-13. Epub 2008 Sep 27.
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Richard Weissman http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813721/?tool=pmcentrez
The Path to Extreme Violence: Nazism and Serial Killers
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Seifert D, Heinemann A, Anders S, Schröer J, Sperhake J, Glet A, Püschel K. Arch Kriminol. 2007 Jan-Feb; 219(1-2):23-32.
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yes I can doubt a narrative without rejecting g-d
How hateful to me are the enemies of your Scripture! How I wish that you would slay them (the Jews) with your two-edged sword, so that there should be none to oppose your word! Gladly would I have them die to themselves and live to you!
if Jesus is blackmailing me then he is no better then Mohammed. I like to think better of him then that and I certainly would never follow a religion that strictly enables murderers of innocent people that I have nothing to do with.that sounds like an ugly form of Christianity and I know there are many believers of Jesus who know better.
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