Pay for what we got for FREE

Went to watch the Journey to the Centre of the Earth this weekend. Needless to say that the movie was a roller-coster ride. But I paid a couple of bucks more to watch the movie, and why did I pay more, because the movie as in 3-D!!!! So, I end up paying more to see a movie almost replicated to what nature has given us.

As defined by Wiki, "the term 3-D is used to describe any visual presentation system that attempts to maintain or recreated moving images of the third dimension, the illusion of depth as seen by the viewer". This is also known as stereoscopic imaging. Basically here we are trying to imitate our natural eyes by filming two images simultaneously, with two cameras positioned side by side, genrally facing eaching and filming at 90 degree agle via mirrors, in perfect synchronization and with identical technical characteristics. So, when viewed in such a way that each eye sees it's photographed counterpart, the viewer's visual cortex (the area of the human brain working for vision) will interpret the pair of images a single 3-D image. For filming animation movies one dosen't even need a twin camera assembly, everything is taken care by Computer Systems involved.

So, from the above explaination the only thing that comes to my mind is that, has nature provided enough time to explore and imitate it fully?? The quest continues.....

Hide and Seek

Science defines Electromagnetic Spectrum as the distribution of radiation according to Energy. So, what is this spectrum and what are the different types of energy that we think we know, understand and can interpret. The chart below presents a brief summary -

Amongst, the above energy spectrum what the naked human eye can see, is represented as under -
For the other regions of the spectrum, left and right of the "Visible" region we need to rely on many devices (complex and simple). But have we ever paused and thought that are we really sure that the spectrum that we know contains all possible "Energy Forms" available in the vast span of the universe?

What if there are other forms of energy beyond Radio and Gamma Rays. None of the equipments available today would be able identify those Energy. They would be BLACK to us. Till date all the images relayed to us by Hubble are nothing but graphic representation of different energy patterns put together, which are comming from a common source. What if a celestial body emmit other patterns of energy. Hubble won't be able to understand that energy because we don't understand that energy and the only image that Hubble would be able to draw would be something that would make little or no sense (again this is only my guess and I'm not questioning the Genius behind Hubble.). Again, another question that spontaneously comes to my mind that what if we could camafauldge the energy being radiated from our planet ..... i.e. what if we could create a force field arround out planet that would stop of any of the energy radiations from getting transmitted beyond Earth's gravitational field? Wonder what would Hubble see in such a situation.

Therefore what I think is, if we think there are Extra Terrestrial Intelligent Life forms other than us (which we know there are!!) and they do visit us (which we know they do!!) then they should have the technology to do what I've stated above, because it's a real smart move to keep the element of surprise going because that's the best way for defending oneself and one's technology. It's an inter planetary Hide and Seek, magnitude we can't even imagine where an entire Planet and it's civilization is being hidden from those spying eyes of technology!!!

The Missing Code

Being in the information technology, the Virus is not new for me. While I was in college I was told, that in the world of Information Technology, the term VIRUS is an abbreviation of for Vital Information Resources Under Siege. But really is the concept that simple? I dare to differ. The creator of the first virus sat somewhere in Pakistan and created a piece of code that would create some malfunctions in a host computer, so that they could defeat their opponents in a game sitting on that computer. They didn't knew that what they created was a virus. It was only after that the piece of code was discovered and analyzed, and after a very major thought the name VIRUS was coined. But why the name Virus, why not something else?



Guess the answer lies in the similar behavioural patterns of both the things. If we think from the IT perspective, then we can easily see that a basic biological Virus is nothing more than a Framework capable of executing three very specific pieces of code :

1. A code that would enable a virus to identify it's suitable host. We all know that biological viruses are very specific to their host. Therefore we can assume that they have some kind of genetic hard coding to identify their specific host body/environment.
2. A code that would allow the virus to consume it's host body/environment.
3. Above all, the only thing that make a biological Virus seem leaving, a code to reproduce itself.

So, now we can clearly see two things - First, a biological virus has very specific hard coding to identify and consume it's host. Second, it has a very vital code MISSING - The Self Destruction Code. A virus in it's very simple form won't age and die off. That explains why viruses are a very tough customer to deal with. Bacterias do have this code but not viruses. They need some external agents that should have the capability to breach through it's framework and work in reverse chronological order, i.e. first break the code for reproduction, then break the code of consumption and lastly break the code of attaching it to the host.

A close scrutiny would tell us that a computer virus works the same way and there's no way we can differentiate between a Biological Virus (whom we call as living) and a Computer Virus (whom we call as non-living. Guess we call them non-living because they exists in cyber space and not outside it. But then again we also know that Biological viruses exists only inside their host and no where else!!!). Imagine what would happen if there a creature made up of Viruses instead of ordinary body building cells ...... scary huh??

So, the biggest strength of a Virus is that missing code that stops it from aging and allowing it to live through ages unperturbed. It's that decrementing counter that helped the Virus to become one of prime contenders to cast Armageddon on the Planet. As for the brighter aspect, they are showing us the way by which we can widen to horizon of life and find more possible forms of life, both on the Planet and outside.

Genesis

Many a time my thought process goes haywire and I try to find out answers ............

Answers to question not related to me, not related to the ones around me. The answer to questions on which are paranormal. Questions which stand in front of me quite often and say "Try Me!!" Questions which are about our planet, our planetary neighbors and their "Possible" inhabitants, things that we can see and things which can't see, our existence and above all our Extinction.

So, here's the first step towards the Conquest of the Quest .................... here's the Genesis.

So, as a first step, here's what I plan to put up - a paper I published in my school when I was in Class 9th when I was roughly 13 years old and I had the liberty to be scientifically inaccurate and come up with these weird imaginations in the pretext of being naive. The article was called the Prometheus Project - Origins of Life on Planet Earth and what follows below is the word by word digital replication of what I wrote in the paper.

In Greek mythology, the God Prometheus was banished from Olympus for giving humans the knowledge of fire, something that would put humans right up there by the sides of Gods on the power scale. Fire - the creator and destroyer altered the course of Human development and brought them to the position where they are right now. Humans are the new God.

So, what if Prometheus not only gave Fire to Humans, but he also defined Life on Earth. Who was that Prometheus and that quest defines the ethos of my imagination. When the Solar System was settling down on its comfortable couch that it so gleefully enjoys today, the young Sun was around 10% brighter and larger than what it currently is around 3.5 billion years ago. Which basically meant that Venus was inward of the goldy lock zone, Earth was just inside the goldy lock zone, and Mars was situated right in between the middle and outer edge of the goldy lock zone. This directly meant that Mars not only had the opportunity to cool down faster than Earth, it also meant that the conditions on Mars were just right for Life even before Earth had a chance to see it's first single cell organisms. Mars was the heaven of the Solar System.

Getting a head start in Cosmic terms goes a long way, a really long way so to speak - Mars not only had the opportunity to kick start life first but also, it had the opportunity to advance in the journey and harbor intelligent life on the planet way earlier than Earth too. Imagine two Life sustaining planets in the same Solar System - Any intelligent life form in such a system would have a field day for civilization expansion.

However, if you are running across a shooting range, chances are - one day or the other, a bullet would find you and same would have happened with Mars - the Hellas Planitia is the glaring mark left by that impact. Imagine the sheer destruction that would have ensued after an impact that would create the biggest impact crater in the Solar System to this day, and that too on a planet that has the biggest volcano in the Solar System - the magnanimous Olympus Mons. The impact doomed the planet for eternity - the rotating core of the planet stopped, which meant that the magnetic field of the planet would deteriorate and eventually would make the planet inhabitable.

Faced with inexplicable and inescapable odds, any intelligent life form would have two come to terms with two alternatives -

• Find a New Home - Any intelligent life form would be able to track such a doomsday extinction level event way before it actually happens and would have had the time to think about how to leave the planet and ensure the continuance their way of life. It would require some reality-altering science wizardry to accomplish this, but then science is always evolving and I would like to believe, given enough time, any intelligent life form would eventually figure it out. Considering that planet Earth would have been barely habitable at that point in time, the then Martian civilization would have either tried to warp space and time to get into a new Solar System within a single life span and reach may be Alpha Centauri and face insurmountable odds settling into a new Star system, or try and settle beneath the water surface of the newly formed oceans of Planet Earth
• Ensure Continuance of their Genome - Considering that Finding a New Home is not feasible, then the only option left is to ensure the continuance of their genome on a newly formed habitable planet - Earth. The chosen Prometheus would have to give his own life to ensure the survival of the genome. The chosen Prometheus would have to disintegrate at a genetic level into the organics rich hot water of the newly formed oceans of planet Earth so that the genetic material from this Martian can bond with the organics brought in from outer space and form the strain of life that would thrive in the conditions of the planet.

I believe, that the Martians chose both the options at the same time, and we are the descendants of the Prometheus from Mars who gave us the power of Life and thus ensured that before going to another star system, their home system has their genome surviving and ultimately thriving.

The Prometheus Project is the Genesis of Life of Earth.