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The Perfect Storm

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Title of a movie that was the union of three storms at once and fishermen who need the money makes them be more convenient to the sea, which pays for life. But this isn’t the reason for my writing today. What I talk about is the storm that comes close to humanity and as figured ostriches don’t want to see (topic of Ignoring the Evidence ).   We are currently undergoing the rigors of a crisis that leaves millions of unemployed people around the world. Our politicians are still stuck in their useless solutions. Neoliberals postulate remove regulations and protections, conservatives savings until the last consequences, ansd socialists to spend all money that we haven’t. Tested all three things separately and at the same time and the result was the same: we have gone worse. They don’t realize that the paradigm they knew is gone (or was a lie), but they are still stuck because that's all they know. But back to the storm, or three storms converged to be exact,which...

Who holds the smoking gun?

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The Guardian has reported about conclusions of US summer drought where NOAA will publish an inform that dissociate Climate Change of this catastrophic event, but after others news say contraries and it insists in a bad interpretation of inform that it’s very ambiguous in its conclusion. The controversy appears that the attribution is a conjunction of normal causes that occurred simultaneously and catastrophic. In other words, drought must have been anyway without Climatic Change.   Climate Change couldn’t be the guilt of summer drought, it’s possible . In fact climate determines weather but it doesn’t do the weather. Weather has own dynamics, not only it’s due to climate but it’s modeling by local and regional boundaries. There is a think that climate change will change the weather but this will not be happening exactly. Tomorrow it will rain similar as today or yesterday. The different will be frequency, intensity and geographical distribution. Today it can snow in Sahara...

Cyprus European Union and the return of the Middle Age

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A week was passed but we are stupefied with the events happened in Cyprus. Euro-group wants to pay Cyprus citizen part of rescue of their banks from their bank deposits. Today (25/3/13) at last there are a solution of problem , or so it seems. BCE pressure with to close credit line at Cyprus banks, Cypriot parliament refuses to make pay citizens the bankruptcy, Cyprus's government tries to sell the soul in Russia if UE turns back, and Euro-group saw that it just jump by a precipice where the end of which there is always a crash. Final solution tries to maintain alive Cyprus and getting hurt in the attempt, but it could avoid the markets down and capital flee.   Cyprus is failure . This was evident a year ago where its banks, over-dimensioned for the size of the country, experienced the pardon of a portion of the Greek debt. This may be a perfect excuse but not so sure if the Greek state can pay what it owe, even the pardon of part of the debt; so certainly the end result wou...

The dream is far away today

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Space the last border With this phrase start all the episodes of a low budges series called Star Trek that will slim three seasons, but forty years later it has generated one cartoon series, four spinoff, twelve films and more of eight video game; without to think about the millions dollars wined with its merchandising. In fact it was a science fiction series born at the culmination of the space race ; and like others of that time has an improvement technology respect to the 50 years but the approach was the same: new worlds, monsters, dangers and final victory of dominant specie what is humans (of course). However, its success will be in place all its action in a new and different context. Enterprise is a spacecraft that belongs to an interplanetary fleet, Earth is a planet confederate with others planets which have other smart life forms with biology independent of us; the relationship between humans and aliens is on equal terms, with alliances and enemies these can change acc...

Nuclear fusion between energetic solution and dream

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¡Que toda la vida es sueño,  y los sueños, sueños son! Calderon De la Barca Traslate For all of life is a dream, And dreams, are nothing but dreams . There had been a time when the future was seeing as a world full of light and spatial engines. That world showed us a peaceful people in houses with automatic doors, kitchens working order by our voice, car flying over cities and all kind of electric tools what would make every our dream. But this time was finished in 1972 when oil began its particular ascension to sky and after then energy left to be a cheap resource. Before energy had been a very cheap thing, most of it we could obtain by a natural sources (as a wind, river water or animal strong) and also was free. The industrial revolution increased the consumption but the introduction of mineral coal supply the insufficiency of natural, that item was increase the price of energy because it’s Necessary was the use of labor (mining), however mechanization arrived to mina...

Deep impact

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If we are reading this post now, it means that last February 15th happened nothing as was expected. On this day the lowest perigee object ever recorded passes close to Earth, 2012_DA14 with 50 m diameter and 190.000 Tm of weight (see NASA video with characteristics). This doesn’t mean that they haven’t previously been objects that pass closer to Earth, more if we think that Earth is 4,500 years old, simply we haven’t recorded in the few hundred thousand years of human existence. But much of the ignorance about if it has never been closer objects is because we really can’t until last 50 years that we can detect objects of this size, so whenever you have a sufficiently close to Earth was a surprise and a concern, not so much if we were mistaken in calculating the trajectory of this particular, and the fact that if one day find some its trajectory that will clearly impact with Earth.     It may seem like a horror movie, but there really is an alien threat and it isn...

The Atomic Age is dying, but it refuses to die

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The need for solutions to the problem of CO 2 in the atmosphere has to be thinking about all the possibilities in the field of energy. At the moment we don’t find satisfactory solution is the replacement of fossil fuels and it is possible that there not be if we following that approach of happy hour with energy. One of these alternative solutions more like is nuclear power. Its attractive is economical, today it still retains the glamor of modern from old fashion times and it can keep the current power demand, which renewables can’t do. On the other hand you also against three things: a large part of public opinion oppose to it, too much size for main and strategic utility, and last and most important is expensive.   The Nuclear Energy was born from the need to lower the cost of producing plutonium for atomic bombs, and as to camouflage a civil military installation. So the origin is residual and with the price of energy at the time when it emerged it had made it unviable ...