It cost a fortune to field an aircraft for the races at Reno and I am not even talking about a war bird but a small formula 1 air racer. With the price of aviation fuel and insurance I am surprised they have managed to keep the races going as long as they have... Most of my friends have sold their aircraft and are glad they did as fuel, insurance, hanger fees and liability takes all the fun out of general aviation even if you are not poor !

As disturbing as this is how many other labs are certain government agencies funding.

Quote:Judicial Watch received 552 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which include the initial grant application and annual reports to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from EcoHealth Alliance, describing the aim of its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to create mutant viruses “to better predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people.”

Blackrock has placed their people in very powerful positions in the Biden Administration (own the news also) which is just one more sign of kleptocracy IMO.. Evidently somethings are not all peachy keen at the corporate offices at Blackrock..? With Something as big as Blackrock I doubt anything of consequence will happen however maybe ?

Looks like FOX news will go the way of CNN as Tucker no longer has a segment .
 I have thought more than once he would be outed for his stance on government corruption.
Looks like Chucky of the Senate put pressure on Fox to Terminate Tucker.

The Cyborg Study (archived PDF)

Wonder what the status is after 60 years.



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One can trace all this back to the Nazi estorica.

haven't been posting much here latly been busy remolding the homestead, but stop by at least every other day or so and check the board. I also do so the same at TOS.

today this thread was posted by the new admin, who i'm thinking is the new owner named darko, although their profile says he's been there a while, it's funny they being a admin and as long as it says and i have been going to the site (since 2005) ive never seen a post of theirs and all the posts that can be viewed are from around the time of the update.

ATS Mud Pit may be put on hold.

what i'm thinking is the mud pit is going away or the very least isn't gonna be much different now than the rest of the forums, in that the mud pit was a bit more relaxed, posts weren't removed as often, and you could express yourself more freely without worrying about hurting someones feelz, getting double post warnings which one Mod/ Admin had started doing even before the updates so i don't think it was a glitch issue. more like a build up the warnings for a a eventual post ban.

i think the decision to end it or start more strict rules enforcement for it had already been made, and this thread was a feeler to see how it would go over, not that it would matter. it's gonna be done.

when you have to watch what you say and how you say it constantly thinking  about hurting feelz and offending someone or posts being removed, what fun is that, and acting all high brow and superior isn't all that great look either.

if a post is within reason leave it alone, don't complain, get over it, don't want your kids viewing the site lock em out as best you can, don't want to read stuff that offends you don't open it up, no one is twisting your arm holding your nose to it. many ways to avoid what you think is offensive without infringing on others right to speak their mind.

but then again it's their site, and they can make their own rules even if it drives people away.

changing the pit is a mistake, it has the third largest post count, many a member post in that forum and will be looking for a new place.

it may be time for some invites, and make sure to tell them you can even cuss over here. 
started to drop the f bomb, but TOS decorum instinct took hold

A nice long (91 min) thought provoking commentary with plenty of examples about how we've reached the high strangeness moment of technology becoming indistinguishable from reality...corrupting & manipulating the younger generation and AI sorcery will only get more sophisticated from right now.




AI is Evolving Faster Than You Think Pt. 2 (Art and Beyond) (23 min)
A continued look at what’s going on in AI. This time we take a look at everything from AutoGPT and a fake AI Drake to AI art and copyright law.






S1m0ne A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

As stated in the DVD commentary by writer-director Josef Rusnak, the final shot of "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999, 2 months after The Matrix) emulates an old fashioned television set being turned off i.e. where the picture collapses into a circle in the centre of the screen and then fades away. This is to leave open the question of whether there are 'even higher realities' above the one shown in the last scene i.e. being in the year 2024.
Hannon Fuller: [First lines] "Ignorance is bliss. For the first time in my life, I agree."




All digital media by the end of 2023:



Some heavy reading...
Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind A Roadmap to the Singularity and Beyond. (2016, 464 pg PDF)

I had an epiphany today and I have found a little more freedom.

While I was getting ready for church, I was running late I will add, I realized my nails were a mess. I am not one of those nail fanatics, in fact, I have never had a manicure, but my nails were looking a bit raggedy. I did not have time to worry about it. Then I noticed a couple of gray hairs on my chinny chin chin. Again, I just did not have time to worry about it.

As I continued to get ready, I suddenly had this warm feeling, as I realize that no one was going to notice my little beauty flaws, but if they did, that I had already succeeded in doing something that I try to do everyday.

Without doing anything, I would make someone feel good about themselves. No matter what else was going on, at least they weren't old with raggedy nails and gray hairs on their chin.

The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.



Using EPA data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level.

Click on a hot spot or type in an address to find the increased estimated cancer risk at that location.

Quote:Archaeologists Uncover the Ancient Gods of a Lost Civilization

The Tartessos peoples burned down their own temples and vanished 2,500 years ago.



Archaeologists have unveiled the first known sculptures of human figures made by the Tartessos peoples, a lost civilization that flourished in southern Spain some 3,000 years ago that has been linked to the myth of Atlantis. According to researchers, they are likely depictions of gods and warriors.

The discovery of five reliefs of human faces at the ancient Tartessian site of Casas del Turuñuelo has revealed unexpected details about this Bronze Age society that mysteriously vanished around 2,500 years ago. Though these peoples produced an abundance of gorgeous artifacts, these reliefs are the first human representations excavated at the site, adding a surprising new layer to our understanding of this vibrant culture.

“The unusual thing about the new finding is that the representations correspond to human faces,” according to Erika López, a spokesperson for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in a statement released on Tuesday.

“This extraordinary finding represents a profound paradigm shift in the interpretation of the Tartessos people, who are traditionally considered an aniconic culture for representing divinity through animal or plant motifs, or through betilos (sacred stones),” López noted.

The human faces date back to the 5th century BCE, at the tail end of this centuries-long civilization that has enchanted both ancient and modern scholars. Two of the most well-preserved reliefs appear to depict women who might have been goddesses in the Tartessian pantheon, according to a team led by Esther Rodríguez González and Sebastián Celestino Pérez of CSIC’s Institute of Archaeology. 

A third figure adorned with a helmet could be a Tartessian warrior, the researchers said. The remaining pair of reliefs are more poorly preserved, but they may also be deities that were watching over the warrior as part of a larger sculpted scene.

The human reliefs were found in an ancient adobe temple that is filled with the bones of animals that were killed, eaten, and deposited in a pit during a mass sacrifice. For some unknown reason, the site was then intentionally sealed and burned to the ground as part of a ritual that appears to have been common among the Tartessos, as the nearby Tartessian sites of Cancho Roano and La Mata were also torched in a similar manner.

Artifacts buried in the wreckage of these buildings offer a glimpse of this bygone culture, which was known for its unique written language and gorgeous metal artwork. The Tartessos were likely descended from both Paleo-Hispanic and Phoenician groups in the Western Mediterranean and became famous for intricate artifacts crafted from gold, silver, bronze, copper, tin, and other metals mined from the region.

Though the Tartessos thrived in southern Iberia for several centuries, this rich culture seems to have fallen off the face of the planet not too long after Casas del Turuñuelo was burned to the ground. Some experts have speculated that a collapse in the mining and metalworks trade dealt an economic death blow to the Tartessos.

Other scholars have suggested that earthquakes and tsunamis inflicted widespread floods and damage to Tartessian settlements from which the civilization never recovered. This hypothesis explains why some researchers have suggested that the Tartessos may be the origin of the legend of Atlantis, though others in the academic community have called these claims “fanciful” and “complete madness.”

Given that the Casas del Turuñuelo was discovered very recently, in 2015, archaeologists are still only scratching the surface of this fascinating site. The CSIC team hopes that future excavation of the ancient temple will reveal new insights about the Tartessos peoples, their culture, and their strange disappearance.

“These findings further influence both the importance of the site and the importance of the Tartessian culture in the Guadiana valley during its last moments,” López said in the statement.

Quote:Tartessos was the first Iberian culture known to have traded across the Mediterranean, as far as present-day Israel, Greece, and Egypt, and its wealth was famous throughout the region. Some researchers, including archaeologist Richard Freund of Christopher Newport University, have even suggested that the port city of Tartessos, the heart of the civilization, may have been the inspiration for the mythical Atlantis. The idea stems from Aristotle’s linking of a river in southern Spain with both Atlantis and Tartessos. Herodotus wrote that Tartessos was a culture beyond the Pillars of Hercules, a term from antiquity commonly understood to mean the rock of Gibraltar and the Moroccan mountains that face it across the strait. Another Greek historian, Ephorus, described Tartessos as prosperous, “with much tin carried by river, as well as gold and copper.” The wealth, advanced technology, and reach of Tartessos are also mentioned in the writings of other sources from the era. “Their sophistication was remarkable,” says Freund.

Why Tartessos vanished remains a mystery. Celestino thinks that one or more major earthquakes, and subsequent tsunamis, may have destroyed most of its coastal settlements and demoralized survivors. Tartessos was a sea culture and, according to Freund, “To find these sites in Extremadura, hundreds of miles inland, means something.”
The Ancient People Who Burned Their Culture to the Ground