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Soon there will be no difference between man & machine – We’re already merging man and machine in order to help people who are locked in by disease or injury. To abductees with implants, this sounds familiar! Computer designers predict that by 2020, there will essentially be no difference between a machine and its user, to the extent that computers will be able to anticipate what we want from them.

BBC News reports on a new Microsoft-backed report on human-computer interaction and warns, “Without proper consideration and control it is possible that we?both individually and collectively?may no longer be in control of ourselves or the world around us.”
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Father Gabriel Funes, the Pope’s chief astronomer, says that life on Mars could exist and that intelligent beings could exist in other solar systems and that the search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God. Funes directs the Vatican Observatory near Rome. Few people realize that the Vatican funds several telescopes, including one right here in the US, in Arizona.

In BBC News, David Willey reports that, writing in the Vatican newspaper, Funes also addressed the subject of “the Catholic Church’s condemnation four centuries ago of the Italian inventor of the telescope, Galileo.” According to Willey, “Father Funes diplomatically says mistakes were made, but it is time to turn the page and look towards the future.”
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Astonished scientists have never seen anything like it. – A solar eruption has appeared that scientists are describingas “jaw dropping” and “amazing.” The activity, on the sun’seastern limb, has the appearance of a gigantic volcano andmay be a precursor to a major sunspot. For some months now,solar scientists have been expecting the new solar max tobegin. In January, there was a reverse polarity sunspotthat usually heralds the beginning of a solar max, but itwas followed by little activity, and none that had thesignature of the new cycle. In 2006, NASA scientistspredicted that the upcoming cycle would be one of the mostintense on record, and it appears to be starting off withthe proverbial bang. The eruption does not pose a hazard at this time.read more

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Update: Toll reaches 10,000 people – An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale struckcentral Sichuan Province in China today, causing thousandsof deaths and vast property damage. The conventional wisdom among experts is that earthquakesare not interconnected around the world, however greatquakes often seem to come in clusters, and some scientists are beginning to suspect that there may be interconnections deep within the planet.
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