The "Immortal"

Immortality is considered by many a fantasy, but one species of animal has actually achieved "immortality"-it can literally live on forever.
The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish has the ability to return to its earlier stages of life unlimitedly, literally transforming its cells in a process called transidifferation. In this process, the jellyfish transforms any type of cell into any other type of cell in its body, meaning that it can regenerate any part of its body over and over and over again. Thus, it not only never ages, it can actually become "younger" or "older" than its current stage. However, because of their unlimited life span, scientists are encountering a rise in their population, and they are spreading to all oceans, whereas they were once native only to the Caribbean Sea.
I bet there are quite a number of ladies out there that would love to be able to do what this jellyfish can do!

Is cloaking becoming a reality?

A cloaking technology was recently developed by researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in which they were able to 3-dimensionally cloak a small section of a piece of gold. Though the section that was cloaked was only a mere 0.00004 inch high and 0.0005 inch across, this is a promising start. Tolga Elgin, a researcher, stated that though the current method of cloaking, in which structures of crystals with air in between effectively bend light around them, is a very promising start, it is highly unfeasable to cloak objects that are quite large, as it requieres a vast amount of time to cloak objects. New methods would have to be developed in order to apply cloaking to larger objects quickly and efficiently. Although there were already technologies that bent lightwaves, radiowaves, etc. prior to this, this is the first 3-dimensional cloaking of any object and might be the first step towards actual cloaking devices.

Mother Nature Strikes Yet Again!

Now I know that by now, you have probably heard about the terrible earthquake in Haiti and also about the massive earthquake in Chile. These two events, just a couple of weeks apart from each other, have drawn a lot of media coverage (if you haven't heard about them... well I just don't know what to say to you), and I am pretty sure, although we shouldn't feel this way, that by now, you have grown tired of hearing about these natural disasters. Well, as the bearer of bad news, I must inform you that mother nature has, yet again, unleashed a powerful earthquake (6.4 magnitude) upon the world, in Taiwan, today at aproximately 11:30 AM. Although only 96 people were injured (much less than in Chile or Haiti), I find this to be very troubling news.
Now, I don't believe in any 2012 or end-of-the-world theories, but I am concerned with the very numerous, and quite intense (The earthquake in Chile actually shifted Earth's axis and made days shorter), earthquakes ocurring in quick succession recently. The thing about eartquakes is that, although they are terrible disasters on their own, they usually occur prior to another major catastrophe, such as a tsunami or a volcanic eruption. This is exactly why I am bothered so much by these events. Now, you might be thinking that I am crazy, but you must understand that it is very rare to have earthquakes occuring in such quick succession, and although there is a chance that these events are completely unrelated, I think that it is more reasonable, based purely on statistics, that they are tied to each other. Whether or not these earthquakes are merely the result of basic tectonic motion, occuring at random moments, or whether these are tied together remains to be seen. It could easily be that one earthquake just triggered another, and the latter triggered this one... Now this is a wild guess, and I really hope this doesn't occur, but I predict that a volcano, a massive one, somewhere around the world is going to erupt soon. (Just a quick fact: All of Yellowstone National Park, all of it, is a volcano. That makes it the largest in the world, and it was set to explode over 500 years ago. That means its overdue. Just something to think about.) What do you think about all of this? Is it coincidence, or perhaps a foreshadowing, not of some 2012 bullcrap, but of a serious, if not at least real, disaster that is going to occur?

High Earthquake Risks

Off about 50 miles from the shore of Seattle, there lies a tectonic fault which threatens to unleash an earthquake with a magnitude around that of Chile's recent 8.8 mega-earthquake. When this earthquake happens (there is a 100% certainty that it will occur), and there is an 80% chance that it will occur within the next 50 years, giant tsunamis would be created, devastating the Western Coast of the United States and Canada, as well as Japan and other countries in Eastern Asia. The last earthquake that has occured in this fault, occured in the 1700. This quake was a magnitude 9 earthquake, and it unleashed 30 to 40 foot high tsunamis across the Pacific.
The city of Seattle, as well as other Western cities, are planning to strengthen the integrity of mayor buildings and schools, in order to prevent major catastrophe, and are creating evacuation plans in order to be better prepared for the coming earthquake. Do take in mind, that with an 80% chance of this occuring, we are all very, very likely to live through this event in our lifetimes.