Preliminary statement: I assume that journalists are always under pressure to make a story look interesting, even more interesting than it would actually appear to the majority of spectators (if they came across the subject themselves).
The documentry: In 2004, BBC aired a documentary on TV about the dangers of nano robots and the threatening end of the miniaturization of electronic devices, referred to as "the end of Moore's law" (see Wikipedia.com for details).
My statement about this documentary: The way that Nick Green builds up an apocalypic tension in that documentary saying (among other things) that "the end of Moore's law will bring our economic progress to a halt" and finally destroy our industrial civilization is at best provocative and at worst absolutely nonsense.
Everyone with a slightly clear mind will accept that indeed the miniaturization will come to a halt one day because at the size of the atom level it might not be possible to further miniaturize electronic devices.
However, the conclusions that Nick Green draws from this are pretty much outrageous and rediculous.
Nick Green elaborates that when this happens, companies will not be able to make any more profits.
I can only assume what his funny trails of thoughts want to express by this statement: If he wants to say that companies will not be able to continue competition due to this, I would suggest that he interviews some company leaders who sell products in a saturated market (because that's a similar situation):
It seems that Nick Green takes the view that only competition due to technical innovation let's a company go ahead of the other and therefore gain them a temporary winning margin which delivers them the gains that they need to survive the battle.
Wait: I tell Nick Green a secret: If that was true, our world would have stopped long ago: One thing is clear, if there is no technical progress in a certain sector with mass products such as e.g. butter there must be other mechanisms at work as reality shows us every day. So, how can those companies survive ??
Well, it's rediculous being forced to answer that question, I actually feel like an idiot: In short I could say: The company with the better management will succeed the economic battle.
But, all right, I give some more ideas: The company with the higher marketing budget will probably gain an advantage (and the battle), the company with the cooler packaging design will win the battle, the company with the better sales personal will win the battle, the company with the better milk buying agents who get a better milk prize will win the battle and so on and so on and so on.
And what about the end customer: Will he suffer from the lack in technological progress in the production of butter or even computers and electronic devices ??
Answer: Of course not, as log as you don't take the butter or the computer away from him: The end customer still can do wonderful things with the butter of a hundred years or a computer - e.g. writing better articles than other authors against stupid documentaries such as the one by Nick Green.
And by the way, there will be technological progress in other areas so there is always hope.
End note: Thank you BBC for all the other great documentaries.-
Friday, August 15, 2008
Über die Fähigkeit Musik zu hören und Bilder zu betrachten
Für wen ist es leichter Musik zu hören oder Bilder zu betrachten ?
Ich denke für denjenigen, der dieses noch nie gemacht hat: Denn wer Musik zum ersten Mal hört, der besitzt die Gnade der Unschärfe: Er hört die Melodie und die Stimmung.
Wer Erfahrung hat, der hört die einzelnen Noten und die minimalen Abweichungen und Fehler im Spiel.
Genauso bei einem Bild: Ein Fachmann sieht die einzelnen Bildpunkte, ein Anfänger die Stimmung und das Gesamte.
Genauso bei einem Bild: Ein Fachmann sieht die einzelnen Bildpunkte, ein Anfänger die Stimmung und das Gesamte.
So sollte der schaffende Künstler am besten einen Anfänger nach seiner Meinung fragen.-
Thursday, August 07, 2008
About dark curtains and heat collection
Experiment: A thin white linen curtain in front of a window, the window is tilted (that's possible at many European windows) so that there is a gap to the open air for venting the room, and there are other smaller gaps between the curtain and the wall on the right and on the left hand side (inside the room) which allow heated air to enter the rest of the room (if there is any heated air).
To make the experiment a little more fun, let's further assume that the curtain consists of a 1 mm thick layer of flexible woven copper behind the thin almost transparent white linen layer (which is an isolator like most textiles).
Observation: When there is a white linen curtain at a window, its colour guarantees that sun beams (and thereby heat) are reflected pretty well.
In contrast to that, if you spray the white linen with a thin layer of let's say black paint, sun beams and thereby heat is collected pretty well, heating up the room.
Conclusion: A thin layer of dark material at a surface is sufficient to change the heat behaviour of a much bigger voluminous body below:
This indicates that the relevant physical processes of turning sun beams into heat take place at the surface of (such) materials.
Since the sun beams are not powerful enough - as far as I know - to change the core of an atom, it seems obvious that the excitation and electron recombination are changed by dark surfaces in a way that let's the resulting electro-magnetic waves not turn into light beams that move away from the surface again (i.e. are reflected) but instead let electro-magnetic waves change their wave length and frequency in a way that turns them into infra red heat waves (the latter is an assumption that one should prove or disprove).
After these different kind of e-m-waves do exist ("are alive finally"), it does not seem to matter that the material below is of different structure (i.e. actually white if exposed to light or is of copper or is just air).
These kind of e-m-waves ("heat waves") have a nature that is able to "infect" (heat up) almost all other materials. And this refers both to gaseous materials such as air but also to solid bodies such as metals.
Result: A dark material is "dark" because its electron hull behaves differently when it is hit by e-m-waves (light waves), compared to an electron hull of a "bright" material.
Explanation: An explanation is easy if we assume that the material is hit by light waves with wave lengths between 397 to 656 nm:
Whitish materials (mainly) will turn the impacting light waves into visible light waves again or in other words "reflect" the light.
Side remark: Not all visible e-m-light-waves turn into infrared e-m-heat-waves and some not even can (as a look at a term scheme of a spectrum shows): E.g. the alpha-3 excitation falls back from m = 3 to n = 2 whereas the infrared excitation has its base n =3 and thereby just sending out visible e-m-waves.
About the subjective darkish or whitish character of objects: One could possibly say that the human eye actually perceives surfaces as dark if a reasonable percentage of light - that hits a surface - is turned into "heat waves" and therefore "vanishes" from the human eye since the human eye is not able to perceive heat waves (at temperatures up to 100°C and way above at least).
Since less e-m-waves are turned back into light, less light waves can reach the human eye in comparison to surfaces with a "whitish electron character".
It can be assumed, since the human eye is easily deceivable, that a material only then appears as dark, if there are other surfaces around that reflect light seriously better (and thereby build an observable contrast).
On the other hand, a dark walled room containing dark objects is certainly perceived as a dark room with dark objects (but maybe also just because we know that there are brighter objects in the rest of the world).
Something clinical: To observe this thing more clinical, it can be said that an object can send out a minimum and maximum number of e-m-waves since the number of electrons are finite that can react with incoming (e-m light) waves.
So, if we look at a surface of 5*10-10 m (i.e. 25 atoms) and if we assume that only one hull electron interacts and if we further assume that the atoms don't interact with eath other we would have an y-axis from 1 to 25 units.
If we further see the time span of excitation and electron recombination ("mean time of exitation and electron recombination") as a defined known time intervall, we can estimate the maximum number of excitation-recombination intervals per time unit.
Let's just assume that each electron can experience a maximum number of 10 cycles per time unit, the x-axis then would go from 0 to 250 since we have 25 electrons (atoms) that are active.
A z-axis which would go from 0 to 100 % then could show us the amount of e-m waves that are turned back into "light waves" or changed into "heat waves".
Judging materials with this 3-d-graph, we might be able to decide more easily if we wonna regard a material as darkish or whitish.-
To make the experiment a little more fun, let's further assume that the curtain consists of a 1 mm thick layer of flexible woven copper behind the thin almost transparent white linen layer (which is an isolator like most textiles).
Observation: When there is a white linen curtain at a window, its colour guarantees that sun beams (and thereby heat) are reflected pretty well.
In contrast to that, if you spray the white linen with a thin layer of let's say black paint, sun beams and thereby heat is collected pretty well, heating up the room.
Conclusion: A thin layer of dark material at a surface is sufficient to change the heat behaviour of a much bigger voluminous body below:
This indicates that the relevant physical processes of turning sun beams into heat take place at the surface of (such) materials.
Since the sun beams are not powerful enough - as far as I know - to change the core of an atom, it seems obvious that the excitation and electron recombination are changed by dark surfaces in a way that let's the resulting electro-magnetic waves not turn into light beams that move away from the surface again (i.e. are reflected) but instead let electro-magnetic waves change their wave length and frequency in a way that turns them into infra red heat waves (the latter is an assumption that one should prove or disprove).
After these different kind of e-m-waves do exist ("are alive finally"), it does not seem to matter that the material below is of different structure (i.e. actually white if exposed to light or is of copper or is just air).
These kind of e-m-waves ("heat waves") have a nature that is able to "infect" (heat up) almost all other materials. And this refers both to gaseous materials such as air but also to solid bodies such as metals.
Result: A dark material is "dark" because its electron hull behaves differently when it is hit by e-m-waves (light waves), compared to an electron hull of a "bright" material.
Explanation: An explanation is easy if we assume that the material is hit by light waves with wave lengths between 397 to 656 nm:
Whitish materials (mainly) will turn the impacting light waves into visible light waves again or in other words "reflect" the light.
- Not a prove but: Feel the temperature of the copper on the backside of the curtain and compare it to the temperature of the darkish painted curtain.
- Not a prove but: One is often blended by the bright beaming of whitish objects but never by that of darkish objects.
- Not a prove but: Feel the temperature of the copper on the backside of the curtain and compare it to the temperature of the whitish curtain.
- Not a prove but: If dark objects would send out as many e-m-waves in the visible as a whitish body does, the human eye would perceive shiny objects. But this is generally not the case.-
Side remark: Not all visible e-m-light-waves turn into infrared e-m-heat-waves and some not even can (as a look at a term scheme of a spectrum shows): E.g. the alpha-3 excitation falls back from m = 3 to n = 2 whereas the infrared excitation has its base n =3 and thereby just sending out visible e-m-waves.
About the subjective darkish or whitish character of objects: One could possibly say that the human eye actually perceives surfaces as dark if a reasonable percentage of light - that hits a surface - is turned into "heat waves" and therefore "vanishes" from the human eye since the human eye is not able to perceive heat waves (at temperatures up to 100°C and way above at least).
Since less e-m-waves are turned back into light, less light waves can reach the human eye in comparison to surfaces with a "whitish electron character".
It can be assumed, since the human eye is easily deceivable, that a material only then appears as dark, if there are other surfaces around that reflect light seriously better (and thereby build an observable contrast).
On the other hand, a dark walled room containing dark objects is certainly perceived as a dark room with dark objects (but maybe also just because we know that there are brighter objects in the rest of the world).
Something clinical: To observe this thing more clinical, it can be said that an object can send out a minimum and maximum number of e-m-waves since the number of electrons are finite that can react with incoming (e-m light) waves.
So, if we look at a surface of 5*10-10 m (i.e. 25 atoms) and if we assume that only one hull electron interacts and if we further assume that the atoms don't interact with eath other we would have an y-axis from 1 to 25 units.
If we further see the time span of excitation and electron recombination ("mean time of exitation and electron recombination") as a defined known time intervall, we can estimate the maximum number of excitation-recombination intervals per time unit.
Let's just assume that each electron can experience a maximum number of 10 cycles per time unit, the x-axis then would go from 0 to 250 since we have 25 electrons (atoms) that are active.
A z-axis which would go from 0 to 100 % then could show us the amount of e-m waves that are turned back into "light waves" or changed into "heat waves".
Judging materials with this 3-d-graph, we might be able to decide more easily if we wonna regard a material as darkish or whitish.-
Thursday, June 12, 2008
La curiosidad de la entrada a la atmósfera terrestre
Referencia: Hay una curiosidad al respeto de la entrada de un vehiculo espacial a la atmósfera terrestre.
Al menos yo lo miro como una observación especial: Si un vehiculo espacial se acerca a la superficie de la tierra, cuando sube por la atmósfera terrestre, pasa un sector de unas 30 kilometros donde experimenta temperaturas muy altas.
Este sector se extiende aproximadamente desde la altitud de 85 kilometros hasta la altitud de 50 kilometros.
En cuanto a la temperatura, este sector es más peligrosa para el vehiculo espacial comparado con el sector de 50 km hasta 20 km de altitud.
Pero porqué es más peligrosa ? - Al pronto no parece muy lógico.
Porqué ? - Porque la densidad atmosférica no es tan denso que es en las altitudes debajo de 50 kilometros.
No hay tan muchas moléculas de aire entre la altitud de 80 km y la altitud de 50 km comparado con el sector de 50 km hasta 20 km de altitud.
Conclusión: No hay en el momento. Pero es muy interesante pensar sobre este.
Al menos yo lo miro como una observación especial: Si un vehiculo espacial se acerca a la superficie de la tierra, cuando sube por la atmósfera terrestre, pasa un sector de unas 30 kilometros donde experimenta temperaturas muy altas.
Este sector se extiende aproximadamente desde la altitud de 85 kilometros hasta la altitud de 50 kilometros.
En cuanto a la temperatura, este sector es más peligrosa para el vehiculo espacial comparado con el sector de 50 km hasta 20 km de altitud.
Pero porqué es más peligrosa ? - Al pronto no parece muy lógico.
Porqué ? - Porque la densidad atmosférica no es tan denso que es en las altitudes debajo de 50 kilometros.
No hay tan muchas moléculas de aire entre la altitud de 80 km y la altitud de 50 km comparado con el sector de 50 km hasta 20 km de altitud.
Conclusión: No hay en el momento. Pero es muy interesante pensar sobre este.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
About being grown up
Being grown up is a state where you have convinced yourself that you know more about life than somebody else. Thus grown up means that you think that you have grown in mental size up upon some other people.
An amusing idea.
Are you really bigger or do you just copy behaviour to pretend that you are bigger ? Do you use those phrases or cloth to pretend ?
And by the way: Is it really necessary for your life to be bigger than someone else ??
Maybe you should have a look upwards to realize that there are other peole who have grown even above your size.
My suggestion: Don't waste too much time on thinking about your size. It's all relative.
Just try to learn some more every day and pass your knowledge on.
An amusing idea.
Are you really bigger or do you just copy behaviour to pretend that you are bigger ? Do you use those phrases or cloth to pretend ?
And by the way: Is it really necessary for your life to be bigger than someone else ??
Maybe you should have a look upwards to realize that there are other peole who have grown even above your size.
My suggestion: Don't waste too much time on thinking about your size. It's all relative.
Just try to learn some more every day and pass your knowledge on.
Monday, April 21, 2008
About god
- Without god, would there be love on earth ?
- I believe: Yes.
- Without a devil, would there be evil on earth ?
- I believe: Yes.
- So, I ask you:
- Do you need god to be good ?
- Or do you need a devil to be bad ?
- Don't tell that !
- No excuses !
- Are you afraid to become bad - without god ?
- Are you afraid to become good - without a devil ?
- Don't be afraid !
- Don't be afraid !
- Don't be afraid of yourself !
- You can be love, you can be bad
- and you can be anything in between.
- So -
- what about god ?
- God does not live your life -
- it's you !
- So -
- where in life is god ?
- Do you need to know ?
- Would it make a difference ?
- But allright, I'll tell you:
- God is in the summer breeze
- when you're smiling.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Sun flares
On April 18th, 2008, ESA (the European Space Agency) published an
article about sun flares:
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM4SB4XQEF_index_0.html
In case it's gone there, I've uploaded a PDF-copy to my web space:
2008-04-18-ESA-Solar flares set the Sun quaking.pdf
The article describes a correlation between sun flares and solar quakes.
Cited from that article: "The correlation is not the end of the story.
Now the researchers have to work to understand the mechanism by which
the flares cause the oscillations."
The interpretation of the correlation won my attention as
my interpretation differs.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
About extraterrestrial life
Observation: From time to time - when there is a German astronaut involved in a space project - I observe this news in the (German) press:
German astronaut believes in extra terrestrial life
It's never been said directly so far, but what is says in between the lines is:
German astronaut believes in little green men from planet Mars
My statement concerning such articles: Are we still in medieval times ? Does anybody still seriously believe that all life forms on earth (Menkind, trees, animals, bacteria...) are the only life forms in the whole universe ?
Suggestion for people believing in that:
"Deutscher Astronaut glaubt an außerirdisches Leben"
DPA - Samstag, 2. Februar, 16:11 Uhr
German astronaut believes in extra terrestrial life
It's never been said directly so far, but what is says in between the lines is:
German astronaut believes in little green men from planet Mars
My statement concerning such articles: Are we still in medieval times ? Does anybody still seriously believe that all life forms on earth (Menkind, trees, animals, bacteria...) are the only life forms in the whole universe ?
Suggestion for people believing in that:
- Check out the undersea research concerning bacteria life
- Check out astronomy sources concerning extra solar planets
- Just think how unique life really is.
"Deutscher Astronaut glaubt an außerirdisches Leben"
DPA - Samstag, 2. Februar, 16:11 Uhr
Lübeck (dpa) - Der deutsche Astronaut Hans Schlegel glaubt an außerirdisches Leben. «Da bin ich felsenfest von überzeugt», sagte er den «Lübecker Nachrichten».
«Auf welchem Niveau, ist aber Spekulation. Die entscheidende Frage ist, werden wir jemals so weit kommen, um in der Lage zu sein, mit außerirdischem Leben Kontakt aufzunehmen? Da bin ich skeptisch.» Der 56-Jährige startet am kommenden Donnerstag (7.2.) mit der US-Raumfähre «Atlantis» und dem europäischen Weltraumlabor «Columbus» vom Weltraumbahnhof Cape Canaveral (Florida) zur ISS.
Schlegel soll bei seinem ersten Außeneinsatz in den Weltraum aussteigen, um «Columbus» an die Station anzubauen. «Dass mein amerikanischer Kollege und ich aussteigen, stellt schon eine höhere Gefährdung da», sagte er. «Die Anzüge sind praktisch unser eigenes kleines Raumschiff. Wir haben darin unsere eigene Kühlung, Sauerstoff und Stromversorgung, und wir sind nur mit einer Sicherheitsleine mit der ISS verbunden. Da muss alles funktionieren.» Er freue sich sehr auf den Einsatz.
Friday, January 11, 2008
How to cross a street
Theme: I read that our brain takes 3 seconds to analyse a situation. So what happens if there are cars driving on the street ? You don't have 3 seconds to react.
Thesis: Our brain is triggered by the approaching cars. It just plays the snippets of software that are appropiate for the situation. Even for cars approaching with different speeds, it has different replies.
Annotation: I think that it's one of the first things that a baby learns how to get from A to B and watch the reaction of your environment C while doing that.
Remark: Please excuse if the text above appears trivial. I didn't check on Google if the thesis is wrong, already known or whatever. I just wrote it down for fun.
Thesis: Our brain is triggered by the approaching cars. It just plays the snippets of software that are appropiate for the situation. Even for cars approaching with different speeds, it has different replies.
Annotation: I think that it's one of the first things that a baby learns how to get from A to B and watch the reaction of your environment C while doing that.
Remark: Please excuse if the text above appears trivial. I didn't check on Google if the thesis is wrong, already known or whatever. I just wrote it down for fun.
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Movies with a wrong ending
Witness (Harrison Ford)
- One day of love can be enough for a lifetime.
- The presence of Mr. Hochleitner is superfluous.
- Some people might find it reasonable to accept the advances of a Mr. Hochleitner (a 'friend of the family') at last, however that idea seems strange to me.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Discovery of Lea Salonga
Yesterday I discovered Lea Salonga on YouTube.com
Lea Salonga is a Musical singer, currently singing on Broadway, New York.
Actually I had discovered her in 2001 but didn't pay attention at that time.
Another singer, Leah delos Santos, was having a rehearsal on a plaza in Berlin (Germany) in 2001 while I was having a walk and was passing by. The singing caught my attention and I took a break and became interested in the songs. I did some internet research later on and came across the name Lea Salonga, too (due to the similarity of names).
However, I did not know anything specific about Lea Salonga apart from some sound recordings that I found on that occasion and which did not please me too much at that time since the live experience of Leah delos Santos had impressed me more.
Now yesterday evening by chance I came across Lea Salonga again on YouTube. I had the chance to watch a video of her first major audition on the Phillipines in 1989 when she was 18:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0xyePzdGA
It seemed to me that she just saw the song Sun and moon that evening for the first time at the grand piano with Claude-Michel Schönberg, the composer. The song belongs to the musical Miss Saigon which refers to the Vietnam war and came out in 1989, the year of the audition.
Actually I hadn't known that the guy at the grand piano was Claude-Michel Schönberg but guessed correctly that he was the composer which I found today when I checked it on wikipedia.de
What totally smashed me however was, how professional Lea Salonga behaved even though she was only 18. But I guess after being in business for about 10 years you learn that. (She started singing about 7 as she said in one of her interviews). I never could have done what she did when I was her age.
She was even so cool to ask Claude-Michel Schönberg for an autograph before she started singing. Of course, I guess she wanted to show that she knew his previous works and probably flatter him a bit, too, thereby making him be more patient in case of lapses.
But on the other hand she really showed how cool she was even just a few seconds before an all decesive audition. Maybe that impressed those guys there, too?
Meanwhile, Lea Salonga is married and has a baby daughter. She married in 2004 and got her baby daughter last year in May 2006. Currently in 2007 she is on Broadway again
My personal wishes for Lea Salongas future are that
* she keeps some of her natural determination
(that she showed in her first audition for Miss Saigon)
* she stays real,
* she stays cool,
* she does not get envious or jealous on other performers who are younger 'cause it would destroy the purity of her heart and make it opaque.
I think she overacted a bit in Inside the Academy (PDA Phillipine TV Academy soap?) where she kinda obviously seemed to play the role of a mother which she actually became in 2006.
I would say that people don't expect her to play the role of a mother - just being a mother would be sufficient from my point of view.
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Audition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0xyePzdGA
Inside Academy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-WRjv0VHc
Biography: http://www.filipinoweb.com/leasalonga.html
Biography: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758964/
End of discovery.
Lea Salonga is a Musical singer, currently singing on Broadway, New York.
Actually I had discovered her in 2001 but didn't pay attention at that time.
Another singer, Leah delos Santos, was having a rehearsal on a plaza in Berlin (Germany) in 2001 while I was having a walk and was passing by. The singing caught my attention and I took a break and became interested in the songs. I did some internet research later on and came across the name Lea Salonga, too (due to the similarity of names).
However, I did not know anything specific about Lea Salonga apart from some sound recordings that I found on that occasion and which did not please me too much at that time since the live experience of Leah delos Santos had impressed me more.
Now yesterday evening by chance I came across Lea Salonga again on YouTube. I had the chance to watch a video of her first major audition on the Phillipines in 1989 when she was 18:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0xyePzdGA
It seemed to me that she just saw the song Sun and moon that evening for the first time at the grand piano with Claude-Michel Schönberg, the composer. The song belongs to the musical Miss Saigon which refers to the Vietnam war and came out in 1989, the year of the audition.
Actually I hadn't known that the guy at the grand piano was Claude-Michel Schönberg but guessed correctly that he was the composer which I found today when I checked it on wikipedia.de
What totally smashed me however was, how professional Lea Salonga behaved even though she was only 18. But I guess after being in business for about 10 years you learn that. (She started singing about 7 as she said in one of her interviews). I never could have done what she did when I was her age.
She was even so cool to ask Claude-Michel Schönberg for an autograph before she started singing. Of course, I guess she wanted to show that she knew his previous works and probably flatter him a bit, too, thereby making him be more patient in case of lapses.
But on the other hand she really showed how cool she was even just a few seconds before an all decesive audition. Maybe that impressed those guys there, too?
Meanwhile, Lea Salonga is married and has a baby daughter. She married in 2004 and got her baby daughter last year in May 2006. Currently in 2007 she is on Broadway again
My personal wishes for Lea Salongas future are that
* she keeps some of her natural determination
(that she showed in her first audition for Miss Saigon)
* she stays real,
* she stays cool,
* she does not get envious or jealous on other performers who are younger 'cause it would destroy the purity of her heart and make it opaque.
I think she overacted a bit in Inside the Academy (PDA Phillipine TV Academy soap?) where she kinda obviously seemed to play the role of a mother which she actually became in 2006.
I would say that people don't expect her to play the role of a mother - just being a mother would be sufficient from my point of view.
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Audition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0xyePzdGA
Inside Academy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-WRjv0VHc
Biography: http://www.filipinoweb.com/leasalonga.html
Biography: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758964/
End of discovery.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The lost letter in "Ubi Caritas"
Today I would like to tell a story to the dear reader of a programmatic song called "Ubi Caritas"
(Where there is charity).
Once upon a time something dramatic happened to this song: 'Cause after weeks of work on the lyrics, one night, the night before the writer of the lyrics wanted to carry the finished lyrics to the printing shop, he actually died.
Sadly, a wind blew through the open window that night, too, and the lyrics got blown to the slightly dirty floor.
Luckily enough, the writer had told his friend about the finished lyrics before and so the paper was found and finally published.
And you could say, in those days, it became kind of a hit.
However, because the original paper was blown to the dirty floor, a letter was covered by some dirt making it look as if the letter was being crossed out.
The letter that got "crossed out" was an "s" actually.
Because of this, the true meaning of the song got actually lost: The lyrics as they were published were:
"Ubi caritas et amor, ubi caritas, deus ibi est."
Thats Latin and it actually means:
"Where there is charity and love,
where there is charity, there is god."
Not bad but actually not as devine as the original meaning:
"Ubi caritas est amor, ubi caritas, deus ibi est."
The translation of this is:
"Where there is charity, there is love,
where there is charity, there is god."
And this means that...
where there is charity, there is god
and...
love is god (and god is love).
Do you realize the difference? Pretty powerful the difference, huh?
Well, normally fairy tales have a happy end. This one obviously doesn't. But I do hope that one day, the lost "s" is rediscovered.
But until that day, let's keep ourselves aware that
god is love because god shows charity.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Million Dollar Baby
The "Million Dollar Baby" depended her life on the cheers of the audience and thought that she was meant.
But she didnt know that the audience cheered another boxer the next evening and a year later nobody thought about her anymore.
Nobody loved her and she was loved by nobody. Somebody read her some literature. But he didnt teach her love cause he didnt know love himself.
When she was laying down handicaped in her hospital bed she thought that she was dead. But in fact it was the only time when she had the chance to become alive. But she didnt know and nobody told her.
There she had the chance to forget about the physical and awake her mind. Instead she killed her body and thereby killed her mind, too.
She was full of self-pity and fear that people would forget about her. And she was right. 'Cause the qualities that she had gained in the gym were exchangable.
She never discovered the human inside herself. And her trainer neither. She never discovered the love inside herself. Neither did her trainer.
She never realized that there was a flower growing in the sun and never let her thoughts strive in the clouds of the Himalaya. She never saw a child dying in Africa and never smiled at the soul of her clients in the restaurant.
She defined her happiness by the physical qualities that she had gained in the gym.
She never discovered the beauty within her physical body.
And never realized that some people smiled at her soul. Mother Theresa was in the restaurant more than once and she didn't realize.
The "Million Dollar Baby" had a dream to become someone famous and when she had almost succeeded she had an accident and had to realize that she could not HAVE her dream fullfilled anymore.
So she decided to die cause she couldn't HAVE anymore, she would just be able to BE.
But she wasn't satisfied with just BEING.
She didnt love herself enough for just BEING,
she thought that without HAVING, life was not worth living.
But she didnt know that the audience cheered another boxer the next evening and a year later nobody thought about her anymore.Nobody loved her and she was loved by nobody. Somebody read her some literature. But he didnt teach her love cause he didnt know love himself.
When she was laying down handicaped in her hospital bed she thought that she was dead. But in fact it was the only time when she had the chance to become alive. But she didnt know and nobody told her.
There she had the chance to forget about the physical and awake her mind. Instead she killed her body and thereby killed her mind, too.
She was full of self-pity and fear that people would forget about her. And she was right. 'Cause the qualities that she had gained in the gym were exchangable.
She never discovered the human inside herself. And her trainer neither. She never discovered the love inside herself. Neither did her trainer.
She never realized that there was a flower growing in the sun and never let her thoughts strive in the clouds of the Himalaya. She never saw a child dying in Africa and never smiled at the soul of her clients in the restaurant.
She defined her happiness by the physical qualities that she had gained in the gym.She never discovered the beauty within her physical body.
And never realized that some people smiled at her soul. Mother Theresa was in the restaurant more than once and she didn't realize.
The "Million Dollar Baby" had a dream to become someone famous and when she had almost succeeded she had an accident and had to realize that she could not HAVE her dream fullfilled anymore.
So she decided to die cause she couldn't HAVE anymore, she would just be able to BE.
But she wasn't satisfied with just BEING.
She didnt love herself enough for just BEING,
she thought that without HAVING, life was not worth living.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
All you do
All you do is not too much,
because you need not do it.
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People often help out other people and...
* think they're doing a good deed.
* think the other one would need their help.
However... noone... not your brother, not your sister, not your father nor your mother is indispensable. Not your teacher, not your boss, not your wife... and especially you yourself are not indispensable.
People are stronger than you think they are...
and that includes you yourself.
because you need not do it.
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People often help out other people and...
* think they're doing a good deed.
* think the other one would need their help.
However... noone... not your brother, not your sister, not your father nor your mother is indispensable. Not your teacher, not your boss, not your wife... and especially you yourself are not indispensable.
People are stronger than you think they are...
and that includes you yourself.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
SpaceShipOne - First private suborbital spaceship
SpaceShipOne, the first privatly built spaceship was built by Scaled Composites, a Californian, Mojave desert located experimental aircraft company.
Burt Rutan constructed SpaceShipOne, the first privately built spaceship. It went into space on September 29th 2004 and October 4th 2004 on a suborbital pretty ballistic flight path, reaching altitudes of more than 100 km (62 miles). By doing this twice within a fortnight SpaceShipOne won the Anzari X-Prize (worth $10 Mio.).
To achieve this goal of a (suborbital) space flight, two aircrafts were actually constructed: The socalled White Knight carrier aircraft and a rocket propelled space ship named SpaceShipOne, which was carried up to 45'000 feet (15 km) before being released and ignited.
Burt Rutan constructed SpaceShipOne, the first privately built spaceship. It went into space on September 29th 2004 and October 4th 2004 on a suborbital pretty ballistic flight path, reaching altitudes of more than 100 km (62 miles). By doing this twice within a fortnight SpaceShipOne won the Anzari X-Prize (worth $10 Mio.).
To achieve this goal of a (suborbital) space flight, two aircrafts were actually constructed: The socalled White Knight carrier aircraft and a rocket propelled space ship named SpaceShipOne, which was carried up to 45'000 feet (15 km) before being released and ignited.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Me and Planet Saturn
Today I used my Bresser telescope for the first time.
My room window is Eastbound.
The sky was partly cloudy, the temperatures were quite autumn like. But I was sitting inside at my window.
I was lucky.
When I spotted the brightest spot available at the time, I realized soon after that it was the Planet Saturn. It showed a clearly visible white disc (the planet body), surrounded by an equally white belt disc around its belly.
To make sure, I checked the internet.
Saturn rose on the Eastbound night sky.
My room window is Eastbound.
The sky was partly cloudy, the temperatures were quite autumn like. But I was sitting inside at my window.
I was lucky.
When I spotted the brightest spot available at the time, I realized soon after that it was the Planet Saturn. It showed a clearly visible white disc (the planet body), surrounded by an equally white belt disc around its belly.
To make sure, I checked the internet.
Saturn rose on the Eastbound night sky.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
New telescope
Today, I bought a telescope.
I bought my first telescope.
It's a Bresser Refracting Telecope.
Art.No. 45-11600 Arcturus
Scope of supply:
* Hard-top case
* Aluminium tripod
* Zenith mirror
* 1,5x Umkehrlinse
* Compass
* Moon map
* Accessories rack
Technical data:
* Type: Refracting Telescope
* Aperture: 60 mm
* Focal Length: 700 mm
* Lichtsammelvermögen: 73,47
* Magnification: 35x - 262x
* max. expedient magnification: 120x
* Mounting: Azimuthal
* eligible for moon oberservation,
not eligible for planet oberservation,
not eligible for Deep Sky observation.
* Earth observation: eligible
* Photography: not eligible
* Tracking engine: not eligible
* Autostar handbox: not eligible
* Diameter ocular-opening: 31.7 mm
* elektronical ocular optionally available
* Weight: 2000 g
The price was 34.45 EUR.
Friday, October 21, 2005
You are Germany
You are Germany is a motivation campaign:
http://www.du-bist-deutschland.de/
It is supported by 20 German Media companies.
A number of artists give their voice, too.
The essence of the campaign is:
You are Germany =
You can build and design Germany.
You are Albert Einstein =
You can become a new Albert Einstein.
I think it's a great campaign.
http://www.du-bist-deutschland.de/
It is supported by 20 German Media companies.
A number of artists give their voice, too.
The essence of the campaign is:
You are Germany =
You can build and design Germany.
You are Albert Einstein =
You can become a new Albert Einstein.
I think it's a great campaign.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Robbie Williams - Intensive care
The latest album of Robbie Williams
is called Intensive Care.
I just listened to the album commercials on TV
and thought: Dang, ain't this Sting singing ??
THIS COWBOY SONG
Performed by Sting
Written by Sting
Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
from the movie Terminal Velocity from 1994
Embarrassing.
Sampling is ok but then the album title should rather say:
Sting
featuring Robbie Williams
is called Intensive Care.
I just listened to the album commercials on TV
and thought: Dang, ain't this Sting singing ??
THIS COWBOY SONG
Performed by Sting
Written by Sting
Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.
from the movie Terminal Velocity from 1994
Embarrassing.
Sampling is ok but then the album title should rather say:
Sting
featuring Robbie Williams
Sunday, July 10, 2005
The music of Teresa Teng
I got to know the music of Teresa Teng when I was watching a 1996 Hong-Kong-Chinese love movie called Tian mi mi (English title: Comrades, almost a love story, German title: Hong Kong Love Affair).
You'll probably listen to some of Teresa Teng's most favourite songs (Tian mi mi and others) when visiting a Chinese restaurant. Teresa Teng used to be a very famous singer in the chinese community.
It is said that Teresa Teng had been just as well famous in Japan. This is pretty surprising as she had to start from scratch when she arrived in Japan.
I think Teresa Teng must have been a lady with a lot of style from what I heard. It seems that she was a sensitive person and walked her life for whatever reasons on a pretty small ridge.
As it seems, there was no one to accompany her on her walk there.
I think every sensitive person deserves to be accompanied by a comrade.
Which brings me back to the movie Tian mi mi.
You'll probably listen to some of Teresa Teng's most favourite songs (Tian mi mi and others) when visiting a Chinese restaurant. Teresa Teng used to be a very famous singer in the chinese community.
It is said that Teresa Teng had been just as well famous in Japan. This is pretty surprising as she had to start from scratch when she arrived in Japan.
I think Teresa Teng must have been a lady with a lot of style from what I heard. It seems that she was a sensitive person and walked her life for whatever reasons on a pretty small ridge.
As it seems, there was no one to accompany her on her walk there.
I think every sensitive person deserves to be accompanied by a comrade.
Which brings me back to the movie Tian mi mi.
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