Daily Dwn

How Many Of You Think Hookah Is Healthy....?

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:21:00 +0530

For Those Who Donno Wats Hookah o Shisha..!

is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) instrument for smoking tobacco in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water. Originally from India.
(wikipedia)

wat i say is its just an alternative for cigar...!
it jus Prepares u Mentally tat it aint harmful fo health...!

if u don think soo read onn..............!
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Let Me first show u how ut looks1..! (wierd.Don ReAd IF u hav not seen it even once)
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Coming To The PoINt.....!

A common belief among users is that the smoke is significantly less dangerous than that from cigarettes. The water moisture induced by the hookah makes the smoke less irritating and may give a false sense of security and reduce concerns about true health effects. Doctors at institutions including the Mayo Clinic have stated that use of hookah is equally detrimental to a person's health as smoking cigarettes, and a study by the World Health Organization also confirmed these findings.

Each hookah session typically lasts more than 40 minutes, and consists of 50 to 200 inhalations that each range from 0.15 to 0.50 liters of smoke. Reports by the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society have shown that, in a one-hour hookah session, users consume about 100 to 200 times the smoke and about 70 times the nicotine as they do in one cigarette.

A 2005 study found that water pipe smokers were five times more likely than non-smokers to show signs of gum disease. People who smoked water pipes had five times the risk of lung cancer as non-smokers.

The water used to filter the chemicals does not work efficiently to remove all the harmful chemicals.

A study on hookah smoking and cancer in Pakistan was published in 2008. Its objective was "to find serum CEA levels in ever/exclusive hookah smokers, i.e. those who smoked only hookah (no cigarettes, bidis, etc.), prepared between 1 and 4 times a day with a quantity of up to 120 g of a tobacco-molasses mixture each (i.e. the tobacco weight equivalent of up to 60 cigarettes of 1 g each) and consumed in 1 to 8 sessions". Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) is a marker found in several forms of cancer. Levels in exclusive hookah smokers were lower compared to cigarette smokers although the difference was not statistically significant between a hookah smoker and a non-smoker. Also the study concluded that heavy hookah smoking (2–4 daily preparations; 3–8 sessions a day ; 2 hrs to 6 hours) substantially raises CEA levels.

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I know I cant convince water Pipe smokers Out ter...! LOL Tey Pretend ter own theory..... yOU Should haV noticed.....

1.Whats Ter In It ONly water n charcoal

2.dude only 0.5 nicotine

3.its cheap dude...! see 200 per stand..share it with 5..200/5 = 40...

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Ok Let Me fiNish this Post wit some principles of smoking hookah...

1- Never light your cigarette by using burning coal of the waterpipe.

2- The water pipe should never be placed higher than the level of your seat.

3- Never pass the waterpipe directly to another person. Always first put it down and let the next person pick it up.

4- Water pipe are made for smoking specially prepared tobacco (called MU'ASSEL) that you can only get from good Tobacconists. If you use dry tobacco it will cause throat irritation.

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LATER

Let me Here Some coMMeNTs..

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Pattern Of Math Paper for 1sT puc.....! wit examples

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:50:00 +0530

iF Your A First Puc (karnataka) student this wil be useful..
(CLICK ON THE PIC TO LOAD THE FULL IMAGE)

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Plz Comment If This Had Helped You...!

HOW TO KNOW BSNL BROADBAND USAGE FROM SMS FOR FREE

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:42:00 +0530

TO KNOW YOUR BSNL BROADBAND USAGE FOLLOW THESE STEPS>>>

1. SEND (only for first time)

"REG *your landline no* " with std code

2.After that you can send this to know your usage any time

"BBU *your landline no* " with std code

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For example

1. reg 08026666212

2. bbu 08026666212

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learnt this from my friend sourabh...

Create your own counter strike online server (any version)

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Sat, 9 Jan 2010 06:08:00 +0530

Here are couple things you need to do:

(first of all download and install HAMACHI....click here to download)

1.create a network using hamachi and invite all your friends into it.

2.everyone who wants to play MUST turn hamachi on and be in the same network

3.everyone has an ip address on hamachi. So lets say you open up a game and want your friends to join. So then all your friends who want to play need to open up the console(~) in the game and type:

                                                    Connect "ip-address of the server creater"

NOTE: The server creater should set the value of sv_lan 0 by opening rhe console and type:

                                                                     Sv_lan 0

here is an example: Lets say your hamachi ip adresse is 44.333.212.56 (random) , so when you have opened up a game, your friends will then need to write in the console: Connect 44.333.212.56
This will then automatically connect them into your game.
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NOTE: Join My Server To Play counter strike online

Network Id - dailydwn

password - dailydwn

reasons to jailbreak your iPhone:

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:51:00 +0530

Here are 30 excellent reasons to jailbreak your iPhone:

   1. It’s risk-free. Worst case scenario, you can restore your iPhone       to factory settings
   2. Install third-party applications with Cydia
   3. Get MMS with SwirlyMMS
   4. Add custom notification sounds and ringtones for free
   5. Use a free turn by turn GPS with xGPS
   6. Get video recording for your iPhone 2G or 3G with Cycorder
   7. Stream live videos with Qik
   8. Use Voice Over IP apps over 3G and Edge with VoIPover3G
   9. Enable Flash with iMobileCinema
10. Download and save YouTube videos on your iPhone with MxTube
11. Tether your iPhone with PDAnet
12. View your iPhone on your TV with TVOut
13. Play Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES and PlayStation games with       emulators
14. Watch every single episode of South Park, American Dad, Family       Guy, the Simpsons, the Office, and Futurama for free
15. Filter incoming calls with iBlackList
16. Email your voicemails with Voicemail Forwarder
17. Customize the look and feel of your iPhone with WinterBoard
18. Quickly manage your settings preferences with BossPrefs
19. Sort your apps into folders with Categories
20. Run apps in the background with Backgrounder
21. Quickly reply to SMS with iRealSMS
22. Track your lost/stolen iPhone with iLocalis
23. Display information such as emails, SMS, calendar and more       directly on your lock screen with IntelliScreen
24. Spoof your caller ID with 123Spoof
25. Change your iPhone fonts with FontSwap
26. Get haptic feedback for your keyboard with HapticPro
27. Show a picture of your contacts in your contact list with       Cyntact
28. Transfer files via Bluetooh with iBluetooth
29. Enable battery percentage on the 2G and 3G with Battery       Percentage
30. Unlock your iPhone

Disadvantages

We get a lot of people asking us the disadvantages to jailbreaking the iPhone or iPod Touch. After all, it seems too good to be true? There is a very very slim chance that you can brick your iPhone or iPod Touch (which basically means rendering it unresponsive). But those are usually fixed by doing a reset (press and hold the home and sleep buttons at the same time). You can then reinstall firmware 2.2 and try again. Doing the research might set you back 20 minutes or so and the whole process might take another 15 minutes. If you ever take it back to Apple for warranty, you probably don’t want them to see that you’ve jailbroken it so you might spend another 10 minutes doing a firmware restore through iTunes to set your iPhone or iPod Touch back to its original settings.

everything about BitTorrent that you should know...!!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:24:00 +0530

BitTorrent Terms

torrent
A small file which contains information about the data you want to download, not the data itself. file extension is .torrent...by clicking on a download link. It can also be saved to your computer. This is useful if you want to be able to re-open the torrent later on without having to find the link again.

peer
A peer is another computer on the internet that is sharing the file you wish to download. Typically a peer does not have the complete file, if it did it would be called a seed. Peers are also called leeches, to distinguish them from those who have completed their download and continue to leave their BitTorrent Client running and act as a seed.....

seed
A computer that has a complete copy of the specific torrent you are downloading . Once your client finishes downloading, it will remain open until you click the Finish button. This is known as seeding. You can also start a BitTorrent Client with a complete file, and once BitTorrent has checked the file it will connect and seed the file to others. It is good to continue seeding a file after you have finished downloading, to help others finish. Also, when a new torrent is posted to a tracker, someone must seed it in order for it to be available to others. The tracker doesn't know anything of the actual contents of a file, so it's important to follow through and seed a file if you upload the torrent to a tracker.

reseed
When there are zero seeds for a given torrent (and not enough peers to have a distributed copy), all the peers will get stuck with an incomplete file, since no one in the swarm has the missing pieces. When this happens, someone with a complete file (a seed) must connect to the swarm so that those missing pieces can be transferred. This is called reseeding. Usually a request for a reseed comes with an implicit promise that the requester will leave his or her client open for some time period after finishing (to add longevity to the torrent).

distributed copies
In some versions of the client, you will see "Connected to x seeds; also seeing x.xxx distributed copies." A seed is a computer with the complete file. However, the swarm can collectively have a complete copy (or copies) of the file, even without seeds a complete distributed copy can be available if the sum total of the users have a complete copy among themselves. BitTorrent doesn't distribute in sequential order, so this is possible.

swarm
The group of users that are collectively connected for a particular file. Example, if you start a BitTorrent Client and it tells you that you're connected to 5 peers and 1 seeds, then the swarm consists of you and those 6 other people.

tracker
Server on the Internet that coordinates the action of BitTorrent Clients. Upon opening a torrent, you contact the tracker and receive a list of peers to connect to. Throughout the transfer, your computer will query the tracker, telling it how much you've downloaded and uploaded and how much before finishing. If a tracker is down and you try to open a torrent, you will be unable to connect. If a tracker goes down during a torrent (you have already connected at some point and are already talking to peers), you will be able to continue transferring with those peers, but no new peers will be able to contact you. Tracker errors are often temporary, leave the client open and continue trying.

share rating
A ratio of your amount uploaded divided by your amount downloaded. The amounts used are for the current session only, not over the history of the file. If you achieve a share ratio of 1.0, that would mean you've uploaded as much as you've downloaded. The higher the number, the more you have contributed. If you see a share ratio of this means infinity, which will happen if you open a BitTorrent Client with a complete file (i.e., you seed the file.) In this case you download nothing since you have the full file, and so anything you send will cause the ratio to reach infinity. While share ratings are just displayed for your convenience, courtesy to others should cause you to keep this ratio as high as possible.

choked
When a connection is choked, it means that the transmitter isn't currently sending anything else on the link. A BitTorrent Client signals that it's choked to other clients for a number of reasons, the most common is that by default a client will only maintain --max_uploads active simultaneous uploads, the rest will be marked choked. A connection can also be choked for other reasons, for example a peer downloading from a seed will mark his connection as choked since the seed has no need to receive.

optimistic unchoking
Periodically, the client shakes up the list of uploaders and tries sending on different connections that were previously choked, and choking the connections it was just using. You can observe this action every 10 or 20 seconds or so, by watching the "Advanced" panel of one of the experimental clients.

interested
Term used in the protocol specification. refers to the state of a downloader with respect to a connection. A downloader is marked as interested if the other end of the link has any pieces that the client wants, otherwise the connection is marked as not interested.

snubbed
If the client has not received anything after a certain period (default: 60 seconds), it marks a connection as snubbed, in that the peer on the other end has chosen not to send. See the definition of choked for reasons why an uploader might mark a connection as choked. The real function of keeping track of this variable is to improve download speeds. Occasionally the client will find itself in a state where even though it is connected to many peers, it is choked by all of them. The client uses the snubbed flag in an attempt to prevent this situation. It notes that a peer with whom it would like to trade pieces with has not sent anything in a while, and rather than leaving it up to the optimistic choking to eventually select that peer, it instead reserves one of its upload slots for sending to that peer.

NOKIA 888

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:16:00 +0530

About The Concept

*design concept
“Form follows you”
A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, simple and carefree. You can change its form according to your needs during the day.

*target
It is targeted to the young consumers who are likely to be active and take place in a lot of different activities.

*why this target ?
Because they move and change place too much. They do a lot of different things during the day. So that’s what my design offers : to adjust to the moment, the place and the function.

*technologies that are used
It uses liquid battery, speech recognition, flexible touch screen, touch sensitive body cover which lets it understand and adjust to the environment. It has a simple programmable body mechanism so that it changes forms in different situations.

*the functionality of design
You dont have to carry it in your pocket or on your wrist. You can carry it anywhere, in anyform. You can roll it, bend it, put on your clothes like a clip. It also makes some form changes that makes it more ergonomical: i.e. when you want to talk on the phone, the body form turns into the form of the good old telephone. You can personalize these forms and record them. So it fits you the best in the way that you have chosen. The functions that it has also create a feeling of electronical pet, as it senses your moves, understand what you want, respond you in the best way. It learns you, to fit you better.Also e-motions lets you send forms to the other 888 users. It could be the shape of a heart or a small dance. This way you can talk without words.

*how the user interacts
E-motions… It means electronical motions that 888 has. You can send and receive forms from / to friends. You can send a heart shape to your girlfriend, so her telephone turns into an icon of heart. Or you can send a dancing form to your friends to call them to the party tonight. This is the fun side of the product. If we look from the functionality side, 888 is quite flexible. You can put it into your pocket, roll it and make it smaller, or put on your wrist when you want to make a video call on the go. If you want to talk like a normal telephone, there you have your telephone shape. We go through a lot of places and situations in the daily life, so it seems like one form is not enough.

*what is unique ?
You can change the form of the body. Not just the color. And you can do the same by sending an e-motion to your friend.

*the inspiration
The idea is that “the perfect form” does not exist. “Form follows you”
We create the perfect form for each function.
Tamer NAKISCI
industrial designer
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts
Istanbul / TURKEY

N-Gage Nokia's mobile gaming platform

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:07:00 +0530

If you think N-GAGE is only a mobile...Your Wrong its now a application too.....you can run N-Gage games by downloading and installing this app on your phone if its compatible......

The compatible device list is here.......

Nokia N97
Nokia N86 8MP
Nokia E52
Nokia E55
E75
5320 XpressMusic
5630 XpressMusic
5730 XpressMusic
6210 Navigator
6720 Classic
Nokia N78
Nokia N79
Nokia N81
Nokia N81 8GB
Nokia N82
Nokia N85
Nokia N95
Nokia N95 8GB
Nokia N96
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IF YOUR DEVICE IS ON THE LIST THEN WHY WAIT

CLICK HERE TO GOTO THE DOWNLOAD PAGE.....
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Mobee – Receive Emails on your Mobile (as SMS) for free

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:31:00 +0530

Bangalore based Mobee is the newest entrant in push-mail space and enables one to send/receive emails on your mobile (via sms, i.e. without any GPRS connection).

Using mobee, one can also send attachments via the sms email – you need to upload attachment on mobee’s account, assign a 2-digit number to that and REPLY- to will do the trick.

In order to receive your gmail/ymail messages on your mobile, you need to setup auto forwarding in the respective account to your mobee account – what’s really important to note is that one need not share their gmail/yahoo mail id/pwd (unlike SMSMyEmail), and can also use email program’s advanced filter to receive messages from selected individuals.
Monetization is mainly driven via paid/premium accounts (free accounts have limitation of only 10 sms a day and the same is monetized via text ads) and corporate services.

Bangalore Transport Information System

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:55:00 +0530

DID YOU KNOW THAT BANGALORE TRANSPORT SYSTEM HAS THEIR OWN SOPHISTICATED WEBSITE WERE U CAN SEE LIVE CAMERAS,GET DIRECTIONS,WHAT MORE YOU CAN EVEN PERSONALIZE IT>>>>

CHECK IT OUT PEOPLE!!

http://www.btis.in/

How to Join YouTube Chat Rooms!! by:gizz!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:07:00 +0530

YouTube chat rooms are designed to give users the opportunity to chat with other users who are watching the same videos. The chat rooms are connected to video streams--that is, a collection of videos that play in sequence so that you can watch a series of themed videos with other users.................

Instructions

Step 1
Make sure you are logged in to your YouTube account and click on the Community tab on the main
page. Click on the "Test Tube" link at the top of the page.
Step 2
Click on the "Try it Out" link under "Streams." Then, look through the list of active streams and find one in which you'd like to view the videos.
Step 3
Select a stream by clicking on the title. You will then be navigated to a page where a video will begin to play.
Step 4
Look to the right of the video screen and find the window labeled "Stream Community." You will see messages posted by other users. Click inside the text box underneath the chat window and type a message in the box. Then click "Post."
Step 5
Go back to the Stream page at any time to pick a new stream and the YouTube chat room in which to participate.
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source:ehow.com
I got to know this by: GIZ!!

Google Safe Browsing for Firefox ............

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:29:00 +0530

Google Safe Browsing for Firefox BETA

New! Google Safe Browsing and Google Suggest are now a part of the Google Toolbar for Firefox.

Introduction

Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophisticated, widespread and dangerous. That's why it's important to browse safely with Google Safe Browsing. By combining advanced algorithms with reports about misleading pages from a number of sources, Safe Browsing is often able to automatically warn you when you encounter a page that's trying to trick you into disclosing personal information.
For more information, see the FAQ.

Install Now

Google Safe Browsing is now a part of the
Google Toolbar for Firefox

How to Install

1. Click the "google-safebrowsing.xpi" link above. Be sure to review the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice.

If this is your first time installing a Google Firefox extension, when you click "Agree and Install", the Firefox browser may display a notice in a bar across the top of the page. View screenshot

If this notice appears, you will need to edit your browser options to allow the extension to be installed from Google:
  1a.  Click "Edit Options..." in the bar. The Firefox "Allowed Sites" window will appear.
  1b.  In this window, enter tools.google.com in the box under "Address of web site". View screenshot
  1c.  Click "Allow" to add Google to the list of allowed sites, then click "OK".
  1d.  You will need to click "Agree and Install" a second time to begin installation.

2. After clicking "Agree and Install", the Firefox software installation window will appear with Google Safe Browsing listed. View screenshot

3. Click the "Install Now" button. The Firefox extensions window will appear confirming installation. View screenshot
4. Close the Firefox extensions window, then close all Firefox windows and restart the browser.

How to Uninstall

In the Firefox browser, click "Tools" and select "Extensions". The Extensions window should appear.

Click "Google Safe Browsing", then click the "Uninstall" button.

Click the "OK" button in the confirmation window. The Extensions window should confirm that Google Safe Browsing has been uninstalled.

Close the Extensions window, then close all Firefox windows and restart the browser.

How many of you know CRAIGSLIST..its a very handy site check it out!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:20:00 +0530

Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

click to visit: www.craigslist.com

step1: select your place
step2: select category
step3: get what you want its that simple

click to visit: www.craigslist.com
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HOW TO CANCEL AIRCEL 1ps/sec PLAN!!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:10:00 +0530

JUST SEND AN EMAIL TO "care.karnataka@aircel.co.in"....

WITH THESE INFO:

subject :Deactivation of one paise p/s

Name: ***********

Phone: 97*******

E-mail: < YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS>

I was changed from Students Plan to One Paise p/s without any notice. Now I wish to migrate back to my plan (students plan). Please put me back to students plan as quickly as possible.

Thanking you

ORKUT NEW Is out!! check out how to get an invitation !!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:54:00 +0530

(click on the pic to enlarge)

THE ORKUT NEW

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN INVITATION FOR ORKUT NEW

THEN THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU.....

JUST JOIN THIS OFFICIAL COMMUNITY ON ORKUT>>>

"http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=95114051"

AND YOU WILL RECEIVE THE REQUEST WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS!!

Control Any Computer Anywhere In The World

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:14:00 +0530

Step 1. Click the following link and save in your computer www.Teamviewer.com

Step 2. Double click the TeamViewer_Setup.

Step 3. TeamViewer 4 Setup wizard opened click "Next" button and click "personal/non-commercial use" and click next and click agree two box and click next and again next and finish button.

Step 4. Now see the TeamViewer will open. The left side "wait for session" id and password is your's. Right side "Create Session" id is which computer you want to control.

Step 5. Ask your against system left side id and password then connect two system and control it.
Note: The System which you want to control also install TeamViewer.

Your Name Placed In Taskbar

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:12:00 +0530

Step 1: Now we change the name in your Takbar.

Step 2. Goto Control Panel --> Regional and Language Options and click Customize button
Step 3. Customize Regional Options window will open. Click Time tab and change the AM,PM to Your name. See the following picture

Step 4. Now Click Apply and OK button. See right corner of your window. The name placed near the clock.

TRACE OUT AND TRACKING VEHICLES NUMBER

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:10:00 +0530

Step 1: Trace out and track any Vehicles locations. That means where the vehicle number registered!

Step 2: If you wanna trace out or track Vehicles Registration location visit http://trace.bharatiyamobile.com/Trace_Vehicle.php
Note: Here Tracking vehicle system helps you to have where the no. registered only not Owner's Details.

BLOCK STOLEN/LOST MOBILE BY IMEI NUMBER

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:09:00 +0530

Step 1: An IMEI number-The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is an international identity number used to uniquely identify a mobile phone. The 15-digit IMEI number is an electronic fingerprint transmitted every time a phone is used, which reveals the identity of the mobile handset.

Step 2: How can I find out my IMEI number?

Step 3: IMEI numbers are independent of the phone number and are usually written underneath the battery or on the back of the handset. Mobile phone users can also check their 15 digit IMEI number by dialling *#06# on their mobile handset. Mobile phone owners should make a note of their IMEI number and keep the details in a safe place.

Step 4: If u lost your mobile, send an e-mail to cop@vsnl.net with the following info.

Your name:
Address:
Phone model:
Make:
Last used No.:
E-mail for communication:
Missed date:
IMEI No.:

"No need to go to police station"

50 Best Teen Movies!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:36:00 +0530

1. Whatever (1998)

2. Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2001)

3. Home Room (2002)

4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

5. The United States of Leland (2003)

6. The Breakfast Club (1985)

7. Dead Poets Society (1989)

8. Rushmore (1998)

9. Remember the Titans (2000)

10. Dazed and Confused (1993)

11. Heathers (1988)

12. The Virgin Suicides (1999)

13. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
melbelleinsc's rating:

14. Say Anything... (1989)

15. Spider-Man: The Motion Picture (2002)

16. Sixteen Candles (1984)

17. Mallrats (1995)

18. Pleasantville (1998)

19. Pretty in Pink (1986)

20. Grease (1978)

21. Friday Night Lights (2004)

22. Detroit Rock City (1999)

23. Cruel Intentions (1999)

24. Now and Then (1995)

25. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

26. Mean Girls (2004)

27. The Emperor's Club (2002)

28. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

29. Empire Records (1995)

30. Saved! (2004)

31. Step Up (2006)

32. Election (1999)

33. Final Destination (2000)

34. Crazy/Beautiful (2001)

35. American Pie (1999)

36. She's the Man (2006)

37. Clueless (1995)

38. The Girl Next Door (2004)

39. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

40. Thirteen (2003)

41. Stick It (2006)

42. Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

43. Jawbreaker (1999)

44. The Craft (1996)

45. Save the Last Dance (2001)

46. Never Been Kissed (1999)

47. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

48. Dangerous Minds (1995)

49. The Princess Diaries (2001)

50. Bring It On (2000)

Is December 21 2012 Really the end of The WORLD.....?? see the Q&A by nasa

noreply@blogger.com (Ashwin) — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:47:00 +0530

(found on NASA)
Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers

Stories about the fictional planet Nibiru and predictions of doomsday in December 2012 have blossomed on the Internet. There are now (June 2009) more than 175 books listed on Amazon.com dealing with the 2012 doomsday. As this hoax spreads, many more disaster scenarios are being suggested. “Ask an Astrobiologist” has received nearly a thousand questions about Nibiru and 2012, with more than 200 answers posted. Many new questions are similar to those already answered. Following is a list of the most popular “Twenty Questions” organized in a logical succession and answered in some detail.

In addition to my responses, there are some other good resources

* Neil de Grassse Tyson posted a nice video clip on the Nibiru-2012 issue.
* Wikipedia has several useful entries. Start with Nibiru Collision, then look at Nibiru Mythology and Nibiru Sitchin). Also informative is the entry for 2012 doomsday predictions.
* For a detailed description of the origin of the Planet X / Nibiru cult see the discussion by Phil Plait on his Badastronomy website.

David Morrison,
NAI Senior Scientist
June 1, 2009
1. What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in December 2012?

The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. Zecharia Sitchin, who writes fiction about the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer, claimed in several books (e.g., The Twelfth Planet, published in 1976) that he has found and translated Sumerian documents that identify the planet Nibiru, orbiting the Sun every 3600 years. These Sumerian fables include stories of “ancient astronauts” visiting Earth from a civilization of aliens called the Anunnaki. Then Nancy Lieder, a self-declared psychic who claims she is channeling aliens, wrote on her website Zetatalk that the inhabitants of a fictional planet around the star Zeta Reticuli warned her that the Earth was in danger from Planet X or Nibiru. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Only recently have these two fables been linked to the end of the Mayan long-count at the winter solstice in 2012 – hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.
2. The Sumerians were the first great civilization, and they made many accurate astronomical predictions, including the existence of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. So why should we not believe their predictions about Nibiru?

Nibiru is a name in Babylonian astrology sometimes associated with the god Marduk. Nibiru appears as a minor character in the Babylonian creation poem Enuma Elish as recorded in the library of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-627 BCE). Sumer flourished much earlier, from about the 23rd century to the 17th century BCE. The claims that Nibiru is a planet and was known to the Sumerians are contradicted by scholars who (unlike Zecharia Sitchin) study and translate the written records of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumer was indeed a great civilization, important for the development of agriculture, water management, urban life, and especially writing. However, they left very few records dealing with astronomy. Certainly they did not know about the existence of Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. They also had no understanding that the planets orbited the Sun, an idea that first developed in ancient Greece two millennia after the end of Sumer. Claims that Sumerians had a sophisticated astronomy, or that they even had a god named Nibiru, are the product of Sitchin’s imagination.
3. How can you deny the existence of Nibiru when NASA discovered it in 1983 and the story appeared in leading newspapers? At that time you called it Planet X, and later it was named Xena or Eris.

IRAS (the NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite, which carried out a sky survey for 10 months in 1983) discovered many infrared sources, but none of them was Nibiru or Planet X or any other objects in the outer solar system. There is a good discussion from Caltech to be found at (spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/tchester/iras/no_tenth_planet_yet.html). Briefly, IRAS cataloged 350,000 infrared sources, and initially many of these sources were unidentified (which was the point, of course, of making such a survey). All of these observations have been followed up by subsequent studies with more powerful instruments both on the ground and in space. The rumor about a “tenth planet” erupted in 1984 after a scientific paper was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters titled “Unidentified point sources in the IRAS minisurvey”, which discussed several infrared sources with “no counterparts”. But these “mystery objects” were subsequently found to be distant galaxies (except one, which was a wisp of “infrared cirrus”), as published in 1987. No IRAS source has ever turned out to be a planet. A good discussion of this whole issue is to be found on Phil Plait’s website (www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/science.html#iras). The bottom line is that Nibiru is a myth, with no basis in fact. To an astronomer, persistent claims about a planet that is “nearby” but “invisible” are just plain silly.
4. Maybe we should be asking about Planet X or Eris, not Nibiru. Why does NASA keep secret the orbit of Eris?

“Planet X” is an oxymoron when applied to a real object. The term has been used by astronomers over the past century for a possible or suspected object. Once the object is found, it is given a real name, as was done with Pluto and Eris, both of which were at some time referred to as Planet X. If a new object turns out to be not real, or not a planet, then you won’t hear about it again. If it is real, it is not called Planet X.

Eris is one of several dwarf planets recently found by astronomers in the outer solar system, all of them on normal orbits that will never bring them near Earth. Like Pluto, Eris is smaller than our Moon. It is very far away, and its orbit never brings it closer than about 4 billion miles. There is no secret about Eris and its orbit, as you can easily verify by googling it or looking it up in Wikipedia.
5. Do you deny that NASA built a South Pole Telescope (SPT) to track Nibiru? Why else would they build a telescope at the South Pole?

There is a telescope at the South Pole, but it was not built by NASA and not used to study Nibiru. The South Pole Telescope was supported by the National Science Foundation, and it is a radio telescope, not an optical instrument. It cannot take images or photos. You can look it up on Wikipedia. The Antarctic is a great place for astronomical infrared and short-wave-radio observations, and it also has the advantage that objects can be observed continuously without the interference of the day-night cycle.

I should add that it is impossible to imagine a geometry in which an object can be seen only from the South Pole. Even if it were due south of the Earth, it could be seen from the entire southern hemisphere.
6. There are many photos and videos of Nibiru on the Internet. Isn’t that proof that it exists?

The great majority of the photos and videos on the Internet are of some feature near the Sun (apparently supporting the claim that Nibiru has been hiding behind the Sun for the past several years.) These are actually false images of the Sun caused by internal reflections in the lens, often called lens flare. You can identify them easily by the fact that they appear diametrically opposite the real solar image, as if reflected across the center of the image. This is especially obvious in videos, where as the camera moves, the false image dances about always exactly opposite the real image. Similar lens flare is a source of many UFO photos taken at night with strong light sources such as streetlights in the frame. I am surprised that people don’t recognize this common photo artifact. I am also amazed that these photos showing something nearly as large and bright as the Sun (a “second sun”) are accepted together with claims made on some of the same websites that Nibiru is too faint to be seen or photographed except with large telescopes.

One widely reported telescopic photo (www.greatdreams.com/nibiru-possible.jpg) shows two views of an expanding gas cloud far beyond the solar system, which is not moving; you can see this from the fact that the stars are the same in both pictures. A sharp-eyed reader of this website identified these photos as a gas shell around the star V838 Mon. Wikipedia has a nice write-up and a beautiful photo of it from Hubble. Another high school student was initially impressed by posted images of a red blob that were said to be of Nibiru. Then he worked out in his Photoshop class how to make just such pictures starting from scratch.
One video posted in summer 2008 on Youtube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKtkWIx00A) shows a guy standing in his kitchen claiming that one of the objects discovered by a NASA x-ray telescope is Nibiru. What is his evidence? That since this false-color x-ray image released by NASA is blue, this must really be a nearby planet with an ocean. This would be hilarious if it were not used to frighten people.
7. Can you explain the fact that the area at (5h 53m 27s, -6 10’ 58”) has been blackened out in Google Sky and Microsoft Telescope? People suggest that these have been blackened out because those are the co-ordinates where Nibiru is located at present.

Several people have asked me about this blank rectangle in Orion in Google Sky, which is a presentation of images from the Sloan Digital Survey. This can’t be a “hiding place” for Nibiru, since it is a part of the sky that could be seen from almost everywhere on the Earth in the winter of 2007-08 when much of the talk about Nibiru began. That would contradict the claims that Nibiru was hiding behind the Sun or that it could be seen only from the southern hemisphere. But I too was curious about this blank rectangle, so I asked a friend who is a senior scientist at Google. He replied that he “found out that the missing data is due to a processing error in the image stitching program we use to display the Sloan survey images. The team assures me that in the next run through, this will be fixed!”
8. If the government knew about Nibiru, wouldn’t they keep it a secret to avoid panic? Isn’t it the government’s job to keep the population at ease?

There are many objectives of government, but they do not include keeping the population at ease. My experience is that sometimes parts of the government do just the opposite, as in the frequent references to various terrorist threats or warnings about driving accidents on long holiday weekends, which are no more dangerous than any other time. There is a long history of associating bad things with political opponents (older readers will remember the “missile gap” in the 1960 election, younger ones will note the many current references to who is or is not keeping the U.S. safe from terrorists). Further, social scientists have pointed out that many of our concepts of public panic are the product of Hollywood, while in the real world people have a good record of helping each other in a time of danger. I think everyone also recognizes that keeping bad news secret usually backfires, making the issue even worse when the facts finally come out. And in the case of Nibiru, these facts would come out very soon indeed.

Even if they wanted to, the government could not keep Nibiru a secret. If it were real, it would be tracked by thousands of astronomers, amateurs as well a professional. These astronomers are spread all over the world. I know the astronomy community, and these scientists would not keep a secret even if ordered to. You just can’t hide a planet on its way to the inner solar system!
9. Why does the Mayan calendar say the world will end in 2012? I have heard that they have been pretty accurate in the past with other planetary predictions. How can you be sure you know more than they did?

Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage of time, not for predicting the future. The Mayan astronomers were clever, and they developed a very complex calendar. Ancient calendars are interesting to historians, but of they cannot match the ability we have today to keep track of time, or the precision of the calendars currently in use. The main point, however, is that calendars, whether contemporary or ancient, cannot predict the future of our planet or warn of things to happen on a specific date such as 2012.

I note that my desk calendar ends much sooner, on December 31 2009, but I do not interpret this as a prediction of Armageddon. It is just the beginning of a new year.
10. What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours? Does this have something to do to do with our solar system dipping beneath the galactic equator?

A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. It has never happened and never will. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway. But they falsely claim that a magnetic reversal is coming soon (in 2012) and that this is the same as, or will trigger, a reversal of rotational poles. The bottom line is: (a) Rotation direction and magnetic polarity are not related. (b) There is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon, or to anticipate any bad effects on life when it does eventually happen. © A sudden shift in rotational pole with disastrous consequences is impossible. Also, none of this has anything to do with the galactic equator or any of the other nonsense about alignments that appears on many of the conspiracy theory websites.
11. When most of the planets align in 2012 and planet Earth is in the center of the Milky Way, what will the effects of this be on planet Earth? Could it cause a pole shift, and if so what could we expect?

There is no planet alignment in 2012 or any other time in the next several decades. As to the Earth being in the center of the Milky Way, I don’t know what this phrase means. If you are referring to the Milky Way Galaxy, we are rather far toward the edge of this spiral galaxy, some 30,000 light years from the center. We circle the galactic center in a period of 225-250 million years, always keeping approximately the same distance. Concerning a pole shift, I also don’t know what this means. If it means some sudden change in the position of the pole (that is, the rotation axis of the Earth), then that is impossible, as noted in the answer to Question 10. What many websites do discuss is the alignment of the Earth and Sun with the center of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius. This happens every December, with no bad consequences, and there is no reason to expect 2012 to be different from any other year.
12. When the sun and the Earth line up on the galactic plane at the same time with the black whole being in the center couldn’t that cause something to happen, due to the fact that the black hole has such a strong gravitational pull.

There is a giant black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and like any concentration of mass it exerts gravitational force on the rest of the Galaxy. However, the galactic center is very far away, approximately 30,000 light years, so it has negligible effects on the solar system or the Earth. There are no special forces from the galactic plane or the galactic center. The only important force that acts on the Earth is the gravitation of the Sun and Moon. As far as the influence of the galactic plane, there is nothing special about this location. The last time the Earth was in the galactic plane was several million years ago. Claims that we are about to cross the galactic plane are untrue.
13. I am scared about the fact that the Earth will enter the Dark Rift in the Milky Way. What will this do? Will the Earth be swallowed up?

The “dark rift” is a popular name for the broad and diffuse dust clouds in the
inner arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, which block our view of the galactic
center. The entire “galactic alignment” scare is pretty crazy. Late in
December the Sun is always approximately in the direction of the center of
the Galaxy as seen from the Earth, but so what? Apparently the con-men who are trying to scare you have decided to use these meaningless phrases about “alignments” and the “dark rift” and “photon belt” precisely because they are not understood by the public. It is too bad, but there is no law against lying on the Internet or anywhere else except in a court of law. As far as the safety of the Earth is concerned, the important threats are from global warming and loss of biological diversity, and perhaps someday from collision with an asteroid or comet, not the pseudoscientific claims about 2012.
14. I have heard that the Earth’s magnetic field will flip in 2012 just when the strongest level of solar storms in history is predicted to take place. Will this kill us or destroy our civilization?

Near solar maximum (which happens every 11 years approximately), there are many more solar flares and coronal mass ejections than near solar minimum. Flares and mass ejections are no danger for humans or other life on Earth. They could endanger astronauts in deep space or on the Moon, and this is something that NASA must learn to deal with, but it is not a problem for you or me. Large outbursts can interrupt radio transmission, cause bright displays of the aurora (Northern and Southern Lights), and damage the electronics of some satellites in space. Today many satellites are designed to deal with this possibility, for example by switching off some of their more delicate circuits and going into a “safe” mode for a few hours. In extreme cases solar activity can also disrupt electrical transmissions on the ground, possibly leading to electrical blackouts, but this is rare.

The last solar maximum occurred in 2001, so the next one was predicted for around 2012, 11 years later. However, the most recent solar minimum was unusual, with a period of a couple of years with almost no sunspots or other indications of solar activity, so scientists now guess that the next maximum will be delayed, perhaps to 2013. However, the details of the solar cycle remain basically unpredictable.

You are correct that the Earth’s magnetic field protects us by creating a large region in space, called the Earth’s magnetosphere, within which most of the material ejected from the Sun is captured or deflected, but there is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time soon. These magnetic reversals happen only once in 400,000 years on average.
15. I am confused about a report on the Fox News website that in 2012 a “Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months”. They referred to a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was commissioned and paid for by NASA. If nothing is going to happen as a result of the event in 2012, why would NASA allow such nonsense to be reported?

NASA is pleased with the National Research Council report on heliophysics. As you note, this report includes a worst-case analysis of what could happen today if there were a repetition of the biggest solar storm ever recorded (in 1859). The problem is the way such information can be used out of context. There is no reason to expect such a large solar storm in the near future, certainly not in 2012 specifically. Your reference to “the event in 2012” illustrates this problem. There is no prediction of an “event in 2012”. We don’t even know if the next solar maximum will take place in that year. The whole 2012 disaster scenario is a hoax, fueled by ads for the Hollywood science-fiction disaster film “2012”. I can only hope that most people are able to distinguish Hollywood film plots from reality.
16. All my school friends are telling me that we are all going to die in the year 2012 due to a meteor hitting earth. Is this true?

Your friends are wrong. The Earth has always been subject to impacts by comets and asteroids, although big hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 million years ago, and that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids long before they hit. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the discoveries posted every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website (neo.jpl.nasa.gov), so you can see for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in 2012.
17. If Nibiru is a hoax, why doesn’t NASA issue a denial? How can you permit these stores to circulate and frighten people? Why doesn’t the U.S. government do something about it!

If you go to the NASA home page, nasa.gov, you will see many stories that expose the Nibiru-2012 hoax. Try searching nasa.com under “Nibiru” or “2012”. There is not much more that NASA can do. These hoaxes have nothing to do with NASA and are not based on NASA data, so we as an agency are not directly involved. But scientists, both within NASA and outside, recognize that this hoax with its effort to frighten people is a distraction from more important science concerns, such as global warming and loss of biological diversity. We live in a country where there is freedom of speech, and that includes freedom to lie. You should be glad there are no censors. But if you will just use common sense I am sure you can recognize the lies. As we approach 2012, the lies will be come even more obvious.
18. Can you prove to me that Nibiru is a hoax? There are so many reports that something terrible will happen in 2012. I need proof because the government and NASA are keeping so much from us.

It is not logical to ask for proof that the 2012 doomsday is a hoax. Your questions should be to the doomsday advocates to prove that what they are saying is true, not to NASA to prove it is false. If someone claimed on the Internet that there were 50-foot tall purple elephants walking through Cleveland, would anyone expect NASA to prove this wrong? The burden of proof falls on those who make wild claims. Remember the often-quoted comment from Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary levels of evidence if they are to be believed.

However, I think that astronomers have reached the point where we can offer extremely strong arguments that Nibiru does not exist. A large planet (or a brown dwarf) in our solar system would have been known to astronomers for many years, both indirectly from its gravitational perturbations on other objects and by direct detection in the infrared. The NASA Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) carried out the first all-sky survey in 1983, and several subsequent surveys would also have seen Nibiru if it were there. Further, if a large mass passed through the inner solar system every 3600 years, we would see its disruptive effects on the orbits of the inner planets, and we don’t.

You don’t need to take my word for it. Just use common sense. Have you seen Nibiru? In 2008 many websites said it would be visible to the naked eye in spring 2009. If a large planet or brown dwarf were headed for the inner solar system in 2012, it would already be tracked by hundreds of thousands of astronomers, professional and amateur, all over the world. Do you know any amateur astronomers who are watching it? Have you seen any photos or discussion of it in the big popular astronomy magazines like Sky & Telescope? Just think about it. No one could hide Nibiru if it existed.
19. What about the scary ads for the new film 2012? They tell us to look at these Internet sites to verify the doomsday threat.

The pseudoscientific claims about Nibiru and a doomsday in 2012, together with distrust of the government, are being amplified by publicity for the new film from Columbia Pictures titled 2012, to be released in November 2009. The film’s trailer, appearing in theaters and on their website , shows a tidal wave breaking over the Himalayas, with only the following words: “How would the governments of our planet prepare 6 billion people for the end of the world? [long pause] They wouldn’t. [long pause] Find out the Truth. Google search 2012”.

The film publicity includes creation of a faux scientific website (www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/) for “The Institute for Human Continuity”, which is entirely fictitious. According to this website, the IHC is dedicated to scientific research and public preparedness. Its mission is the survival of mankind. The website explains that the Institute was founded 1978 by international leaders of government, business, and science. They say that in 2004, IHC scientists confirmed with 94% certainty that the world would be destroyed in 2012. This website encourages people to register for a lottery to select those who will be saved; a colleague submitted the name of her cat, which was accepted. I learned from Wikipedia that creating this sort of fake website is a new advertising technique called “Viral Marketing”, by analogy with computer viruses.
20. Is it possible that the influx of questions you describe is part of some kind of campaign for a book or movie, in the hopes that the volume of denials is taken as more “evidence” that there is a conspiracy?

I ask myself the same questions every day, as the volume of mail I receive about Nibiru (along with various alignments and pole shifts) keeps increasing — now more than 20 per week. Clearly there is money to be made from people’s fear about an approaching doomsday. Some of this hype is apparently advertising for the science fiction disaster movie 2012 (see Question 19). Many websites are selling books and tapes about Nibiru or even “survival kits”. It is all very sad, that with so many real issues (such as global warming and financial collapse) people are being taken in by these lies. In the final chapter of a new astronomy book (The Hunt for Planet X) by Govert Shilling, he writes: “There is plenty to do for the debunkers – the archaeologists and astronomers who take a long and skeptical look at the tidal wave of Nibiru nonsense and explain with scientific precision what is wrong with this cosmic fairy-tale. They will have their work cut out in the next few years. And on December 22, 2012 there will be a new pseudoscientific cock-and-bull story doing the rounds and the whole circus will start all over again. Because no matter how many new celestial bodies are found in our solar system, there will always be a need for a mysterious Planet X.”

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