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On the 28th July 1540 Thomas Cromwell, who had for served as chief minister to King Henry VIII, was executed at Tower Hill in London. For nearly ten years Cromwell was one of the strongest and most powerful proponents of the English Reformation, coming to the fore through his engineering of the annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon in 1533. During his years in power, he skillfully managed Crown finances and extended royal authority. In 1536, he established the Court of Augmentations to handle the massive windfall to the royal coffers from the Dissolution of the Monasteries. He strengthened royal authority in the north of England through reform of the Council of the North, extended royal power and introduced Protestantism in Ireland, and was the architect of the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542, which promoted stability and gained acceptance for the royal supremacy in Wales.
During this period Cromwell made many enemies and there were no shortage of those who would try and to oust him from his position of power. In 1540 he arranged for Henry to marry the German Princess Anne of Cleves, who Cromwell hoped would help breath fresh life into the Reformation in England and help protect England against the possibility of a French / Imperial alliance. This appears to have been a costly mistake, as the king was reportedly shocked by her plain appearance and Cromwell was accused of exaggerating her beauty. The wedding ceremony took place on January 6th at Greenwich, but the marriage was not consummated. For Cromwell’s conservative opponents, most notably the Duke of Norfolk, the King's anger at being forced to marry Anne was the opportunity to topple him they had been waiting for.
Cromwell was arrested at a Council meeting on June 10th and accused of various charges. His initial reaction was defiance: "This then is my reward for faithful service!" he cried out, and angrily defied his fellow Councillors to call him a traitor. A Bill of Attainder containing a long list of indictments, including supporting Anabaptists, corrupt practices, leniency in matters of justice, acting for personal gain, protecting Protestants accused of heresy and thus failing to enforce the Act of Six Articles, and plotting to marry Lady Mary Tudor, was introduced into the House of Lords a week later and passed on June 29th.
All Cromwell's honours were forfeited and it was publicly proclaimed that he could be called only "Thomas Cromwell, cloth carder". The King deferred the execution until his marriage to Anne of Cleves could be annulled: Anne, with remarkable common sense, happily agreed to an amicable annulment and was treated with great generosity by Henry as a result. Hoping for clemency, Cromwell wrote in support of the annulment, in his last personal address to the King. He ended the letter: "Most gracious Prince, I cry for mercy, mercy, mercy."
Cromwell was however condemned to death without trial, lost all his titles and property and was publicly beheaded on Tower Hill on July 28th 1540, on the same day as the King's marriage to Catherine Howard. The circumstances of his execution are a source of debate: whilst some accounts state that the executioner had great difficulty severing the head, others claim that this is apocryphal and that it took only one blow. Afterwards, his head was set on a spike on London Bridge.
The king later expressed regret at the loss of his chief minister and later accused his ministers of bringing about Cromwell's downfall by "pretexts" and "false accusations".
CAT9000 utility suits offer the most configurations of any construction suit on the market. With manipulator arms and sight augmentation technology, CAT9000 is ready for the most detailed work... OR slap on the grinding tools and make teardown a breeze. Rip through your next contract in record time with CAT9000!
CAT9000 utility suits offer the most configurations of any construction suit on the market. With manipulator arms and sight augmentation technology, CAT9000 is ready for the most detailed work... OR slap on the grinding tools and make teardown a breeze. Rip through your next contract in record time with CAT9000!
Well, I'm moving my steampunk vague unspecific "Empire" into the era of dieselpunk.
A semi-automatic rifle that is fed from a small drum mag. Features a 22 (+1) ammunition capacity as well as an input port and supporting mechanisms for a Psyk Trooper's Telekinetic Cable Augmentation.
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"A Golden Shadow oversees Hades Colony. The Metropolis of Crime, Augmentation, and Underground Capital of Mars. Home of the Kakusareta Akuma, and Keeper of many dirty little Secrets."
The third and newest location within the Cocoon Lore: Hades Colony, set on Mars. The massive megacorporation that rules over Mars: Advanced Research and Experimental Systems (A.R.E.S) cleansed the colony and allowed a new kind of evil in. And by cleansed I mean absolutely massacred the living hell out of a Cartel in the Colony. Criminal Oriented Characters can now reach Hades Colony and call it home. With Districts such as the oppressive Slums, the enticing Red Light District, the heavy duty Industrial District, the mysterious Faith Center, and the many ways in and out of the colony, criminal oriented characters can feel free from Corporate Law persecution, and from corporate scrutiny. Martian Citizenship may be obtained for a few more bonuses on the Colony.
The Colony represents the oppressive and darker side of the Undeground and it requires you to be strong enough to survive, to exercise your power, and to make a name for yourself.
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Woohoo! More nanotechnology for our bodies: Nanoscale devices; Nanoscale wires; Nanoscale wire sensors; Nanosensors; Nanoscale wire probes; Nanoscale field-effect transistors; Nanotube-electronic Hybrid devices; Nanoelectronic components for cells; nanotube-electronic hybrid devices; Nanostructures; Nanoscopic wire-based devices; Nanoscale wire-based data storage; Nanoscale wire-based memory devices; Nano666 technology!
Check out some patents for this stuff:
patents.justia.com/inventor/charles-m-lieber?page=2
Wall Street Journal: Ray Kurzweil: Future Tech Will Be Part of Us:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausc1hRR4q0&t=6s
Revelation 1:1 “This is the revelation that God gave to Jesus Christ, to show His servants what must happen shortly. His angel revealed this revelation to His slave John, by using signs and symbols.”
Signs, symbols, algorithms, codes, implants, devices, physical, digital, natural, synthetic, human, machine, enhancement, enslavement, control, manipulation, host, parasite, microchips, nanochips, plastic, metallic, humanism, transhumanism, augmentation, amalgamation, robotics, AI, evolution, darwinism, eugenics, cybernetics, godless, luciferian, dystopian, apocalypse, prophetic, revelation, judgment, wrath, heaven, hell.
Approx. 60% of the subject's body was replaced. The new fuel cells are able to power the unit successfully. The Human Augmentation Initiative is proceeding as planned.
En mer, les bas-fonds et les obstacles peuvent constituer un danger caché pour la navigation. Celles-ci sont indiquées sur les cartes marines des zones à fort trafic. Un bon positionnement et une carte marine sont une nécessité pour éviter ces dangers. Une aide supplémentaire consiste à signaler le danger en plaçant des balises. En mer, une balise largement utilisée est la bouée.
Pour indiquer l'emplacement du danger, des bouées de formes, de couleurs, de voyants et de lumières diverses sont utilisées selon un système disposé. Système de balise. Chaque région avait son propre système. En raison de l'augmentation du trafic international, le besoin d'un système général s'est fait sentir pour plus de clarté.
Le marquage cardinal est un moyen de baliser les obstacles tels que les bancs et les épaves. La forme et le signal lumineux dépendent de la position de la voie d'eau sûre par rapport à la bouée. L'Association internationale des autorités des phares a établi ce système au niveau international dans le système de flottabilité maritime de l'AISM (International Association of Lighthouse Authorities).
La bouée Nieuwpoortbank est une bouée cardinale Ouest. Les pointes des cônes se dirigent l'une vers l'autre et la couleur est jaune-noir-jaune.
La bouée Nieuwpoortbank est une bouée flottante ouest du système de bouées cardinales.
Jusqu'au début des années 1990, cette bouée flottait au-dessus du bord sud-ouest du banc de Nieuport pour indiquer que le banc doit être passé le long du côté ouest de la bouée pour rester dans les eaux navigables.
Caractéristiques:
type : jaune – noir – jaune
voyant : deux cônes superposés dont les extrémités pointent l'un
vers l'autre
longueur de la tour : 6,55 m
longueur de queue + corps : 8,16 m
longueur totale : 17,6 m
diamètre du corps : 3,1
m longueur de chaîne : 40 m
chaîne en pierre poids : 2750 kg
poids bouée : 10000 kg
gaz propane bouée : 4 kg pression
At sea, shallows and obstacles can constitute a hidden danger to navigation. These are shown on nautical charts of high traffic areas. A good positioning and a nautical chart are a necessity to avoid these dangers. An additional help is to signal the danger by placing beacons. At sea, a widely used beacon is the buoy.
To indicate the location of the danger, buoys of various shapes, colors, lights and lights are used according to an arranged system. Beacon system. Each region had its own system. Due to the increase in international traffic, the need for a general system has arisen for greater clarity.
Cardinal marking is a way to mark obstacles such as benches and wrecks. The shape and the light signal depend on the position of the safe waterway in relation to the buoy. The International Association of Lighthouse Authorities has established this system internationally in the IALA (International Association of Lighthouse Authorities) Maritime Buoyancy System.
The Nieuwpoortbank buoy is a West cardinal buoy. The tips of the cones point towards each other and the color is yellow-black-yellow.
The Nieuwpoortbank buoy is a western floating buoy in the cardinal buoy system.
Until the early 1990s, this buoy floated above the southwest edge of Nieuport Bank to indicate that the bank must be passed along the west side of the buoy to remain in navigable waters.
Characteristics:
type: yellow - black - yellow
indicator: two superimposed cones, the ends of which point to one
towards the other
tower length: 6.55 m
tail + body length: 8.16 m
total length: 17.6 m
body diameter: 3.1
m chain length: 40m
stone chain weight: 2750 kg
buoy weight: 10,000 kg
propane gas buoy: 4 kg pressure
Class 207 type 3-D DEMU set no. 1302 is seen emerging from Grove Hill Tunnel into Tunbridge Wells Central with train 2L24 the 12.34 Eridge to Tonbridge.
1302 receive TOPS set number 207 002 in August 1986 as a 3-car set. From March 1992 it was reduced to a 2-car set for use on the Hastings - Ashford line and renumbered 207 103 with the intermediate trailer 60601 being scrapped in May 1992. Then in May 1995 the unit was selected for augmentation with a 4-CEP EMU centre coach 70286 and was reclassified as a 3-MAG (Marshlink Additional Gangway) and renumbered 207 203. Against all odds it then became the last class 207 unit in service being withdrawn in January 2005. It was saved for preservation as a 2-car formed of vehicles 60127+60901 as the intermediate EMU coach 70286 went to Immingham for scrap. The unit is now to be found on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway.
A surgeon overlooks an augmentation procedure deep in within Bishop Industries, this hemisphere's foremost augmentation specialist.
Inspired by Tayasuune.
52x60 boxpleat
La version précédente de ce modèle était plutôt bien réussie, mais je n'ai jamais aimé ses cornes. J'ai donc tenté une version améliorée avec: meilleures cornes, personnage plus défini avec moins de demi-divisions, gueule plus profonde, nez et mâchoire séparés, augmentation du nombre de dents de 50%. J'aime beaucoup l'effet des pupilles plus visibles si on regarde du point de vue du personnage. Les yeux étaient sensés être plus rapprochés du nez, mais les épaisseurs du modèles en ont fait autrement (visible au niveau de la bouche.) Cette version peut également avoir une bouche plus ouverte ou fermée. Malgré toutes les modifications apportées, cette version reste très similaire à la précédente.
The previous version of this model was well done, but I never liked its horns. I then tried an upgraded version with: better horns, more defined character with less semi-divisions, deeper maw, separated nose and jaw, number of teeth increase by 50%. I really like the effect of the pupils more visible when seen from the character's point of view. The eyes were supposed to be closer to the nose, but the layers of the model gave a different effect (visible on the mouth). This version can also have its mouth more opened or closed. Even with all the modifications, this version remains quite similar to the previous one.
Though small, Sir Manx Silverwing is widely recognized as one of the finest warriors the Silver Claw Order has ever produced.
Preferring a pair of bladed gauntlets which have evolved from standard blades to currently housing his legendary 'Wraith Blades', magically enhanced plasma blades.
He has also undergone cybernetic augmentation in recent years. Adding the OptiGuard visual enhancement and protection system, Wired Reflex Synapses, SmartGun tech, datajack, and a custom suit of light battle cyberarmor.
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[Mesh Bento Body] Maitreya Lara
[Mesh Bento Head] Catwa Catya
[Mesh Bento Facial Piercings] Blaxium Aradia
[ Mesh Collar] Cult Rise]
[Mesh Hair] Olive The Cybernetic
[Mesh Robo Legs] Blah love Ai
[Mesh Bento Arm] Fika Antebrachium Augmentation
[Mesh Watch] Junk Food Hologram Watch
[Mesh Glasses] Sekas Hvcked eye
[Mesh Outfit] Glitzz Midnight
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"One thing which Trannies and Crossdressers never will get is feminine sex appeal, Sorry not sorry boys"
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A failed Peregrine clutch. Always so disappointing to come across at Peregrine nest sites. This ledge was flooded in heavy rains and without adequate drainage it simply goes pair shaped for them. In recent years we have been trying to help various pairs of Peregrines by making some 'changes' to the ledge in order to afford them better protection from such cases. Unfortunately not all ledges conducive to augmentation though. Hoping for a better result this season.
I just got my breast augmentation last week and I'm healing well..I hoping to get some pix done soon so stand by... Next surgery hopefully after the first of the year...my facial feminization then I'll be complete!!! FYI if you notice the picture just before this is the same top as in this one, and you can obviously see the difference the breast augmentation has made, sort of a before and after shots. Thanks to one very humble friend for gifting me PRO, he is a gentleman and special to me. You know who you are I won’t post your name out of respect wanted to let you know I appreciate it so much, thank you once again 💋
...so I relish the challenge of buying cheap dresses on eBay and the ever popular charity shop finds. I always try to keep it all below £5, sometimes only £2 per item. Anyway, that policy goes for the foundation garments too, so no fancy breast augmentations for me. Trying something new here, a digital augmentation. This dress seemed to be calling out for more cleavage and I have the kit here and know how to give it a whirl. Modest working, but it helped. But who am I kidding, who's looking at those digital breasts anyway?
Used the updated Luminar 4.2 with Augmented Sky feature to dress up this shot of our Namibian safari guide on a rocky outcrop, looking for Black Rhino. Just wanted to check it out! Reality alert!
Your #Luxury #Companion
"Sex is like money; only Ttoo much is enough. And you love to spoil me with both."
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Approx. 60% of the subject's body was replaced. The new fuel cells are able to power the unit successfully. The Human Augmentation Initiative is proceeding as planned.
My #Fashion
"Like me, real fur is incredibly luxaglam."
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Kaya
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A hulking beast, the WXM6 is only to be used by soldiers with appropriate augmentations, such as the BELTFEED forearm (shown) and a support exoskeleton (not shown). Due to extreme rapid fire, the WXM6 is easily able to tear through walls, infantry, and arial units. Armour piercing rounds are available, making short work of tanks and other armoured units as well.
The feathers are for luck.
Earlier this week the local media was waxing lyrical about this year's autumn display; Lakeland in particular.
If, like me, you turned up yesterday (3rd Nov'), this was the order of the day, as wave after wave of sullen drizzle bursts swept the celebrated landscape.
Going monochrome seemed to reflect my feelings for the day (you don't say!); I had no intention of photography in this light but, as the day neared an end, I suddenly thought I'd go back to my black & white roots & attempt something less fanciful; something more truthful maybe.
No doubt the technically unrestrained out there would transform this into something more dynamic; I, for one, am getting more & more fed up with Flickr uploads that attempt to turn our beautiful landscapes into grotesque fantasy lands that simply don't exist in reality. This practise would seem to conclude that what we have scenically is somehow inadequate & therefore requires a level of augmentation that doesn't answer to taste.
The bottom line is that these over-indulgences seemingly attract more attention - & much more so than competent & considered composition does.
But that's another can of worms...
Alors comme ca tu veux une augmentation?
C'est pas grave si j'suis pas blonde?
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🇫🇷 Avec la fin de l'apartheid ,des quartiers plus décents ont été construits... Mais la fin de la ségrégation a attiré des populations rurales vers les grandes villes..... entrainant une saturation des demandes de logements et une augmentation du coût de construction et des locations......[le critère racial ou ethnique a été banni, laissant sa place au statut socio-économique des résidents.] Les plus pauvres se sont installés dans les zones périphériques , perpétuant le fait"township".
En Af du Sud , le plus grand Township est Soweto proche de Johanesburg (plus d'un million d'habitants)
Khayelitsha (le plus grand de Cape Town) abrite 49 % de la population du Cap.On devine ici l'état de Khayelitsha et la souffrance de la majorité de ses habitants. Voilà ce qui est proposé aux électeurs pauvres , bien loin des slogans de la "nation arc-en-ciel" mis en avant.
🇬🇧 With the end of apartheid, more decent neighbourhoods were built... But the end of segregation attracted rural populations to the big cities..... resulting in a saturation of demand for housing and an increase in the cost of construction and renting...... [racial or ethnic criteria were banished, leaving their place to the socio-economic status of residents]. The poorest settled in the outlying areas, perpetuating the "township" phenomenon.
In South Africa, the largest township is Soweto near Johanesburg (more than a million inhabitants).
Khayelitsha (the largest in Cape Town) is home to 49% of Cape Town's population, so you can imagine the state of Khayelitsha and the suffering of the majority of its inhabitants. This is what is on offer to poor voters, a far cry from the "rainbow nation" slogans that are being promoted.
🇩🇪 Mit dem Ende der Apartheid wurden menschenwürdige Wohnviertel gebaut. Das Ende der Rassentrennung zog jedoch die Landbevölkerung in die Großstädte....., was zu einer Überlastung der Wohnungsmärkte und zu höheren Bau- und Mietkosten führte......[Rassische oder ethnische Kriterien wurden abgeschafft und durch den sozioökonomischen Status der Bewohner ersetzt]. Die Ärmsten der Armen zogen in die Randgebiete und setzten die Township-Situation fort.
In Südafrika ist das größte Township Soweto in der Nähe von Johanesburg (mehr als eine Million Einwohner).
In Khayelitsha (dem größten Township in Kapstadt) leben 49 % der Bevölkerung Kapstadts. Hier kann man den Zustand von Khayelitsha und das Leid der meisten seiner Bewohner erahnen. Das ist es, was den armen Wählern geboten wird, weit entfernt von den Slogans der "Regenbogennation", die in den Vordergrund gerückt werden.
🇪🇸 Con el fin del apartheid, se construyeron más barrios decentes... Pero el fin de la segregación atrajo a la población rural hacia las grandes ciudades..... lo que provocó una saturación de la demanda de viviendas y un aumento del coste de la construcción y del alquiler...... [se desterraron los criterios raciales o étnicos, dejando su lugar al estatus socioeconómico de los residentes]. Los más pobres se instalaron en las zonas periféricas, perpetuando el fenómeno de los "township".
En Sudáfrica, el mayor township es Soweto, cerca de Johanesburgo (más de un millón de habitantes).
En Khayelitsha (el más grande de Ciudad del Cabo) vive el 49% de la población de Ciudad del Cabo, así que pueden imaginarse el estado de Khayelitsha y el sufrimiento de la mayoría de sus habitantes. Esto es lo que se ofrece a los votantes pobres, muy lejos de los eslóganes de "nación arco iris" que se promueven.
🇮🇹 Con la fine dell'apartheid sono stati costruiti più quartieri decenti... Ma la fine della segregazione attirò le popolazioni rurali verso le grandi città..... conseguente saturazione della domanda di alloggi e aumento dei costi di costruzione e di affitto...... [i criteri razziali o etnici furono banditi, lasciando il posto allo status socio-economico dei residenti]. I più poveri si stabilirono nelle aree periferiche, perpetuando il fenomeno delle "township".
In Sudafrica, la più grande township è Soweto, vicino a Johanesburg (più di un milione di abitanti).
Khayelitsha (la più grande di Città del Capo) ospita il 49% della popolazione di Città del Capo, quindi si può immaginare lo stato di Khayelitsha e la sofferenza della maggior parte dei suoi abitanti. Questo è ciò che viene offerto agli elettori poveri, ben lontano dagli slogan della "nazione arcobaleno" che vengono promossi.
Quincy. Singapore.
f/1.4. 50mm. iso 800. 1/60.
No alteration, minus a very light contrast enhancement. / Pas de retouche, hormis une très légère augmentation des contrastes.
Another play with Luminar 4, turning these old coastal defences at Portsea from bright day to stormy night. Positioned above Cheviot Beach, within the Point Nepean National Park, they are included in a large collection of military installations, dating back before WW1.
Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international and intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics[3] of using such technologies.The most common thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the natural condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings.The contemporary meaning of the term transhumanism was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the human" at The New School in the 1960s, when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles and worldviews "transitional" to posthumanity as "transhuman".This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism as a futurist philosophy in 1990 and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement.
The year 1990 is seen as a "fundamental shift" in human existence by the transhuman community, as the first gene therapy trial,[8] the first designer babies,[9] as well as the mind-augmenting World Wide Web all emerged in that year. In many ways, one could argue the conditions that will eventually lead to the Singularity were set in place by these events in 1990.[original research?]Influenced by seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives including philosophy and religion.Transhumanism has been characterized by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as among the world's most dangerous ideas,to which Ronald Bailey countered that it is rather the "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative and idealistic aspirations of humanity".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
What does it mean to be human? Biology has a simple answer: If your DNA is consistent with Homo sapiens, you are human — but we all know that humanity is a lot more complex and nuanced than that. Other schools of science might classify humans by their sociological or psychological behavior, but again we know that actually being human is more than just the sum of our thoughts and actions. You can also look at being human as a sliding scale. If you were to build a human from scratch, from the bottom up, at some point you cross the threshold into humanity — if you believe in evolution, at some point we ceased being a great ape and became human. Likewise, if you slowly remove parts from a human, you cross the threshold into inhumanity. Again, though, we run into the same problem: How do we codify, classify, and ratify what actually makes us human?Does adding empathy make us human? Does removing the desire to procreate make us inhuman? If I physically alter my brain to behave in a different, non-standard way, am I still human? If I have all my limbs removed and my head spliced onto a robot, am I still human? (See: Upgrade your ears: Elective auditory implants give you cyborg hearing.) At first glance these questions might sound inflammatory and hyperbolic, or perhaps surreal and sci-fi, but don’t be fooled: In the next decade, given the continued acceleration of computer technology and biomedicine, we will be forced to confront these questions and attempt to find some answers.
Transhumanism is a cultural and intellectual movement that believes we can, and should, improve the human condition through the use of advanced technologies. One of the core concepts in transhumanist thinking is life extension: Through genetic engineering, nanotech, cloning, and other emerging technologies, eternal life may soon be possible. Likewise, transhumanists are interested in the ever-increasing number of technologies that can boost our physical, intellectual, and psychological capabilities beyond what humans are naturally capable of (thus the term transhuman). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), for example, which speeds up reaction times and learning speed by running a very weak electric current through your brain, has already been used by the US military to train snipers. On the more extreme side, transhumanism deals with the concepts of mind uploading (to a computer), and what happens when we finally craft a computer with greater-than-human intelligence (the technological singularity). (See: How to create a mind, or die trying.Beyond the obvious benefits of eternal life or superhuman strength, transhumanism also investigates the potential dangers and ethical pitfalls of human enhancement. In the case of life extension, if every human on Earth suddenly stopped dying, overpopulation would trigger a very rapid and very dramatic socioeconomic disaster. Unless we stopped giving birth to babies, of course, but that merely rips open another can of worms: Without birth and death, would society and humanity continue to grow and evolve, or would it stagnate, suffocated by the accumulated ego of intellectuals and demagogues who just will not die? Likewise, if only the rich have access to intelligence- and strength-boosting drugs and technologies, what would happen to society? Should everyone have the right to boost their intellect? Would society still operate smoothly if everyone had an IQ of 300 and five doctorate degrees?As you can see, things get complicated quickly when discussing transhumanist ideas — and life extension and augmented intelligence and strength are just the tip of the iceberg! This philosophical and ethical complexity stems from the fact that transhumanism is all about fusing humans with technology — and technology is advancing, improving, and breaking new ground very, very quickly. Humans have always used technology, of course — our ability to use tools and grasp concepts such as science and physics are what set us apart from other animals — but never has society been so intrinsically linked and underpinned by it. As we have seen in just the last few years, with the advent of the smartphone and ubiquitous high-speed mobile networks, just a handful of new technologies now have the power to completely change how we interact with the the world and people around us..Humans, on the other hand, and the civilizations that they build, move relatively slowly. It took us millions of years to discover language, and thousands more to discover medicine and the scientific method. In the few thousand years since, up until the last century or so, we doubled the human life span, but neurology and physiology were impenetrable black boxes. In just the last 100 years, we’ve doubled our life span again, created bionic eyes and powered exoskeletons, begun to understand how the human brain actually works, and started to make serious headway with boosting intellectual and physical prowess. We’ve already mentioned how tDCS is being used to boost cranial capacity, and as we’ve seen in recent years, sportspeople have definitely shown the efficacy of physical doping.An early television: It would've seemed incredibly alien to our grandparentsIt is due to this jarring juxtaposition — the historical slowness of human and societal evolution vs. the breakneck pace of modern technology — that many find transhumanism to be unpalatable. After all, as I’ve described it here, transhumanism is almost the very definition of unnatural. You’re quite within your rights to find transhumanism a bit, well, weird. And it is weird, don’t get me wrong — but so are most emerging technologies. Do you think that your great grandparents weren’t wigged out by the first television sets? Before it garnered the name “television,” one of its inventors gave it the rather spooky name of “distant electric vision.” Can you imagine the wariness in which passengers approached the first steam trains? Vast mechanical beasts that could pull hundreds of tons and moved far faster than the humble — but state-of-the-art — horse and carriage.The uneasiness that surround new, paradigm-shifting technologies isn’t new, and it has only been amplified by the exponential acceleration of technology that has occurred during our lifetime. If you were born 500 years ago, odds are that you wouldn’t experience a single societal-shifting technology in your lifetime — today, a 40 year old will have lived through the creation of the PC, the internet, the smartphone, and brain implants, to name just a few life-changing technologies. It is unsettling, to say the least, to have the rug repeatedly pulled out from under you, especially when it’s your livelihood at stake. Just think about how many industries and jobs have been obliterated or subsumed by the arrival of the digital computer, and it’s easy to see why we’re wary of transhumanist technologies that will change the very fabric of human civilization.The good news, though, is that humans are almost infinitely adaptable. While you or I might balk at the idea of a brain-computer interface that allows us to download our memories to a PC, and perhaps upload new memories a la The Matrix, our children — who can use smartphones at the age of 24 months, and communicate chiefly through digital means — will probably think nothing of it. For the children of tomorrow, living through a series of disruptive technologies that completely change their lives will be the norm. There might still be some resistance when I opt to have my head spliced onto a robotic exoskeleton, but within a generation children will be used to seeing Iron Seb saving people from car crashes and flying alongside airplanes.The fact of the matter is that transhumanism is just a modern term for an age-old phenomenon. We have been augmenting our humanity — our strength, our wisdom, our empathy — with tools since prehistory. We have always been spooked by technologies that seem unnatural or that cause us to act in inhuman ways — it’s simply human nature. That all changes with the children of today, however. To them, anything that isn’t computerized, digital, and touch-enabled seems unnatural. To them, the smartphone is already an extension of the brain; to them, mind uploading, bionic implants and augmentations, and powered exoskeletons will just be par for the course. To them, transhumanism will just seem like natural evolution — and anyone who doesn’t follow suit, just like those fuddy-duddies who still don’t have a smartphone, will seem thoroughly inhuman.
www.extremetech.com/extreme/152240-what-is-transhumanism-...
Humanity+ is an international nonprofit membership organization that advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. In other words, we want people to be better than well.Our Humanity+ conferences explore innovations of science and technology and their relationship to humanity. Recent conferences have been held at San Francisco State University, Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, California Technology Institute, and Harvard University.
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Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it.Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of human freedom and progress. In modern times, humanist movements are typically aligned with secularism, and today humanism typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centred on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.[
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During testing, the stability augmentation system required a lot of fine-tuning. Although the Arrow was not the first aircraft to use such a system, it was one of the first to use a three axes system that other aircraft did not and was consequently problematic. But, this was not the only advanced system developed for the Arrow. Avro’s engineers had created the first non-experimental fly-by-wire control system in an aircraft and a nvaigational computer that used real-time telemetry. The Arrow’s thin wings also nbecessitated the first 4,000 lb/in2 (28 MPa) hydraulic system to supply enough force to the control surfaces using small actuators and piping. The fly-by-wire system used the pilot’s inputs to activate a series of pressure-sensitive transducers in the control stick that sent the signal to an electronic control servo that operated the valves in the hydraulic system to move the various flight controls. This resulted in a lack of control feel so to recreate the mechanical sense, the same electronic control box partly responded to the hydraulic back-pressure fluctuations and triggered actuators in the stick, making it move slightly. Test pilots came to call this “artifical feel” and was an aviation first.
In this image, RL-203 shoots through the skies in southern Ontario. All of the flight tests were conducted at Malton airport. However, on 2 February 1959, a TCA Viscount passenger airplane crash-landed in Toronto, nessistating the test flight be diverted and landing at CFB Trenton. Note the wing fences extending from the dog-tooth to control airflow over the wing. The fences for swept-wing aircraft keep airflow from bleeding to the wingtips and creating a nose-down pitching moment, thus preventing the entire wing from stalling. Soviet aircraft designers employed this technique on several of their aircraft; Western examples are limited.
MSFC artist’s concept depicting an aft view of the Liquid Boost Module proposed to meet DoD launch requirements for missions originating from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Additionally, from the abstract of “SHUTTLE PERFORMANCE AUGMENTATION WITH THE TITAN LIQUID BOOST MODULE”, proposed by the Martin Marietta Corporation & Aerojet Liquid Rocket Company, and linked to below:
“The projected 24,000-pound payload lift capability for the baseline Space Shuttle, with anticipated orbiter and external tank weight savings programs implemented, will not meet the 32,000-pound payload requirements for the DoD Mission 4 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. NASA has selected the Titan Liquid Boost Module (LBM) to provide thrust augmentation during the boost phase sufficient to meet and provide margin for the defined Mission 4 requirements. The LBM will use Titan 34D Stage I engines and a cluster of four Titan derived 10-foot diameter tanks. The module will be attached to the aft end of the ET. This paper will provide a description of the LBM and discuss some of its advantages and capabilities.”
At, with a whole lot more, to include diagrams:
commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2565&con...
Credit: EMBRY-RIDDLE Aeronautical University Scholarly Commons website
“Mission 4" requirement:
“…The requirement to increase the Western Test Range (WTR) payload capability by 8,000 pounds is to satisfy the Performance Reference Mission 4 requirement of 32,000 pounds deployed and 25,000 pounds retrieved at 150 NM circular and 98-degree inclination on a 4-man, 7-day mission. This requirement encompasses all known, projected civil and military needs during the current mission model period.”
Again, for shuttle purposes, WTR applies to VAFB.
From/at:
www.gao.gov/assets/masad-81-6.pdf
Credit: GAO website
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