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FIDDLING WITH OLD MINUTIAE. “For this reason, most SETI practitioners are effectively “hobbyists,” writing papers in their spare time on how one might perform SETI searches if one were funded, or addressing theoretical issues such as “resolutions” to the Fermi Paradox or calculations via the Drake Equation.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

COWED AND BEATEN. “NASA learned its lesson: since then it has provided very little support for the field. To the best of our knowledge, since 1993 there have been four NASA grants and five NSF grants to support actual searches for extraterrestrial technology, totalling $4.7 million. Four of these grants totalling $2.6 million supported the development of radio instrumentation and SETI@Home, and the other five totalling $2.1 million supported science and operations of radio telescopes. The first of these grants began in 2001, meaning that​ the total federal expenditure on SETI in the past 18 years has been about $260,000 per year including overhead, or between 1–2 FTEs on average.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

EFFECTS ON INSECTS. “The significantly altered gene expression of CRY1 and CRY2 under the NZMF suggest their developmental stage-specific patterns and potential upstream location in magnetic response. Our study suggests an important role of the geomagnetic field (GMF) in modulating development and physiology of insects.” (NZMF = near zero magnetic field). https://lnkd.in/ggMJNzs View in LinkedIn

THE END TO THE SEARCH. “In October 1992 NASA launched the High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS), only to see it suddenly and surprisingly cut in September 1993 via a successful, last-minute amendment by Senator Richard Bryan, who proudly announced “This hopefully will be the end of Martian hunting at the taxpayer’s expense”, and more quietly made it known that if future NASA budgets contained a SETI program, then the entire agency budget would be at risk.” https://lnkd.in/djnMhU6 View in LinkedIn

THE NUANCES. “A number of studies have established the effects of solar-geomagnetic activity on the human cardio-vascular system. These findings suggest that the heliophysical conditions before or after the admission affect the hazard ratio of lethal outcome; adjusting for clinical variables, these effects were stronger for women and older patients.” https://lnkd.in/dRix2gd View in LinkedIn

TIED TO THE COSMOS. “These findings add to the growing evidence that solar magnetic storm periodicities are mirrored by cyclic phase-locked rhythms of similar period length or lengths in human physiology and pathophysiology.” http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2010.0574 View in LinkedIn

PERIODICITY IN PATHOLOGY. “After determining that sunspot numbers and solar flux, which were not annually rhythmic, occurred with a prominent 10-year and a less-prominent 5.75-year periodicity during this 21-year study span, each biological data set was analyzed with the same curve-fitting procedures. All six annually rhythmic Pap smear-detected infectious, premalignant and malignant cervical epithelial pathologies showed strong 10-year and weaker 5.75-year cycles, as did all six self-measured, annually rhythmic, physiologic functions.” http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2010.0574 View in LinkedIn

BOTH EXTREMES. “Study linking environmental physical activity levels and the human medical data shows that human beings are predisposed to adverse health effects due to geomagnetic and cosmic ray activity variations and extremely high as well as extremely low values of GMA have health effects.” (GMA = geomagnetic activity). http://file.scirp.org/Html/6-8202044_31922.htm View in LinkedIn

SUICIDE CORRELATION. “The number of Japanese suicides per month from January 1999 to December 2010 was obtained, and it was found that a total of 262,596 males and 102,539 females committed suicide during this period. In this study, we generated a hypothesis that geomagnetic disturbances may trigger male suicides.” https://lnkd.in/dRE4Ywv View in LinkedIn

GEOMAGNETIC STORMS positively correlated with suicides. https://lnkd.in/dCrcwYH View in LinkedIn