Future Ben

Dude I don’t even know where to start. On the surface it’s not really that much of a crackpot site, it just has the all the standard layman’s freaky science highlights. Nothing about Atlantis, but what the Brazillian Stonehenge has to do with the future I don’t know. Maybe the dude is right and Light Transformation is going to be the single most important scientific theory of our time. Although its not so much of a theory as a series of wandering “what if” statements based entirely on handwaving and misderstood generalizations. ( I knew the spite would kick in)

So why on pick on somebody else’s vanity site which is also based loosely on science and the future. It’s a matter of priciple! There is a real danger in presenting your assumptions along with a little data. This website is the result. What kind of reference is the fucking Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch? Who peer reviewed that? Actually, I am noticing most of the citations are largely self referencing. Of the few links that acutally work my personal favorite is this statement on the martian pyramids.

Pyramid structures which range in dimensions of 3.0-base to 6.0 km mean diameter have been identified in the Elysium Quadrangle of Mars. Geologic processes that could result in such features have not produced a satisfactory scientific explanation for some of the pyramids. Thus we must keep in mind that what may appear to be a natural hill from an aerial view may be a pyramidal artifact.

Perhaps, instead of preparing for the contemporary scans of the Martian micro-intelligence, we might prepare ourselves for a close examination of pyramidal structures as blueprints for bio-magnetic analogs? The Martian and Egyptian pyramidal grids may be models preparing us to meet the superior architects in our immediate universe? Perhaps, the pyramid is a future artifact?

And all this is based on what data?

OK…So based on this image alone, not only does Mars have pyramids from the future, any hill on Mars could be actually be a pyramid in disguise that might “hold the keys to man’s existence.” This dude comes right out and says that we should beleive that a bunch of piles of sand are magical because it would be awesome if they really were. Get over yourself!

Everybody wants to believe there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and that all of our questions will be answered if we can just get over the horizon. And let us not forget that old chestnut. Everything you know is wrong, but I have got it all figured out, so come join my clique of people who know what’s really up. I would like to make through at least one Burning Man without having to hear a variation on that one.

But what if they really were pyramids? That would in fact be awesome.

What the hell am I supposed to do with that? I have spent a large chunk of my day trying to figure out another of these little puzzles and it has left me rather cross. In fact I have spent at least a dozen hours over the past few days trying to pick apart other people’s cryptic little maps. This is the promoter/enhancer of Flk1, some receptor that does I don’t know what. The point is that this sequence will cause expression in developing vascualture. The key word here is SEQUENCE. Why am I looking at a crude line drawing when they could just post a text file? No, instead I have to Genbank and BLAST my way through the mouse genome looking for the right piece of DNA then take my best guess at what they cut out. Did they not know the sequence? I guess this stuff came out in 1995 so it wouldn’t be surprizing.

I remember an a review paper about Genomics being, “too much information” to be useful. Give us our bright and shining gel bands of approximate size! Luddites! I dig through notebooks of paper notes, pictures, crude maps all for one text file worth of information. And the actual DNA is nowhere to be found. Its a wonder anything ever got done that way.

So here I am, doing reverse bioinformatics to digitize what has already been published. Compiling my sequences in VectorNTI and creating dynamic maps that have more information that I am going to use, which is just about enough.

Well that wasn’t so bad. I can’t get back futureben.org yet, but thanks to the find and replace feature of text edit I pretty easily converted the old database to futureben.net. Interestingly enough the only thing that didn’t back up was the look of the site. Another vestige of the past is shed. I feel so clean. Now how do I get my google standing up for futureben.net?

Before I worry about that I am trying to get another site up genosynthesis.org. This one won’t be a blog. There aren’t enough resources for synthetic biology. The point of me doing this isn’t to entertain anybody its a mental focus and it certainly not to be a web designer. I can barely use Wordpress! Futureben is about me. What is the future as I see it? It has been a real help to me. Genosynthesis will be about what I do. Synthesizing genes. I just have to figure out this Joomla thing now.