South Koreans Scientists May Have Just Cured Baldness

South Korean scientist team claims their new chemical prevents hair loss and even regrows hair.

It's called PTD-DMB and already works on mice but hasn't been tested on humans yet. If it works, this could be a hugely successful product despite there already being other hair growth products because according to the American Hair Loss Association (AHLA) 99% of these products are ineffective. The future is looking hairy. 

Balding is a major issue around the world for both men and women. Hair is a symbol of youth, vitality, beauty, and even wisdom. A person's hair can be customized in so many different ways to express one's unique character and can change often with societal trends or at moments of personal transformation. Without the element of hair to express oneself, being left with just your bare head may seem limiting. However, people may seem more trustworthy, clean, confident, etc instead. 

U.S. Balding Stats

• MEN: According to the American Hair Loss Association (AHLA), by the age of 35 ~66% of American men lose some hair and ~25% before they turn 21. Almost all (95%+) is due to male pattern baldness (MPB).
• WOMEN: 40% of Americans losing hair are women and is even more stressful than for men because women care more about their appearance. Basically, a bald woman looks weirder than a bald man.

South Korean Hair Care Solution

The team of scientists at Yonsei University in Seoul studying follicles of hair loss patients found a very interesting pattern. The ones balding had a lot more CXXC5 protein on their skin than those people with a normal head of hair. When this CXXX5 protein combines with the disheveled protein, they block the hair follicles from growing more hair. 

Team leader, Choi Kang-yeol, said “We have found a protein that controls the hair growth and developed a new substance that promotes hair regeneration by controlling the function of the protein,” Choi told Business Korea. “We expect that the newly developed substance will contribute to the development of a drug that not only treats hair loss but also regenerates damaged skin tissues.”

So, they created a secret bio-chemical called PTD-DMB to block the hair-growth-blockers. 

Human-Ready?

Sorry, PTD-DMB is not ready for humans yet. It has been tested on mice, who grew more hair after 28 days of use, and is currently being tested on other animals for toxicity to determine if it's safe for testing on humans. 

Sources: 

Futurism

International Business Times

Business Korea

New Blue Tarantula Discovered in South American Forest

Scientists discovered a rare spider in Guyana, South America.

If you thought the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker was amazing, you haven't seen this blue tarantula.

The researchers are from the Global Wildlife Conservation that went hunting through the forests for exciting new species and this is just 1 out of 30 new species they found in the Kaieteur National Park, which includes:

• 3 plants
• 5 dragonflies
• 6 fish
• 15 swimming beetles

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“Guyana is one of the world’s most important countries for biodiversity conservation with the second highest percentage of forest cover on Earth, high levels of biological diversity and species that are found nowhere else.”

— Global Wildlife Conservation spokesperson

In case you don't know, there are actually already 40 different kinds of blue spiders in the world with another blue tarantula found only in a very small region of India. It's categorized as "critically endangered" because of this limited habitat and since that location's pollution and is getting worse and worse. That one is bright blue with white stripes and called poecilotheria metallica. 

In a 2015 study of blue tarantulas leader, Mr. Bor-Kai Hsiung told the BBC: 'It evolved from multiple origins and different mechanisms produce the very same blue color. That's very strong evidence to suggest that this blue color has a very important visual signaling function. But if it's not for other tarantulas, then it must be to some other receivers out there.'

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Sources:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5122119/BLUE-tarantula-one-30-new-species-discovered.html#ixzz50bH9iSZM

New Smart Tinting Windows Become Solar Panels When Changing Color

An amazing new solar power technology can turn skyscraper buildings into giant solar power plants. 

Currently, these buildings use Low Heat Emission (Low-E) glass windows to reduce overheating and air conditioner costs during warm seasons. According to the U.S. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), such windows are in 80% of homes and 50% of commercial buildings. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory thinks this is a giant wasted opportunity because they figured out a better way to use those UV rays. They invented a glass window that still keeps heat out but also turns the sunlight into electricity at the same time. 

Smart Tinting Solar Windows

NREL's prototype changes color when the glass gets hotter; this is called being thermochromic. When the sun heats the window, methylamine molecules are pushed out, darkening it. They're made from the energy-harvesting material perovskite and maybe in all the windows of the future.

“There are thermochromic technologies out there but nothing that actually converts that energy into electricity,” NREL scientist Lance Wheeler said in a press release.

The inner workings of this “smart window” technology. Image Credit: NREL 

NREL's team of scientists tested their prototype and published a report in the Nature Communications. It turns out this new solar window is 11.3% efficient converting sunlight into electricity. This is pretty low compared to the best solar panel at 46%, but it's better than the 0% windows were getting before.

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“There is a fundamental tradeoff between a good window and a good solar cell,” explained Wheeler, who is a lead researcher in this study. “This technology bypasses that. We have a good solar cell when there’s lots of sunshine and we have a good window when there’s not.”

 

Clear Future Turning Dark?

Considering a large office building has more square footage of windows than it does on its roof, the 11.3% efficiency multiplied by the large surface area can make a big difference to the building's energy bill.  According to Electrek, 80% of facility energy costs are spent on heating, cooling, and ventilation.

While this all sounds like this may be a path to a clear bright future, things may, ironically, turn dark. So far, at least, NREL’s solar-powered smart windows stop working after 20 color changing cycles. This is a major dealbreaker and no one will install solar power windows that last less than a month. To put it in perspective, standard solar panels maintain their effectiveness for 25 years. 

Again though, the potential here is huge, so if NREL figures this out, it'll be well worth it. Besides replacing commercial building windows, these could replace car windows as well; maybe even sunglasses. 

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Sources:

NREL, Nature Communications

Bitcoin Mining Company Hacked! Over $70 Million Stolen

By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer

TOKYO (AP) — A bitcoin mining company in Slovenia has been hacked for the possible theft of tens of millions of dollars, just days before the virtual currency, which hit a record above $15,000 on Thursday, is due to start trading on major U.S. exchanges.

NiceHash, a company that mines bitcoins on behalf of customers, said it is investigating a security breach and will stop operating for 24 hours while it verifies how many bitcoins were taken.

Research company Coindesk said that a wallet address referred to by NiceHash users indicates that about 4,700 bitcoins had been stolen. At Thursday's record price of about $15,000, that puts the value at over $70 million.

There was no immediate response from NiceHash to an emailed request for more details.

"The incident has been reported to the relevant authorities and law enforcement and we are cooperating with them as a matter of urgency," it said. The statement urged users to change their online passwords.

Slovenian police are investigating the case together with authorities in other states, spokesman Bostjan Lindav said, without providing details.

The hack will put a spotlight on the security of bitcoin just as the trading community prepares for the currency to start trading on two established U.S. exchanges. Futures for bitcoin will start trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange on Sunday evening and on crosstown rival CME Group's platforms later in the month.

That has increased the sense among some investors that bitcoin is gaining in mainstream legitimacy after several countries, like China, tried to stifle the virtual currency.

As a result, the price of bitcoin has jumped in the past year, particularly so in recent weeks. On Thursday it surged to over $15,000, up $1,300 in less than a day, according to Coindesk. At the start of the year, one bitcoin was worth less than $1,000.

Bitcoin is the world's most popular virtual currency. Such currencies are not tied to a bank or government and allow users to spend money anonymously. They are basically lines of computer code that are digitally signed each time they are traded.

A debate is raging on the merits of such currencies. Some say they serve merely to facilitate money laundering and illicit, anonymous payments. Others say they can be helpful methods of payment, such as in crisis situations where national currencies have collapsed.

Miners of bitcoins and other virtual currencies help keep the systems honest by having their computers keep a global running tally of transactions. That prevents cheaters from spending the same digital coin twice.

Online security is a vital concern for such dealings.

In Japan, following the failure of a bitcoin exchange called Mt. Gox, new laws were enacted to regulate bitcoin and other virtual currencies. Mt. Gox shut down in February 2014, saying it lost about 850,000 bitcoins, possibly to hackers.

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Ali Zerdin in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Carlo Piovano in London contributed to this story.
 

The Future is Full of Floating Cities at Sea

Worried about another Great Flood? Well, thanks to the floating cities of Singapore-based start-up, Blue Frontiers, you won't have to. 

These cities are designed to float on water, so they won't sink like Atlantis or Lemuria. The French Polynesian government signed a deal with Blue Frontiers for them to build a $60-million floating village on the south side of Tahiti and everyone is very excited. Construction is planned to begin in 2020 and will be a working prototype for developing larger floating communities of the future. The main driving force behind this project is the non-profit San Francisco-based Seasteading Institute lead by Joe Quirk. 

The floating city vision is to provide safe sustainable and affordable city-scale communities that can rise above the current social, economic, environmental, and political problems. Such models could be built alongside countries in safe-enough oceanic regions, so not in the Bermuda Triangle or Devil's Sea.

Proof of Concept

The first one will be in the safe geographic region of Tahiti with shallow waters just 100 feet deep and 3,000 feet from shore. Up to 300 people will work and live on 10-15 floating city blocks. Each unit measures about 7,500 square feet or about 90' x 80' and are connected with bridges. 

“We’re going to have bungalows, we’re going to have apartments, we’re going to have research institutions, we’re going to have an underwater restaurant,” Quirk says. “It will be a tourist attraction in its own right, and a showcase for sustainable societies. We plan for these platforms to increase the density of sea life as animals and plants attach to it. You’ll go down into the basement and look through the glass walls and see the sea life… to really introduce people to how floating societies can be environmentally restorative.”

Watch Seasteading Institute's video to see 3D models:

From Dream to Reality

Since the 1960's Triton City concept by Buckminster Fuller to ease the population density of Tokyo, Japan, many people have dreamed of building cities on the water. However, now it seems there's finally something actually happening thanks to Blue Frontiers and the French Polynesian government. To help fund this massive undertaking, they're raising the initial $60 million capital in an “Initial Coin Offering” (ICO) of their own virtual currency in February 2018. So, if you're interested in contributing to such a pioneering endeavor, keep your eyes, ears, and checkbook open for it. Investors may feel more at ease to know that high-tech billionaire Peter Thiel of PayPal has put his money behind Seasteading Institute.

“The reason we’re able to call it a seastead is that it will be something of a semi-autonomous governmental start-up, under the protection of French Polynesia,” Quirk says. “So they’re allowing us to make this first step, to see if we can establish something spectacular.”

Self-Sustainable Sea Cities

Starting from scratch provides a great opportunity to identify the fundamental functions necessary for a community to survive and build structures and systems that fulfill those needs. In other words, going back to the basics and scaling up. 

Project architect Bart Roeffen, specializes in floating structures and works with the Dutch firm Blue21. He wanted to create something for the Tahitian lagoon that felt natural and appropriate for their environment and situation that didn’t look out of place.

So, they will look similar to a natural island, with living rooftop gardens that provide food, clean air, and help filter waste water. To assimilate more with nature, the buildings will be built out of recycled materials and local renewable materials as much as possible.

Roeffen believes this sustainable lifestyle will become increasingly more popular and expects many people to come to live in such communities, especially since coastal properties are held in high regard and demand. 

“The fringes between the land and the water are where everything comes together,” Roeffen says, “so what we would like to do is to create more fringes.”

Earthships

If you'd rather live sustainably on land, then check out EarthShips. Right now, at least, these are not built in a community setting but are self-sustaining with their own water recycling system, food production, solar and wind energy, and built out of recycled materials. 

Any steps you can take to align closer to nature will benefit not only yourself and family but also the greater community around you. 

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Sources:

https://futurism.com/officials-signed-contract-build-worlds-first-floating-village/

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/world-s-first-floating-village-breathe-new-life-old-dream-ncna822906

https://www.earthshipglobal.com/

The $10,000 Quadrillion Asteroid of Precious Metals is NASA's Latest Target

What would you do if you found a huge shiny metal-rich planet floating "nearby" in space? Well, NASA is going after it and plans to launch a ship in 2022. 

This huge metallic asteroid was found on March 17, 1852, by an Italian astronomer named Annibale de Gasparis. He named it after the Greek mythological god Psyche who represents the spirit. It's one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and is classified as a metallic "M-class" asteroid. Scientists believe 16 Psyche is the core of an ancient planet in the extremely rare state of being completely exposed with no harsh atmosphere impeding exploration. This provides a unique opportunity to examine the inside of a planet to hopefully learn how ones such as ours are formed.

It's Worth How Much?!

Based on remote analysis, scientists have determined it contains iron, nickel, gold, platinum, copper, and other precious metals, making this a huge 156-mile wide untapped "goldmine" just waiting to be harvested. By calculating the mass and current metal prices, Dr. Elkins-Tanton estimates 16 Psyche's iron alone to be worth $10,000 quadrillion!

Well, it's not surprising considering this is the core of a planet. 

The implications of adding this wealth into Earth's commodity markets could actually be catastrophic. The prices of these metals may crash to almost zero and disrupting mining, manufacturing, and governmental industries. 

But that probably won't stop people from jumping on $10,000+ quadrillion jackpot. 

Dr. Elkins-Tanton said: 'Even if we could grab a big metal piece and drag it back here … what would you do? Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global resource — kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately — and protect your market? What if you decided you were going to bring it back and you were just going to solve the metal resource problems of humankind for all time? This is wild speculation obviously.'

Both these educational and economical reasons have convinced NASA to launch a spaceship to claim it. The difficulties of mining the ore in space and transportation back and forth to Earth may be well worth it. 

There and Back Again

NASA originally planned to send a ship there by 2030 but have recently figured out a more efficient way to get there 4 years earlier by 2026, and they're excited about it. The new trajectory avoids an accelerating orbit-swing around Earth and slingshotting near the sun. 

'We challenged the mission design team to explore if an earlier launch date could provide a more efficient trajectory to the asteroid Psyche, and they came through in a big way,' said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. 

'This will enable us to fulfill our science objectives sooner and at a reduced cost.' 

'The biggest advantage is the excellent trajectory, which gets us there about twice as fast and is more cost-effective,' said Principal Investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University in Tempe. 

'We are all extremely excited that NASA was able to accommodate this earlier launch date. 

'The world will see this amazing metal world so much sooner.'

The trajectory will still include a Mars gravity assist in 2023.

'The change in plans is a great boost for the team and the mission,' said Psyche Project Manager Henry Stone at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. 

'Our mission design team did a fantastic job coming up with this ideal launch opportunity.'

This more efficient travel route also means it would be easier to return to home base Earth with special deliveries. But the challenges of reusable rockets capable of landing or even parachuting cargo down may keep such precious payloads out of Earth's reach for now. 

Information Extraction

The spacecraft's payload will mainly contain magnetometers, multispectral imagers, and a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer. These will be used to study the protoplanet's origins and verify theories of how planets are born and die. Psyche will be the first metal planet ever explored by humans. Much of our knowledge of planetary evolution comes from studying meteorites. 

Lindy Elkins-Tanton the lead scientist on the Nasa mission and the director of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration, said: '16 Psyche is the only known object of its kind in the solar system, and this is the only way humans will ever visit a core.

'We learn about inner space by visiting outer space. I figure we're either going to go see something that's really improbable and unique, or something that is completely astonishing.'

This may become a resource-rich base for manufacturing all kinds of equipment and used as a stepping stone for space exploration. And if NASA finds water there, then it could increase the chances of growing a sustainable living population there as well.

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Sources:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5148821/The-10-000-quadrillion-asteroid-revealed.html#ixzz50UoAUNlL 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche

Amateur Canadian Explorers Accidentally Discover 15,000-year-old Caves Below Montreal

It's not every day someone uncovers portal into ancient history, so you can imagine it came as quite a surprise to these two Canadians when they accidentally broke through a limestone wall and fell into a huge cavern network from the last Ice Age. These amateur explorers were digging around in an existing cave with hammers and drills until they made this historic breakthrough discovery into an ancient world dating back 15,000 years. 

It was Daniel Caron and his friend, Luc Le Blanc, who made the discovery. 'Normally you have to go to the moon to find that kind of thing,' Daniel Caron, one of the explorers, told The Canadian Press.

It's 650-foot long, 9-foot wide cave with a 20-foot ceiling above a lake. Caron believes the caverns were created during the Ice Age when pressure from the massive glaciers split the rock apart. Made from thousands of years of dripping water, stalactites hang from the ceiling with a 15-foot deep lake that they had to use an inflatable boat to cross. 

Cave explorer Daniel Caron points to a wall of a cave under a park in Montreal

The hallway looks almost manmade with vertical walls and horizontal ceiling. Perhaps they stumbled upon the legendary Mines of Moria?! Well, so far there are no signs of dwarves or orcs so it seems this is a natural network of inner earth caves. 

Francois Gelinas, the director of Quebec's speleological society told The Canadian Press, 'They built the street over the cave and they never found the cave. There is no technology available to detect the presence of caverns. Underground excavation is the only thing on the planet where there is no scientific, technical or technological means of knowing if there are caverns, and whether they are large or small,' he said.

Check out the video of these ancient caverns!

Sources:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5150023/Two-explorers-discover-15-000-year-old-cave-Montreal.html#ixzz50V7zzQKY 

2,400-Year-Old Statues of the Goddess of Hygiene Rescued from Rubble of Ancient Medicine City

Archaeologists in Turkey just discovered statues of Greek goddess Hygieia and god Eros.

Discovered in the Anavarza Antique City of the Kozan district of present-day Turkey, Hygieia is the symbol of health. As the daughter of Asclepius the god of medicine and Epione the goddess of healing, Hygieia is herself the goddess of cleanliness and hygiene. Finding her sculpture here embodies the city's vision and ideals of health. Eros is the god of sexual desire. 

Anavarza was a fine ancient Cilician city founded by the Assyrians over 2,000 years ago. During the early Roman Empire it was known as Caesarea and became the Metropolis of the late Roman province Cilicia Secunda. So it is a major historical site for researchers today. It dates back to over 2,000 years ago. It has a 5,000-foot wall with 20 bastions encompassing it, which seemed unable to hold back the forces that almost completely destroyed these antique statues.

Archaeologists first began excavating Anavarza in 2013 and found ruins of a church, bathhouse, and large double-lane road measuring 110 feet wide and about 9,000 feet long. These features indicate this was a well-established city where many people trafficked to spend time cleansing their bodies and their souls. 

"The famous pharmacologist Dioskurides, who worked in the army during the Roman period and who attracted attention with the medicines he made, lived in Anavarza. In this sense, we can call Anavarza the city where medicine and pharmacology developed," Dervişoğlu told Doğan News Agency.

The statue was made out of limestone about 2,400 years ago but unfortunately, Hygieia is broken into two parts and missing her hands and head. Dervişoğlu is working to find the statue's missing parts to restore this ancient symbol of health for everyone who visits. 

The director of the Adana Museum, Nedim Dervisoglu, is proud to have these statues because they prove the rich cultural heritage of the city's ancient history. He cares about people learning not just about the local history but also inspiring them to learn of their own history. 

To recognize and honor these symbolic statues, they were added to the UNESCO Temporary List of World Heritage Sites.

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Sources:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/26/statue-of-hygieia-and-eros-uncovered-in-southern-turkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anazarbus

The First Man Mummified Like King Tut in 3,000 Years was Terminally Ill Taxi Driver from England

The late Mr. Billis became the first man mummified in the style of the ancient Egyptians for at least 3,000 years.

Mr. Alan Billis was a taxi driver in Torquay, England who loved documentaries and history. One day saw an ad seeking people willing to be embalmed in the same way as ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and, as he was dying from lung cancer, signed up. When he did die at age 61 from the cancer, scientists used the ancient Egyptian embalming techniques not used since 1,323 BC on King Tut's body. 

Mr. Billis' wife Janet and their three grown-up children all gave this their blessing. She said "He just said, 'I’ve just phoned someone up about being mummified.' "I said, 'You’ve what?' I thought here we go again. It’s just the sort of thing you would expect him to do."

Torquay's Tutankhamun

English Channel 4's program called "Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret" recently aired on TV dubbing Alan "Torquay’s Tutankhamun." In the documentary he says,

"People have been leaving their bodies to science for years, and if people don’t volunteer for anything nothing gets found out."

The experts: Professor Vanezis, Dr. Buckley, Dr. Fletcher and Maxine Coe with a mummified Alan Billis before them

Except for Mr. Billis' heart and brain, all his internal organs were taken out and put in jars over several months. To preserve his skin, scientists soaked the body in a mix of oils, Natron salt, and resins for a month in a glass tank in the Medico-Legal Center in Sheffield. Afterwards, they put it into a drying chamber and wrapped it in linen fabric.

According to Dr. Stephen Buckley from the University of York that researched Egyptian mummification techniques, believes Mr. Ballis' body will last for thousands of years.

Dr. Stephen Buckley with mummified Mr. Billis

It's good to note how Mrs. Ballis' feels about all this during and after the process. She told the Radio Times,

“I didn’t find it upsetting. There wasn’t anything scary. I think it was because you could see they all took such good care of Alan.

When I did eventually watch the film and saw his mummified face, you could see it was still him, still very much Alan.

’I won’t be Tutankhamun, I’ll be Tutanalan,’ he used to say. The involvement in the television programme kept him occupied, took his mind off the illness.”

— Mrs. Ballis

Original Mummies

If you want to check out a real Egyptian mummy, you can see King Rameses III in Egypt's Cairo Museum. As for "Tutan-Alan," he will be being studied by scientists researching decomposition. 

The forensic pathologist overseeing the project, Professor Peter Vanezis was impressed with the results saying,  

"The skin itself has this leathery appearance which indicates that he has become mummified all over. It makes me very confident that his tissues have been mummified correctly and in a very successful manner."

So are you now considering volunteering your body for scientific research? Do you think ancient Egyptians mummified their bodies so future generations could clone them to resurrect their royal bloodline? 

Controversial Plastination Exhibits

Besides mummifying via embalming, there's another technique called plastination. This requires fresh bodies whose fluids have not congealed too much because a plasticine solvent replaces the blood and other bodily fluids. When this hardens, the tissues basically become plastic. 

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding a Chinese-based plastination company who cannot prove it got their bodies from willing volunteers nor from bodies left "unclaimed." This company has been parading hundreds of the "unknown" Chinese corpses on display around the world in the Body Exhibitions fully nude with some even engaging in sex acts (which we will not show here). Needless to say, this has sparked shock, outrage, and protests.

According to traditional Chinese culture, the remains of the deceased are treated with great respect and honor. Many Chinese are simply repulsed by such a concept of publicly displaying naked dead bodies. This exhibition is doing something quite different than ancient Egypt preserving their royalty's bodies wrapped up and contained in intricately decorated sarcophaguses. It's even different than privately studying the bodies for medical research, which are also required to be donated. 

“A New York Times report found that “Here in China, determining who is in the body business and where the bodies come from is not easy. Museums that hold body exhibitions in China say they have suddenly ‘forgotten’ who supplied their bodies, police officials have regularly changed their stories about what they have done with bodies, and even universities have confirmed and then denied the existence of body preservation operations on their campuses.

In May 2008, a settlement with the attorney general of New York obliged Premier Exhibitions, Sui’s exhibition partner, to publish a disclaimer on its website and at the exhibition hall, stating that the origin of Dalian Hoffen’s cadavers was from ‘the Chinese Bureau of Police.’”

This means these bodies are likely from innocent prisoners of conscience who are victims of a brutal and immoral communist regime. 

The largest population of such prisoners in China are of Falun Gong practitioners, who believe in living by the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance and practice a set of qigong-like slow-moving exercises. They have no political aspirations, are non-violent, have no membership system, and don't charge anything.

This kind of traditional self-cultivation practice was well-known and common in Chinese traditional culture. Think of Taoists practicing martial arts and meditation up in the mountains, Buddhist monks farming, training, meditating, and studying Buddhist sutras in temples. It was made available to the public in 1992 by Shifu Li Hongzhi in China and spread by word of mouth to millions of people because of health benefits and being completely free.

However, despite great benefits to society and public popularity, the communist regime could not make money off of it and feared people would become harder to control under its atheistic communist ideology. So, in 1999 the communist dictator Jiang Zemin launched a brutal and unconstitutional persecution campaign arresting, torturing, raping, murdering, and even harvesting organs of Falun Gong practitioners and others.

Website ►http://endorganpillaging.org/ Facebook ►https://www.facebook.com/EndOrganPillaging Subscribe ►http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=IntlCoalition The basis of the report is a meticulous examination of the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archive.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2050293/Terminally-ill-taxi-driver-Alan-Billis-mummified-Channel-4-documentary.html#ixzz50DkQS98p 

http://fofg.org/2015/03/08/the-dark-secret-of-the-bodies-exhibitions/

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hundreds-protest-bodies-revealed-exhibit-of-plastinated-corpses-in-niagara_1325194.html

http://www.stoporganharvesting.org/

UAE is Preparing to Colonize Mars, See their "Mars 2117" City 360 Virtual Tour

• The United Arab Emirates' Mars 2117 project's target is a Mars City in 100 years
• Best futuristic colony model with 3D VR experience
• 7-minute flythrough tour outside and inside with lively residents

 

Mars 2117 Strategy

The United Arab Emirates government released an immersive 360° 3D 8K virtual reality experience of their vision of a colony on Mars. It's complete with flying vehicles, A.I. robots, and glass domed cities. 

Their goal is to build the first Mars colony by the year 2047 and this vision is a look at what life could be like after 70 years of development. 

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United Government of Mars?

An interesting thing to note is their view of Mars having its own planetary government called the "United Government of Mars." We can suppose this would be independent of any of Earth's governments and we can speculate how different it might actually be considering all the new opportunities and unique circumstances. 

But would this Mars Government be friendly to all Earth nations? Many concerns and questions immediately spring to mind. Perhaps an international war may break out here on Earth as nations compete to be the first to stake a claim in the New New World. 

"City of Wisdom" 3D Virtual Tour

Buckle-up for a tour through the Mars City of Wisdom!

There are 600,000 people living here fed with indoor gardens. The UAE team seems to have thought through civic engineering by providing housing, schools, laboratories, gathering areas, and even a mining operation outodoors. It seems there's some sort of artificial intelligent management systems interconnecting the spacesuits, vehicles, robots, and access points. 

“The landing of people on other planets has been a longtime dream for humans. Our aim is that the UAE will spearhead international efforts to make this dream a reality.”

— Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai

History of Missions to Mars

Since 1965, only four entities have successfully made it to Mars:

1. NASA
2. Soviet Union
3. European Space Agency
4. Indian Space Research Organization

There are some who believe the United States has advanced technology with the capability to instantly transport to Mars using "jump rooms," according to Andrew D. Basiago. Supposedly, there was a "Project Pegasus" that sent humans to Mars with a very interesting story of what they found over there. 

Anyway, officially, NASA has done better than everyone else getting to Mars with a 70% chance of success. 15/21 since the 1960's. Averaging all international organizations, Earth has a 50% success rate of landing on Mars. China and Japan failed but India made it.

So the 2020 United Arab Emirates' planned mission would be the first one by a Muslim country. They plan to orbit an unmanned probe around Mars by the year 2021 to mark their country's 50th anniversary. It will scan the planet for sources of water where it would be the best place to support human life.

Such plans for UAE's Martian city were first announced at the World Government Summit to 138 governments.

Mars City Beta on Earth

Meanwhile, the UAE is developing an Earth-based Mars colony beta test to work out the bugs before building their actual city up there later. Dubai announced in September the construction of a $135 million "Mars Science City" spanning 1.9 million square feet. This will be the largest space simulation city ever built. 

The first inhabitants are researchers on a one-year mission to test out the sustainability of all the life support systems. They invest a lot of time in growing food, water recycling, and off-grid energy generation and storage. 

“The UAE is a great country with vision and understanding of the challenges we face and the rapid changes our world is experiencing.

We believe in the potential of space exploration, and in collaborating with global partners and leaders in order to harness the findings of this research and movement that seeks to meet people’s needs and improve quality of life on Earth.”

— Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai

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Sources:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5131955/Incredible-360-VR-footage-UAE-Martian-colony.html

https://futurism.com/4-mars-2117-project-the-uae-joins-the-race-for-the-red-planet/