Chosing an Empress and Red Rain
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by Oraizan
Now that the presidential elections are over, I will be putting a committee together for the Empress Day! Also, the voting will be on its way.
Empress
We all voted on having an Anime Empress, and the nominations so far are:
- Suzumiya Haruhi
- Izumi, Konata
- Nakajima Yōko
- Hinaichigo
I will be starting a poll around 8PM EST, so that gives everybody a little bit more time to put in nominations! To vote on the poll please visit the JForum:
http://www.aoi-fan.uni.cc/index.php?showtopic=738&st=0
Organization
I was thinking, that if this holiday is a HUGE success, I could make an organization. This organization would be dedicated to bringing you events and such things (some with prizes!). This would be an organization run by donations, rather then by gold from Treasury.
What does the public think? Would this be something you would be interested in having?
I think eJapan needs more organized activities, to give eJapan something other then working, training, voting, and logging off. Especially since the Media can get VERY slow.
Surveys
I will be sending out a new round of surveys very soon, probably on the topic of holidays.
Red Rain
(A little note to science)
I don't know how many people know, but in 2001 there was Red Rain in India, blood red rain. Weird isn't it?
So, why red? First theory was that particles came in on a meteor, and when the meteor deteriorated in the atmosphere the particles from it came down in the rain. So what does this mean? I'll get to this soon.
Many Scientists threw away the theory of a meteor. They decided that it could have came from Alga particles in the Air. This was a little hard to believe, how would particles from plants manage to get high enough into the atmosphere to mix with the rain like they say it did?
Later on one scientist Godfrey Louis proposed that they were extraterrestrial cells, yes alien cells. Is this hard to believe? Some scientists also say that humans are aliens that came to earth on a meteor long ago, so why not? Is a new life trying to make way? There was much controversy over this issue.
Looking under a microscope they noticed that it looked much like a fattened red blood cell, but it was alive.
One of the strongest points for Godfrey was that he claimed it to have no DNA, but it is still alive. It is a known fact that all life on earth has DNA. This lead to strengthening the theory of Panspermia
What is Panspermia? It is the belief that life exists all over the universe. The scientist that created this theory claimed that cells (bacteria) could easily grow and live through space environments. This gives the Red Rain being alien cells, a little more believability.
Where is the proof that bacteria cells can survive in space?
"I always thought the most significant thing that we ever found on the whole goddamn Moon was that little bacteria who came back and lived and nobody ever said shit about it." — Pete Conrad
Thats right! Apparently in 1967 in the April lunar landing they had a camera. 2 years later when they retrieved it, they found bacteria living in the camera. If you would like to have an article on this event send me a PM.
They also say that bacteria has survived 4800 years+ in pyramids, and maybe millions of years in coal.
So, why couldn't the red rain be bacteria from somewhere else? I guess for now we will not be able to know for sure.
If there is a high demand to know more, I will go into better detail in my next article. Otherwise, onto the next topic!
Yay to science, and eJapan!
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Voted! Holidays here will be perfect, at least i think😁 Also, it sounds interesting about the science and red rain! XD Yay!!
well, many many cells part of multicellular organism are alive without any kind of DNA, all mature red blood cells for example.
Also, if you mix phospolipids with water well enough you will have micelles that look like cells and also look alive ("eating" other micelles and "moving") but of course are not.
And its quite easy to find bacteria in any kind of object that comes out of the earth, especially if that object was not disinfected carefully. Finding that bacteria can survive years in the cold of space and be brought to life again is hardly surprising. (Especially when those bacteria are exactly the same strain as the common bacteria here)
The point is, all the info could be true and still is very very poor evidence of Panspermia because there are much more simple and probable explanations for all of it. The way of presenting the info is what apparently support the theory, but only if you manipulate it and leave out all the important details.
I Agree, I read up on all the controversy, both sides of the argument were a little sketchy.
For Panspermia, I think (like god) right now it is more something of faith, because it can't be proved wrong or right.
I find it really interesting how many different living things survive in harsh conditions, that we as humans cannot. In a way it proves that there is nothing impossible, but also that it is still not anything we can scientifically find out (with our technology)
I actually saw a documentary that they plan to send a probe to Jupiter (I think?) to go under the ice (it is designed that way) to see if they can find life under the ice, where they think there will be water. That would not prove Panspermia, but it WOULD prove that life can exist on other planets where we think it may not.
Darn, Konata or Haruhi 😛 WEll im Haruhist, so ill vote for her 😃
I nominate myself for Anime Empress.
@Ciacho- Haha, poor Konata.
@Elephantman- Its anime, not real characters ;-;.
I nominate myself to cleanse eJapan of the disgusting eJapanese and their sick perversions.
You want to know whats really sick and disgusting? Trolls. They run around saying things that nobody cares about. 🙂
hahahaha. Ah, eJapan, you get worse and worse with each passing day.
hahahaha. Ah, Rui Bao Kong, At least in eJapan we actually have eJapanese running the government 😉
Don't hate on eJapan!
Btw, "Kim Jong RAD" FTW.
I suppose I'd vote for Haruhi. I bit more loyal to my roots, wouldn't it be?
"hahahaha. Ah, Rui Bao Kong, At least in eJapan we actually have eJapanese running the government 😉"
Oh? IIRC your current president is from IRL Germany. And as can be witnessed by all the anime fanatics, most eJapanese seem to be westerners.
Oh right, to wannabes, liking anime, reading manga and taking Japanese classes means being Japanese. How cute. 😃
I hear Japanese royal family is made of whores, descended from spawn of goats and turks.
Also, anime blows. Japanese culture is completely fucked up and any semi-intelligent weeaboo would have realized this ages ago if they ever left the house.
PS: Old japanese dudes get off on pictures like the one at the top of this newspost.
Personally I love anime yet I don't spread it. The idea of fanatical Anime loving is rather upsetting. I myself am a quater Japanese, i got the infamous Japanese eyes, but im still classified as a "Westerner". The idea of Anime being perverted is incorrect. The idea of overly loving anime to the point where stuff like this happens can be suffocating to may other individuals.
Thats my 2 cents. Rather nuetral am I? I'm going to get crap from both sides... watch...
Jeff, they are trolls and they wont care what you say xD.