The Fountains of Paradise

Since Sri Lanka is my motherland I thought of posting some interesting information related to Sri Lanka.Here this is going to be the first post... Note this article was directly taken from wikipedia..




The Fountains of Paradise is a 1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and linking with a satellite in geostationary at the height of approximately 36,000 kilometers (approx. 22,300 miles). Such a structure would be used to raise payloads to orbit without having to use rockets, making it much more cost-effective.

In the novel, Clarke uses the life of the ancient king Kalidasa to foreshadow the adventures of engineer Vannevar Morgan in his single-minded determination to realize the space elevator. Subplots in the novel include human colonization of the solar system and the first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. Clarke also hypothesizes that religion in humans is a consequence of sexual reproduction, although the idea does not play a central role in the novel. The Fountains of Paradise is set in the fictional island country of Taprobane, which Clarke has described as "about ninety percent congruent with the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)". The ruins of the palace at Yakkagala as described in the book very closely match the real-life ruins at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.

In the novel, Clarke envisions a microscopically thin but strong "hyperfilament" that makes the elevator possible. Although the hyperfilament is constructed from "continuous pseudo-one-dimensional diamond crystal" [pg.45] in the novel, Clarke later expressed his belief that another type of carbon, Buckminsterfullerene, would play the role of hyperfilament in a real space elevator.

The latest developments in carbon nanotube technology bring the orbital elevator closer to possible realization.

The epilogue shows an Earth with several space elevators leading to a giant, "circumterran", space station that encircles Earth at geostationary altitude. The analogy with a wheel is evident: the space station itself is the wheel rim, Earth is the axle, and the six equidistant space elevators the spokes.

The scientist who wasn't awarded with Nobel Prize: Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma of Sri Lanka

Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma (1923 - 1995) was born in Galle, Southern Capital of Sri Lanka. He received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 under the direction of the Nobel Laureate Professor Melvin Calvin. His laboratory studies were focused mainly towards the origin of life and it was only when he was selected as a principal investigator for analysis of the moon dust collected in the Apollo Programs that his name and photo appeared on the cover-pages of prestigious world class newspapers and magazines such as The Time and Newsweek. He was one of the dicoverers of DNA with Francis Crick et James Watson, and one of the main writers on the panspermia theory. With Francis Crick, he tended to the thesis that prebiotic complex molecule form in space rather than of the surface of planets, and get hosted later within protective cells naturally found in planets water. In 1965, as research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, he discovered striking evidence that the independently developed biochemistry on any more or less earth-like planet anywhere would be the same or at least highly similar than that on the Earth. He duplicated the postulated conditions of the primeval earth, and found out that the common and important constituents of life such as amino acids, purines, sugars, etc., tend to appear in the system, while highly exotic substances do not. The discovery was published in the Proceedings of the Conference on the Exploration of Mars and Venus, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1965. He later was the head of the Exobiology division at NASA's Ames Center.

Arts of Marilyn Manson

Manson claimed in a 2004 interview with i-D magazine to have begun his career as a watercolor painter in 1999 when he made five-minute concept pieces and sold them to drug dealers. On September 13-14, 2002, his first show, The Golden Age of Grotesque, was held at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Centre. Art in America's Max Henry likened them to the works of a ‘psychiatric patient given materials to use as therapy’ and said his work would never be taken seriously in a fine-art context, "the value was ‘in their celebrity, not the work’.[9] On September 14-15, 2004, Manson held a second exhibition on the first night in Paris and the second in Berlin. The show was named ‘Trismegistus’ which was also the title of the center piece of the exhibit – a large three headed Christ painted onto an antique wood panel from a portable embalmbers table.

Celebritarian Corporation is the name that Manson has given to his self proclaimed art movement. Manson has coined a slogan for the movement: “We will sell our shadow to those who stand within it.” In 2005 he said that the Celebritarian Corporation has been "incubating for seven years" which if correct would indicate that Celebritarian Corporation, in some form, started in 1998.[10] Manson has stated that he chose the name 'Celebritarian Corporation' because he believes that it provides "a further irony into what it represents", since the word Celebritarian could be construed as a pro-celebrity status.[citation needed]

Celebritarian Corporation is also the namesake of an art gallery owned by Marilyn Manson, called the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art in Los Angeles for which his third exhibition was the inaugural show. From April 2-17, 2007, Manson's recent works were on show at the Space 39 Modern & Contemporary in Florida. 40 pieces from this show travel to Germany's Gallery Brigitte Schenk in Cologne to be publicly exhibited from June 28 - July 28, 2007. Manson was refused the entrance to the Cologne Cathedral, better known under the German name Kölner Dom, when he was in the city to attend the opening night. This was, according to Manson, due to his makeup. Other sources gave different reasons, however.

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Marilyn Manson - Behind the music

And the third angel sounded and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Revelation 8:10-11


As early as 1998 when he first delved fully into painting, Marilyn Manson has been one of the world's most notorious connoisseurs of the legenday spirit, absinthe. First referenced heavily as being integral to the creation process of 2000's Holy Wood (In The Shadow of the Valley of Death), it was 2003's Golden Age of Grotesque as Manson's homage to art, expressionism, late Nineteenth Century Parisian decandence and Weimar era "Degenerate" Art where Manson could scarcely be seen without a milky glass of the green spirit as his accessory.

Begining in mid-2005, Manson has been quoted in the press about his desires to produce his own line of absinthe and it was circa this time period in which he and Markus Lion, owner of Absinthe.de, casually began talks about this prospect. Two years later, Mansinthe is finally released, a high quality spirit distilled from grand wormwood, anise, fennell and other fine herbs. With other demagogue celebrity lines of absinthe sold by Absinthe.de such as H.R. Giger and the late Jhonn Balance (of the seminal and highly influential group Coil; see COIL & THE OCCULT), Manson is in good company with the lineage of his brand.



A bottle of France's most potent absinthe adorns one corner, replete with requisite grated spoon; During writing/recording, Manson imbided a great deal of this exotic, potentially dangerous import, he says, so much that the whole process began to teeter on the brink of self-destruction. The liqueur company - in a show of friendship - even sent its illustrious client a branch of the absinthe base element, wormwood.

"Wormwood tied into the album on a couple weird levels, because it was supposed to be a poison that God sent down to taint the waters to punish mankind. And it's related to King Solomon, who - as legend has it - had a ring that contained a worm which, when unleashed, could supposedly devour the world. Just like the serpent in [Norse mythology's Armageddon] Ragnarok, forever eating its own tail."

Marilyn Manson in Alternative Press. November 2000

Zeitgeist The movie

I find it very difficult to give a review about that film........Its mind cracking,astonishing and sometimes hard to believe narration keeps me still high on thirst for revelation! If you havent watch that movie yet, then you should give a try....but as I always say think it outside the box and don't take decisions until the end.You will find it difficult to continue as it keeps shaking your beliefs.So I advice you to convert your beliefs into facts for a short time

When we talk about the elements of the film roughly it says "Religions in general, and Christianity in particular, are primarily systems of social control. 9/11 was an inside job and the destruction of the WTC twin towers and building 7 were aided by controlled demolition. And finally, International Bankers, through the Federal Reserve and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), control our money and our future, leading to, a coming One World Government"

I will continue posting more about this in the near future.You can watch the film directly through this link.

http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

Conspiracy Theory - Definition

According to Wikipedia the definiton of Conspiracy Theory "A conspiracy theory usually attributes the ultimate cause of an event or chain of events (usually political,social,pop culture or historical events), or the concealment of such causes from public knowledge, to a secret, and often deceptive plot by a covert alliance of powerful or influential people or organizations."

I see conspiracy theories in a bit different way.....it gives you more explanations about a single chain of incidents.In every incident you can see subtle changes as everything is connected relatively.You cannot expect an exact impregnable answer.Therefore everything happen in this universe can be connected to a conspiracy theory but what really happens is if it affected to our lives and because of that we look for a different answer we try to dig into it.Otherwise we dont give a crap about it.So what I am going to present you is not the exact explanation but a possible one