This song is what happened as I was testing various instruments in Cubase 5 which I just purchased.
It is odd for me to write a song with no guitar.
Inspired by hearing about people who travel to foreign countries to help people less fortunate, and by this picture which accompanied this story:
Gunshots ricocheted around Nairobi’s streets and houses and shops burned today as Kenya’s post-election violence escalated. The Foreign Office has now warned ‘against all but essential travel to Kenya’ and British tour operators have cancelled tours to the country for the rest of the week. The Federation of Tourist Operators is also considering travel arrangements for the 7,000 Britons already on trips in Kenya – metro
See the box on the left for the song. Click to play or download “Night with an Empty Bucket”.
I sometimes change the song that is uploaded on the box to improve the mix so if you download you may get an older version, but please steal this for your iPod or whatever if you like listening to it.
Yes, I know this is supposed to be impossible, but after several other videos which could have had a hidden device under the table, Mylow now reveals his face and shows his whole assembly working on a glass table top. This is pretty cool. The only possible scam explanation left is a battery powered motor in the base of the thing. If that is not the case, then this is something REALLY new and amazing (outside of the secret government circles):
Another thing that was supposed to be theoretically impossible is the Levitron. I have one of those and it works. It is a balancing act between magnetic and gyroscopic stabilization forces.
Here is an interesting email from someone on the Mylow-news group who also claims to have something like this working. Can you imagine if this could generate enough power to run the lights in your home? Well, it seems to me that since the magnets are getting depleted that they become just another type of battery.
Some ideas for you Mylow -
We saw that we needed a minimum a rotation of about 300 to 350 rpm of the rotor disc to start developing a sufficient EMF (will explain EMF later). The cooling of the magnets and rotor disc is a good sign. We experienced the same down to 11C.
We used rare earth materials (neodymium) for the magnets and copper material for the rotor disc. It requires a free spinning bearing system with as little drag as possible. Also, a very sturdy and stable stator support. The optimum stator to rotor magnet gap is dependent on the rotor magnet spacing and magnet flux density (magnetic strength).
Have you tried to vary this distance to see what effect this has on the disc rotation speed? Remember that the rotor disc must be stable and secure as well as the stator magnet bracket. The stator bracket must not bow or bend as the rotor disc rotates below it. In other words, the stator to rotor magnet gap must be constant as the rotor spins.
Perhaps Sterling or another friend can help you in locating someone to design the magnetic / induction pickup coil system, when the time comes. This is necessary for producing the electric power as the strong magnets (bottom disc) pass thru pickup coils and induce an EMF (electric voltage).
One of our prototype designs had a polycarbonate (plexiglass) disc attached to the bottom of the copper rotor disc. This non-metallic disc was spaced about 6 inches below the copper disc and had magnets attached to the bottom surface. As this sandwiched disc rotated the bottom magnets thru pickup coils, a voltage (EMF) was induced into the coil. The resultant frequency and voltage amplitude was dependent on the number of magnets, pickup coils and their size (magnetic flux density for the magnets and number of windings on the induction coils) and their spacing.
The importance of strong rotor disc magnets and optimized rotor magnet / stator magnet spacing (gap) is emphasized because as the bottom magnets (field magnets) move thru the induction coils (field pickup coils) a “back EMF” is produced. This back EMF places an amount of drag on the rotating rotor disc. This is termed as a “magnetic brake” as it attempts to dampen the rotation of the rotor. It’s a balancing act of sorts in that the rotor disc needs to rotate at a constant speed while generating a constant and useble power that can be converted to 120volts, 60 hertz AC or 240 volts, 50 hertz AC. Theorectically, the system can be scaled to produce energy levels to power an electric car or an average sized home….. or larger!!
Update: I’ve left my YouTube comment asking Mylow to put some feathers or scraps of tissue paper around the table to show that there are no air currents. There are vortex fans which can blow a fairly powerful stream of air in a tube from across the room.
I think it would be loud enough to hear, but we still need to rule out air currents. If focused on one side of the device, air could cause it to spin. Here is a link to a Vortex Cannon.
Maybe you’ve seen those toys that send smoke rings across the room? They generate vortex rings by thumping the back of a diaphragm into a shaped chamber with a circular exit, and can blow out candles at surprising distances, because the vortex ring is highly stable.
There are military applications as well: A small charge is used to generate pressure, and the resultant vortex ring can knock a man over. The charges can be set off at 10 per second, which is apparently totally debilitating, but not lethal.
What I propose is another version, where the diaphragm is rapidly oscillated, perhaps by a sub woofer speaker.
The rapidly created vortex rings would act like highly directional cooling fans, with long distance capability. I think these might be useful in gardens or large halls.
There might be many applications for portable, high power, devices: sweeping leaves; picking fruit; pest control etc. – halfbakery
Image of Google’s infrared camera technology United States Patent and Trademark Office
The other day my colleague Kee Malesky turned me on to an incredibly interesting article from the New Scientist website about the granting of patent 7508978. What’s so important about Patent 7508978 you ask? It’s the patent that explains how Google’s proprietary book scanning technology works.
… Before Google came on the scene, book scanning was a tedious process that sometimes resulted in the death of a book. The software used to scan books, called Optical Character Recognition software or OCR for short, required each page of the book to be flat. Now anyone who’s ever opened a book knows it’s next to impossible for a book to lie flat without some sort of device. One solution to the problem was to use glass plates that individually flattened each page, but this method wasn’t very efficient. The other solution was to chop off the book’s binding, but that method destroyed the book. How was one to go about scanning a book quickly and efficiently without destroying it?
…Google created some seriously nifty infrared camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when the book is placed in the scanner. This information is transmitted to the OCR software, which adjusts for the distortions and allows the OCR software to read text more accurately.
This is a good design from Kwang Hoo Lee. Its basic structure is the same as many other ones, but when it is folded, a picture frame appears. You can hang it on the wall for decoration.
Update: When I first saw this, I was thinking “a balloon” based on its motion in the sky, but it seemed to be “shape shifting.” After Mike’s comment about it seeming to be a bundle of balloons, it no longer seems mysterious. But why is the film crew spending so much time filming it? Is it part of a movie they are making? With enough balloons a person can be taken up. Do you think there might be a person or an animal up there?
That’s a disturbing thought: What if someone were to go around a town snatching dogs and launching them into the stratosphere with bundles of balloons? Perhaps only the dogs that have been bad. That would be very cruel since it could end up killing the animals. It could also kill people by causing plane crashes or by landing in traffic.
The same thing could also be done with snakes. That would be scary. Do you ever have thoughts you wish you could un-think?
Here are some UFO related books that the spammers linking to my blog want to sell you:
News is just broken out all out Russian media. I quess soon we can hear it all over.
Tone is very alarming from Russian officials – just days before NATO drill in Georgia… “Naturally, we will draw our own conclusions about this provocation.”
- NATO excercise is taking place now in Georgia
- Russian diplomats was just few days ago ousted from NATO
- Russian Army is moving across the border of Georgia
- New deals done with Ossetia and Russia in thursday
… WTF is really happening over there?
- No numbers given how much, and powerfull is Russian Army which is now moving inside South Ossetia and Abkhazia! – Scale of deployments unknown…
“Border troops command will be located in Tskhinvali proper, while others will be deployed along the whole border perimeter.”Russian guards take up duties on Abkhaz, S. Ossetia borders en.rian.ru…
Exactly. It’s NATO’s very presence and instigation of Ossetia to break away from Georgia that ignited an attack on Russian people a couple of months ago. How would we like it if a foreign power was doing exercises in say Cuba (that’s not a good example, but it’ll do) and they talked south Florida into breaking away from the state? So south Florida breaks away from Florida state, and Florida state starts firing on south Florida and BINGO, a war on American soil has started.
In such a scenario, Washington would of course react. Washington and every single American citizen would be furious at the foreign power for instigating trouble right on American soil, let alone conducting war exercises so close to America’s borders. Obviously, that’s an extremely provocative practice with obvious intentions.
Well that’s exactly what NATO is doing to Russia, provoking the hell out of them. Nobody can blame Russia for sending in troops. America would do exactly the same thing.
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News is just broken out all out Russian media. I quess soon we can hear it all over.
