Posts archive for: August, 2008
  • FAQ: How can I learn useful mathematics quickly?

    Dr. GURU speaks,

    Simple Algebra...
    a/b = y
    a = b x y
    a/y = b

    Calculations are normally done in metres and kg.

    and Statistics...

    The probability of any given event happening...and...then another given event happening is 1/y = 1/a (x) 1/b = 1 chance in y

    ...is within the realm of us all.

    The probability of you winning the UK national lottery is...
    6/49 x 5/48 x 4/47 x 3/46 x 2/45 x 1/44. Simply multiply the upper and lower figures separately.

    1/y = 1 in 14 million.

    The probability of you winning the Euro-millions is...
    5/50 x 4/49 x 3/48 x 2/47 x 1/46 x 2/9 x 1/8

    1/y = 1 in over 76 million.

    The GURU must now sleep.

  • FAQ: How high is the sky?

    Dr. GURU speaks,

    The sky is around 75 miles high...or 120km, and the equivalent of 400,000 feet.

    It is little over an hours’ drive...straight up.

    At this height, it is said that the atmospheric effects become noticeable during re-entry.

    Commercial air-liners cruise between 5.68 miles and 8.53 miles, or 9.14km and 13.72km, or 30,000 and 45,000 feet.

    Migrating birds fly between 3.8 miles and 7.6 miles, or 6km and 12km, or 20,000 and 40,000 feet. Normally, birds fly below 150m, or 500 feet.

    Sky-Divers generally drop from a height between 2.37 miles and 2.75 miles, or 3.81km and 4.42km, or 12,500 to 14,500 feet.

    The highest recorded jump is 20 miles, or 31.33km, or 102,800 feet. On the 16th August 1960, Captain Joseph Kittenger was in free-fall for nearly 5 minutes, reaching a speed of 614mph. Air was so thin at this height of departure, that he had to wear a space-like pressure-suit to breathe.

    You are considered an Astronaut if you reach above 50 miles, 80km, or 266,667 feet.

    Breathing problems begin when you ascend above 6.83 miles, 11km, or 33,528 feet. Everest is 5.5 miles, 8.8km, or 29,000 feet high.

    Clouds can touch the ground, or rest at altitudes of 50 miles, or 80km, or 260,000 feet.

    The GURU must now sleep.

  • FAQ: Am I Clean?

    Dr. GURU speaks,

    When cleaning yourself, it is important to be fairly abrasive...so as to remove the contaminant debris that builds up on your skin every day. The easiest way to do this is with a face-towel and soap or detergent.

    “Personal Hygiene” is graded on the cleanliness of your mouth, arm-pits, and crotch. Brush your teeth at least twice a day, wash after you sweat or are in a polluted atmosphere, and clean thoroughly under your fore-skin if uncircumcised.

    You will then be considered “clean”.

    The GURU must now sleep.

  • FAQ: Is there a Heaven? (The Dialogue #3)

    [The Faithful]
    “My life has been filled with disappointment, abuse and violence. I have never been able to rely on anybody; and now that I am about to have a child...I cannot rely on myself to look after it. I am already fighting to look after myself!”

    The GURU speaks,

    [The GURU]
    “You want the best for your child. To shield and protect it from the evils of the world.”

    [The Faithful]
    “Yes. I don’t want my child to live the life I have lived. I want it to know only good; and feel no bad.”

    [The GURU]
    “Do you believe in God?”

    [The Faithful]
    “He is the only one that keeps me alive.”

    [The GURU]
    “If your child could grow up knowing no sin, experiencing no evil, doing no harm, and having no harm done on them...would God permit them into Heaven?”

    [The Faithful]
    “Ofcourse. God would have to.”

    [The GURU]
    “Then allow me to present my proposition...

    Let me take your child...and put it in a cell.

    All four walls of the cell will have video-displays of your choosing.

    Your child will have soft cuddly things to hold, and be mechanically fed the most nourishing and delicious foods for its growth and development.

    It will never have any human contact.

    Your entire child’s developing physical, mental and spiritual needs will be catered-for.

    Your child will be constantly monitored. Whenever confusion arises in their mind, a series of focused ‘life-lessons’ will display on the walls to guide them through each of their ‘life-stages’.

    Your child will lack one thing...human contact. They will only be able to communicate with a computer that answers questions with positive direction.

    But what your child lacks, you can re-fill a hundred-fold with other traits such as musician, artist, writer, poet, linguist, athlete, scientist, and philosopher.

    Your child would have a fulfilling life.”

    [The Faithful]
    “Would my child be guaranteed into Heaven?”

    [The GURU]
    “I may be burned at the stake for my part in this manifesto, but your child must be accepted into Heaven. Otherwise, getting into Heaven would be a lottery. “

    [The Faithful]
    “I don’t know if this is right.”

    [The GURU]
    “Well...I have just presented you with a theoretical stair-way to Heaven. A bypass route to God’s side.

    Have I cheated God’s ‘Judgement-Day', or merely prepared for it?

    I have committed no blasphemy...some may need to fall in developing the ‘master-plan’, so that many others may enjoy the yield of that very scheme.

    If you believe in God and Heaven, then there must be space for the unfortunates who make best of what they have, and live with love in their lives.

    My method should make certain your child's entry into Heaven...by your standards; and if God's intention is beyond what we can understand or try to follow...then we might as well enjoy as much as we can whilst we're still alive. Are you sure the world will treat your child well?

    I can gaurantee your child's happiness, with limitation, within this proposed "cell". Each and every person has the same capacity to feel emotion, regardless of their situation. Your child can be adorned with contentment...as if already in Heaven.

    If you question whether or not to hand over your child to me...then maybe you must also question whether or not Heaven exists.

    To me, it does not...so I must regretfully withdrawal my proposition, as I have no "cell" to imprison your child.”

    The GURU must now sleep.

  • FAQ: What is a healthy life-style?

    Dr. GURU speaks,

    A “Healthy Life” must be lived with happiness, harmony and balance...

    After about 35 years of age, your body begins to decline in its ability to respond to stress and maintain haemostasis, and is more susceptible to disease. This is also when there is a decline in cognitive processes.

    To nourish both body and mind:

    - Have quiet time to yourself to rest your mind;
    - Read regularly. Learn more about things which interest you;
    - Enjoy Music, Art and Nature;
    - Be more physically active;
    - Share and socialize with others;
    - Have alcohol infrequently;
    - Smoke less or not-at-all. In times of stress or depression it will make
    your condition worse;
    - Try not to leave yourself in stressful situations;
    - When you feel thirsty...drink water. Tap-water is normally fine;
    - Eat a multi-coloured variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, including
    beans, peas and whole-grain oats ;
    - Eat plenty of rice, potatoes, bread, pasta, or noodles. This is
    essential “filler-material”;
    - Eat sea-food;
    - Cook with butter or olive-oil;
    - Do not cook with vegetable-oil;
    - Garlic and Ginger are good flavourings;
    - Reduce your dietary intake of biscuits, cakes, pastries, fatty meats, hard
    cheese, pasteurized milk, cream, margarine, coconut oil and palm oil;
    - Reduce your intake of processed foods and “ready-meals”. Try to cook your
    meals from fresh;
    - Try to keep your Body-Mass-Index [weight(kg)/height(m2)] between 18.5-24.9.
    A BMI greater than 30 is considered obese.

    It must be remembered, however, that 4 out-of 5 people who die of diseases are over 65 years of age...and those that don’t, only average another 10 years of geriatric life. Even the Japanese only have an average life-span of 75-85 years.

    The oldest confirmed age of any person was Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman who lived until she was 122 years and 164 days old. She remained physically and mentally active throughout most of her life...and smoked until she was 117 years of age (only quitting when she could no longer see well-enough to light her cigarettes).

    This emphasises the point that a balanced life-style is more important than living a life with military regime.

    The GURU must now sleep.

  • FAQ: What is important for Society to recognise in 2008?

    Dr. Guru speaks,

    General consensus must be to accept that the World-population needs to decline...over a protracted period of time.

    Human population-over-growth is the single largest factor contributing to the loss of animal life, environmental degradation and global climate-change. Aggressive agriculture and animal-husbandry practices have depleted soil productivity. More than 10% of Earth’s vegetated surface has been degraded. Now, in 2008, the reliance we have put upon our planet’s resources over the past three decades has had to inflate to accommodate the increasing pressure of our demands...we extract almost twice as much oil and three-times as much natural-gas from the Earth’s crust, whilst spilling-out almost twice as much harmful carbon-emissions.

    The human population on Earth is greater than 6.7 billion, and growing by approximately 95 million per year. If current trends continue, human numbers will sail past 15 billion by the end of the century. The quality of human life would certainly suffer. Since the mid-80's, the world's food-production, on a per-capita basis, has been decreasing. Efforts to improve the quality of life have been losing-ground to the rapid population over-growth. All the problems we are trying to address in our society - the environment, crime, hunger, housing - all of them are related to population-density.

    Only when this over-packed, tightly-regulated, World-population is diminished will there be a rejuvenation of the Renaissance, where our pursuits are for the philosophical and spiritual, as it is for the monetary and scientific.

    There needs to be no ‘culling’ of the masses...but we must each 'prune' our own family-trees. The desire and “need” for a baby seems innate, as it is with the amoebae. The progression can seem inevitable; but this over-growth is unsustainable.

    When quantity-of-life is balanced-up with quality-of-life, interpretations are subjective and their conclusions cannot be solely relied upon. Objectively, you must concede that what is good for one is not necessarily good for the ‘all’.

    As for the protocols to guide this “population-decline-design”...it is too late to think upon such things.

    The Guru must now sleep.

  • FAQ: What has Science taught us about our Pre-History?

    Dr. GURU speaks,

    The planet we live on, what we have called “our World”, was first formed 4.57 billion years ago during the formation of the Solar-System (our Galaxy being 13.6 billion years old). Although continually dynamic (tectonic-plate movements, volcanic eruptions, drastic climate changes as the planet began to cool, shifts in ocean circulation, and impacting asteroids and comets), it remained sterile for the first 200-500 million years of its life until volcanic water-vapour cooled sufficiently to liquefy and form the first oceans, allowing inanimate organic and inorganic molecules to coalesce in a ‘primordial soup’ to form the first primitive uni-cellular life.

    The Earth contains Water and Carbon, amongst other things, essential elements in all living organisms on Earth. Gas from volcanoes is made up of 70% water. Using modern eruption rates, the volume of water venting from volcanoes since the Earth cooled over 4 billion years ago could have filled the oceans a hundred-fold. Earth’s large mass holds our atmosphere in its gravitation-pull. 500 million years after the oceans formed, Photosynthesising bacteria allowed the 'Ozone-Layer' to develop, protecting the planet and all life on it from harmful ultra-violet radiation and keeping-in essential heat (the ‘Green-House’ effect). Serendipity would have our planet orbiting the Sun at a distance accepting of such oceans and an atmosphere. It would be another 200-500 million years before multi-cellular life was established. The planet would then spend another 3 billion years (more than half its life) in relative stability, with little more than primitive ‘jelly-fish’ and ‘algae’ in its oceans.

    Then, around 540 million years ago, multi-cellular plants began to habitat coastal land, increasing the filtration of organic Carbon into marine environments. This dramatically increased the diversity of multi-cellular marine life. It would take at least another 125 million years for this diversity to give life to what we call fish and true trees, and a further 55 million years for the first four-legged creatures. These eventually developed, over the following 130 million years, into the dinosaurs (who ruled Earth for about 160 million years). Birds only evolved in the last 30 million years of the dinosaur’s reign, but they clearly out-lived them.

    The extinction event that killed so many of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, removing 20-25% of all the species on the planet at the time, was only the most recent of 5-20 mass extinction events that have ever occurred on the planet. Indeed, 99% of all the species that have ever existed on this planet are now extinct.

    The fossil records stretch back as far as 3.8 billion years, and show hominids to have only existed on the planet in the last 5-8 million years. Indeed, our species – Homo sapiens – is a mere 200,000 years old.

    A 5,250 year-old carved limestone tableau, with inscribed scenes of a victorious ruler and symbols, remains mankind’s oldest record of an established language and literature. This period demarcates what we call “pre-history” and “history”.

    The Guru must now sleep.

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