‘Language time machine’!

Wow! some scientists created a computer program to reconstruct vocabularies of ancient languages using only their modern language descendants. A linguistic Time Machine!

The program, a linguistic time machine of sorts, can quickly crunch data on some of the earliest-known “proto-languages” that gave rise to modern languages.

When I met with Romani people in Europe, I wanted to hear their language, I right away found many Indian words in Romani language. They migrated from India 1500 years ago. Still you can trace the language they brought from their homeland. Without the help of a linguistic time machine we know about the origin of Romani language.

This time machine is just awesome. Will they be able to find out the origin of Basque language using modern Basque descendants? I have always been curious to know about the origin of Basque. Where did the Basque language come from? Nobody could give me a satisfactory answer. Hope the linguistic time machine will do. When I was in Bilbao, I learned some Basque words, which were not similar with any other words exist on Earth. Ear-belarria, eye-begi, nose-sudurra, mouth-ahoa, tooth-hortza, arm-besoa,hand-eskua,heart-bihotza,stomach-sabela,leg-hanka, foot-oina,head-burua,face-aurpegia,hair-ilea. I am eagerly waiting for the solution the linguistic time machine gives.

We look to the future. Sometimes it is necessary to look back to the past.

Pope Must Go

Michael Nugent found ten reasons to be pleased that Pope Benedict is resigning. He explained elaborately the ten reasons he gave.

1.He has international political influence through the Vatican
2.His Vatican works with Islamic States to oppose gay rights
3.He blames atheism for Nazi Germany and lack of virtue
4.His Catholic Church claims that atheists are not fully human
5.He protects the Vatican ahead of child sex abuse victims
6.He blames secularisation for priests raping children
7.His Vatican compares child sex abuse with ordaining women
8.He offered free plenary indulgences to Lourdes pilgrims
9.He is skeptical that there were donkeys in the crib
10.He silences priests who want a more democratic church

With or without Islamic States the Vatican is against gay rights, because the bible is against gay rights. He blames atheism for Nazi Germany because he is ignorant like many people in the world who believe Hitler was an atheist and he killed Jews in the name of atheism. I can well understand why his Catholic Church claims that atheists are not fully human, because God hates atheists and Church based of myths and hypocrisies is threatened by no one but atheists. The biggest crime the Pope committed by protecting Vatican ahead of child sex abuse victims. He blames secularization for priests raping children. He has to, because priests must to be saved. They are authorized to perform the sacred rites of religion especially as a mediatory agent between humans and God. Whatever they do, rape or murder, they must be saved in order to save God’s ass. He silences priests who want a more democratic church, he does it because he knows religion is not compatible with democracy. If religion evolves or if it supports democracy, human rights, and equal rights between men and women, it will not be religion anymore. Religion’s purpose is to keep people in the darkness of ignorance, promote injustices and inequalities. Religion doesn’t evolve, people evolve. We do not have to force it to evolve or pretend that it evolved. We enlightened evolved people need to reject religion to make the world a better place.

HOPE there’s no POPE

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Congratulations, Pope! You decided to resign!
Papacy will remain vacant after 28 February until a new Pope has been selected.

Papacy will remain vacant! Such a good news! I hope Papacy remains vacant forever and never a successor is chosen. The current Pope committed crimes against humanity. His successor will most likely continue committing crimes. We know about the crimes of Popes.

The Pope is regarded as the successor of St. Peter, the Apostle. Jesus gave the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to St. Peter…

The Keys of the kingdom of Heaven! Just a myth. People should not be mythguided. Time to close Papacy. Make the Vatican a museum of human stupidity.

‘Bacteria eats poison and poops out gold!’ Really? Yep.

We have heard that Bacteria Produces 24-Karat Gold From Toxic Chemicals.

Now we know how bacteria changes ions into solid gold. Is it possible? Yes, it is.

The bacteria is called Delftia acidovorans, and it turns out that its King Midas-like conversion is part of a self-defense mechanism. Gold ions dissolved in water are toxic, so when the bacteria senses them it releases a protein called delftibactin A. The protein acts as a shield for the bacteria and changes the poisonous ions into harmless particles that accumulate outside the cells.

Although the amount of gold that Delftia acidovorans release is tiny (the particles are 25-50 nanometers across) it’s possible that the bacteria or the protein could someday be used to dissolve gold from water or to help people identify streams and rivers carrying the mineral.

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The study was about ‘Gold biomineralization by a metallophore from a gold-associated microbe’. Here is the details.

Someone says:

Mythical King Midas was ultimately doomed because everything he touched turned to gold. Now, the reverse has been found in bacteria that owe their survival to a natural Midas touch.

Bacteria protects itself by turning it’s environment to gold or simply say bacteria produces gold. It sounds weird. But it is nice to see some weird things happened in our lifetime. It is like someone has found the real Eldorado.

People in the Indian subcontinent are crazy for gold. They must be very happy now because bacteria-produced-pure-gold will be much cheaper than the gold available in the market. I don’t think their dreams will ever, oops, soon come true.

30 million took holy dip. 30 died.

30 people were killed in a stampede at Kumbh, the Hindu religious festival.

30 million Hindus took dip at the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical as well as invisible Saraswati believing to have their sins washed away. More than 30 people died in a stampede at Kumbh. God should have saved the lives of devotees. Some children died too. Why did God kill them?

Many people die in stampedes at Kumbh and Hajj.

I am so lucky! I do not need to go to kaba or Kumbh, because I do not commit sins.

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The more sins you commit, the more your fears grow.

Hindus believe some rivers in India are holy, even though those rivers are dangerously polluted. Many famous artists, writers, film makers, filthy rich were at Kumbh today. They believe their sins will be washed away if they immerse themselves in those so called holy rivers. Kumbh is like Kaba, Muslims believe if their perform hajj by orbiting kaba, all their sins will be forgiven.

If most people in the world were sane, religion would have been dead long ago.