The Unlikely Buddha

Meet the Man Who Owns the Moon A loophole in a United Nations charter has allowed Dennis Hope to sell plots on the moon for more than 30 years. If you ask Dennis Hope , he'll tell you he's the richest man on Earth—in fact, he'll say he's the richest man in the Solar System. Why? Because, as far as he's concerned, he owns most of it. In the early 1980s, Hope, then unemployed for about a year, thought he'd be a good property owner and could make a living by managing real estate. He looked out the window and saw more unclaimed property than he could possibly fathom—the moon. He remembered a tidbit from a political science course he took in college—the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty said no country could own the moon, but it says nothing about individuals. Hope wrote a letter to the United Nations saying the moon was his and asked the group to come up with a legal reason why an individual could not claim ownership of the moon. He never heard back. "I se...

  Quantum Entanglement Two particles in a dance of chance Spinning and weaving across the space They share a secret, a hidden glance A bond that nothing can erase They feel each other, no matter how far They mirror each other, no matter when They are entangled, like a star And its reflection in the water's zen They are one, yet they are two They are separate, yet they are whole They are mystery, yet they are true They are quantum, yet they are soul Unlikely Buddha ©2023

NASA’s massive moon rocket will cost taxpayers billions more than projected NASA auditor warns Congress NASA’s auditor didn’t mince words when he told lawmakers Tuesday that the space agency’s lunar program is going to cost a ton more per mission than initial projections suggested a decade ago. “We found that the first four Artemis missions will each cost $4.1 billion per launch, a price tag that strikes us as unsustainable,” NASA Inspector General Paul Martin said. Artemis is the name of NASA’s lunar program. It represents a series of missions for which the agency is developing its Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule Motley Fool article NASA's new $4 billion rocketship may not be long for this world. When Sir Richard Branson announced last year that his company, Virgin Galactic, would begin charging $450,000 a ticket for tourist flights to space and back, minds boggled at the price tag. But if $450,000 sounds like a lot of money to you, you'd better sit down be...

DIFFICULT CHOICE: Avoid Pain or Damage Kidneys? All non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been associated with the development of acute kidney injury Heavy or long-term use of some of these medicines, such as ibuprofen, naproxen, and higher dose aspirin, can cause chronic kidney disease known as chronic interstitial nephritis NSAIDs can cause two different forms of acute kidney injury. Haemodynamically mediated (eg, pre-renal injury and/or acute tubular necrosis). !? Immune mediated (eg, acute interstitial nephritis). Acute kidney injury represents a continuum of renal injury ranging from clinically asymptomatic changes in renal function to renal failure and death. Acute kidney injury is characterised by a rapid fall in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) over hours to days In the general population, the pooled odds ratio (OR) of AKI for current NSAID exposure was 1.73 (95%CI 1.44 to 2.07), with somewhat higher risk observed in older people (OR 2.51, 95%CI 1.52 to 2.68). In ...

Once upon a midnight dreary,  As I scrolled, weak and weary,  Through the endless Xeets and chatter,  My eyes transfixed on a message that mattered.  'Twas a xeet from a distant shore,  That chilled me to my very core,  As words I thought were cast in jest,  Revealed a truth that couldn't rest.  And though I tried to look away,  The xeet refused to fade or stray,  Haunting my mind with its grim refrain,  Till I could bear the burden no more again.  Now I've come to see each xeet,  As an omen I dare not cheat,  For the tales and stories they contain,  May bring me sorrow, or joy, or pain. And so I'll heed the tell tale xeet,  And let it guide me through the fleet,  Of messages that flood my screen,  Till I find my way to dreams serene. Unlikely Buddha  ©2023

Buddhism and quantum mechanics are two distinct fields of study that explore different aspects of reality. Buddhism is a religion and philosophy that originated in ancient India and emphasizes the importance of meditation, mindfulness, and compassion. Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, is a branch of physics that deals with the behavior of atomic and subatomic particles. Although these two fields may seem widely divergent, there are striking parallels and correlations between them that suggest they may describe the same universe. In this paper, I will explore the similarities between Buddhism and quantum mechanics and provide detailed examples of the correlations between the two fields. Interdependence: One of the most significant correlations between Buddhism and quantum mechanics is the concept of interdependence. In Buddhism, this is known as "dependent origination," which suggests that all phenomena arise in dependence upon other phenomena. In quantum mechanics, there ...