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Chinese Develop New Species: Panda Dog

The Transgenic Animal Center  (TAC) at the National Institute of Biological Science in Beijing has spliced panda genetic material with the genetic material of a dog in order to create a new species: The Panda Dog.  Transgenic Panda Dogs have been produced by fertilizing normal panda eggs with dog sperm cells that have incorporated foreign DNA to act as biological bridge between the two species. The use of foreign DNA for bridging purposes is a new Chinese technique that may be the key to many more transgenic species in the future.  The foreign DNA used must be tweaked for success between different species but in general the same foreign DNA is used and is the first instance of a true universal transgenic DNA type.  This procedure is called bridged sperm-mediated gene transfer (BSMGT).  A spokesperson for TAC thinks the Panda Dog may be the pet of the future.   The same Chinese lab is also working on a lion dog, tiger dog and zebra dog but these new species will not be available for awhile.

Photos at:

http://s883.photobucket.com/albums/ac35/foxhugh/Panda%20Dog/

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The Year of the Golden Rabbit – Chaos Triumphs!

The following are predictions not prescriptions!  There is a big difference!

Afghanistan– Karzai kicks out the US and NATO!

China – Faces new and strategic challenges to state security by Radical Islam within the next five years.

Egypt – The Muslim Brotherhood takes over and US foreign policy is defeated.

EU – Countries with Islamic majorities in the future literally go Islamic within the next ten to twenty years.  NATO is destroyed by this movement as is the EU.  Within twenty years the line between East and West no longer exists.

Hamas – Big Winner

Indonesia – Radicalization

Israel – The Israeli state is alone in the Middle East.  Egypt is no longer their ally.  The US exits the Middle East.

Malaysia – Radicalization

Russia – Islamic extremists now have a big place too plan attacks against Russia with the addition of Radical Islamic states in the Middle East.  Deeper and more strategic operations against Russia by Radical Islamists cause their ultimate victory in Chechnya.  Russia has no choice but to allow Chechnya to seccede.

Saudi Arabia – Barely Survives and acts as a focal point for Sunni forces in the war against Shiite forces.

Tunisia – Radical Islamists take over.

US – The Pax Americana is finally destroyed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana).  The US struggles to handle domestic economic problems and withdraws from the world stage to never return.  The EU and China separately or together cannot create a new world order and the world slips into deadly chaos.  Ecological collapse that might have been solved with a world order of any sort is allowed to happen.

Yemen – Radical Islamists take over.

The World – Sea traffic through the Suez Canal allows sea traffic between Europe and Asia without having to go around the Cape Horn of Africa.  Any disruption of the Suez Canal would act as a global expense that would decimate the very fragile current economic recovery.

Radical Islam will overwhelm all anti-terrorist safeguards and be the big winner in the year of the Golden Rabbit!

The US is currently in a total lose/lose situation. Americans really do believe in the exportation of democracy to other countries even if I think it’s largely a waste of time since true democracy comes from within a country and this export attempt interferes with core economic and security interests.  Democracy in Egypt and the Middle East in general, means the election of anti-American
regimes.  At best they will be secular Anti-American regimes that we can reach a pragmatic accommodation with.  At worst, and more commonly, they will be radical Islamic anti-American regimes that cannot be reasoned with pragmatically.  I do think the current Pax Americana in the Middle East did allow for peace between Sunnis and Shiites and this will no longer be the case when the US loses influence in the US.  Like many such artificial situations, pressures have built that would not have built if small conflicts had been allowed over time.  Saudi Arabia and Iran are either nuclear or going to be nuclear and I do think the first tactical nuclear war of world history will be in the Middle East between Shiites and Sunnis.  Only religious fanatics would go down this road. Even a Stalin or Hitler knew better.

The best solution for the US is to move towards energy self sufficiency and allow the Sunnis and Shiites destroy each other while we watch from a distance. Radioactive oil isn’t very useful.

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E-Money

From my science fiction novel Half Square:

Dr. Delta: The E-money meme is highly infectious but not virulent.

FS: The Asian Union dumped their own currencies and adopted e-money as their official currency.  E-money was totally electronic within the AU.  There was simply no paper money used in the Asian Union.  All monetary transactions were done with an e-card, similar to a credit card. 

DG: Why this radical move? 

FS: This made street crime very difficult since the AU central authority could easily analyze any transaction done with an e-card.  Both dólares and euros backed e-money.  The euro and the dólar were contra cyclical.  If one currency went up then the other one went down.  E-money was the most stable currency on my world and this had special advantages. 

DG: Paperless money?  Sounds impossible.

FS: Money is the ultimate meme.  Money is ultimately an idea.  Backing the e-money with euro and dólar reserves was more for psychological purposes than stability.  Even my world wasn’t ready for true e- money and needed the crutch of paper moneys backing the e-money.

DG: So e-money was a giant memetic warfare strategy?

FS: One of many, the East Chinese government in Shanghai used their huge euro and dólar reserves to manipulate the world money supply and thereby control the world economy.  The AU government used the reserves to buy goods and services outside the Asian Union but could and did decide which currency to use for particular macroeconomic transactions such a big AU government contracts.  Deciding to use the euro or dólar for that transaction would dramatically increase the relative supply of euros or dólares.

DG: Why did the Asian Union do this?

FS: The maxim was “He who controls the money supply of the world, controls the economy of the world.” 

DG: So the AU was trying to control the money supply of the world?

FS: E-money didn’t give the Asian Union total control over the money supply of the world since the United Americas and European Union could still print more money but e-money did give the AU more economic control domestically and internationally than paper money would have.  Several books had been written about monetary warfare and East Chinese economists were seen as generals with a new weapon. 

DG: Why did the China in your Earth focus so much on economic means?

FS: Revisionist Chinese historians claimed that imperial China had controlled the middle kingdom primarily through economic rather than militar means and that the Chinese naturally excelled at such types of control.  Chinese had superior technology to their neighbors for hundreds of years and this had translated into superior products and services that allowed for Chinese dominance.  The decline of China had begun with a decline in relative technological progress compared to the West.

DG: Sounds like a reasonable view of Chinese history.

FS:  Japan had correctly focused on technological development first, then economic progress but had almost destroyed itself in World War II when it pursued a militaristic path.  China had been distracted by various social agendas but now was on the right path of economic superiority that would lead to political control of the world.  This view claimed that a study of Chinese history taught the Chinese that economic imperialism was more effective than militar imperialism. 

DG: So the goal is economic power?

FS: No, the goal is to control the means of memetic production through whatever means necessary including economic means.

DG: My area of expertise has always been micro-memetics i.e. psychology rather than macro-memetics i.e. social sciences.  What do you know about micro-memetics?

FS: Not much, actually I just know that my Square Earth focused on memetic war more than this Earth.

DG: What about good old fashioned none memetic war?

FS: Regardless, of arguments about the past, most agreed that every militar adventure since the 1970’s by a major power had ultimately failed and there was a pattern to this failure.  On my Earth, UA militar action had failed in the long run in Vietnam, Serbia, the Gulf War and the Colombian Droga War. 

DG: How so?

FS: The huge militar budgets incurred by the United Americas in these conflicts had ultimately contributed to the UA economy growing more slowly than the rest of the world and losing its dominant economic position. The cost of these militar actions escalated to the point that the major power injured the economic means that enabled militar action in the first place.  The United Americas economy had been so rich it took much, much longer for the cost of its militar adventures to ultimately hurt the economy but eventually the fall came and the Asian Union sped ahead.

 

DG: I thought the military power of the US had made it number one in the 20th century.

FS: The US is of course different from the UA but I think the real lesson of the success of the US is the success of the US economy.  US militar actions by the US in Vietnam and the Middle East have hurt the US not helped the US.  In hindsight, the US had ultimately out spent the USSR and defeated the USSR via economic means rather than militar means. 

DG: And on your world? 

FS: In my world, the relative prosperity of the AU was due to its low militar spending.  The relative lack of prosperity of the United Americas was due to its high rate of militar spending.  Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese militar strategist had written that,” One spy was worth a thousand soldiers.”  A new saying arose on my Earth; “One billionaire is worth a thousand spies since money controlled spies.”

DG: You mentioned Shanghai as being the capitol of East China.  Was East China a separate country?

 

Keep in mind I wrote the above several years before the following happened:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/03/25/china.currency/index.html

From the above article:

“On Monday the governor of the People’s Bank of China proposed expanded use of an alternative — the International Monetary Fund’s SDR, or Special Drawing Right, an accounting unit based on the euro, Japanese yen, pound sterling and U.S. dollar.”

The novel can be downloaded for a nominal fee at:

http://stores.lulu.com/foxhugh

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Virtual Chinese Reunification Palace

 
 

 

 

Taipei’s National Palace Museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Palace_Museum)

has the largest collection of Chinese art in the world.

The museum now lists 620,250 pieces.  In comparison, the Louvre has 35,000 works of art.  This is an apples and oranges comparison to some extent since the Louvre has pieces of unmatched quality.  The Louvre also focuses on paintings while most of the pieces in the National Palace Museum are not paintings. Still the National Palace Museum does have 50,000 paintings!  Sadly only a small part of the National Palace Museum is on display at any given time due to a lack of space.  I have visited both the Louvre and the National Palace Museum and I would say it takes about 3-4 days to check out the Louvre while the National Palace Museum takes half a day to see such is the extreme disparity in facilities between the two museums.  The lack of space for the collection of the National Palace Museum is a scandal since Taiwan does not have a top 100 tourist attraction and could with more space have one of the top museums in the world and a top 100 tourist attraction.  A vastly expanded National Palace Museum would be a special draw for mainland Chinese tourists.

Mainland China has the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City and once the two collections were part of single collection.  The collection was split after the Chinese Civil War.  Is there any way to reunite these two incredible collections that are symbols of the common Chinese culture that Taiwan and Mainland China share?

I propose the both collections could be united in a Virtual Chinese Reunification Palace.  Most of the collections of both museums exist in photographic digital form already.  What if these pieces were displayed in a 3D environment the user could “walk through” online?  In addition tools could be added that would users to make their own version of a Virtual Chinese Reunification Palace and this could be an assignment that school children on both sides could work on together.

This project would aid the cause of peaceful reunifcation between mainland China and Taiwan.

An article about this topic that appeared in the International Herald Tribune shortly after I published this post at:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/12/asia/imperial.php

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Chinese Astrological Analysis of Nations

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Chinese Do’s and Don’ts

Chinese Dream and American Reality

Chinese vs. Western Astrology

Confucius in Thailand 2012

Extending China’s One Belt One Road Initiative to Latin America

Table of Chinese Astrology 19th – 21st Century

The 36 Stratagems as Portrayed in Comic Books

Virtual Chinese Reunification Palace

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There is no Chinese Yen!

I found the most incredible mistake on Yahoo today.

From Yahoo:

“10. Yen to Become Currency Peg

Asian countries could shun dollar pegs in favor of the Chinese yen next year, according to Saxo Bank. China’s economic, political and cultural influence is growing and shifts in market re-evaluations will favor the country, the report added.”

at:

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106331/No-Growth-in-China-and-Other-Outrageous-Prophecies

There is the Japanese yen and the Chinese RMB but no such thing as the Chinese yen.  Sometimes the provincialism of my countrymen relative to Asia amazes me!

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The Asian Union Begins Now!

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Lee Myung Bak, Taro Aso, Wen Jiabao

As I predicted several years ago in my novel Half Square, the first steps towards an Asian Union began in earnest Saturday, August 13th, 2008 when the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea took major steps to work together including the discussion of a trilateral free trade area.   From left to right, Lee Myung Bak of South Korea, Taro Aso of Japan and Wen Jiabao of China.

The first chapter of Half Square can be read on this blog at:

https://foxhugh.wordpress.com/half-square-chapter-1-agent-wanted/

A free pdf file of the first chapter is at:

http://www.lulu.com/content/3688742

The entire novel can be bought at:

http://stores.lulu.com/foxhugh

More about this event at:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/japan/2008/12/14/187543/S%2E%2DKorea.htm

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Top 100 Cities: Tourist Destination vs. Livability Rank

The following study is an attempt to objectively explore the truism:

 

“Nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there” 

 

The operational version of this truism would be that tourist cities and livable cities are different cities. The truism has been named the Visit/Live Theory for the purposes of this study.  Two lists that rank cities were compared.  The first list ranks cities according the number of tourists that arrived in a city.

 

The list and a description of the list can be found at:

 

http://www.euromonitor.com/Top_150_City_Destinations_London_Leads_the_Way

 

The second list ranks cities according to livability.   Mercer Human Resources looked at 39 quality of life issues including political stability, currency-exchange regulations, political and media censorship, school quality, housing and the environment.

 

The Mercer list and a description of the list can be found at:

 

http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/livable_cities_worldwide/

 

Table 1 shows all the cities on both lists in alphabetical order.  In addition, the difference in rank was calculated for each city when this was possible.  If a city was on only one top 100 list then the difference in rank could not be calculated.  The tourist destination study looked at 150 cities, but for the purposes of comparison, only the top 100 tourist destinations were used in this study. Many cities were only on one list and not on the other list.  The number of cities on both lists was counted.  The number of cities only on one list was also counted.  If the number of cities on both lists was greater than the number of cities not on both lists then this would suggest the truism is not true.

Top 100 Cities: Tourist Destination vs. Livability Rank

Table 1: Alphabetical List of All Cities

Cities Country Tourist Rank Livability Rank Rank Difference
1 Abu Dhabi UAE 52 88 36
2 Adelaide Australia NR 30 N/A
3 Agra India 99 NR N/A
4 Amsterdam Netherlands 18 13 5
5 Antwerp Netherlands 90 NR 99
6 Athens Greece NR 78 N/A
7 Atlanta USA NR 66 N/A
8 Auckland New Zealand NR 5 N/A
9 Bahrain Bahrain 12 NR 18
10 Bangkok Thailand 2 NR 90
11 Barcelona Spain 10 41 12
12 Beijing China 22 NR N/A
13 Benidorm Spain 33 NR N/A
14 Berlin Germany 34 16 18
15 Bern Germany NR 9 N/A
16 Birmingham United Kingdom 81 55 26
17 Boston USA 68 36 32
18 Bratislava Slovakia NR 99 N/A
19 Brisbane Australia NR 32 N/A
20 Bruges Belgium 89 NR N/A
21 Brussels Belgium NR 14 N/A
22 Buenos Aires Argentina NR 79 N/A
23 Budapest Hungary 36 74 38
24 Cairo Egypt 45 NR N/A
25 Calgary Canada NR 24 N/A
26 Cancun Mexico 26 NR N/A
27 Cape Town South Africa 57 85 28
28 Chennai India 97 NR N/A
29 Chicago USA 64 44 20
30 Chongquing China 100 NR N/A
31 Cleveland USA NR 59 N/A
32 Copenhagen Sweden 54 11 43
33 Dalian China 87 NR N/A
34 Detroit USA NR 64 N/A
35 Dubai UAE 7 80 73
36 Dublin Ireland 11 27 16
37 Dusseldorf Germany NR 5 N/A
38 Edinburgh United Kingdom 56 NR N/A
39 Florence Italy 46 NR N/A
40 Frankfurt Germany NR 7 N/A
41 Geneva Switzerland 98 2 96
42 Glasgow United Kingdom 82 55 27
43 Granada Spain 95 NR N/A
44 Guangzhou China 32 NR N/A
45 Guilin China 65 NR N/A
46 Hamburg Germany 83 24 59
47 Hangzhou China 49 NR N/A
48 Helsinki Finland 77 30 47
49 Hong Kong China 5 70 65
50 Honolulu USA NR 27 N/A
51 Houston USA NR 68 N/A
52 Istanbul Turkey 16 NR N/A
53 Johannesburg South Africa NR 90 N/A
54 Katsuyama Japan NR 73 N/A
55 Kobe Japan NR 40 N/A
56 Krakow Poland 69 NR N/A
57 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 15 75 60
58 Kunming China 94 NR N/A
59 La Havana Cuba 70 NR N/A
60 Las Vegas USA 48 NR N/A
61 Leipzig Germany NR 67 N/A
62 Lexington USA NR 51 N/A
63 Limassol Cyprus NR NR N/A
64 Lisbon Portugal 47 47 0
65 Liverpool United Kingdom 91 NR N/A
66 Ljubljana Slovenia NR 80 N/A
67 London United Kingdom 1 39 38
68 Los Angeles USA 31 55 24
69 Luxembourg Luxembourg NR 18 N/A
70 Lyon France 84 36 48
71 Macau China 27 NR N/A
72 Madrid Spain 17 42 25
73 Manchester United Kingdom 73 NR N/A
74 Marrakesh Morocco 50 NR N/A
75 Mecca Saudi Arabia 19 NR N/A
76 Melbourne Australia 72 17 55
77 Mexico City Mexico 30 NR N/A
78 Miami USA 39 62 23
79 Milan Italy 42 49 7
80 Minneapolis USA NR 60 N/A
81 Monterrey Mexico NR 94 N/A
82 Montevideo Uruguay NR 76 N/A
83 Montreal Canada 85 22 63
84 Moscow Russia 21 NR N/A
85 Mumbai India 86 NR N/A
86 Munich Germany 40 8 32
87 Nagoya Japan NR 54 N/A
88 Nanjing China 76 NR N/A
89 New Delhi India 92 NR N/A
90 New York City USA 6 48 42
91 Nice France 61 NR N/A
92 Nurnberg Germany NR 23 N/A
93 Oahu/Honolulu USA 44 27 17
94 Omuta Japan NR 69 N/A
95 Orlando USA 38 NR N/A
96 Osaka Japan NR 42 N/A
97 Oslo Norway NR 26 N/A
98 Ottawa Canada NR 18 N/A
99 Panama City Panama NR 92 N/A
100 Papeete French Polynesia NR 97 N/A
101 Paris France 3 33 30
102 Perth Australia NR 21 N/A
103 Pittsburg USA NR 52 N/A
104 Portland USA NR 46 N/A
105 Port Elizabeth South Africa NR 97 N/A
106 Port Louis Mauritius NR 77 N/A
107 Prague Czech Republic 20 72 52
108 Qingdao China 79 NR N/A
109 Riga Latvia NR 92 N/A
110 Rio De Janeiro Brazil 35 NR N/A
111 Rome Italy 8 61 53
113 St. Louis USA NR 64 N/A
114 San Juan Puerto Rico NR 71 N/A
115 Salvador de Bahia Brazil 71 NR N/A
116 Salzburg Austria 74 NR N/A
117 San Diego USA 88 NR N/A
118 San Francisco USA 37 29 8
119 Santiago Chile NR 83 N/A
120 São Paulo Brazil 62 NR N/A
121 Seattle USA NR 49 N/A
122 Seoul South Korea 9 87 78
123 Seville Spain 60 NR N/A
124 Shanghai China 13 100 87
125 Shenzen China 41 NR N/A
126 Singapore Singapore 4 34 N/A
127 St. Petersburg Russia 25 NR N/A
128 Stockholm Sweden 66 20 46
129 Suzhou China 59 NR N/A
130 Sydney Australia 43 9 34
131 Taipei China 24 81 57
132 Tallinn Estonia 67 89 22
133 Tianjin China 75 NR N/A
134 Tokyo Japan 51 35 16
135 Toronto Canada 14 15 1
136 Tsukuba Japan NR 55 N/A
137 Tunis Italy NR 95 N/A
138 Valencia Spain 93 NR N/A
139 Vancouver Canada NR 3 N/A
140 Varadero Cuba 53 NR N/A
141 Venice Italy 28 NR N/A
142 Victoria Seychelles NR 95 N/A
143 Vienna Austria 23 3 20
144 Vilnius Lithuania NR 82 N/A
145 Warsaw Poland 29 85 56
146 Washington DC USA 63 44 19
147 Wellington New Zealand NR 12 N/A
148 Winston Salem USA NR 52 N/A
149 Wuxi China 96 NR N/A
150 Xi’an China 78 NR N/A
151 Xiamen China 80 NR N/A
152 Yokkaichi Japan NR 63 N/A
153 Yokohama Japan NR 38 N/A
154 Zhuhai China 58 NR N/A
155 Zurich Switzerland 55 1 54

 

 

NR, no rank, no top 100 rank in this category

N/A, not applicable since the city was on only one of the lists

 

Table 2 below shows cities that were on both lists ordered from the least difference between ranks to the greatest difference between ranks.

 

 

Top 100 Cities: Tourist Destination vs. Livability Rank

Table 2: Comparison of Ranks

Cities Country Tourist Rank Livability Rank Rank Difference
1 Lisbon Portugal 47 47 0
2 Toronto Canada 14 15 1
3 Amsterdam Netherlands 18 13 5
4 Milan Italy 42 49 7
5 San Francisco USA 37 29 8
6 Dublin Ireland 11 27 16
7 Tokyo Japan 51 35 16
8 Oahu/Honolulu USA 44 27 17
9 Berlin Germany 34 16 18
10 Washington DC USA 63 44 19
11 Chicago USA 64 44 20
12 Vienna Austria 23 3 20
13 Tallinn Estonia 67 89 22
14 Miami USA 39 62 23
15 Los Angeles USA 31 55 24
16 Birmingham United Kingdom 81 55 26
17 Glasgow United Kingdom 82 55 27
18 Cape Town South Africa 57 85 28
19 Paris France 3 33 30
20 Boston USA 68 36 32
21 Munich Germany 40 8 32
22 Sydney Australia 43 9 34
23 Abu Dhabi UAE 52 88 36
24 Budapest Hungary 36 74 38
25 London United Kingdom 1 39 38
26 New York City USA 6 48 42
27 Copenhagen Sweden 54 11 43
28 Stockholm Sweden 66 20 46
29 Helsinki Finland 77 30 47
30 Lyon France 84 36 48
31 Prague Czech Republic 20 72 52
32 Rome Italy 8 61 53
33 Melbourne Australia 72 17 55
34 Warsaw Poland 29 85 56
35 Taipei China 24 81 57
36 Hamburg Germany 83 24 59
37 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 15 75 60
38 Montreal Canada 85 22 63
39 Hong Kong China 5 70 65
40 Dubai UAE 7 80 73
41 Seoul South Korea 9 87 78
42 Shanghai China 13 100 87
43 Geneva Switzerland 98 2 96

 

Conclusion

There were a total of 155 cities on either list.  112 cities were only on one list.  Only 43 cities were on both lists.  Cities that are only on one list outnumber cities on both lists 2.6:1.  Even for cities on both lists, the mean difference between ranks was 37.6 and quite high.  These findings suggest that cities that are visited are not the same cities that are more livable.  The truism that some cities are nice places to visit and different cities are nice places to live in is correct.   Table 2 showed which cities had the least difference between ranks and the greatest difference between ranks.

 

The city with the least difference in rank was Lisbon.  Lisbon had a rank of 47 on both lists.  Toronto had the second least difference in rank and has the honor of having a relatively high visitor rank (14) and livability rank (15).  Amsterdam showed a similar pattern to Toronto with a visitor rank of 18 and a livability rank of 13.

 

Geneva had the greatest difference in rank.  Geneva is a great place to live (2) but doesn’t get very many tourists (98) relative to other cities.  Shanghai had the second greatest difference in rank but in the opposite direction as Geneva.  Shanghai is a city that many tourists visit (13) but only ranks 100 in terms of livability.  A practical implication for expats is to be wary of deciding to live in cities you like to visit without taking the Visit/Live Theory into account.

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Half Square Dictionary

 

 

7.00

Patient’s Memes

 

 

 

Half Square is a postmodern encyclopedia of the 21st century in the form of a novel. The novel deals with subjects as diverse as the emergence of Cyber Buddhism and the development of the Asian Union.   Below is a complete list of the topics the novel deals with.  I am looking for an agent or publisher.

Dr. Delta: One of the symptoms of Freak Show, and most patients suffering from a meta-psychopathology, was his use of an idiosyncratic memes that made communication difficult.  The unique nature of his memes has been analyzed. This memetic listing is meant to aid the researcher while reading this transcript.  The definitions have been cross-referenced with the session’s subsections in order to aid researchers.

Some of the memes have also been classified in terms of their virulence and infectiousness level. This memetic listing will help future researchers prioritize research to counter the memes in this transcript.  Many of the memes have spread to the general public already due to the highly contagious nature of the patient’s metaschizophrenia. Many of the memes in this appendix have been purged from the transcript that was shared with the public and can only be found in the top secret version X of this transcript.

666 Phone Call – The 666 phone call is a humorous story by the patient that involves a three way call between a rabbi, bacteria and an Omega that led to the great flood.  This meme is representative of the patient’s obsession with threes. This meme is comic to the point of being harmless. See session subsection 5.04. The virulence level is 0.3.  The infectiousness level is high (8.0-10) precisely due to the meme’s comic nature.  Jokes tend to spread readily but are harmless. 

666 Degrees of Separation – At 666 degrees of separation everyone in the universe knows everyone else in the universe or at least according to the patient.  See session subsection 5.14.  This meme is mildly virulent (2.2) when combined with the Omega and post baseline memes and induces a sense of general paranoia.  This meme is fairly infectious (4.3).  In order to counter this meme imagine that energy is coming out of the center of your stomach in spaghetti form.  Now imagine you are cutting the spaghetti with a fork. 

Anti-God – The Anti-God is a nihilistic God that is the ultimate projection the patient’s own nihilism.  According to the patient, the Anti-God may decide to end the cycle of existence once and for all.  See session subsection 5.10.  This is by far the most dangerous meme generated by the patient.  The meme is very infectious (7.2) and highly virulent (7.45).  Try to meditate on whatever God or higher power you believe in to counter this meme.

Artcol – Artcol is short for art colony.  See session subsection 3.28.

Asian Union (AU) – One of the three political unions that rule the Square Earth.  The AU consisted of most of the countries in Asia.  The AU was the most powerful union economically.  See session subsection 3.03.  The meme is highly infectious among certain Asian subgroups.  The infectiousness in Shanghai is 9.3.  Some argue this meme is spreading throughout Asia so quiickly that it will lead to the creation of an Asian Union.  Virulence is difficult to determine.

Assistive Reality Reality enhancement used to help handicapped persons.  See corrective reality, enhanced reality, and muffled reality.  See session subsection 3.24.

Astral Maggots – Astral maggots eat astral crap so that every life form in the universe doesn’t get the willies.  You can be reborn as an astral maggot in Hell.  See session subsection 5.02.  This meme is similar to astral crap both in virulence and infectiousness.

Astral Noise – A low-level astral energy that pervades the universe.  The patient did not deny the existence of an after life but thought that most humans end up becoming astral noise after their death.  See session subsection 5.13.  This meme can be virulent to those whose ego structure integrity is dependent on a belief in the after life.

AU – See the “Asian Union” entry.

Astrology – The patient had some rather interesting ideas about astrology.  See session subsections 5.24 and 2.16.

Baby God – God right after the Big Bang and for about a billion years afterwards.  Baby God resembles gods in the various pantheons and loves to have fun.  See Pre-God, Teenage God, Middle Aged God, Old Man God and Anti-God.  See session subsection 5.05.

Bar Codes – Bar code technology was used as a license plate for reality helmets and to augment satellite surveillance technology.  See session subsection 3.38.  The use of bar codes as described by the patient is a highly infectious (7.22) and virulent meme (8.02) that can lead to paranoia. 

BIS – See the “Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis” entry. 

Book Squares – The Book Squares are the scholar caste of the Squares. See Sneaky Squares, Money Squares and War Squares entries.  See session subsection 1.22.

Bridge Ships – Ships created by Mainland China to act as pieces of a bridge between Mainland China and Taiwan during the invasion of Taiwan.  See session subsection 3.20.

Bureau of Intelligence Synthesis (BIS) – The premiere intelligence agency of the United Americas.  See session subsection 1.24.  This meme is highly contagious and virulent (8.0-9.0).  Many left wing young professionals in the East and West Coast of the US have been infected by this meme.  The reader should affirm that the BIS not real.

Buscom – Buscom is short for business community.  A Buscom is a rebirth community for businessmen.  See session subsection 3.27.  

 
 

Cain – Cain was the first Half Square.  Cain is the Half Square of death.  Cain killed his brother Abel.  See session subsection 1.29.

 

Ceremony of the Five Inside Cuts  – A ceremony of the Red Vampires of the Red Sword nation, a soldier was promoted to the rank of captain.  A pentagram was cut into the abdomen of the soldier using a samurai sword.  See session subsection 2.14.

Ceremony of the Five Outside Cuts – A ceremony of the red vampires of the Red Sword Nation in which a captain was promoted to the rank of general.  The star points of the pentagram were connected using a samurai sword.  See session subsection 2.14.

Chihuahua Aztec Curse Theory – A theory that postulates that the reason Chihuahuas are insane is due to a punishment from God for eating human flesh fed to them by the Aztecs.  See session subsection 1.27.  This meme has spread widely but seems harmless.

Chihuahua Tight Brain Theory – A scientific theory that attempts to explain the insanity of Chihuahuas.  See session subsection 1.28.  The rate of infection for this meme seems to slightly lower than the Aztec Curse Theory meme for unknown reasons.

Combot – The combot is a type of homobot that is specifically used for combat.  See session subsection 3.12.

Compurings – Rings with computer functions.  See session subsection 5.20.

Corrective RealityA type of enhanced reality used to correct deviant behavior.  See assistive reality, enhanced reality, and muffled reality.  See session subsection 3.24.

Cospros – Cospros is short for cosmopolitan proletariat.  The Cospros were a global middle class that shared an international view of society and a virtual aesthetic.  See session subsection 3.22.

Counter Spyware – Counter spyware sends false information to spyware.  Spyware monitors a computer and does exist.  This meme is mildly virulent (0.23) but highly contagious (8.25).  There are many people that now believe counter spyware does exist.  See subsection 3.31.

Cyberaddiction – Addiction to electrical stimuli provided via cyberplugs. The meme is not very contagious but highly virulent.  Several teenagers in the US and Western Europe have attempted to stimulate their medulla through make shift systems and this has led to their death.  Fortunately such incidents seem to be few and far between. See session subsection 2.02.

Cyber-Buddhism – Cyber-Buddhism was a type of Buddhism that used cyber- plugs and other high tech devices in order to achieve enlightenment.  See session subsection 2.16.

Cyberlady – An onscreen computer companion.  See session subsection 2.04.

Cyber-Lincoln Brigade – A think tank that met in cyberspace and was devoted to furthering the strategic goals of the UA.  See session subsection 3.10. 

Cyberplugs – Plugs in the base of the skull that allow direct electrical stimulation of the brain.  See session subsection 1.08.

Cyberzombies – A person whose brain has been damaged through the use of cyberplugs.  See session subsection 2.03.  The existence of Cyberzombies has become an urban legend but this meme does not seem virulent.

Da Vinci, Leonardo – Da Vinci was the third Half Square.  Da Vinci is the Half Square of reason.  See session subsection 1.31.

Deep Purple – Computer chess program.  See session 2.19.

Devil – An Omega with free will.  See session subsection 6.06.

Dolphins – According to the patient on his world, dolphins are an intelligent species on the Square Earth.  Dolphins have mastered hyper dimensional technology and have HKP.  The dolphins were the only species on Earth that remembered to send God a card on his birthday and God had not destroyed the Earth on several occasions due to this fact.  The first Square ambassador to the dolphins was Jonah.  See session subsection 1.26.

Door, William – Door was the CEO of Macrohard.  See session subsection 3.34.

Driller – A driller is one of three types of medical microbots.  A driller drills microscopic holes.  See slicer and grabber.  See session subsection 3.18. 

 
 

 

 

E-Animal – Short for enhanced animal.  An e-animal had been genetically altered to have the intelligence of a six-year old human and had about the same level of emotional maturity.  See session subsection 2.17.

East China – China split up into two separate nations: East China and West China.  East China is the most economically powerful nation in the AU.  The capital of East China is Shanghai.  See session subsection 3.01.

Electronic Trainer – Gyms use computers instead of human trainers in the patient’s world.  See subsection 2.20.

Encounters of the Fifth Kind – A human turned into an alien.  See session subsection 5.18. 

Encounters of the Sixth Kind – A human is turned into an alien and used to fight humans.  See session subsection 5.18.  There has been an increase of reported abductions involving encounters of the fifth and sixth kind.

Enhanced RealityThe general term for technology that provides extra input about reality in real time using direct sensory input.  This is not an invention of the patient what is an invention of the patient are several subcategories of enhanced reality.  See assistive reality, muffled reality and corrective reality.  See session subsection 3.23.

Erotron – Erotron was the imaginary girlfriend of the patient.  Erotron is probably a personification of the sexual feelings that Freak Show has not been able to handle in mature and normal manner.  This combined with the obsession Freak Show had with sexbots suggests that he dealt with erotic/sexual feelings via a series of technological fantasies that made sex more controllable in the patient’s mind.  See session subsection 1.11.

EU – See the “European Union” entry.

European Union (EU) – One of three political unions that ran the Square Earth.  The EU encompasses all the countries in Europe except Great Britain that elected to leave the EU and join the United Americas in reaction to Russia being accepted into the EU.  See session subsection 3.04.

Four Noble Truths Formula – The truths are a Buddhist syllogism about the human condition. The patient used a formulaic approach to apply the four noble truths to various situations.  Below is my interpretation of the formula the patient was using even though the patient never referred to the formula directly: 

1) The problem is suffering.

2) Y is the cause of suffering.

3) The solution to Y will lead to the solution of the problem of suffering.

4) X is the solution to Y.

Giant Bar Code Reader – A properly equipped satellite would secretly observe bar codes put on objects.  This meme is highly contagious and has spread throughout the world.  See session subsection 3.38.

Gigabot – A gigabot is a robot larger than any life form on Earth.  Only the UA created gigabots and was using them to terraform planets.  See nanobot, microbot, homobot and megabot.  See session subsection 3.11.

Gigatrain – The largest megatrain ever made.  The Gigatrain circled the Moon and was designed to hurl antimatter missiles at the Sun in order to destroy the solar system.  The Gigatrain could also be used to destroy post baselines or destroy asteroids that threaten the Earth.  See session subsection 5.19.  There is no truth to the rumors that NASA’s manned Mars mission is a decoy and they really want to create a Moon base to build a Gigatrain.

God – According to the patient God is the universe as a conscious synergic whole.  See Pre-God, Baby God, Teenage God, Middle Aged God, Old Man God and Anti-God. 

Golden Tuna – A tuna that has been genetically engineered tuna that was the symbol of the economic prosperity of the AU.  Golden tuna had gold scales and collected gold in its gills.  See session subsection 2.18.

Goo – Goo is a self-replicating system that operates at the nano-level.  There are several types of goo at the theoretical level including gray, black, blue, gold, khaki, green and red.  Freak Show mentioned one type of goo known as purple goo.  Purple goo is a self-replicating drug.  Incredibly a purple goo drug lab was discovered during a DEA drug bust a year after the death of Freak Show.  See session subsection 5.22.

Grabber – A grabber is one of three standard types of microbot.  A grabber grabs microscopic material.  See driller and slicer.  See session subsection 3.19.

 
Half Square – The offspring produced when you mate a Homo erectus and a Homo sapien.  In the imaginary world of Freak Show, there have only been six recorded cases of a Half Square in the history of the patient’s Square Earth.  Freak Show identified himself as the sixth Half Square and this is an obvious delusion of grandeur.  See session subsection 1.02.

Head Steward – A position created in the aftermath of the Square Earth 9/11.  The Head Steward was in charge of the passengers in an airline.  Specifically, the Head Steward was in charge of security and passenger comfort and was authorized to direct the stewardesses to use force to take down unruly passengers or combat terrorists.  See session subsection 1.10.

Hell A lower realm that God sends some beings to as astral maggots or astral crap. See session subsection 5.01.

Hexachromatic Vision – In theory a Square mutant could have six color rods and a Square prophecy suggests such a member would have the ability to see spirits.  See session subsection 1.21.

Hexagon – The Hexagon is the Square Earth equivalent of the Pentagon.  NASA was added to the Square Earth Pentagon in order to create the Hexagon due to 9/11.  See session subsection 3.15.

Hitler, Adolph – Hitler was the fourth Half Square.  Hitler was the Half Square of hate.  Freak Show obviously had many problems dealing with authority and father figures.  Hitler in his imaginary world may be a type of father figure.  See session subsection 1.32.

HKP – This is an acronym for Hyper Kinesic Perception.

Holo-car – A holo-car uses holographic technology to change its outward appearance.  See session subsection 1.15.

Holo-gallery – A gallery used in artcols in the patient’s world in order to holographically project one set of art to stores and galleries around the world for global art shows.  See session subsection 3.28.

Holo-lab – A lab that uses holographic technology and supercomputers to simulate a real experiment.  The advent of a cheap G6 based supercomputers at Virginia Tech make may such a lab a reality sooner than anyone would have anticipated.  See session subsection 3.29.

Holo-lawn – This is a lawn that holographically projects lawn ornaments and animals.  See session subsection 6.10.

Homobot – A robot with human dimensions.  See nanobot, microbot, minibot, and gigabot.  See session subsection 3.10.

Hyperconsciousness Project – A project in which clones of Einstein, William Door and Buddha work on various projects as a team.  Einstein, Door and Buddha may represent different aspects of the patient’s personality that he needed to reconcile.  See session subsection 3.33.

Hyperdimensional – A meme used by the patient a good deal.  According to the dictionary, hyperdimensional means more than four dimensions 

Hyperkinesic Perception (HKP) – HKP is the ability to perceive and process spatial information in a manner vastly superior to that of your average person.  Homo erectus members are born with HKP. Recent studies that show something like HKP can in fact explain a lot of ESP phenomena suggest that the patient may have had some insight into this type of perception.  Did the patient have HKP and did this allow him to infect others with greater ease?  See session subsection 1.18.  

I Ching – The patient saw the I Ching as a tool to figure out a trialistic universe.  See session subsection 6.03.

Interspecies Communication Institute – A specialized organization of the War Square caste in charge of covert action.  In particular, the institute controls Sloppy Square communications for the purposes of control and to covertly use said systems to communicate to Squares around the world.  The institute also handles most communications between Squares and dolphins. This meme is both highly infectious and virulent.  There is no evidence that such an institute exists.  The investigation that followed Dr. Gamma’s break down showed that Dr. Gamma was apparently infected by this meme early on and believed a co-worker worked for such an organization.  Dr. Gamma refuses to divulge what co-worker he suspected and this is further proof his recovery is not going well.  See session subsection 3.36.

Jesus – Jesus was the second Half Square of the Square Earth.  Jesus was the Half Square of love on this Earth.  See session subsection 1.30.

Killer-Ape – Killer Ape is a reference to Homo sapiens in the old language of the Squares.  See session subsection 1.25.

LIP – Acronym for laser, ion, and plasma missile order of battle system.  See session subsection 5.18.

Macrohard – Macrohard was the biggest and most powerful corporation in the Square Earth.  Macrohard will create the Gigatrain that will lead to the destruction of the Square Earth.  See session subsection 2.05.

Macrotrend – According to the patient universal baseline level civilization trend.  See session subsection 6.07.

Master Roshi – Master Roshi is the founder and leader of the Cyber-Buddhist Church.  Master Roshi may be a father figure manifestation of the patient.  See session subsection 2.15.

Matriarch – The Matriarch is the spiritual leader of the Squares.  The Matriarch is an obvious mother figure shows the patient’s preoccupation with female power.  See session subsection 1.14.

Maximalism – A cospro philosophy that rejects minimalism and states that more is more and that life should be lived big.  Virtualism is one means for achieving maximalism.  See session subsection 3.21.

McMickey – The largest fast food chain in the patient’s imaginary world and an informal hangout of expats around the world.  See session subsection 4.01.

MDA – See the “Military Digital Assistant” entry. 

Megabot – A megabot is a robot that is the approximate size of a large mammal.  See nanobot, microbot, minibot, homobot and gigabot.  See session subsection 3.11.

Megatrain – A maglev train that can achieve supersonic speeds and that can also launch missiles and/or satellites.  Maglev trains do exist and there is maglev train connection Pudong and Shanghai but there is no evidence that maglevs could be used both for transportation and to launch missiles.  See session subsection 3.08.

Memetic Map – A map that summarizes huge amounts of data for the BIS.  See session subsection 1.23.

Metamemetic – Metamemetics is that study of memes that control other memes.  See session subsection 3.21

Metatechnology – Metatechnology is the study of technological synergies rather than individual technologies.  See subsection 5.23.

Memetic Classes – Memetic classes are a way of looking at political classes in terms of their memetic role.  See session subsection 3.00

Military digital assistant (MDA) – An MDA is a military version of a personal digital assistant.  See session subsection 3.36.

Middle-Aged God – God at midlife and the God the Buddha communicated with.  See Pre-God, Baby God, Teenage God, Old Man God, and Anti-God entries.  See session subsection 5.07.

Microbots – A robot the size of a microbe to the size of an insect.  See nanobot, minibot, homobot and gigabot.  See session subsection 3.11.

Minibot – A minibot is smaller than a human being but larger than a microbe.  See nanobot, microbot, homobot, megabot, and gigabot.  See session subsection 3.11.

Muffled RealityA subtype of enhanced reality that attempts to lessen aversive input.  See assistive reality, corrective reality and enhanced reality.  See session subsection 3.24.

Nanobot – A nanobot is a robot that is smaller than any life form on Earth.  The AU is the leader in nanobot technology.  See microbot, minibot, homobot, megabot, and gigabot.  See session subsection 3.11.

Nanopayment Virus – A nanopayment virus is used to steal fractional amounts of money during Internet transactions.  See session subsection 1.05.

NHF – An acronym for No Hands Firing System.

Non-Square Earths – Earths that emerge in some Big Bang cycles in which there are only Homo sapiens and no modern Homo erectus.  The Omegas have noticed that these Earths are less technologically developed than Square Earths but survive longer.  See session subsection 6.11.

Old Man God – Old man God is God at the end of his existence.  Old man God is pretty bitter and is similar to Jehovah in the Bible.  Old man God has gone ahead and created hell as opposed to recycling to punish the wicked.  See Pre-God, Baby God, Teenage God, Middle Aged God, and Anti-God.  See session subsection 5.08.

Omega Brain – a brain that is modified with computer and/or genetic technology.  This is the second most dangerous meme generated by the patient, the Anti-God meme being the patient’s most dangerous meme.  The current new age Omega Brain movement is both dangerous and delusional.  First of all the technology does not exist to create an Omega Brain and secondly such a creation would be an abomination.  See session subsection 5.03.

Omega Law – This law states that intelligence grows exponentially after the appearance of the first Omega brain in a technological civilization.  See session subsection 5.03.

Omegas – The Omegas are super androids that serve God.  See session 5.00.

Omega – In physics the measure of the cosmic density of matter.

Panpsychic Killers – The universe is alive and wants to kill us. This is a typical paranoid delusion.  This meme has shown mild infectivity and mild virulence.  See session subsection 6.05

Pentachromatic Vision – According to the patient mutant Homo erectus are occasionally born with pentachromatic vision.  See session subsection 1.20.

Phoenix Corporation – A chain that provides suspended animation services.  See session subsection 4.03.

Plasma Missiles – Plasma missiles combine energy weapon technology and nuclear technology.  See session subsection 5.15.

Pornbot – a software program that seeks free porn according to thematic and/or fetish preferences and downloads this porn automatically.  Sales of pornbot software formed the initial basis of the fortune of William Door.  See session subsection 3.31.

Post Baseline – A post baseline has replaced Darwinian evolution with technologically based evolution and uses technology to evolve.  There are two types: downloaded and uploaded.  Downloaded post baselines chose to keep a body and download into bodies as needed.  Uploaded post baselines upload into a planetary or even interstellar computer system and choose to live in a virtual reality.  See session subsection 5.00.

Pre-God Universes– The pre-God universes are the billions of Big Bang universes that had gravity that was to strong or too weak and that did not create life and therefore this life never evolved into God.  These universes are referred to as Pre-God universes.  See Baby God, Teenage God, Middle Aged God, Old Man God and Anti-God.  See session subsection 5.9.

Prophecy of the Sixth Half Square – According to this prophecy there will be six Half- Squares including Jesus and that the sixth Half Square will presage the end of the world.  See session subsection 1.30.   

 Rampant Paranoia – According to the patient, rampant paranoia is a gift from God.  See subsection 6.04.

Reagan, Ronald – Reagan was the fifth Half Square.  The fifth Half Square is the Half Square of order.  See session subsection 1.33.

Reality Helmet – A helmet used for assistive, corrective, enhanced and muffled reality.  See session subsection 3.25.

Rebirth – A life state that combines features of work and retirement created in response to longer life spans and earlier retirement.  In rebirth a Cospro will do consulting using the resources of a community created for this purpose.  See session subsection 3.26.

Recycle – Rebirth into a new body i.e. reincarnation.  Microrecycling happens within a Big Bang cycle.  Macrorecycling is from one Big Bang to another.  See session subsection 5.12.

Red Death – A mixture of tetrodotoxin and LSD.  See session subsection 2.12.

Red Emperor – The leader of a Red Vampire Yakuza gang in Japan.  See session subsection 2.13.

Reverse Recycling – Generally one recycles from the present into the future.  Occasionally, a person recycles from the future into the past.  See session subsection 6.09.

RGC – This is an acronym for Rio Grande Canal.

Rio Grande Canal (RGC) – A canal that extends the Rio Grande and provides a natural border between the United States and Mexico and also allows the UA to move it’s navy from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice-versa.  See session subsection 1.03.

Robot Size Rule – The concept that the single most important characteristic of a robot’s body is the size of the robot 3.14.  

 Scicom – A term that is short for science community.  A scicom is a rebirth community for scientists.  See session subsection 3.31.

Self-Replicating System (SRS) – A self-replicating system has advantages of economy and power but has disadvantages in the area of control.  See session subsection 3.09.

Sexbot – A homobot created for sexual purposes.  Many sexbots do not posses cybernetic systems and therefore, are arguably, not robots at all.  See session subsection 2.08.

Slicer – A slicer is one of three types of microbots.  A microbot is used to slice microscopic materials.  See driller and grabber.  See session subsection 3.17.

Sloppy Divorce – Shooting technique employed by the Squares in which the person standing next to the Square, usually their Sloppy Square investigative partner is shot using the ricochet of a bullet.  See session subsection 3.35.

Sloppy Squares – A Square slang term for a Homo sapien.  See session subsection 1.17.

Small Brain Syndrome – The patient claimed that the Omegas have discovered an inverse relationship between intelligence and clairvoyance among baselines.  In general, if your brain is smaller then you are more clairvoyant but you also have less ability to do something about your premonitions due to your small brain.  See session subsection 6.06.

 Sneaky Squares – The Sneaky Squares are a Square caste in charge of covert operations.  See Book Squares, Money Squares and War Squares entries.  See session subsection 3.37.

Solarians – These are post baselines that use photosynthesis instead of eating.  See session subsection 5.17.

Spiral of Being – The patient’s version of the Chain of Being.  See session subsection 5.03.

Squares – The slang term for Homo erectus used by Homo erectus.  See session subsection 1.12.

Square Earth Law – Technological knowledge from one Big Bang cycle should not be shared with beings from another Big Bang cycle.  In particular, technological knowledge from a Square Earth should not be shared with members of a non-Square Earth.  The Omegas punish transgressions of this law with spontaneous combustion and Freak Show was worried that this would happen to him.  See session subsection 5.11.

SRS – This is an acronym that stands for Self-Replicating System.

Subship – A supersonic transport technology that uses the life support of a submarine and the propulsion system of a maglev train in order to travel in tunnels under the ocean.  See session subsection 3.07.

Super Color – A color that you need tetrachromatic vision to see.  Square messages are often written in the margins of books in super color.  See session subsection 1.04.

Syntarian – A person who eats synthetic food so as to avoid even killing plant life.  See virtuarian.  See session subsection 1.06.

Taiwan – In the patient’s mind, Mainland China invades Taiwan.  See subsection 3.19.  I lived and taught at the university level in Taiwan and find the patient exceptionally well informed about this part of the world.

 Tank Dome – A geodesic dome made of reactive armor and Chobham.  A tank dome provides flexible fortification and can be used as a standalone military structure or to provide fortification to an existing structure.  See session subsection 3.16.

Tankbot – A type of megabot created for combat.  A tankbot fulfills the role of tank in a battlefield, but unlike a tank, can walk and climb over obstacles and is therefore more mobile than a traditional tank.  See session subsection 3.13.

Teenage God – This is God when he is around 2-5 billion years old.  According to the patient, Teenage God is filled with hope and idealism.  Teenage God talked to Jesus.  See Pre-God, Baby God, Middle Aged God, Old Man God and Anti-God.  See session subsection 5.10.

Tetrachromatic Vision – Homo erectus have four optical rods, as opposed to three, that provide superior color vision.  See session subsection 1.19.

Triple Ten Day – This refers to October 10, 2010.  On this day an event will happen will lead to the eventually lead to the reunification of mainland China and Taiwan.  Due to the sensitivity of this meme, the meme has been removed from all versions of the transcript except version X.

Money Squares –The Money Squares are the leadership caste of the Squares and are generally but not always female.  See Book Square, Sneaky Squares, and War Squares entries.  See session subsection 1.13, 1.24.

Triad – The Triad is a reference to the three political unions that govern the Square Earth.  See session subsection 3.05.

Triadic Evolution – The process whereby power moved away from the member states and into the union governance structures in an escalating response to the centralization of power in the other unions. See session subsection 1.34.

Trialism – This is a metaphysical theory that the universe consists of three types of phenomena.  The three types of phenomena include causal phenomena, existential phenomena and synchronous phenomena. See session subsection 6.02.

Trilateral Commission – A commission created to resolve disputes between the three unions.  The Trilateral Commission is housed in the building that used to house the United Nations that was no longer active having been largely supplanted by the triad as a form of international governance.  See session subsection 3.06.

United Americas (UA) – The most militarily powerful of the three political unions that govern the patient’s imaginary Square Earth.  The UA encompasses North, Central and South America as well as Australia and Great Britain. See session subsection 1.09.

Universal Laws of Technology – The patient claimed that metatechnologists on his Earth had identified universal laws of technology. 

1) Technology is out of control in the entire space-time continuum.

3) For every problem solved by technology another problem is created by the same technology.

4) When it comes to technology, you get what you pay for.

6) When it comes to technology when it rains it pours.

10) If it can be done then it will be done. So do it before they do it.

12) You need the right brain to for the right tool.

25) Technology has a life of its own.

Vampires – A group of Japanese otaku that act like vampires.  Vampires include White and Red Vampires.  See session subsection 2.10.

Virtualism – The philosophy that technology should be used to maximize experience and virtual experience should be used when actual experience is not economically feasible.  See session subsection 3.23.

Virtuarian – A virtuarian is a person that eats synthetic food that has zero calorie content.  See syntarian.  See session subsection 1.07.

War Square – This is one of the three castes of the Squares.  War Squares are the warriors of the Squares.  See Book Square, Sneaky Square and Money Square entries.  See session subsection 1.24.

West China – West China separated from East China due to differences in social policy.  West China is much poorer than East China and had a Maoist government.  The capital of West China was Xian.  See session subsection 3.01.

White Death – A powdered form of tetradotoxin.  Tetradotoxin is used in Japanese vampire rituals.  I cannot determine if the current use of tetradotoxin as a recreational drug is related to the spread of this meme by the patient.  See session subsection 2.11. 

Ying – Yang Kids – The Ying-Yang Kids are an informal group of teenagers in Shanghai that tried to combine the philosophies of Jesus and Charles Manson. The rise of Ying-yang gangs in Chinatowns around the world may or may not be related to this meme. See session subsection 3.34.

Z-Rays – Imaginary electromagnetic waves that have a smaller wavelength than Gamma rays.  See section 1.21.

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