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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Sangreal, The Cosmic Grail: The Secret Abides – Part 12 (Final Chapter)

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

UConn Upsets Michigan State, Returns to Final Four

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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Piers Morgan Ends Final CNN Show With Heartfelt Broadside Against America"s Gun Lobby (VIDEO)

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Monday, March 24, 2014

CREDO Members: Final week to vote for Democracy Now!

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Max Blumenthal Final: "Racism, Occupier and the Occupied" - by TheRealNews

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Friday, March 14, 2014

UPDATE: Final Day Of Texas State Convention (by matlarson10)

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Final goal of the Surveillance State

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

EMERGENCY! America in Final Stages of Collapse - AMTV Classic Countdown Day 6

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Friday, December 27, 2013

DHS insider gives final warning

posted on Dec, 27 2013 @ 07:25 PM

According to a journalist at canadafreepress.com, an “insider” at the DHS has been warning of a planned and controlled economic collapse that will trigger Martial Law in the U.S.

And the “source” says Obama is gett’n ready !!

Lots of details …..

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For this contact, my source took unprecedented measures to be certain that our contact was far off the radar of prying government eyes and ears. I was stunned at the lengths he employed, and even found myself somewhat annoyed by the inconvenience that his cloak-and-dagger approach caused. It was necessary, according to my source, because all department heads under FEMA and DHS are under orders to identify anyone disclosing any information for termination and potential criminal prosecution.

“DHS is like a prison environment, complete with prison snitches,” he said, referring to the search for leaks and leakers. And the warden is obsessed. Ask anyone in DHS. No one trusts anyone else and whatever sources might be left are shutting up. The threats that have been made far exceed anything I’ve ever seen. Good people are afraid for their lives and the lives of their families. We’ve all been threatened. They see the writing on the wall and are leaving. It’s not a joke and not hype.”

The following is a narrative from my source, prefaced with the instructions to “take it or leave it,” and “disregard it at your own peril.” He added that it’s now up to each American to act on the information themselves or suffer the consequences. “I’ve resigned myself to the fact that most [Americans] will never be convinced of the reality that is taking place right in front of them.”

….. The plan explained

DHS insider gives final warning

Makes some sense especially because the general economic/political “environment” since 2008 has been a bit suspicious.

I think they will do it by creating a massive computer outage.

Perhaps many recent “isolated incidents” are the test of reactions.

And Obama himself seems to be sluffing off a lot of failures lately too.

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Anonymous - Final Message To NSA

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

In retrial, Apple and Samsung make final pitches to jury

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SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – Apple Inc argued in court on Tuesday that Samsung had failed to present meaningful evidence to rebut allegations that the Korean electronics giant had improperly used the iPhone maker’s patented technology.

At closing arguments in a San Jose, California federal court, Apple attorney William Lee said Samsung had not produced any senior executives from Korea to testify in a damages retrial between the two companies, while Apple called its marketing chief Phil Schiller to the stand.

Apple and Samsung are engaged in a global litigation battle over patents. Last year, Apple was awarded over $ 1 billion after it convinced a jury that Samsung copied various iPhone features and design touches, like using your fingers to pinch and zoom the display and the phone’s flat, black glass screen.

In March, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh upheld about $ 600 million of that verdict but ordered a retrial on the rest, ruling that the previous jury had made some errors in its calculations. During the retrial, Apple asked the jury to award$ 379.8 million, while Samsung argued that it should have to pay $ 52.7 million.

Samsung manufactures phones that use the Android operating system, which is developed by Google.

In court on Tuesday, Lee urged the six woman, two man jury to focus on internal Samsung documents, which tell the real story about what happened.

“Witnesses forget, or in the case of Samsung here, witnesses don’t appear,” Lee said.

Samsung is expected to deliver its closing argument later this morning.

The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California is Apple Inc vs. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, 11-1846.

(Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by Alden Bentley)

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Merkel and SPD coalition talks enter final make-or-break phase

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* Merkel ready to cede on wages, SPD drops tax demands

* Industry worried about economy, SPD voters sceptical

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BERLIN, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Angela Merkel’s conservatives and Germany’s Social Democrats have forged a political marriage before and know each other’s ways, but as a new “big day” approaches, they are having to work hard to convince sceptical party members and the business world that they should give it another go.

Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and Bavarian allies were the clear winners in September’s election, taking 41.5 percent of the vote, but their former liberal partners in government lost all their seats, so the centre-right still needs to form a coalition with the humiliated centre-left.

After three weeks of negotiations on policy details, coalition talks enter the “hot phase” this week, and the knottiest problems must be resolved in a final session on Nov. 26 for the chancellor to have a new government by Christmas.

Both sides are making big concessions, but the conservatives want their landslide election victory reflected in the deal and the subsequent division of cabinet posts. Two conservatives spoke this weekend of “not letting the tail wag the dog”.

The SPD had its second-worst result of the post-war era, appealing to just 25.7 percent of voters, but doesn’t want to look like Merkel’s doormat.

“Forty percent of voters chose the conservatives’ platform. Support for the SPD’s ideas was much lower. This simple fact has to be reflected in the ‘grand coalition’ programme,” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Bild newspaper in a preview of Monday’s edition.

From the sidelines, the industrial sector frets about the coalition undermining Europe’s biggest economy.

Four big car manufacturers – Volkswagen, BMW , Daimler and GM’s Opel – wheeled out their bosses for a joint newspaper interview on Sunday to warn, in the words of Daimler’s Dieter Zetsche, that “if conditions in Germany deteriorate, we’ll have to think about moving production elsewhere”.

That will worry Merkel, known as the “auto chancellor” for her links to the sector, and SPD Chairman Sigmar Gabriel, whose party is close to the trade unions. Neither wants to put at risk the high employment rate and solid economic recovery.

After Gabriel told a party congress in Leipzig he wanted to “strengthen the economic competence” of the SPD, CDU Secretary General Hermann Groehe said this should mean “the coalition parties can work together to avoid putting German jobs at risk”.

TIME TO DELIVER

If the devil is in the detail, he will make himself at home in a draft coalition document up to 160 pages long, the product of 12 working groups. SPD delegates in Leipzig will be ploughing through it before deciding how to vote in a ballot of 470,000 party members due by early December.

In theory, a “no” from SPD members could hijack the whole process, which would likely result in a new election.

But the leadership of both camps, while talking tough, signalled that a deal would be reached by Nov. 26.

“If everything is in the coalition treaty, then, damn it, we should be in no doubt about the SPD signing it and enabling a majority,” said Gabriel on Saturday. “Now you have to deliver, dear conservatives.”

The SPD have dropped one of their main election positions – higher taxes on the rich – but dug in their heels for a blanket minimum legal wage of 8.50 euros an hour. Merkel – and most business leaders – would rather have wage floors established sector by sector, by employers and workers rather than Berlin.

But she signalled at a rally on Friday that she was ready to cede on wages and also meet the SPD halfway on its demand to grant dual citizenship for non-European Union residents, a big issue for Germany’s large Turkish community.

“If you put down red lines on every single point, you can’t carry out coalition talks,” said the pragmatic Merkel, who has moved her party further left in eight years in power, dropping conservative credos like nuclear power and military service.

Political scientist Everhard Holtmann sees a “window of opportunity for the grand coalition since the chancellor made it clear the conservatives are ready to make concessions on issues like the minimum wage and possibly also dual citizenship”.

The final 10 days of talks are still expected to be tense; conservative parliamentary leader Volker Kauder predicted “the major points of conflict will be decided in the last two days”.

He portrayed the negotiations so far as a victory for the Merkel camp, telling a Sunday paper that campaign commitments to block tax hikes, new debts or crisis tools making Germany liable for other euro zone states’ finances had prevailed.

Gabriel’s talk of opening up to future alliances with the hardline Left Party, which has been ostracised for decades, was described as unhelpful by conservatives, but Holtmann saw it as a sop to SPD left-wingers opposed to another grand coalition.

With major differences between the SPD and Left on foreign policy especially – the Left opposes NATO membership, overseas military operations and weapons exports – he said the alternative of the SPD, Left and Greens using their slim numerical majority in the Bundestag to get rid of Merkel remained “totally unrealistic”.

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

NJ gay couples in final hours of wedding planning

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David Gibson,left, and Rich Kiamco, right, of Jersey City display their marriage license, which they obtained earlier today, during a rally on the lawn in front of Garden State Equality tonight, Friday Oct. 18, 2013, in Montclair, N.J. The state Supreme Court ruled today that the state must begin granting same-sex marriage licenses. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)

Karen Nicholson-McFadden,left, and Marcye Nicholson-McFadden,center, of Aberdeen, listen as their son Kasey, 14 and their daughter Maya, 10, speak to a crowd of about 150 people gathered on the lawn in front of Garden State Equality Friday Oct. 18, 2013, in Montclair, N.J. The rally was in support of the state Supreme Court ruling that the state must begin granting same-sex marriage licenses. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)

Troy Stevenson, Executive Director of Garden State Equity, addresses a crowd of about 150 people gathered on the lawn in front of their office Friday Oct. 18, 2013, in Montclair, N.J. The rally followed a state Supreme Court ruling that the state must begin granting same-sex marriage licenses. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)

Hayley Gorenberg,left, the Deputy Legal Director for Lambda Legal, pops the cork of a bottle of champaign as Udi Ofer, right, the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, cheers at the end of a rally on the lawn in front of Garden State Equality Friday Oct. 18, 2013 in Montclair, N.J. The state Supreme Court ruled today that the state must begin granting same-sex marriage licenses. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)

Steven Brunner, left, and Daniel Baum, a same sex couple that applied for a marriage license, speak to the media on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, in Asbury Park, N.J. New Jersey’s highest court ruled unanimously Friday to uphold an order that same-sex marriages must start Monday and denied a delay that had been sought by Gov. Chris Christie’s administration. (AP Photo/The Asbury Park Press, Bob Bielk)

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) â€” Several gay couples in New Jersey are expected to gather late Sunday to wed in ceremonies to be held shortly after midnight.

The last-minute weddings were planned after the state Supreme Court last week refused to delay a lower court order for the state to begin recognizing same-sex marriages at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

Gov. Chris Christie’s administration has a pending appeal, but justices said they would not hold up marriages while they consider it. The justices said they did not think the state’s arguments were likely to prevail and that delaying the lower court’s order would hurt couples who would not become eligible for certain federal benefits until they could legally marry in New Jersey.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Lambertville Mayor David DelVecchio both plan to lead ceremonies for gay couples at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

Hoboken, Collingswood and a handful of other towns opened municipal offices Saturday to accept applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples.

Activists still were working Saturday to line up judges who could waive the three-day waiting period for same-sex couples who want to exchange vows first thing Monday. Under state law, couples normally must wait 72 hours after applying for a marriage license before they can tie the knot.

Garden State Equality executive director Troy Stevenson said the effort to get couples hitched without the waiting period was a “work in progress.” He didn’t have specific details on how many judges were available to consider couples’ waivers during the weekend, but he said many marriages will be held across the state at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

Officials noted that state law says couples married legally elsewhere can wed in New Jersey without a waiting period â€” a provision that appears to apply to many New Jersey couples.

Many same-sex couples began scrambling to plan their weddings shortly after the state Supreme Court issued its unexpected decision Friday. They reached out to florists, photographers, catering firms, banquet halls and other wedding-related businesses to see what was available on short notice.

Justin Jordan, a photographer who shoots many weddings in southern New Jersey, said he’s heard from “numerous couples” since Friday.

“Many people have been waiting anxiously for the chance to get married, and now that they have the chance to do it, they’re jumping at the opportunity,” Jordan said. “But they’re also realizing everything that goes with a wedding, like getting a photographer or video person, buying flowers, arranging for food … it’s a daunting task when you have months to plan, let alone a few days.”

Among those seeking their licenses Saturday morning were Hoboken residents Paul Somerville and Allen Kratz, who have been together since 1985. They were previously married in Oregon in 2004, only to have the union nullified by the state’s supreme court. They also have been part of a domestic partnership in 2006 and a civil union in 2008, both through the city of Hoboken.

The couple said they will receive their license on Tuesday and plan to wed Thursday in a private ceremony. Kratz told The Jersey Journal that it’s wonderful to be able to marry his longtime partner.

“Civil rights always come too early for those in a comfortable position of power and never soon enough for those who have been denied life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Kratz said.

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Monday, September 30, 2013

The TV Watch: The Final Episode of ‘Breaking Bad’ Leaves One Question Unanswered

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Spoiler alert: this article contains plot twists from the finale.

After so many lugubrious turns, “Breaking Bad” came to an end on Sunday on an almost uplifting note.

Walter White died, of course, but first he ran the table of revenge, settling score after score with mathematical precision. He went out with a big finish: his ingeniously rigged machine gun mowed down the entire Aryan Brotherhood gang in a fantastical killing spree that was almost like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie. (As bad guys go, the next best thing to a Nazi is a neo-Nazi.)

It was a fitting ending, and predictable in only some ways. Crime didn’t pay and Walter lost just about everything, including his life. But it was also, by the show’s bleak, almost Calvinist standards, a relatively happy ending. It wasn’t, as he so often feared, all for nothing – he found a way to get his money to his children. He also saved Jesse, actually taking a bullet for him by throwing himself on top of the younger man to protect him from the machine gun fire. He even made up with his wife, Skyler.

It was way too late for contrition, but there was a confession and even a kind of deathbed conciliation. Walter for the first time told Skyler the truth about his reason for cooking meth and becoming a drug lord. “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it,” he said. “And I was really, I was alive.”

After so many layers of lies, that blunt admission won him at long last the shadow of a loving smile. And that was almost the same look that Walt exchanged with Jesse as the two parted for good, a glint of recognition and farewell.

Then again, the episode began with Walter still alive but already a ghost, walking in and out of secured mansions, public diners and even Skyler’s house undetected, almost as if invisible.

Perhaps the best thing about the finale of “Breaking Bad” is that it actually ended. So many shows, notably “The Sopranos” and “Lost,” have gone dark without anything approaching finality. Here, the writers were so determined to not leave unfinished business that the last episode was called “Felina,” an anagram of finale. And almost every loose end was tied. In some cases, a little too tightly, and in others, not quite as much.

The all-important ricin, like Chekhov’s gun, had to actually be put to use at long last. And it was almost comical that Lydia, so prissy and exacting, was poisoned with a packet of her beloved Stevia sweetener.

In a later scene, the writers underscored the point, showing Lydia in bed, pale and sickly as Walter explains to her over the telephone that he poisoned her drink at the diner. But that was almost overkill: when Lydia tapped the sweetener into her chamomile tea, the camera zoomed in on her mug of tea as it clouded up — as ominous as a glass of milk in a Hitchcock movie.

Even the dreamy scene where Jesse, still in shackles in a meth lab, fantasizes that he is in a woodworking shop sanding a beautiful box had a precise antecedent: in an episode when Jesse was in group therapy, he reminisced about the satisfaction he felt in high school of making a perfect box from “Peruvian walnut with inlaid zebrawood.”

When Walt died, it was to the tune of “Baby Blue” by Badfinger, which begins with the words, “Guess I got what I deserve.”

The ending was clear enough; it was the beginning that was left ambiguous.

The finale circled back to Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, Walt’s former partners at Gray Matter. Walt broke into their mansion and cleverly blackmailed the couple into providing his children with the millions he couldn’t give them directly. And it was a delicious scene: When Elliott fearfully brandished a small blade, Walt said gently, “Elliott if we’re going to go that way, you’ll need a bigger knife.”

But the show never fully spelled out why Walt broke away from Gretchen and Elliott in the first place.

There were hints throughout the series. On several occasions, Walt accused them of cheating him out of his share; that bitterness seemingly helped steer him into his life of crime. But it wasn’t clear that his version was correct — in an episode where they confront each other at a restaurant, Gretchen said that Walt left her without any explanation. And the true story never came out.

“Breaking Bad” brilliantly tracked Walt’s transformation from teacher to criminal mastermind. But it’s still a mystery why that talented chemist turned his back on fame and fortune and became a humble high school chemistry teacher.

That is one secret Walter White took to the grave.

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Friday, September 13, 2013

Apple issues final non-security update for OS X Mountain Lion

Computerworld – Apple on Thursday updated OS X Mountain Lion to version 10.8.5, likely the final refresh of the 14-month-old operating system
before the company supersedes it with OS X Mavericks.

The update, a combination of security, stability and compatibility fixes, patched a total of 30 vulnerabilities in Mountain
Lion. It was accompanied by security-only updates for 2011′s OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and 2009′s OS X 10.6, known as Snow Leopard.
This was the first time since early June that Apple refreshed Mountain Lion.

Apple called out several non-security fixes inside 10.8.5, including ones that addressed a bug that blocked the bundled Mail email client
from displaying messages, improved file transfer performance and reliability over Wi-Fi and Ethernet networks, and tweaked
connections between Macs and Apple’s Xsan storage area network.

On the security side, 10.8.5 patched 30 vulnerabilities, including 7 labeled with the line “may lead to … arbitrary code execution,” which is Apple’s way of saying that they’re
critical. The fixes quashed bugs in several open-source components integrated with Mountain Lion, such as Apache (4 patches);
Bind (5), the most widely-used DNS (domain name system) software for routing Internet requests to the correct addresses; OpenSSL
(3); and PHP (4), the server-side scripting language.

Also included in the update were patches to stymie attacks using rogue PDF documents, one to fix a problem with Macs coming
out of sleep to a locked state, and another to plug a hole in QuickTime, Apple’s often-buggy media playing software.

One of the patches was for a several-months-old vulnerability in the Unix component known as “sudo,” which lets users gain
super-user or “root” rights. By resetting the system clock, hackers who have already managed to grab limited control of a
Mac can sidestep the need for the root-access password.

The sudo flaw had been identified in OS X in March, but attracted more attention two weeks ago after Metasploit, the popular
open-source penetration toolkit, added a module that made it easy to exploit the bug.

Also published Thursday was an update to Safari 5, the Apple browser for Snow Leopard; the separate update patched a pair
of vulnerabilities, including one revealed at the September 2012 Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest by a Dutch team who used it
to exploit iOS. Apple had patched the same bugs in the newer Safari 6 last year.

OS X 10.8.5 and Security Update 2013-003 — the latter targets OS X Snow Leopard and OS X Lion, which at this point receive only security fixes — can be retrieved by selecting “Software Update…” from the Apple menu,
or by opening the Mac App Store application and clicking the Update icon at the top right. The updates can also be downloaded manually from Apple’s support site.

Apple has not yet revealed a release date for OS X Mavericks, the successor to Mountain Lion, but it will probably ship in
the second half of next month.

Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg
on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg’s RSS feed . His email address is gkeizer@ix.netcom.com.

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Is the ocean the real Final Frontier?

By Katherine Mangu-Ward | Reason

We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of our exploring
shall be to return where we started
and know the place for the first time

That tidbit of T.S. Eliot is stolen from Graham Hawkes, a submarine designer who really, really loves the ocean. Hawkes is famous for hollering, “Your rockets are pointed in the wrong goddamn direction!” at anyone who suggests that space is the Final Frontier.

The deep sea, he contends, is where we should be headed: The unexplored oceans hold mysteries more compelling, environments more challenging, and life-forms more bizarre than anything the vacuum of space has to offer. Plus, it’s cheaper to go down than up. (You can watch his appealingly arrogant TED talk on the subject here.)

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Is the Ocean the Real Final Frontier?

White smokers at the Champagne vent in the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument.

Photo courtesy of the NOAA

We’ve been to the moon and just about everywhere on Earth. So what’s left to discover? In September, Future Tense is publishing a series of articles in response to the question, “Is exploration dead?” Read more about modern-day exploration of the sea, space, land, and more unexpected areas.

We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of our exploring
shall be to return where we started
and know the place for the first time

That tidbit of T.S. Eliot is stolen from Graham Hawkes, a submarine designer who really, really loves the ocean. Hawkes is famous for hollering, “Your rockets are pointed in the wrong goddamn direction!” at anyone who suggests that space is the Final Frontier. The deep sea, he contends, is where we should be headed: The unexplored oceans hold mysteries more compelling, environments more challenging, and life-forms more bizarre than anything the vacuum of space has to offer. Plus, it’s cheaper to go down than up. (You can watch his appealingly arrogant TED talk on the subject here.

Is Hawkes right? Should we all be crawling back into the seas from which we came? Ocean exploration is certainly the underdog, so to speak, in the sea vs. space face-off. There’s no doubt that the general public considers space the sexier realm. The occasional James Cameron joint aside, there’s much more cultural celebration of space travel, exploration, and colonization than there is of equivalent underwater adventures. In a celebrity death match between Captain Kirk and Jacques Cousteau, Kirk is going to kick butt every time.

In fact, the rivalry can feel a bit lopsided—the chess club may consider the football program a competitor for funds and attention, but the jocks aren’t losing much sleep over the price of pawns and cheerleaders rarely turn out for chess tournaments. But somehow the debate rages on in dorm rooms, congressional committee rooms, and Internet chat rooms.

Damp ocean boosters often aim to borrow from the rocket-fueled glamour of space. Submersible entrepreneur Marin Beck talks a big game when he says, “We can go to Mars, but the deep ocean really is our final frontier,” but he giggles when a reporter calls him the “Elon Musk of the deep sea,” an allusion to the founder of the for-profit company Space X who is rumored to be the real-life model for Iron Man’s Tony Stark.

Even Hawkes admits that he “grew up dreaming of aircraft”—though he means planes, not spaceships—but “then I got to look at this subsea stuff and I saw this is where aviation was all those years ago. The whole field was completely backwards, and that’s why I jumped in.”

35,802 ft (10,912 m) At the deepest point of the trench (and the deepest point on earth) the pressure is over 8 tons per square inch, or the equivalent of an average-sized woman holding up 48 jumbo jets.

At 35,802 feet, the deepest point of the trench (and the deepest point on earth), the pressure is more than 8 tons per square inch, or the equivalent of an average-sized woman holding up 48 jumbo jets.

Image courtesy of NASA

While many of the technologies for space and sky are the similar, right down to the goofy suits with bubble heads—the main difference is that in space, you’re looking to keep pressure inside your vehicle and underwater you’re looking to keep pressure out—there’s often a sense that that sea and space are competitors rather than compadres.

They needn’t be, says Guillermo Söhnlein, a man who straddles both realms. Söhnlein is a serial space entrepreneur and the founder of the Space Angels Network. (Disclosure: My husband’s a member.) The network funds startups aimed for the stars, but his most recent venture is Blue Marble Exploration, which organizes expeditions in manned submersibles to exotic underwater locales. (Further disclosure: I have made a very small investment in Blue Marble, but am fiscally neutral in the sea vs. space fight, since I have a similar amount riding on a space company, Planetary Resources.)

As usual, the fight probably comes down to money. The typical American believes that NASA is eating up a significant portion of the federal budget (one 2007 poll found that respondents pinned that figure at one-quarter of the federal budget), but the space agency is actually nibbling at a Jenny Craig–sized portion of the pie. At about $ 17 billion, government-funded space exploration accounts for about 0.5 percent of the federal budget. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—NASA’s soggy counterpart—gets much less, a bit more than $ 5 billion for a portfolio that, as the name suggests, is more diverse.

But the way Söhnlein tells the story, this zero sum mind-set is the result of a relatively recent historical quirk: For most of the history of human exploration, private funding was the order of the day. Even some of the most famous examples of state-backed exploration—Christopher Columbus’ long petitioning of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, for instance, or Sir Edmund Hillary’s quest to climb to the top of Everest—were actually funded primarily by private investors or nonprofits.

But that changed with the Cold War, when the race to the moon was fueled by government money and gushers of defense spending wound up channeled into submarine development and other oceangoing tech.

“That does lead to an either/or mentality. That federal money is taxpayer money which has to be accounted for, and it is a finite pool that you have to draw from against competing needs, against health care, science, welfare,” says Söhnlein. “In the last 10 to 15 years, we are seeing a renaissance of private finding of exploration ventures. On the space side we call it New Space, on the ocean side we have similar ventures.” And the austerity of the current moment doesn’t hurt. “The private sector is stepping up as public falls down. We’re really returning to the way it always was.”

And when it’s private dough, the whole thing stops being a competition. Instead, it depends on what individuals with deep pockets are pumped about—or what makes for a good sell on a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter.

Looking for alien life forms? You probably think you’re a natural space nerd, but you’re wrong. If the eternal popularity of “Is There Life on Mars?” stories is any indication, an awful lot of people are just hoping for some company. We really have no idea what’s hanging out at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but there are solid reasons to think the prospects for biological novelty (and perhaps even companionship for humanity) are better down there than they are in Mars’ Valles Marineris.

Want a fallback plan for when that final environmental catastrophe occurs? Underwater or floating habitats may offer fewer challenges than space colonies if you’re looking to quickly build a self-sustaining place to live when things cool down, warm up, dry out, or otherwise return to fitness for human habitation.

If you’re just looking for wide open spaces, the vastness of space may ultimately prove your final frontier, but Söhnlein has a very human take on the question: “For myself,” he says, “I’d probably go with the oceans. Humanity has millennia to explore the cosmos. But I have only decades or—depending on who you believe—centuries. And there’s plenty to discover down there to fill my lifetime.”

This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. To read more, visit the Future Tense blog and the Future Tense home page. You can also follow us on Twitter.

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