clef

Spot on!

That's a very good one, and We already have brain "implants"that can be upgraded, they are called "laptops" or "tablets", the difference is they are no directly linked to the brain. I wonder if the intermediate state will be to have a kind of "Bluetooth" implant that can communicate with those portable devices before the devices becomes more synthetic/organic and can be seamlessly integrated in the human body.

The cause of man's suffering is: "this belongs to me" (Anthony De Mello)

Science and knowledge belongs to everybody and to no one, regardless of where you are from. Nationalism was pretty fancy and efficient a long time ago, if I see myself as more "American" or "French", than "human", humanity is screwed.

Public money got Stanley Kubrick super wealthy apparently :)

http://realitysandwich.com/23226/kubrick_apollo/

If simple organisms like bacteria, virii, and even cells etc aren't aware of "us", then we probably aren't aware of superior intelligence that may very well be around us already (they might think of us as simple organisms).

I wonder what their equivalent of "radio signals" is?

Indeed. It looks like everything either malfunctioned or was intentionally turned off all at once. A long time ago one of my servers had a very crude monitoring system, it would send me an email every half hour saying "I'm still alive!". Hard to believe that kind of simple thing can't be implemented on a 21st century airliner ( or maybe it is, then forgive my ignorance please). A simple beep beep signal saying "I'm still flying!", every minute or so, with the plane's location as a bonus.

Edit: that said, if the plane starts breaking apart at cruising altitude, it wouldn't help much with finding it...so maybe self-powered transponders in nose, tail, wings, engines etc etc, nicely sealed in "black box" style casings might help. Or maybe they have that already and I know absolutely nothing about modern planes (or planes in general).

How does one become a " <insert industry here> star"?

Mmmm people die and you wonder about stock price and investors?

Well, yes, and if you can focus and be totally present at all times whatever you are doing. There's many definitions for meditation. Some day it's simply being as still and as dead as a rock, some say it's about regrouping all the bits of you scattered all over the place...

There is no need to meditate if you are never distracted.