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Should we care about pollution in other parts of the world? If yes, what can we do to limit it?
Much of the world's electronic waste ends up in Guiyu, China, where old parts are recycled but chemicals like mercury leak into the water. Do you care? If yes, what do you do about it?
gale kooser
Jun 8 2013: I care about pollution in any part of the world, but there is very little I can do as only one person. It takes a whole world full of folks to make change on that scale. And they need to be from many parts of the world, and all working together. Can ya guess how hard that would be to pull off?
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I can & have lit my one little candle but too many keep blowing it out.Jun 24 2013: G'day QF
Yes of course we should as that would show how responsible we are not how irresponsible we are!!
The solution is so simple, stop our consumerist materialistic way of life!!
paul Ashton
Jun 23 2013: Definitely, check out the show EARTH FROM SPACE and this is easily framed for all to see that we are one global community.
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greg dahlen
Jun 13 2013: I care although I keep a grain of salt, just because the media tells me it ends up there doesn't mean it does. It's a little hard for me to believe anything if I don't see it myself.
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Jun 25 2013: Greg, do you believe in atoms, germs, and light. You cannot see any of these, yet you know they are real. Case in point, if the doctor says you have a bacterial infection and you should take a Z-Pak (Azithromycin) you probably do as she says. You can't see the virus, but you listen to the scientist. Same thing here, you can't see the pollution, necessarily, but that doesn't mean it is not there. Think about it.
Jun 26 2013: Well, the difference is that I can't see the bacteria, but I can feel the results, illness, or pain, so I can show a little faith. With the idea that all of a certain kind of waste is going to one place, I really have so little evidence that it's true.Jun 11 2013: YES! Of course we SHOULD care. Too bad the majority of our society doesn't seem to care. What we can do- walk, carpool, don't be wasteful! Recycle. Encourage other people to do the same. It would be nice if I could drive through a town and see solar panels on every house. Use biofuels, and the most important EDUCATE yourself, others, and your offspring.
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Jun 24 2013: Good ideas, Haley. Hey, I spoke to you a long time ago on another convo about attending the Burning Man Festival, at that time you were low on funds, I was looking at their ticket page and they do have a low income ticket option if you scroll down some ways: http://tickets.burningman.com/ Applications for those low-income tix have closed this year, but of course next year will be here before you know it. Course by now maybe you're rolling in dough, anyway I think you should do it, those things are maybe the most fun when you're young. I would have sent you this info on your email on your TED profile, but you haven't enabled email, if you check most people's profiles they do set up to let people send them email. If you go, let me know how it was.Jun 24 2013: good points. IMO, it's not only about recycling, but also about consuming less.
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for instance, it seems that we haven't found a way to recycle flat TV screens or smartphones, so the next time we're tempted to buy a bigger TV or the latest smartphone, maybe we should think twice and understand either we really need it or notJun 10 2013: Anyone see HBO's "VICE" on "Oil Pirates in Nigeria"? OMG. They spill at a level of Exxon Valdez almost daily and it's just killing that eco-system. And eco-systems are like teeth--you lose one and the others start going. We must "care" about such things. America's hard right has undermined the climb of any kind of global governance, often portraying it as an evil "one world order". But when you see stuff like this, you have to ask, who is really the evil? We should be 21 years into Agenda 21 and have the emerging generation plugged in to contemporary global dynamics where problems like this are just not accepted to be "out of sight, out of mind". We can't have it both ways any more--be either part of the solution or understand you are part of the problem.Jun 8 2013: No man is an island etc. A great deal of this stuff ends up where it cannot be handled safely, and there is more of this than needed. Shouldn't someone be an adult and deal with these problems? At the End of WWII and some other conflicts bad guys have been punished even executed. This behavior is criminal.Jul 7 2013: Look at the recent talk here by Shell Oil - what happened - they started deleting comments. If that's the attitude, and it obviously is, there is no hope.Jul 6 2013: There is nothing we can do, because Corporations care more about profits than environmental problems, let's assume that one Oil corporation care about environmental pollution and it is planing to close some Oil Plants, Do you thing Oil Plants around the globe will care? Perhaps with a hard propaganda we can convince one Oil Corporation in U.S but what about the Oil Corporations in China, Brazil, Mexico, India, Canada, Italy, Spain e others????? there is the problem 99% Oil Corporations care about money than Environment.Jul 6 2013: We should care about pollution in other parts of the world. But people can do little or nothing about what they dont know. It is the responsibility of the people of the affected areas to get the word out.Jul 4 2013: We certainly should care about pollution in any part of the world since it will affect us all. Pollution can certainly be limited but there are fundamental problems with current human behavior. Firstly, since most people don't see pollution in their back yards they don't take ownership of it and pass it off as someone else's problem. Secondly, we must look into the causes of pollution. Perhaps inefficient manufacturing processes which waste resources and pollute excessively because of cheap production costs. This for me is a major reason of pollution since our current economic system does not factor in the complete cost of manufacturing an item, etc. For example, let's say that the cost of electricity is 12 cents per kwh, that cost does not factor in damages in air quality if the power comes from a coal or nuclear plant. This certainly should have a price affixed to it as essentially a product is being subsidized to the detriment of the environment. The same goes for a bushel of corn; at $500. a bushel that does not include the cost of destroying rainforest, effects of fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, etc on nature. The problem then is that we are not looking at the complete cost of production and placing artificially low prices on items; in effect subsidization.
The solution would be to include the complete cost in a product but impossible to implement since costs would skyrocket as soon as the real costs are calculated and many companies would be unable to sell products. That would be a good thing since less consumption would be even better for the environment.
Ultimately, it comes down to policymakers and businesses to make real big change but that won't happen since they are looking out for their own interests. These businesses are only looking to maximize profit by cheap/ dirty production and to sell as many products as is possible. The best we can do is limit our personal consumption and try to recycle which really doesn't do much.
Jul 5 2013: i agree but there's precious little we can do on a personal level. not only is our own consumption tiny in comparison to industrial and commercial use, but we're limited to what is made available to us to buy from those companies. we can make all the effort we possibly can and still it's only a drop in the ocean. better save the effort and spend it on trying to convince others so that eventually government moves to stricter standards.Jul 2 2013: thanks Greg!Jun 29 2013: Of course we need to care. Those waste can be made into burger for consumption so that i can get fatJun 29 2013: Hi Dear Questions First.Where is GuiYu?which province in china?GuiZhou?
bart hsi
Jun 28 2013: Jeffrey is right. The pollution in water and air is everywhere whether or not you see it or not.
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Let's just look at the problems in the U. S. We produced tremendous amount of garbage and dump them in the dumps on land. For large cities like New York, the municipal waste dept has to transport them to other places sometimes as far as Texas. Whether the garbage, in plastic bags or without bags, are stored above or under ground, the toxic substance in them will eventually leak out into the ground and slowly seeping into the ground water. So the problem is not very far from us but will be delayed because of the time needed for the decay toxins to leach to the ground water. Same situation might happen in the North East region by Hurricane Sandy which destroyed homes and other buildings into pieces and dump them into the ground or rivers or the sea. When the wind takes the electronic parts into the ground or water, you are not given the time to recycle them anyway. Furthermore when we discharge much organics into a lake, sometimes the water and the beach stink. The decay of the organic stuff releases CO or other air pollutants into the air that usually produces CO2 or other greenhouse gasses. The process is normally slow, but the current trend is certainly going to accelerate and "bite us" SOONER OR LATER. The lead and mercury, etc., even though in very low level, will also get into the fish and eaten by us. Prolonged intake of small amounts of lead or mercury is still unhealthy. Also, if the toxic pollutants get in the air, then it is definitely very dangerous for our health.
We must stop this process by encouraging RECYCLE AND CONSERVATION. This process has to be done by everybody, not just by a few localities, because the harm of it will eventually hit all of us due to the slow but persistent increase of the severity of the situation. Global effort is preferable. But we could at least set a model, as soon as possible, for others to follow.Jun 26 2013: May be we should be aware about how human stupidity could cause a desaster. Also train the society to raise against such pollution. This is the part of influence we could do during everyday duty.
Also if we see a tendency in the world, it seems good to feel anxiety before it becomes a desaster.
But I see here it`s a border. Such care about far away should be supported by more care about own environment, do you think?Jun 26 2013: let them care if it really becomes a problem and the people don't like it they will cause chaos until the government does something.Jun 26 2013: Greg,
In the Chicago area we see the effects of pollution all the time. A suburb called Crestwood allowed carcinogenic material into their water supply for decades and did not tell the residents. Their cancer rate increased dramatically. Frequently Chicago beaches have to be closed when storm sewage has to be dumped into Lake Michigan.
As a teacher I will tell you the cases of asthma in my students is increasing more than any other health issue. The oceans have more 6-pack pop and beer plastic in them than ever before. Garbage dumps are filling up and the methane is burned off, you can see it at night.
As I tell my students, fine me a map with the town or city called Away. There is no Away. When we throw our garbage away it has to go somewhere, and it goes to municipal dumps. Here is an interesting short video that outlines the issue. Yes, it is from Britain, but remember, we all live on the same planet and breathe the same air.
http://www.upworthy.com/shocking-video-where-does-all-the-trash-goJun 26 2013: Care? Yes.
Do? The only thing that would work would be military conquest and imposition of a lower standard of living on these other countries. Anything less would be ineffective.
Thus, while we ought to care, there is precious little we can do except for whine about it. No amount of "disapproval", "negotiation", or "sanctions" will change policy in a communist dictatorship like China. It will pollute as much as it wants to, and the "environmentalists" will still blame countries with a far better record than China has for all the world's problems.Jun 26 2013: Should we care? is that even a question? of course we should! we have to! Just because its in another part of the world does not mean it won't effect you...
But why they pollute is a whole other issue, but addressing the questions "should we care", we must, not only for sustaining the only earth we have, but also not destroying it for future generations.
PS; all life supporting systems are currently in decline, by 2055 if we continue consuming the way we do, all nations of the world will be in crisis, and a state of necessity will cover all organisms on earth (yes, including humans). PLZ...lets not let this happen.
Look into and watch "The Zeitgeist Movement" and their movies, as well, look into the "Venus Project" for more information on how poverty, pollution, corruption, and inefficiency (like cell phones) - can be completely eradicated in a GLOBAL RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY.
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We should and have to care about it,
because of our ultra-high accuracy or ultra-high sensitivity.
(e.g. we can differentiate any person from 7 billion people on the planet)Jun 25 2013: Of course we should care about pollution in other parts of the world because we have one atmosphere and winds carry pollutants from their source to other places. For example, Mt. St. Helens blew up May 18, 1980, and a few days later ashes were falling in Chicago. With time the ashes enveloped the globe. Pollution generated in Gary Indiana causes acid rain in New York. Likewise, pollution created in other parts of the world could have deleterious effects here; furthermore, as part of a closed world wide biosphere (think food web) what happens elsewhere has effects here.
Of course we should be the global leader in reducing air pollution. As an industrial nation with the number 1 economy we produce a disproportionate amount of the world's air pollution. Furthermore, as a global leader among nations we should, well, lead. What incentive do other nations, especially emerging nations, have to use clean, renewable energy if we don't do it either. We then have the legitimate position of admitting our pollution sins of the past while showing that other nations do not need make the same mistakes we made. We can show them how to use clean energy and help them use it, too.Jun 25 2013: I suppose a reason to care is empathy and sympathy. Anything that diminishes another human being's life makes mine a little worse. At the same time, we note that with any problem, the first responsibility for fighting it rests on the people it most directly affects, because they know the most about the problem and are in the best position to fight.Jun 25 2013: In America we have been spared many, but not all of the horrors of out of control pollution in third world countries since the environmental movement of the 70s. It's not that we don't make pollution at a much higher rate than poorer countries, we've simply exported the production. When I was young people would burn their trash every day behind the house. There were septic tanks of human waste in nearly every yard. On rainy hot summer days it would be enough to knock you off your bicycle. Somehow our nation recognized the obvious need to correct the problem by building sewer systems. We are all using the same air, the same ocean, the same drinking water that has become a cosmic scale toilet for the worlds pollution. It's dumped by fascist corrupt enterprises, and the corrupt governments that turn their heads while the criminal polluters destroy the planet for generations unborn. Massive multinational corporations, mining ,and manufacturing, and their secret surrogates that provide the payoff money and political bribes. It is the #1 top priority for the survival of the human race. Do what is completely within the capability of science, and governments to correct. Pollution is in large part completely unnecessary with modern recycling, and waste stream control. Why are we committing suicide?Jun 24 2013: thank you all for your great comments. not sure what this means, but i noticed that there are only 13 comments and the average on TED seems to be around 100.
any comments?
Jun 24 2013: I don't know for sure why there are only a few comments. But I assume its because we don't know exactly what to do about this issue. Speaking for myself, when I read this question, I immediately answered yes! We should care about pollution in other parts of the world. After reading the second question, what can we do about it, I had no idea how to answer. I don't know what I can do to help prevent pollution in other parts of the world. I only know what I can do in my own community to prevent pollution. And even then, I don't do much. I can admit that all I do is recycle. I don't car pool, I don't use public transportation, I cant afford solar panels and I think most people can agree. This is why I think there were only a few comments. Because its hard enough to change our local communities. Sometimes saving other parts of the world can be impossible for certain individuals.
Jun 25 2013: We as Americans are most concerned about that which effects us personally and immediately. Looking around pollution elsewhere, at least to the uninformed, doesn't seem to be a problem. "If I cannot make money from it or if it doesn't cost me money, why should I care?" That seems to be the attitude of most people, and they are so indifferent to the problem that they didn't even both to post. So sad.Jun 25 2013: Questions,
The question is though to answer because most have to either admit not caring or admit not doing much about it. I think people feel empathy for this but are doing very little to affect it.
The initial response is "YES I CARE!!!!" but then "uhhh, maybe i'm not doing that much, oh I'll skip this question"
That my take and reason for not participating.Jun 22 2013: The Earth is pretty much a closed system, so yes we should care about pollution and the degradation of ecosystems. We all live within the same atmosphere and breath the same air, drink the same water and eat food grown from the earth's limited amount of soil.
China is growing very fast and the systems to deal with pollution and waste management has lagged behind in their race for modernity. They are no worse than the development of other industrialised nations, however, that can learn from past mistakes. They have huge capital reserves (of cash) which would be well spent developing a waste reclamation and pollution control systems. India, Indonesia are just a bad in this regard and need to do the same.Jun 18 2013: We all live on different parts of the same world, it's very important that we all address pollution simultaneously. A perfect example would be the radiation from fukushima slowly traveling to the west coast of the US.
I used to watch BBC faithfully, I always wondered why all of the cool new high tech eco friendly inventions were never implemented. One perfect example would be transportation, years ago there was technology made for hydro powered and solar powered cars as well as roads with solar powered charger coils to charge the vehicles as you drive.
We have all these means and technology for a clean earth and free energy earth, but it wont happen.
So its not that we dont know how, something or somebodies are preventing it from happening.Jun 17 2013: Since we are all in one planet, we must do that, recently I've been going through the news; a lot of tragedies in this planet, in China for example there are villages called as "Cancer Villages" spreading a long the factories there, people who are working in are getting profit but it always end up with workers having cancers, if we didn't make actions toward this it will definitely affect all of us, if we didn't feel it now and moved as fast as we can we will for sure feel the pain and pay the bill sooner or later.Jun 14 2013: Yes we should! And to limit it, we can support organizasions like greenpeace. Mainly, I've only supported through donations, but I've made a resolution to look up what else can be done via direct action. Do you have a suggestion particular to the waste in Guiyu, China? A particular company that can be boycotted? particular website or email to send letters to?
Yen Yang
Jun 12 2013: yes we should. after all, we share the same earth. what happens in one place will affect the rest of us.Jun 12 2013: Yes we should care because at the end of the day or someday we all get affected. There should be more awareness program ,people to be taught the effect and how it affects us all even if it happens elsewhere. People are spilling oil in to the seas and lakes,emitting waste from industries in the air destroying the ozone layer at the end you and I get affected. But at the end of the day it is you and me to protect the environment.
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September 19, 2006, 12:45:09 AM »
Hi, I'm new here and this is the second issue I'm bringing to this forum for your advice and opinions.
As a freshly minted digital photography hobbyist, I've been on the lookout for contests that offer the chance of winning equipment (dreams push us forward, right?) The one I noticed a week ago is the
Win an Alpha100 contest
I read the
Alpha100 contest T&C
and it says that "
contestants agree to assign all intellectual property rights of the pictures submitted to Sony and NGC
". When I googled "assignment", I found that there's a difference between "assignment of rights" and "granting a licence"
Just yesterday, I noticed this article "
Shock as Nikon UK endorses rights-grabbing competition
" where Nikon is being criticised for being associated with an online travel company's photo competition (Opodo Reflections Competition).
I read the
Opodo terms and conditions
and it says:
By submitting photos to Opodo, you agree to grant Opodo limited and its group companies a royalty-free,
, transferable, right to reproduce, market, store, adapt, distribute, communicate and make available to the public the Photos in any way Opodo wants whether through Opodo's online services and/or through other products or services (whether online or offline). Opodo may use the Photos as set out above in any medium worldwide, including those which may come into existence in future.
You will still own all your rights
to the Photos you submit, but Opodo will own all right, title, and interest in any compilations, collective works or other derivative works created by Opodo which use or incorporate the Photos. You agree to waive your moral rights in respect of the Photos and Opodo use of the Photos
I can understand if there is dissatisfaction over both contests imposing their respective conditions on ALL contestants - not just the winners. But I was wondering why nobody has said a word about the Alpha100 conditions. Could it be the lure of NatGeo?
In my opinion, and I could very well be wrong, the Opodo T&C is less "invasive" than the Alpha100 T&C. Opodo does not require contestants to assign all their IP rights to the organisers.
I wonder if I'm missing something here - perhaps I've isunderstood "assign all intellectual property rights".
Anyone, please?
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September 20, 2006, 04:30:49 PM »
Here's another way to look at the question.
I'll present this to a car dealer and see if they'll sign:
"You agree that by allowing me to test drive this vehicle, you will asign title and all rights to me free of charge. In exchange I agree to drive the car and display it prominently so your enterprise gets lots of good exposure."
If photos are products, I'd like to hear of ANY other product that is given away in the same fashion. Cars, computers, software. You name it.
Come on folks. Think!
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September 20, 2006, 05:58:54 PM »
It's the unfortunate situation that most, if not on some level, all, contests are scams of one sort or another. They are great fund-raisers. The photographer/artist, starved for attention and recognition, will: 1) pay an entry fee, 2) for the opportunity to have their work evaluated by persons of widely varying qualification and unpredicatable taste, 3) with a low probability that they will receive exposure that 4) results in any advantage to them of any sort, and 5) may or may not get their work returned in a condition that will allow them to re-use it. Ripping off rights, as the poster above cites is just another feature of the scamming. The operative question becomes how much one is willing to invest in the opportunity to "play artist".
A variation on this theme in my area are seasonal "parties" "to bring collectors and photographers together". The photographers seriously outnumber the "collectors", pay for this "opportunity", and elbow one another in the throat to capture the limited table space and end up not moving any product.
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September 20, 2006, 09:47:38 PM »
Never ever enter ANY 'competition' with any T+C clauses assigning all rights to the sponsor/organiser. Even a 'non-exclusive' license like the one above is effectively reliquishing all your rights because you are allowing the organiser to do whatever they like with your images permanently, including selling them on.
It's not just small groups who do this, the Australian Tourism Commission recently did exactly this, in conjunction with a major newspaper group, News Limited, one of the biggest media groups in the world.
These people know that loads of wannabee photographers will fall over themselves for the small chance to be published and exploit that fact to the n'th degree.
Our Pro body over (AIPP) here has a lot to say on the subject and actively contacts anyone trying to scam copyright off people in this manner.
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September 21, 2006, 12:48:59 AM »
Hank, I like your comparison do unto others (I forget the rest).
Russell, I agree with you and I think it stems from human nature to be optimistic and hopeful. Unless the photographer/startist puts down his feet and says no, these organizers will continue with their merry ways.
Nick, thanks for your advice (and I will follow it!) though I wouldnt consider the Alpha100 organisers small groups. Many in my community are taken in by the chance to be associated with that particular august organization.
By the way, I had a relook at the Alpha100 T&C earlier yesterday. Seems they have amended the T&C for all contestants for the better:
agree to assign rights of their pictures usage for their promotional purposes
instead of
agree to assign all intellectual property rights of the pictures submitted.
As such, Sony and NGC will have full rights to the pictures usage for any above and below-the-line marketing activities and any other activities.
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However, I notice that they still use the word
which I take exception to.
As for the T&C for the 3 chosen winners, theyve added in a time limit of 1 year for their right to use the pics taken by the winners using the Alpha100. They still require the 3 winners to assign all IP rights to them (for the 30 pics theyll take with the prize cam, I think) I doubt Ill be one of the 3 if I enter, but I think its fair for the winners to give up their IP rights for the shots taken with the prize.
Hmmm, maybe theyre reacting to the Opodo/Nikon furore.
Once again, thanks to all who have taken the trouble to share their opinions. Really appreciate it, folks.
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Good news, folks! My little voice has been heard by the people at NGC. Ive just had another re-look at the T&C & it appears to me that theyve further amended it.
I first wrote to them last week & they told me on Tuesday that theyd revised the T&C to the wording mentioned in my previous post. I pressed on and wrote to them to explain why they should replace assign with grant. And lo and behold theyve done just that!
Morale of the story? If you dont try, youll never know even if youre just a faceless, nameless little voice in the wilderness. And big organizations do listen if you reason with them.
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Well done mobsterman. Most people would just grumble and forget about it.
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September 22, 2006, 06:41:53 PM »
Never ever enter ANY 'competition' with any T+C clauses assigning all rights to the sponsor/organiser. Even a 'non-exclusive' license like the one above is effectively reliquishing all your rights because you are allowing the organiser to do whatever they like with your images permanently, including selling them on.
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I second Nick on this. Definitly a "no no" as they say.
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I second Nick on this. Definitly a "no no" as they say.
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Hi folks
For what it's worth, my opinion closely follows others here with regard to assigning rights, but further, I would refrain from entering any competitions at all.
I base this on a personal experience many years ago when I was about nineteen years old. I was member of a camera club because it provided me with the only darkroom I could access; they ran a competition and I thought I'd come up with a pretty good shot. It got nowhere, along with the comment that it was 'too commercial'. Now, I could have been really discouraged at not getting anywhere with a good shot; I might have folded there and then with such comment from the 'seniors'. But instead, I went on to make a damn good career as a professional photographer whilst the other members went on - well, being camera club members.
So the advice remains: keep away from gurus because they are primarily self-appointed, and as they tend to run most things in the amateur world they cannot permit themselves to be challenged.
Sleep well - Rob C
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Hypnosis can be dangerous if not used carefully and properly. You should always respect the fact that you are working with someone else's mind. Don't practice hypnotherapy if you are not a trained therapist. In general, you should not make suggestions dealing with involuntary systems of the body or age regression. I am not responsible for any injuries, mental or physical, resulting from the use of this Instructable. If your subject does have an adverse reaction, wake them, reminding them where they are and that they will be okay.
**End Disclaimer**
What is hypnosis? That's a fairly complicated question, and the answer you receive will vary greatly depending on who you ask.
In simple terms, my opinion is that hypnosis is a tool that allows you to bypass certain critical faculties of the conscious mind. This definition works well enough for simple one-on-one demonstrations like this one.
This induction is typically called 'Hands Closing Together' or 'Magnetic Hands.' It's a little showy, but it gets the job done.
For more information, check out our websites: iHypnoU.com and deeplyhypnotized.blogspot.com
Step 1: Materials
You need:
A Volunteer - the person you will be hypnotizing, called a Subject. Some are easier to hypnotize than others, but with the right method, most anyone willing to be hypnotized can be.
A Location - where you will be hypnotizing. Anywhere will work, but someplace quiet with a chair is ideal.
Confidence - hypnosis is all about the power of suggestion. If you believe you will succeed, become not just a person who knows hypnosis, but The Hypnotist, you will cause your subject to believe in your abilities as well.
I really wanna try this, but I'm afraid I'll fail and look really stupid.
This really is pretty awesome and I can't wait to work through this. I find I just get my words messed up and tend to get flustered. I know more practice is definitely the way to go to make it work a little easier. I absolutely can't wait to try this out with a little more confidence.
Great work!
Kind regards, IntoP13c3s
I do know of one completely physical induction, but it only works on lobsters and lizards. :)
Hypnosis actually has very little to do with sleep, and everything to do with focus. Imagine reading a book, watching tv, soldering a tiny wire into a tiny connector or any task you tend to zone out whilst carrying it out (walking to the shops?). In actual fact, you're not zoned out but zoned in!
In your natural waking state you have this innate need to be distracted by as many things as possible - it makes you alert, ensures that your backside is covered no matter what you're doing etc... but when you focus intently, your conscious mind becomes too preoccupied to be bothered with outside distractions - think about times when someone has had to shout your name repeatedly because you were concentrating and didn't hear them (or did, but your brain ignored it).
Hypnosis is simply a method to help you focus intently. A side effect of hypnosis is relaxation - not to make you sleep, but to help your focus narrow further, until finally your subconscious is listening but your conscious mind isn't.
Then, your hypnotist, hypnotherapist will be able to make suggestions, which your subconscious will listen to - not directly, suggestions like, "You are a prince and have a billion followers on twitter" will be rejected immediately (unless you're a prince, and do have a billion followers on twitter). Guiding the subconscious in to a world where anything is possible, either using the imagination of the subject (and guiding it) or story telling is a much better way to talk to the subconscious.
Once the subconscious experiences something, it believes it to be a fact... if it experiences it a few times, it is part of life! (think about it ... the moon has very little gravity - fact, but can you live that, does your subconcious just KNOW or does it actually BELIEVE?)
So to help all those people who say, "It doesn't work..." I say, it does! I've used the magnetic hands method myself in my training. If it doesn't work you got something wrong - probably the pretalk. More commonly you give away the fact that you've never done this before... and the conscious goes into defensive mode, refusing to leave its little brother alone with your for a moment.
Practise, practise, practise.... and once you have the induction in place, learn to use it to take people into relaxation and back again - but nothing else until you've studied more. You don't want anyone suing you just cos they can on false claims.
If you fail I recommend you practice self hypnosis. There are lots of easy self inductions and recordings are available that work really well. Once you are used to what the altered state is like, you can help other people get there. I also think it's helpful to learn and practice meditation. It's a similar but different state. Your brain has a lot of modes and being aware of them is pretty cool and sometimes useful.
Remind people that their conscious mind takes little breaks all the time and they are hypnotized several times each day automatically. We zone out about once every 90 minutes. If you've ever had someone ask you something and you felt like you were miles away, that was it. All you are going to do is lengthen that natural break a little.
A lot of inductions actually rely on or are greatly helped by being a "sympathetic" induction. Essentially you get in sync with your subject and then hypnotize yourself. If you matched your breathing, speaking cadence and general outward mood to them first, when you change yours, they will follow. So if you are failing, first try to get in sync with your subject. Match their mannerisms, gestures, tone of voice, turn of phrase, etc. Once you lock on (you'll actually feel it) you can slow down, relax and take them down.
Lastly here is the simplest induction and shortest hypnosis session ever: "Notice how warm or cold your feet are." See? I just changed what your brain was perceiving. You probably have not thought about your feet all day. Yet just a few words from me and now you are. Pretty amazing when you think about it. (More amazing when you realize I did it by sending electronic squiggles your brain decoded!)
There's a reason why I list confidence as one of the required materials on the first page - whether or not you think it can work, you're probably not going to be surprised with your results. And even worse, if you tell your subject that you don't think it'll work, you're just setting yourself up to fail.
No disrespect intended, rimar2000, but if you've distanced yourself from hypnosis and not studied it, precisely what qualifications do you have to offer such warnings? You seem to hold the very commonly-held belief that hypnosis is some sort of magic mind-control power. It's not. In the hands of a competent therapist, it's a powerful diagnostic and corrective tool. In the hands of the layperson, such as myself, it can still be useful for a wide range of beneficial things. I'll restrict my examples to the very obvious here and start with sleep training. One of the hallmarks of hypnotic trance is physical and mental relaxation, and it's very simple to put it to use in a practical way. Another very easy one is quitting smoking, by replacing the pleasure associated with smoking with revulsion. Both are things I've done myself, without formal training and without significant (or appreciable, really) risk to myself or others.
What I've never even heard of is anybody coming to any harm whatsoever due to a botched session. Sure you can have a freak-out when playing with altered states, but that's more common in other forms of trancing than in hypnosis. I'm interested in your case, rimar2000, as I've never heard of anything even close to this happening. How did it come about? What were the circumstances? It's been my experience that getting it wrong most commonly results in nothing happening at all. That's quite common in a lot of the commercial theraputic stuff you find nowadays.


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Stellar kinematics
Stellar kinematics is the study of the movement of stars without needing to understand how they acquired their motion. This differs from stellar dynamics, which takes into account gravitational effects. The motion of a star relative to the Sun can provide useful information about the origin and age of a star, as well as the structure and evolution of the surrounding galaxy.
In astronomy, it is widely accepted that most stars are born within molecular clouds known as stellar nurseries. The stars formed within such a cloud compose open clusters containing dozens to thousands of members. These clusters dissociate with time. Stars that separate themselves from the cluster's core are designated as members of the cluster's stellar association. If the remnant later drifts through the galaxy as a coherent assemblage, then it is termed a moving group.
- 1 Space velocity
- 2 High-velocity stars
- 3 Kinematic groups
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 Further reading
- 7 External links
Space velocity[edit]
The component of stellar motion toward or away from the Sun, known as radial velocity, can be measured from the spectrum shift caused by the Doppler effect. The transverse, or proper motion must be found by taking a series of positional determinations against more distant objects. Once the distance to a star is determined through astrometric means such as parallax, the space velocity can be computed.[1] This is the star's actual motion relative to the Sun or the local standard of rest (LSR). The latter is typically taken as a position at the Sun's present location that is following a circular orbit around the galactic center at the mean velocity of those nearby stars with low velocity dispersion.[2] The Sun's motion with respect to the LSR is called the "peculiar solar motion".
The components of space velocity in the Milky Way's Galactic coordinate system are usually designated U, V, and W, given in km/s, with U positive in the direction of the Galactic center, V positive in the direction of galactic rotation, and W positive in the direction of the North Galactic Pole.[3] The peculiar motion of the Sun with respect to the LSR is (U, V, W) = (10.00 ± 0.36, 5.23 ± 0.62, 7.17 ± 0.38) km/s.[4]
The stars in the Milky Way can be subdivided into two general populations, based on their metallicity, or proportion of elements with atomic numbers higher than helium. Among nearby stars, it has been found that population I, higher metallicity stars have generally lower velocities than older, population II stars. The latter have elliptical orbits that are inclined to the plane of the galaxy.[5] Comparison of the kinematics of nearby stars has also led to the identification of stellar associations. These are most likely groups of stars that share a common point of origin in giant molecular clouds.[6]
Within the Milky Way galaxy, there are three primary components of stellar kinematics: the disk, halo and bulge or bar. These kinematic groups are closely related to the stellar populations in the galaxy, forming a strong correlation between the motion and chemical composition, thus indicating different formation mechanisms. The halo may be further sub-divided into an inner and outer halo, with the inner halo having a net prograde rotation with respect to the galaxy and the outer a net retrograde movement.[7]
High-velocity stars[edit]
Depending on the definition, a high-velocity star is a star moving faster than 65 km/s to 100 km/s relative to the average motion of the stars in the Sun's neighbourhood. The velocity is also sometimes defined as supersonic relative to the surrounding interstellar medium. The three types of high-velocity stars are: runaway stars, halo stars and hypervelocity stars.
Runaway stars[edit]
A runaway star is one which is moving through space with an abnormally high velocity relative to the surrounding interstellar medium. The proper motion of a runaway star often points exactly away from a stellar association, of which the star was formerly a member, before it was hurled out.
Two possible mechanisms may give rise to a runaway star:
- In the first scenario, a close encounter between two binary systems may result in the disruption of both systems, with some of the stars being ejected at high velocities.
- In the second scenario, a supernova explosion in a multiple star system can result in the remaining components moving away at high speed.[8][9]
While both mechanisms are theoretically possible, astronomers generally favour the supernova hypothesis as more likely in practice.[citation needed]
One example of a related set of runaway stars is the case of AE Aurigae, 53 Arietis and Mu Columbae, all of which are moving away from each other at velocities of over 100 km/s (for comparison, the Sun moves through the galaxy at about 20 km/s faster than the local average). Tracing their motions back, their paths intersect near to the Orion Nebula about 2 million years ago. Barnard's Loop is believed to be the remnant of the supernova that launched the other stars.
Another example is the X-ray object Vela X-1, where photodigital techniques reveal the presence of a typical supersonic bow shock hyperbola.
Halo stars[edit]
High-velocity stars are very old stars that do not share the motion of the Sun or most other stars in the solar neighbourhood which are in similar circular orbits around the centre of the Galaxy. Rather, they travel in elliptical orbits, which often take them well outside the plane of the Galaxy. Although their orbital velocities in the Galaxy may be no faster than the Sun's, their different paths result in the high relative velocities.
Typical examples are the halo stars passing through the disk of the galaxy at steep angles. One of the nearest 45 stars, called Kapteyn's star, is an example of the high-velocity stars that lie near the Sun. Its observed radial velocity is −245 km/s, and the components of its space velocity are U = 19 km/s, V = -288 km/s, and W = -52 km/s.
Hypervelocity stars[edit]
Hypervelocity stars (designated as HVS or HV in stellar catalogues) are stars with velocities that are substantially different from that expected for a star belonging to the normal distribution of stars in the galaxy. Such stars may have velocities so great that they exceed the escape velocity of the galaxy.[10] Ordinary stars in the galaxy have velocities on the order of 100 km/s, while hypervelocity stars (especially those near the center of the galaxy, which is where most are thought to be produced), have velocities on the order of 1000 km/s.
The existence of HVSs was first predicted by Jack G. Hills in 1988,[11] and their existence confirmed by Warren Brown, Margaret Geller, Scott Kenyon, and Michael Kurtz in 2005.[12] As of 2008, 10 unbound HVSs were known, one of which was believed to have originated from the Large Magellanic Cloud rather than the Milky Way.[13] Further measurements placed its origin within the Milky Way.[14] Due to uncertainty about the mass distribution of the Galaxy, determining whether a HVS is unbound is difficult; 5 additional known high-velocity stars may be unbound from the galaxy and 16 HVSs are thought to be bound. The nearest currently known HVS (HVS2) is about 19 kpc from the Sun.
It is believed that about 1000 HVSs exist in our galaxy.[15] Considering that there are around 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, this is a minuscule fraction (~0.000001%).
Origin of hypervelocity stars[edit]
HVSs are believed to originate by close encounters of binary stars with the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. One of the two partners is captured by the black hole, while the other escapes with high velocity. Also, "captured" does not necessarily mean "swallowed", for the companion to the HVS may enter an orbit around the black hole. However, this can only happen if the binary stars are falling nearly directly toward the black hole from extremely far away since otherwise the speed gain wouldn't be high enough to leave at high speed rates.
Supernova-induced HVSs may also be possible (although presumably not very frequent). In this scenario, a HVS is ejected from a close binary system as a result of the companion star undergoing a supernova explosion. Ejection velocities up to 770 km/s are possible for late-type B-stars in the Galactic rest frame.[16] This mechanism can explain the origin of HVSs which are ejected from the Galactic disk.
Known HVSs are main-sequence stars with masses a few times that of the Sun. HVSs with smaller masses are also expected and recently G/K-dwarf HVS candidates were found by Palladino et al. (2014).
A team at Argentina's Cordoba Observatory believes that our HVSs are a result of a merging with a collision between the Milky Way and an orbiting dwarf galaxy. A dwarf galaxy that had been orbiting the Milky Way passed through the centre of the Milky Way. When the dwarf galaxy made its closest approach to the centre of the Milky Way, it underwent intense gravitational tugs. These tugs boosted the energy of some of its stars so much that they broke free of the dwarf galaxy entirely and were thrown into space, due to the slingshot-like effect of the boost.[17]
Some neutron stars are inferred to be traveling with similar speeds. This could be related to HVSs and the HVS ejection mechanism. Neutron stars are the remnants of supernova explosions, and their extreme speeds are very likely the result of an asymmetric supernova explosion or the loss of their near partner during the supernova explosions that forms them. The neutron star RX J0822-4300, which was measured to move at a record speed of over 1500 km/s (0.5% c) in 2007 by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, is thought to have been produced the first way.[18]
Some kind of supernovas are expected to happen if a white dwarf collides with its nearby partner and consumes the outer matter of this partner. The white dwarf and its nearby partner have very high orbital velocities at this time. The huge mass lost of the white dwarf during the supernova causes the nearby partner to leave at its previous huge orbital speed of several hundred kilometers per second as a hypervelocity star. The supernova remnant of the exploding white dwarf leaves because of its own high orbital speed as a new fast traveling neutron star. This seems to be the most likely origin of the most HVSs and fast traveling neutron stars.
Partial list of HVSs[edit]
As of 2014, 20 HVS were known.[19][20]
- HVS 1 – (SDSS J090744.99+024506.8) (a.k.a. The Outcast Star) – the first hypervelocity star to be discovered[12]
- HVS 2 – (SDSS J093320.86+441705.4) or (US 708)
- HVS 3 – (HE 0437-5439) – possibly from the Large Magellanic Cloud[13]
Kinematic groups[edit]
A set of stars with similar space motion and ages is known as a kinematic group.[21] These are stars that could share a common origin, such as the evaporation of an open cluster, the remains of a star forming region, or collections of overlapping star formation bursts at differing time periods in adjacent regions.[22] Most stars are born within molecular clouds known as stellar nurseries. The stars formed within such a cloud compose gravitationally bound open clusters containing dozens to thousands of members with similar ages and compositions. These clusters dissociate with time. Groups of young stars that escape a cluster, or are no longer bound to each other, form stellar associations. As these stars age and disperse, their association is no longer readily apparent and they become moving groups of stars.
Astronomers are able to determine if stars are members of a kinematic group because they share the same age, metallicity, and kinematics (radial velocity and proper motion). As the stars in a moving group formed in proximity and at nearly the same time from the same gas cloud, although later disrupted by tidal forces, they share similar characteristics.[23]
Stellar associations[edit]
A stellar association is a very loose star cluster, whose stars share a common origin, but have become gravitationally unbound and are still moving together through space. Associations are primarily identified by their common movement vectors and ages. Identification by chemical composition is also used to factor in association memberships.
Stellar associations were first discovered by the Armenian astronomer Viktor Ambartsumian in 1947.[24] The conventional name for an association uses the names or abbreviations of the constellation (or constellations) in which they are located; the association type, and, sometimes, a numerical identifier.
Viktor Ambartsumian first categorized stellar associations into two groups, OB and T, based on the properties of their stars.[24] A third category, R, was later suggested by Sidney van den Bergh for associations that illuminate reflection nebulae.[25] The OB, T, and R associations form a continuum of young stellar groupings. But it is currently uncertain whether they are an evolutionary sequence, or represent some other factor at work.[26] Some groups also display properties of both OB and T associations, so the categorization is not always clear-cut.
OB associations[edit]
Young associations will contain 10–100 massive stars of spectral class O and B, and are known as OB associations. In addition, these associations also contain hundreds or thousands of low- and intermediate-mass stars. Association members are believed to form within the same small volume inside a giant molecular cloud. Once the surrounding dust and gas is blown away, the remaining stars become unbound and begin to drift apart.[27] It is believed that the majority of all stars in the Milky Way were formed in OB associations.[27] O class stars are short-lived, and will expire as supernovae after roughly a million years. As a result, OB associations are generally only a few million years in age or less. The O-B stars in the association will have burned all their fuel within 10 million years. (Compare this to the current age of the Sun at about 5 billion years.)
The Hipparcos satellite provided measurements that located a dozen OB associations within 650 parsecs of the Sun.[28] The nearest OB association is the Scorpius-Centaurus Association, located about 400 light years from the Sun.[29]
OB associations have also been found in the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Andromeda Galaxy. These associations can be quite sparse, spanning 1,500 light years in diameter.[30]
T associations[edit]
Young stellar groups can contain a number of infant T Tauri stars that are still in the process of entering the main sequence. These sparse populations of up to a thousand T Tauri stars are known as T associations. The nearest example is the Taurus-Auriga T association (Tau-Aur T association), located at a distance of 140 parsecs from the Sun.[31] Other examples of T associations include the R Corona Australis T association, the Lupus T association, the Chamaeleon T association and the Velorum T association. T associations are often found in the vicinity of the molecular cloud from which they formed. Some, but not all, include O-B class stars. Group members have the same age and origin, the same chemical composition, and the same amplitude and direction in their vector of velocity.
R associations[edit]
Associations of stars that illuminate reflection nebulae are called R associations, a name suggested by Sidney van den Bergh after he discovered that the stars in these nebulae had a non-uniform distribution.[25] These young stellar groupings contain main sequence stars that are not sufficiently massive to disperse the interstellar clouds in which they formed.[26] This allows the properties of the surrounding dark cloud to be examined by astronomers. Because R-associations are more plentiful than OB associations, they can be used to trace out the structure of the galactic spiral arms.[32] An example of an R-association is Monoceros R2, located 830 ± 50 parsecs from the Sun.[26]
Moving groups[edit]
If the remnants of a stellar association drift through the galaxy as a somewhat coherent assemblage, then they are termed a moving group or kinematic group. Moving groups can be old, such as the HR 1614 moving group at 2 billion years, or young, such as the AB Dor Moving Group at only 120 million years.
Moving groups were studied intensely by Olin Eggen in the 1960s.[33] A list of the nearest young moving groups has been compiled by López-Santiago et al.[34] The closest is the Ursa Major Moving Group which includes all of the stars in the Plough/Big Dipper asterism except for α Ursae Majoris and η Ursae Majoris. This is sufficiently close that the Sun lies in its outer fringes, without being part of the group. Hence, while members are concentrated at declinations near 60° N, some outliers are as far away across the sky as Triangulum Australe at 70° S.
Stellar streams[edit]
A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy that was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has now been torn apart and stretched out along its orbit by tidal forces.
Known kinematic groups[edit]
Some kinematic groups include:[35]
- Local Association (Pleiades moving group)
- AB Doradus moving group
- Alpha Persei moving cluster
- Beta Pictoris moving group
- Castor moving group
- Corona Australis association
- Eta Chamaeleontis cluster
- Hercules stream
- Hyades Stream
- IC 2391 supercluster
- MBM 12 association
- Tucana-Horologium Association
- TW Hydrae association
- Ursa Major Moving Group
- Zeta Herculis moving group
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- ^ Fich, Michel; Tremaine, Scott (1991). "The mass of the Galaxy". Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics 29 (1): 409–445. Bibcode:1991ARA&A..29..409F. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.29.090191.002205.
- ^ Johnson, Dean R. H.; Soderblom, David R. (1987). "Calculating galactic space velocities and their uncertainties, with an application to the Ursa Major group". Astronomical Journal 93 (2): 864–867. Bibcode:1987AJ.....93..864J. doi:10.1086/114370.
- ^ Dehnen, Walter; Binney, James J. (1999). "Local stellar kinematics from HIPPARCOS data". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 298 (2): 387–394. arXiv:astro-ph/9710077. Bibcode:1998MNRAS.298..387D. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01600.x.
- ^ Johnson, Hugh M. (1957). "The Kinematics and Evolution of Population I Stars". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 69 (406): 54. Bibcode:1957PASP...69...54J. doi:10.1086/127012.
- ^ Elmegreen, B.; Efremov, Y. N. (1999). "The Formation of Star Clusters". American Scientist 86 (3): 264. Bibcode:1998AmSci..86..264E. doi:10.1511/1998.3.264.
- ^ Carollo, Daniela et al. (2007-12-13). "Two stellar components in the halo of the Milky Way". Nature 450 (7172): 1020–1025. arXiv:0706.3005. Bibcode:2007Natur.450.1020C. doi:10.1038/nature06460. PMID 18075581.
- ^ Blau (1961), "On the origin of the O- and B-type stars with high velocities (the run-away stars), and some related problems" BAN 15, 265
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- Brown; Geller; Kenyon; Kurtz (2006). "A Successful Targeted Search for Hypervelocity Stars". Astrophys.J. 640: 35–. arXiv:astro-ph/0601580. Bibcode:2006ApJ...640L..35B. doi:10.1086/503279.
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External links[edit]
- ESO press release about runaway stars
- Entry in the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
- Two Exiled Stars Are Leaving Our Galaxy Forever
- Entry in the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
- Hypervelocity stars. I. The spectroscopic survey information on HV 6 & HV 7
- Young stellar kinematic groups, David Montes, Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.


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