Time Travel is finally an option with new Website

Using the latest in live streaming video and audio technology, visitors travel from the Big Bang to the beginnings of Life, to people living in a historic time warp, to modern scientists, artists, and humanitarians.

[ClickPress, Thu Jun 28 2007] What do penguins in Antarctica, monks in Ireland, gorillas in Spain, craftsmen in Borneo, women washing clothes in France, Polish veterinarians, German scientists, Japanese kindergarteners and truckers in the U.S. all have in common?

They're all featured in live streaming video on a new website sponsored by the World Mind Network, an organisation which seeks to link people everywhere through internet technology.

The site's founders were moved to create it by the writings of philosophers like James Lovelock and Teilhard de Chardin, who posited that improved communications were making the whole Earth something like a vast inter-connected brain. They saw that the Internet was making this more and more apparent.

They found themselves intrigued by the explosion of webcams worldwide, and the latest technological improvements which make live streaming video available even in hostile environments like the Arctic and Papua New Guinea.

Historically, webcams have generally been devoted to two things: porn, and teenagers ogling each other while chatting online. Why not, thought World Mind Network, use the technology to display more valuable things that are hardly ever seen by anyone, even the most experienced tourist? Why not publicize worthy research projects, age-old lifestyles, new art forms, unknown animals, and tribal cultures on the verge of extinction?

The project has a vast scope, and required a new form of organization. WMN decided to organize their video and audio feeds chronologically, starting 12 billion years ago with the Big Bang. It turns out that the microwave background radiation from that long-ago cataclysm still exists, and can be converted into audio files which site visitors can sample. Then they can move to a live view of the sun (complete with spots), then live sound and video from the inside of a volcano, then bacteria growing in a petri dish, then fish swimming, gorillas preening, and then finally all sorts of human animals. Everything is real, everything is LIVE and unedited.

The human webcam subjects must be doing something worthy, either culturally, environmentally, educationally, scientifically, or socially, to appear on the site. Thus there are monks at Clonard Monastery in Ireland chanting and praying, a traditional Raku potter producing unique ceramics, a Finnish wind farm creating renewable electricity, kindergarten children in Japan learning and playing, and a charity truck in Texas driving around and assisting homeless people, while the site visitors listen and watch live. There's even live audio from the International Space Station.

The site is strictly for education and entertainment. There is nothing to buy.
You can see the results at WorldMindNetwork.net You can contact them for more information at fixxer@prodigy.net. You can call them at World Mind Network,
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