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Sergey Luchkin

Researcher - Materials For Energy Applications, VNIINM JSC

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Prediction of disasters. Look at the brain of animals. Learn from nature.

It is well known that animals are very sensitive to disasters. Long before the earthquake (hurricane, tsunami, etc.) they leave the hazardous area. Why? Obviously, they have developed a certain sense in their brains. And now we are able to study their brains, find and fix this special sense. We can learn physical and chemical mechanisms of reaction. We can determine the nature of external influence that causes this sense of disaster. Based on it, we can create a special sensor with the same sense of disaster. I think we can make it much more sensitive, then animal's brain, at least one feature.
it will be useful for countries that are in hazardous areas.

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    Frans Kellner 100+

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    Nov 17 2011: Animals know everything, not by mind but by feeling.
    We humans would know evenso if these impulses wheren't outshined by the mind.
    If there is any feeling of some sort we don't respond on it and argue it away.

    Most people with dogs know these things as dogs and cats know a lot in advance.

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      Nov 17 2011: I'm still thinking any external changes cause an activity in the mind. And we're able to associate a kind of brain activity with this external changes (mechanical vibrations, magnetic or electric fields and so on).
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        Frans Kellner 100+

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        Nov 17 2011: Most people think like you do but I think they're thinking wrongly.
        No they're not thinking wrongly because by thinking this can only be so but the world isn't what we think it to be.

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