Friday, July 13, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Summer heat: Sun Erupts with Strongest Summer Solar Flare Yet
The most powerful solar flare of the summer so far erupted from the sun
Friday, the latest in a string of powerful storms this week
from our nearest star, space weather experts say.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Higgs explained by Bad Astronomy Phil Plait!
OK, the quick version. The Higgs particle is extremely important, because the Standard Model of particle physics – the basic idea of how all particles behave – predicts it exists and is what (indirectly) gives many other particles mass. In other words, the reason electrons, protons, and neutrons have mass is because of this Higgs beastie. Last year, the Guardian put up a nice article explaining this. A more technical discussion is on Discover Magazine’s Cosmic Variance blog from 2007. Sean Carroll has been live-blogging the announcement, and has lots of good info as well.
This particle is very hard to detect, because it doesn’t live long. Once it forms it decays in a burst of energy and other particles (think of them as shrapnel) extremely rapidly. The only way to make them is to smash other particles together at incredibly high energies, and look at the resulting collisions. If the Higgs exists, then it will decay and give off a characteristic bit of energy. The problem is, lots of things give off that much energy, so you have to see the Higgs signal on top of all that noise.
Click here to discover the rest of the Higgs story!
This particle is very hard to detect, because it doesn’t live long. Once it forms it decays in a burst of energy and other particles (think of them as shrapnel) extremely rapidly. The only way to make them is to smash other particles together at incredibly high energies, and look at the resulting collisions. If the Higgs exists, then it will decay and give off a characteristic bit of energy. The problem is, lots of things give off that much energy, so you have to see the Higgs signal on top of all that noise.
Click here to discover the rest of the Higgs story!
ACLU-NJ Launches Smartphone App That Lets Users Secretly Record Police Stops « CBS New York
The ACLU has released an app called “Police Tape” that lets users secretly record police stops.
The ACLU’s Alexander Shalom said the app is easy to use.
“There’s really only three buttons that the user needs to deal with,” Shalom said. “There’s a know your rights button that educates the citizen about their rights when encountering police on the street, in a car, in their home or when they’re going to be placed under arrest, and there’s a button to record audio and a button to record video.”
Read more at: ACLU-NJ Launches Smartphone App That Lets Users Secretly Record Police Stops « CBS New York
The ACLU’s Alexander Shalom said the app is easy to use.
“There’s really only three buttons that the user needs to deal with,” Shalom said. “There’s a know your rights button that educates the citizen about their rights when encountering police on the street, in a car, in their home or when they’re going to be placed under arrest, and there’s a button to record audio and a button to record video.”
Read more at: ACLU-NJ Launches Smartphone App That Lets Users Secretly Record Police Stops « CBS New York
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Scientists attempt 'hack' into brain of Stephen Hawking
Hawking, 70, has been working with scientists at Standford University who are
developing a the iBrain - a tool which picks up brain waves and communicates
them via a computer. The scientist, who has motor neurone disease and lost the power of speech
nearly 30 years ago, currently uses a computer to communicate but is losing
the ability as the condition worsens. But he has been working with Philip Low, a professor at Stanford and inventor
of the iBrain, a brain scanner that measures electrical activity. "We'd like to find a way to bypass his body, pretty much hack his brain,"
said Prof Low.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Has the zombie virus appeared at last?
Naked man killed by Police near MacArthur Causeway was ‘eating’ face off victim
It was a scene as creepy as a Hannibal Lecter movie.
One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked, and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp Saturday, police said.
The horror began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building.
According to police sources, a road ranger saw a naked man chewing on another man’s face and shouted on his loud speaker for him to back away.Meanwhile, a woman also saw the incident and flagged down a police officer who was in the area.
The officer, who has not been identified, approached and, seeing what was happening, also ordered the naked man to back away. When he continued the assault, the officer shot him, police sources said. The attacker failed to stop after being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Arming Of Domestic Drones « CBS DC
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – With the use of domestic drones increasing, concern has not just come up over privacy issues, but also over the potential use of lethal force by the unmanned aircraft.
Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle against illegal immigration. But now, these drones are starting to be used domestically at an increasing rate.
Drones have been used overseas to target and kill high-level terror leaders and are also being used along the U.S.-Mexico border in the battle against illegal immigration. But now, these drones are starting to be used domestically at an increasing rate.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
I wish I could write this scathingly!
This is an amazing review of a Russian haute cuisine eatery.
A few of the gems include:
"moments of cooking so cack-handed, so foul, so astoundingly grim you want to congratulate the kitchen on its incompetence."
"Waiters are impeccably Italian in that they will argue with you."
And more!!!!
Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe
A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries.
By Nikodem Poplawski, Inside Science Minds Guest Columnist
Successful as it is, there are notable unsolved questions with the standard big bang theory, which suggests that the universe began as a seemingly impossible "singularity," an infinitely small point containing an infinitely high concentration of matter, expanding in size to what we observe today. The theory of inflation, a super-fast expansion of space proposed in recent decades, fills in many important details, such as why slight lumps in the concentration of matter in the early universe coalesced into large celestial bodies such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
PROMETHEUS GHOST STATION
Promotionnal operation in the subway of Paris, a special ghost station has been made for the new film of Ridley Scott Prometheus.
Friday, May 18, 2012
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Being 'Born-Again' Linked to More Brain Atrophy
WEDNESDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults who say they've had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.
According to the study, people who said they were a "born-again" Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or "atrophy") compared to people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again.
The study is published online in PLoS ONE.
As people age, a certain amount of brain atrophy is expected.
Shrinkage of the hippocampus is also associated with depression, dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
New particle discovered at CERN
Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at the LHC. The baryon known as Xi_b^* confirms fundamental assumptions of physics regarding the binding of quarks.
Prison Officials Want Masturbating Inmates Labeled As Sex Offenders
Talk about hardened criminals! Or doing hard time!
Connecticut prison officials are asking for a new law that would label inmates who commit lewd acts in their cells as sex offenders. Department officials say it's an ongoing problem at prisons such as the high security Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, where some inmates purposefully masturbate in front of staff, often female guards, counselors or other prison workers. "If they were on the outside and they did something like this, they would be arrested and held accountable as a sex offender," said Brian Garnett, a department spokesman. "And frankly, the same thing should hold true on the inside."
Connecticut prison officials are asking for a new law that would label inmates who commit lewd acts in their cells as sex offenders. Department officials say it's an ongoing problem at prisons such as the high security Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, where some inmates purposefully masturbate in front of staff, often female guards, counselors or other prison workers. "If they were on the outside and they did something like this, they would be arrested and held accountable as a sex offender," said Brian Garnett, a department spokesman. "And frankly, the same thing should hold true on the inside."
Spirals On Mars
Giant coils of lava on Mars suggest a mysterious network of valleys on the planet was born from volcanoes, researchers say. The origin of the Athabasca Valles region near the equator of Mars has been debated for more than a decade. Some researchers have proposed that lava once shaped the valleys, while others have thought ice was responsible. The way the ground there is patterned with multisided polygons suggests that either fire or ice could be the culprit — such patterns of cracks might have formed due to seasonal fluctuations in temperature if the surface there was rich in ice, but also might have arose as lava cooled and fractured.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Fossil find in Kentucky stumps experts
DAYTON, Ohio — Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.
The 150-pound fossil recovered last year in northern Kentucky is more than 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. To the untrained eye, it looks like a bunch of rocks or a concrete blob. Experts are trying to determine whether it was an animal, mineral or a form of plant life from a time when the Cincinnati region was underwater. Scientists at a Geological Society of America meeting viewed it Tuesday at the Dayton Convention Center in Ohio. "We are looking for people who might have an idea of what it is," said Ben Dattilo, an assistant professor of geology at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.Scientists say the fossil is 450 million years old. University of Cincinnati geologist Carl Brett said it's the largest fossil ever extracted from that era in the Cincinnati region. "This is the ultimate cold case," said Ron Fine, the Dayton, Ohio, amateur paleontologist who spotted the fossil on a hillside last year and gave it its name.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Facebook Photo Sinks Man Who Stole Police Gas
Arrested siphoner posted image of theft from Kentucky squad car
APRIL 18-- A Kentucky man is facing a misdemeanor rap after he siphoned gasoline from a police car, a theft that came to the attention of cops after the perp posted a Facebook photo memorializing the crime.
Worker injured during sex gets compensation payout
A WOMAN who was injured while having sex in her hotel room during a work trip is entitled to compensation. In the Federal Court today Justice John Nicholas ruled that the woman was injured during her “course of employment”.
The woman’s barrister argued that sex was an “ordinary incident of life” in a hotel room, much like showering and sleeping.
The Judge ruled that “if the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room she would be entitled to compensation” and the fact that the woman was engaged in sexual activity rather than some other lawful recreational activity while in her hotel room does not lead to any different result.
The woman, who cannot be named, challenged the rejection of her workers' compensation claim for facial and psychological injuries suffered when a glass light fitting came away from the wall above the bed as she was having sex in November 2007.
The woman in her late thirties was required to travel to a country town by her employer, the Human Relations Section of the Commonwealth Government agency.
She arranged to meet a male friend there who lived in the town. They went to a restaurant for dinner and at about 10pm or 11pm went back to the woman’s motel room where they had sex that resulted in her injury.
The male friend said in his statement at the time that they were "going hard” and he did not know if they bumped the light or it just fell off.
“I think she was on her back when it happened but I was not paying attention because we are rolling around.”
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/worker-injured-during-sex-gets-compo/story-e6frfm1i-1226333292525#ixzz1sVNYZWjY
Click here to read more
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The bed Bunker: Perfect for gun storage or vampires
Concealed Bed Safe: Total hidden protection for firearms and other valuables is a reality, using this 1300 lb secure 78”x 60”x 14” (queen size) 10 gauge steel strongbox fitted with ¼” thick steel 140 lb. hinged doors. BedBunker Safes are available for any size bed. King and Queen size beds can be fit with a single safe with two adjoining storage supports on either side for complete concealment from all angles. Cal King / Double Safe Bed (1500 pounds 4 locks) now only $4200!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Augmented Reality is closer than you think
Project Glass: One day...
A Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment.
A Google[x] group started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Obama shoots down Mars exploration - Washington Times
To boldly NOT go where no man has gone before.
In its budget submitted to Congress Feb. 13, the Obama administration zeroed out funding for NASA’s future Mars exploration missions. The Mars Science Lab Curiosity is en route to the red planet, and the nearly completed small Maven orbiter, scheduled for launch in 2013, will be sent, but that’s it. No funding has been provided for the Mars probes planned as joint missions with the Europeans for 2016 and 2018, and nothing after that is funded, either. This poses a crisis for the American space program.
In its budget submitted to Congress Feb. 13, the Obama administration zeroed out funding for NASA’s future Mars exploration missions. The Mars Science Lab Curiosity is en route to the red planet, and the nearly completed small Maven orbiter, scheduled for launch in 2013, will be sent, but that’s it. No funding has been provided for the Mars probes planned as joint missions with the Europeans for 2016 and 2018, and nothing after that is funded, either. This poses a crisis for the American space program.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
"How Soon Is Now?"
How Soon Is Now?
I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
Friday, March 30, 2012
Department Of Homeland Security orders 450 Million New Bullets
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office is getting an "indefinite delivery" of an "indefinite quantity" of .40 caliber ammunition from defense contractor ATK. U.S. agents will receive a maximum of 450 million rounds over five years, according to a press release on the deal.
The high performance HST bullets are designed for law enforcement and ATK says they offer "optimum penetration for terminal performance." This refers to the the bullet's hollow-point tip that passes through barriers and expands for a bigger impact without the rest of the bullet getting warped out of shape: "this bullet holds its jacket in the toughest conditions.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Dominatrix raises cash for cancer-stricken pal
A DOMINATRIX is raising money for a cancer-stricken pal — by taking donations for bondage sessions.
January Seraph is offering to spend an extra half an hour with anyone who gives £30 to a fund set up to help sick Hollie Stevens.
Hollie, an adult movie actress, is fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer.
And loyal January, who works in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, said: "Cancer is something we all know someone fighting. This is important to me, to help someone in need.
"Hollie is a friend who I care deeply about, and I'm trying to show that actions do speak louder than words." She added: "Hollie is too proud to ask for help herself, so myself and her other great friends are being pushy and helping her out whether she likes it or not.
"Show Hollie that she's loved and appreciated in her time of need. Because no one should feel alone when they are ill."
"Hollie is a friend who I care deeply about, and I'm trying to show that actions do speak louder than words." She added: "Hollie is too proud to ask for help herself, so myself and her other great friends are being pushy and helping her out whether she likes it or not.
"Show Hollie that she's loved and appreciated in her time of need. Because no one should feel alone when they are ill."
The Alan Parsons Project- Breakdown
Breakdown-Lyrics:
I breakdown in the middle and lose my thread
No one can understand a word that I say
When I break down just a little and lose my head
Nothing I try to do can work the same way
Good lord, the young man must be scarred for life!
COVINGTON — A Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleader was indicted Thursday for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student when she was a teacher at Dixie Heights High School. A Kenton County grand jury indicted Sarah Jones on first-degree sexual abuse. She was also indicted on a charge unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual or other prohibited acts. The charges are felonies that are each punishable by up to five years in prison.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
The basic truth.
la morte sorride a tutti, un uomo non può far altro che sorriderle di rimando.
- "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
- "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Science Says Creativity And Dishonesty Go Hand In Hand
Turns out that people who are creative tend to cheat more. So how do you keep creativity from running amok?
Great scam artists are often described as “creative.” Jeffrey Skilling was a virtuoso of “creative accounting.” Bernie Madoff pulled off a “creative reinvention” of the old Ponzi scheme. And Charles Ponzi himself was a "creative promoter" and a "creative and ambitious businessman." Just last week, we met Mike Daisey, king of "creative license." Coincidence?
Perhaps not.
"The creative process isn’t just tied to dishonest behavior; it actually enables it."
A recent article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology makes the claim that creativity walks hand in hand with loose ethics. Francesca Gino of Harvard University and Dan Ariely of Duke University conducted a series of experiments in which they asked subjects to complete various ethically ambiguous tasks. The result: Not only do naturally creative people cheat more than uncreative people, subjects cajoled into thinking outside of the box become cheaters, too. This suggests that the creative process isn’t just tied to dishonest behavior; it actually enables it--troubling news at a time when the corporate world treats innovation as an unimpeachable moral good.
click here for the whole story
Great scam artists are often described as “creative.” Jeffrey Skilling was a virtuoso of “creative accounting.” Bernie Madoff pulled off a “creative reinvention” of the old Ponzi scheme. And Charles Ponzi himself was a "creative promoter" and a "creative and ambitious businessman." Just last week, we met Mike Daisey, king of "creative license." Coincidence?
Perhaps not.
"The creative process isn’t just tied to dishonest behavior; it actually enables it."
A recent article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology makes the claim that creativity walks hand in hand with loose ethics. Francesca Gino of Harvard University and Dan Ariely of Duke University conducted a series of experiments in which they asked subjects to complete various ethically ambiguous tasks. The result: Not only do naturally creative people cheat more than uncreative people, subjects cajoled into thinking outside of the box become cheaters, too. This suggests that the creative process isn’t just tied to dishonest behavior; it actually enables it--troubling news at a time when the corporate world treats innovation as an unimpeachable moral good.
click here for the whole story
Sherlock: Holmes and Moriarty - I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well
I had visions, I was in them
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
The rottenness and evil in me
Friday, March 23, 2012
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Prank text about 'human remains' ends in police standoff
A Saskatoon woman’s random prank text message about a dead body led to armed police surrounding her family’s suburban home on the city’s east end.
The 25-year-old woman sent out text messages to a random phone number late Friday nigh that “made reference to human remains,” police said.
Of all the phone numbers she could have chosen to send the text to, the message ended up on the phone of an off-duty law enforcement officer from outside the city. The officer subsequently made a report to city police who traced the cellphone number to house on the city’s east side.
The prank backfired.
Prank text about 'human remains' ends in police standoff for Saskatoon woman
The 25-year-old woman sent out text messages to a random phone number late Friday nigh that “made reference to human remains,” police said.
Of all the phone numbers she could have chosen to send the text to, the message ended up on the phone of an off-duty law enforcement officer from outside the city. The officer subsequently made a report to city police who traced the cellphone number to house on the city’s east side.
The prank backfired.
Prank text about 'human remains' ends in police standoff for Saskatoon woman
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Kate Bush Cloudbusting
The song is about the very close relationship between psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and his young son, Peter, told from the point of view of the mature Peter. It describes the boy's memories of his life with Reich on their family farm, called Orgonon where the two spent time "cloudbusting", a rain-making process which involved pointing at the sky a machine designed and built by Reich, called a cloudbuster. The lyric further describes Wilhelm Reich's abrupt arrest and imprisonment, the pain of loss the young Peter felt, and his helplessness at being unable to protect his father. The song was inspired by Peter Reich's 1973 memoir, "A Book of Dreams", which Bush read and found deeply moving.
Calling All Angels and their Wings of Desire
A man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries
high above you can hear the church bells start to ring
and the heaviness, the heaviness oh settles in
somewhere you can hear a mother sing
then it's one foot then the other as you step out the road, out, step out to the road
how much weight? how much weight?
then it's how long? and how far?
and how many times oh before it's too late?
calling all angels walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
What does this mean? White House prepares for Martial Law.
MARTIAL LAW? OBAMA ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER: 'NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS'...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Iron Sky Sneak Peek #13 - The First Four Minutes
I really want to like this film..... but I'm having a hard time getting into the "reality" of it. I mean, why do the astronauts seem affected by the moon's lesser gravity but the Nazi's seem to be walking in normal earth gravity? Would a traditional firearm work in the airless vacuum? The nazi motorcycles sputter as if using traditional gasoline engines.... and heck, sound on the moon?
DARK SHADOWS Official Movie Trailer
I imagine an entire fan-base is about to roll over in their graves..... after being put there at the shock of what's been done to their beloved Dark Shadows.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
David Byrne - Good and Evil
Talkin' like a monster
Smellin' like a baby
You got a head like a bowl of cherries now
Don't be surprised
You got what it takes
Messin' round like monkeys and apes
Singing good and evil, good and evil
They turn 'em loose and they turn into people
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Man Shot At Detroit Gas Station, Reportedly Over Price Of Condoms « CBS Detroit
Guess he wasn't wearing protection at the time.
Man Shot At Detroit Gas Station, Reportedly Over Price Of Condoms « CBS Detroit
Man Shot At Detroit Gas Station, Reportedly Over Price Of Condoms « CBS Detroit
Jethro Tull - Jack-A-Lynn
Cold aeroplanes, slow boats, warm trains
remind me of Jack-A-Lynn.
Lush hotels and pretty girls
won't cheer the misty mood I'm in.
Silly, sad, I've never had to write this before,
Big Log (1983)
Lyrics:
My love is in league with the freeway
It's passion will ride, as the cities fly by
And the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of night
And the questions in thousands take flight
My love is the miles and the waiting
The eyes that just stare, and a glance at the clock
Al Stewart - Terminal Eyes
Cut glass porcupine sailing on the Serpentine
Fingers on the skyline pulling down the black blinds
Terminal eyes at the edge of the night
Rivulet of dark wine moving in a straight line
Sumdging out the stop signs, running down the life lines
Terminal eyes at the edge of the night
Shadows on the ceiling, coffee cup congealing
Tarot cards revealing, a solitary feeling
Friday, March 9, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Song to the Siren "Cocteau Twins"
Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
Update: No Parents Show Up To Protest Teacher’s Porn Career
Parents were invited to a school board meeting Wednesday evening to express their concerns after an Oxnard middle school teacher was placed on paid leave for allegedly dabbling in hardcore pornography.
However, not one parent with a student at Haydock Intermediate School attended, according to CBS2’s Suraya Fadel.
No Oxnard Parents Show Up To Protest Teacher’s Alleged Hardcore Porn Career « CBS Los Angeles
However, not one parent with a student at Haydock Intermediate School attended, according to CBS2’s Suraya Fadel.
No Oxnard Parents Show Up To Protest Teacher’s Alleged Hardcore Porn Career « CBS Los Angeles
CA Teacher Placed On Leave After Students Discover Her Porn Site
“Maybe it's not a crime as far as the penal code is concerned, but we feel it's a crime as far as moral turpitude is concerned,” said Jeff Chancer, superintendent of the Oxnard school district.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Asteroid may hit earth feb 15, 2013. My birthday. Oh.
Astronomers say it will pass at a distance of 17,000 miles from the surface of the Earth - which is much closer to the ground than GPS and communications satellites orbit. In comparison, satellites that provide television and radio signals to the public orbit at an altitude of more than 22,000 miles. GPS satellites orbit at about 12,000 miles in altitude.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Irony: Man Dies Setting Record for Being Buried Alive
Police said Janaka Basnayake, 24, buried himself over the weekend with the help of family and friends in a trench sealed with wood and soil in the town of Kantale, about 137 miles (220 kilometers) north of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. A local newspaper reported that the trench was 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
Basnayake was buried at around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Police said that when he was brought to the surface at 4 p.m., he was unconscious and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Click here for the full ironic story: Man Dies Trying to Set Mark for Being Buried Alive - ABC News
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Fine Young Cannibals - I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
When I'm in trouble or out of step
If my balance has been upset
Oh, there's a feeling I can't accept
There's one thing that helps me to forget
Wonder what I'm thinking
Wonder why I'm drinking
But it's plain to see,
I'm not the man I used to be
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
My own Roswell Theory - C. T. Fluhr
I claim the somewhat dubious credit for this theory. Get your tin foil hat ready.
It's a variation on the classic Roswell UFO conspiracy
theory, but without aliens or UFOs.
The Roswell UFO Incident claims an object crashed in the
general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947. Furthermore it claims a body was recovered
and stored at a local morgue.
My theory is based on the following foundations:
1. Roswell was an air force training and experimental air
base.
2. This was at the
beginning of the Cold War and the race for high altitude aircraft.
3. In 1994 the Air
Force announced it had been using "crash test" dummies as part of
"Project Mogul" to study the effects of high-altitudes on
pilots. The published report concluded
that Mogul Flight #4, launched from Alamogordo, New Mexico, on June 4, 1947,
was what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, and formed the source of the debris
which sparked the Roswell UFO Incident.
Now consider these points:
- Camp Roswell POW Camp was located14 miles SE of Roswell, New Mexico and housed POWs from 1942-1947. In addition to the airfield, the Roswell POW camp was built for up to 4800 Prisoners of War. The POWs were actually used as construction laborers on local projects and many of Roswell's parks were built by POWs. The Spring River, which passes through downtown Roswell, was lined with concrete and stones using POW labor. Most of the POWs were German and Italian soldiers captured during the North African campaign but there were also Japanese POWs. The actual number of Japanese POW's is unrecorded due to the large number who refused to identify themselves until repatriated to Japan in 1947.
- The US government was at this time testing the effects of radiation on its own troops in numerous bomb tests. Testing on US soldiers also included incidents such as the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
Conclusion:
- There was no UFO or alien crash at Roswell.
- The US government did not use "crash test dummies" for the high altitude tests. They used undocumented Japanese POWs.
Consider the general descriptions of the "alien"
bodies: Small stature, hairless, bluish or pale skin, oval eyes. How would a Japanese POW appear after dying
of high-altitude exposure, especially if the subject's body had been shaved in
anticipation of the post mortem examination?
This is the kind of secret people keep. If revealed, all concerned would face War
Crimes trials similar to the 23 Nazi doctors and scientists were put on trial
for the unethical treatment of concentration camp inmates, often used as
research subjects with fatal consequences.
Such damage would also harm current US world standing particularly with
Japan and other Pacific Rim nations.
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