Posted in Weather on Aug 31st, 2005
Anyone ever seen a named tropical depression?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/024543.shtml?3day
( Lee was a Tropical Storm for a couple of hours today. )
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Posted in Global Warming on Aug 31st, 2005
I saw this one coming a mile away. I just thought people would have the tact to hold off on using the disaster in the Gulf Coast for their own political agenda. Guess I was wrong. Before people can even get out of the water in New Orleans, Speigel Online is running this headline:
Katrina Should [...]
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Posted in Technology on Aug 30th, 2005
Check this presentation from Exxon out that Brian sent me:
Think this might be the real reason gas prices are suddenly skyrocketing?
Think it sounds crazy? Check this out:
Ford’s ready to go. That really is a hydrogen engine.
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Posted in Health on Aug 29th, 2005
Your morning cup of coffee may provide more than just a caffeine jolt — it could be your most valuable source of disease-fighting antioxidants.
A new study shows coffee is the No. 1 source of antioxidants in the American diet…..
Antioxidants are found naturally in many foods and beverages and are thought to provide health benefits [...]
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Posted in Weather on Aug 28th, 2005
Folks, don’t look now, but Katrina’s not alone:
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Posted in Weather on Aug 28th, 2005
Here’s a webcam from New Orleans for those that want to watch Katrina near real time. ( Hit refresh to update the picture. )
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Posted in Weather on Aug 28th, 2005
On second thought, don’t forget about Katrina. The five day forecast has that thing shooting all the way into Canada. It’s a monster.
This folks, is a REAL storm worthy of its name.
Just out of curiosity, anyone have any clue if the solar bursts earlier this week might have helped excite this storm?
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Posted in The Solar System on Aug 25th, 2005
If you look over there —–>>>> right now ( 8/24/05), you’ll see a storm the makes Katrina look like a small cloud burst. Here’s the permanent pic:
( Soho)
Now, this has the possibilty of disrupting radio communications, cell phones, etc.. Now, what I am wondering is, according to a lot of things I’ve read, solar [...]
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Posted in SETI on Aug 22nd, 2005
Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of an event that forever changed the United States.
And no one seemed to notice or care.
I was reading an article on the National UFO Reporting Center about an event they held yesterday in my home state.
The event was the 50th anniversary of this:
Remember that?
It was the Roswell Alien Autopsy [...]
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Posted in Health on Aug 22nd, 2005
Harvard scientists announced they’ve discovered a way to fuse adult skin cells with embryonic stem cells, a promising breakthrough that could lead to the creation of useful stem cells without first having to create and destroy human embryos….
"If future experiments indicate that this reprogrammed state is retained after removing the embryonic stem cell DNA — [...]
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