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Posted in Technology on Aug 30th, 2007
My cell phone does all kinds of nifty tricks. It converts languages, it has very simple games, it has voice recognition so I can tell the whole planet who I’m calling. It also have a video recorder that makes totally unrecognizable movies. The quality is absurdly bad. It takes pictures that look pretty good so [...]
Posted in The Solar System, Weather on Aug 27th, 2007
Well, apparently someone read my blog:
Periodic peaks in the number of visible sunspots may help predict heavy rains and subsequent disease outbreaks in East Africa, according to a controversial new study. Although previously questioned, the sunspot-rainfall link suggests that many of East Africa’s wettest rainy seasons during the 20th century were closely associated with highpoints [...]
Posted in The Solar System, Weather on Aug 23rd, 2007
I asked a question on August 24, 2005. It was a simple question. It was largely ignored.
How will this affect Katrina and the waves?
Now, when I asked the question, Katrina was barely a named storm. I like keeping an eye on two things this time of the year, hurricanes and solar storms. So, I noticed [...]
Posted in SETI, The Solar System on Aug 23rd, 2007
I’ve probably used that title before. It’s a fun Bowie song. However, it’s been a neverending question in science for about the last fifty years or so. Especially the last thirty or so when we actually started visiting Mars. It’s teased us with potential, but so far no concrete evidence. Now, ya gotta understand the [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Aug 22nd, 2007
Just when you think they’ve got the man-made global warming issue figured out. And, since we’re not allowed to debate that issue any more. Come to find out we’ve got other issues to worry ourselves sick over. Now, ( drum roll please ), we’ve got moose-made global warming:
Researchers in Norway claim a grown moose can [...]
Posted in Travel on Aug 20th, 2007
August 20, 1977 Voyager II blasted off and left the Earth’s atmosphere. Four years later it completed its mission. However, due to a fairly rare planetary alignment, they extended its life to map the outer planets. Then, something kind of strange happened. They both kept functioning. In late 2004, Voyager I left our solar system. [...]
Posted in Travel on Aug 19th, 2007
This is just a cool pic taken from STS-118:
Because of this storm, they’re coming home early. They’re gonna need some luck. Not sure I can stand to watch. From now on, no more female teachers. Even if I don’t watch, my thoughts will be with them.
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Posted in Health on Aug 17th, 2007
A woman in Canada just had identical quadruplets. I’m not sure if I could imagine anything that would scare me more than having FOUR identical kids. How do discipline something like that? How often, if you caught a fleeting glimpse of something, would you be absolutely sure that when they said another one did it, [...]
Posted in The Internet on Aug 16th, 2007
I had several videos here hosted by Bolt.com. That’s not good as Bolt shut down yesterday due to bankruptcy. I’ll re-post them later. Really a shame too. Bolt was actually one of the pre-cursors to Myspace, Xanga, and the like. However, they did it several years before social networking caught on. Sometimes, and more often [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 16th, 2007
Two weeks ago, a bridge collapsed in Minnesota, killing some people. Immedaitely after all kinds of rhetoric started flying around about the US decaying infrastructure and how it was being ignored by pretty much one person only, the President. I didn’t like going that route because it was so bogus. They were attempting to repair [...]