Posted in The Solar System on Nov 28th, 2007
The Venus Express finished it’s second Venusian day of work. That took about 2/3 of a year or more. Venusian days are 117 Earth days. That means if I were living on Venus, I’d be about three months old with grey hair. That sounds just plain wrong. What also sound just plain wrong is living [...]
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Posted in People, Physics on Nov 17th, 2007
Three years ago I wrote a post about three American scientists winning a Nobel for their Theory of Everything. Now, this thing was amazingly complex, and even harder for me to believe. It involved something called string theory, quarks, dark matter, and lots of other stuff. I gave up even trying to follow it all. [...]
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Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Humor on Nov 16th, 2007
Well, maybe not physically. But, they might be soon. The latest round started when Leslie Kean of the Coalitio0n for Freedom of Information sued NASA regarding the crash of something in Pennsylvania in 1965. He contends it’s a cover-up. A judge made NASA give him all their documentation. This could be interesting. In what way, [...]
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Posted in The Solar System on Nov 15th, 2007
Check this out:
To the right is object we are all quite familiar with, the sun. To the left, is Comet Holmes that’s been in the news of late. Now, this is where it gets real weird to me. This is a true-scale comparison! Comet Holmes right now is bigger than the Sun. Now, it doesn’t [...]
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Posted in The Solar System on Nov 13th, 2007
Don’t know about you all, but I’ve been following the Rosetta fly-by with some interest for a week or so. The European Space Agency’s web page has been tracking it and updating it’s trajectory publicly for about a month now. It’s pretty much on course for what was set a long time ago. That part [...]
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Posted in Global Warming on Nov 8th, 2007
This is certainly interesting:
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped [...]
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Yesterday marked the opening of hunting season. The tally so far, 1 dead, 3 injured. And that’s just the hunters.
I’ve seen this coming for a while. With the booming population of deer, they’re no longer hard to find. Rather than scouting for hours before finding one, it’s a target shoot these days similar to a [...]
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Posted in Health, Silly science on Nov 1st, 2007
That’s the headline. Here’s some meat ( yeah, pun intended ):
More than 4,900 men ages 15-44 participated in telephone interviews about their sex lives, including the dates during which they were in sexual relationships in the previous year.
Concurrent sexual relationships were particularly common among these groups:
Unmarried men
Men who had been in prison
Men who [...]
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