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Posted in History on Mar 28th, 2008
Researchers have converted a paper recording of a lady singing “Au Clair de la lune” circa 1860. They took the graph and converted it to sound. This means that is the first time that “recording” has been heard since 1860, one hundred and forty-eight years ago. The United States hadn’t even started our Civil War [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Mar 20th, 2008
Fresh on the heels of my post on man destroying the Earth in an effort to combat something he doesn’t understand, I get this headline:
Global warming hastens arrival of springtime
In the meantime, here at least, for the second year in a row, there is snow forecast for Easter. Last year Easter was two weeks later [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Technology on Mar 20th, 2008
Congress, in it’s rush to pander to the global warming scare, or Al Gore, mandated that everyone use the new CFL’s. They burn less electricity. Now, since my electric bill is tied directly to the amount of electricity we use, that sounded fine to me. However, after I had installed about thirty of them, we [...]
Posted in People on Mar 19th, 2008
Arthur Clarke passed away this morning. He was by far my favorite science fiction writer. It was very clear to me why. Whereas most science fiction writers wrote stories that involved completely removing oneself from reality, Clarke’s stories usually took reality and expanded it. Things didn’t go “boom” in Arthur Clarke’s space. Smoke didn’t billow [...]
Posted in SETI, Silly science, The Universe on Mar 10th, 2008
Alpha Centauri has long been speculated as having all kinds of different life forms. Wiki gives a good run-down. Starting in 1944…. Well, here’s a brief list:
In “Far Centaurus” (1944), the classic short story by A. E. van Vogt, an earth crew which travelled at sublight speed in hibernation to Alpha Centauri discover when they arrive that [...]
Microsoft has tentavely let the cat out ofthe bag. That cat goes by the name of IE8. Gotta warn people, the beta is not for the meek. Without going into any more details, I’ll just put it this way, the most prominent feature is a button reverting it back to IE7 emulation.
Unfortunately, you don’t know [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Mar 10th, 2008
I love watching rocket launches. When it comes to rocket launches, the Shuttle is king. However, I have to gripe with their scheduling. Tonight’s launch is at 2:28am.
I’ll have to pass.
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Posted in The Universe on Mar 7th, 2008
Got this via email, just sort of puts it all in perspective:
Now, things start to get really big:
Now, those are really big stars! But, to keep things in perspective, here’s a bunch of blobs. Each one of those “little” blobs are entire galaxies:
And if you zoom in closer on the dark areas, you get something [...]
Posted in The Solar System on Mar 5th, 2008
This is just an awesome pic:
That’s us and the Moon as viewed from Mars. Very cool!
H/T Universe Today
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Posted in Intelligent Design on Mar 4th, 2008
Been a while since I’ve posted anything here. Been way too overwhelmed with all the silliness that is our primary. So, thought I’d just toss something in here real quick like that doesn’t take a whole lot of explaining:
Yeah buddy, there’s some logical entity guiding us all!
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