Ok, a facetious title but a pretty interesting article. If you read it through you get the idea that they may not even be able to prove, disprove, or even know if they succeeded or not. Interesting just the same. Maybe this is how we got here? Link
You won't find it on any official map and you won't know when you cross the line, but according to some people, the Bermuda Triangle is a very real place where dozen of ships, planes and people have disappeared with no good explanation. Since a magazine first coined the phrase "Bermuda Triangle" in 1964, the mystery has continued to attract attention. When you dig deeper into most cases, though, they're much less mysterious. Either they were never in the area to begin with, they were actually...
Link The idea of this tricycle is: At rest, the Shift bike's two back wheels tilt in at the top to form a stable, balance-assisting "A." When the rider leans forward—a natural tendency when pedaling faster—the weight shift activates a tension band that unites the bottom of the rear wheels into, effectively, a single wheel. As the rider slows, the wheels split again. ~Popular Mechanics, Nov 2005 This gives the child the confidence of training wheels, and when traveling fast enoug...
Apologies if I've asked this question here before (I don't think I have, but hey, they say the mind is the first thing to go as you age ), but I'm going to ask here now anyway: Would you ride the space shuttle ("orbiter" actually) if you had the opportunity? (further, would you go into space in any other NASA craft if given the chance?) Meaning, if you had a chance to go, if someone tapped you on the shoulder and said there is a seat open for you, would you take the spot and f...
I got sharpshot (sharpshooted?) on my presentation today. Although kryptonite wasn't in the lesson plan, I fielded a question from an overzealous classmate asking about Superman's weaknesses. This was followed up by a question from the class smart-ass of "What does Blue Kryptonite do?" Upon reflection, I hazarded the guess that it kills vegetation. His retort was that it provided a benefit. Some fact-checking shows that we were both wrong. Blue Kryptonite is the result of using the ...
The gist of Professor Greg Benford's talk at the Patrick Henry Democratic Club in the OC this May of '06 was virtually orthogonal to what he said at the Orange County Science Fiction Club's meeting about a year ago. At that meeting, he gave us the full-scope analysis/overview of the problem, with the Power Point slides, etc., and it didn't sound hopeful at all, with NONE of the proposed solutions really making a dent in the final apocalyptic outcome for the planet, taken separately or all to...
My mind is far away. There's that mysterious asteroid belt that circles the sun between Mars & Jupiter. I'm trying to wrap my mind around it. Although they're just measely asteroids, oughtn't we consider them planets as well? After all, they've been given names. But I'd sure hate to memorize those names. My brain doesn't hold very much information at once. And moons: They revolve around planets. But they also revolve around the sun, so why don't we consider moons to be planets in and of...
This little video shows Boeing verifying the crosswind landing limits on the 777 and the 747SP. The engineers design the landing gear system, goes up for a design review, gets manufactured, the maintenance people install it, ops check it, then jack and retract the system; but then Boeing test crews have to actually prove the design. Before the landing gear sideload limits gets etched in stone in the -1 flight manual. So they sneak off to Brazil to do these tests at a certain remote BAF...
Dr. Robert White is a Professor of Neurosurgery and one of the world's leading neurologists. He is also a Catholic, and a member of the Vatican's ‘Academy of Sciences’, is ‘pro-life’, and is on record objecting to human embryos being used in brain tissue experimentation. He also cuts the heads off small animals and re-attaches them to different bodies. And now he wants to do it to people !. In 1973, Dr. White removed the head from an living, a...
Theres no difference between Theory and Theory you say? How about this: Gay meant person prefers same sex people over opposite sex. But it also means happy. You can literally say "I knew a really gay gay person." and it would be a proper English sentence. So that blows up the argument that word always means the same to everyone out the water. What's next? Ah the definations... Now, I'll start off with common meaning of the word "Theory". Basically, it's just a guess. "My theory is that ...
China's contribution to the world is staggering. They have given us... Jackie Chan, Confucius, Sun Tzu, Zhang Ziyi... and now mercury pollution, on a massive scale. Scientists have discovered that pollutants laced with high mercury output are crossing the Pacific and settling on American plants, animals, lakes, streams, cropland, and everything we eat and drink. From the Yale Global Online : On a recent hazy morning in eastern China, the Wuhu Shaoda power company revved up its...
Steven Den Beste's site seems to be down but I had a copy fo an article he wrote some time ago that talks about the reason why Noah's Arc is a fairy tale. There are many many reasons why Noah's Arc is fiction but this is one of the better arguments I've seen. Steven's site is located here . I just had the distinct displeasure of encountering someone who is a Biblical literalist (and who actually believes that all evidence supports the fairy tale of Noah's Ark). Let's review the s...
Technology is a great thing. We are now able to do so much more than we used to in the past. We can converse with others who are on the other side of the country or the world! We can see our friends via a video screen while teleconferencing. There was a recent news report on how that very device saved a woman’s life the other day. So yes, it’s a wonderful thing. Improvements in technology helps us to stay in touch with our family when we’re traveling, or if we get in trouble on...
About Podcasting in General Some of you know I host and produce a podcast called “ PowerUser.tv ” sponsored by Neowin.net , WinCustomize.com and QuarterToThree.com . I have come to realize that there are still many people who do not understand podcasting in general, and in order to help out some of our would-be listeners I wanted to put together this very brief article about this new entertainment media. I’m planning on more of these in the future…we’ll see. ...
Alright, three articles in an hour, much less a day. That's almost like spamming for me. I had a brilliant idea the other day, but I don't know how to follow through with it. I think I've figured out the perfect way to put away Christmas lights. Especially icicle lights. No tangle, no knots, no mess, and less chance of breaking. I'd explain, but.....well, this is the frickin' internet. This is the kind of idea that hits ya like once a decade and you go "damn, I could really make some money...