Meteor Caught On Dashboard Camera
Friday, November 28, 2008
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Last blog
Not to sure how to take that guy. i have seen most of the movies he spoke of. i have since moved stargate up in my netflix que. Love how you can also read other shows into what he is talking about like Heroes. need others to tell me their take on him?
Friday, November 7, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
24 Bionic Contacts
This is off of Time's Best Inventions of 2008.
24 Bionic Contacts
The University of Washington's Babak Parviz has created a prototype "bionic" contact lens that creates a display over the wearer's visual field, so images, maps, data, etc., appear to float in midair. The lens works using tiny LEDs, which are powered by solar cells, and a radio-frequency receiver.
24 Bionic Contacts
The University of Washington's Babak Parviz has created a prototype "bionic" contact lens that creates a display over the wearer's visual field, so images, maps, data, etc., appear to float in midair. The lens works using tiny LEDs, which are powered by solar cells, and a radio-frequency receiver.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
He's eaten a yak's eyeball, you know
Maybe we've spent too much time watching Born Survivor on the Discovery Channel, but we're beginning to find Bear Grylls quite attractive: he's fearless, great with his hands and so manly that he's actually called Bear. What's not to love?
Of course, it helps that he looks pretty good with his top off. And that he seems like a thoroughly nice chap.
You know what is funny. . . is all of the above in this entry is from a site from the UK. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gayspy/ Here in the US the name of the show is called Man vs. Wild . . . with Bear Grylls. Either country . . . he's hot.
Of course, it helps that he looks pretty good with his top off. And that he seems like a thoroughly nice chap.
You know what is funny. . . is all of the above in this entry is from a site from the UK. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gayspy/ Here in the US the name of the show is called Man vs. Wild . . . with Bear Grylls. Either country . . . he's hot.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Natural Disasters, Are you Ready??
Click on the Are you Ready to take you to a link to help in your preparedness. or click this link . . . http://www.ready.gov/america/_downloads/emergency_preparedness/are_you_ready.pdf
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
We're still alive. . .
CERN, Switzerland (CNN) -- Scientists Wednesday applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
The Large Hadron Collider -- a $9 billion particle accelerator designed to simulate conditions of the Big Bang that created the physical Universe -- was switched on at 0732 GMT to cheers and applause from experts gathered to witness the event.
While observers were left nonplussed by the anticlimactic flashing dots on a TV screen that signalled the machine's successful test run, among teams of scientists involved around the world there were jubilant celebrations and popping champagne corks.
In the coming months, the collider is expected to begin smashing particles into each other by sending two beams of protons around the tunnel in opposite directions.
Skeptics, who claim that the experiment could lead to the creation of a black hole capable of swallowing the planet, failed in a legal bid to halt the project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Others have branded it a colossal waste of cash, draining resources from its multinational collaborators that could have been spent on scientific research with more tangible benefits to mankind.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the project as a major achievement for Europe.
"The repercussions of this scientific investment without precedent in the history of humanity will be essential not only for the intimate knowledge of our universe, but also for the direct applications in fields as varied as intensive calculation or even medicine," he said. Watch as Big Bang experiment gets underway »
The collider will operate at higher energies and intensities in the next year, potentially generating enough data to make a discovery by 2009, experts say.
Don't Miss
Watch scientists monitor CERN data
They say the experiment has the potential to confirm theories that physicists have been working on for decades including the possible existence of extra dimensions. They also hope to find a theoretical particle called the Higgs boson -- sometimes referred to as the "God particle," which has never been detected, but would help explain why matter has mass.
The collider will recreate the conditions of less than a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, when there was a hot "soup" of tiny particles called quarks and gluons, to look at how the universe evolved, said John Harris, U.S. coordinator for ALICE, a huge detector specialized to analyze that question.
Since this is exploratory science, the collider may uncover surprises that contradict prevailing theories, but which are just as interesting, said Joseph Lykken, theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
"When Columbus sails west, he thought he was going to find something. He didn't find what he thought he was going to find, but he did find something interesting," said Lykken, who works on the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of six experiments inside the collider complex.
Why should the layperson care about this particular exploration? Years ago, when electrons were first identified, no one knew what they were good for, but they have since transformed our entire economy, said Howard Gordon, deputy research program manager for the collider's ATLAS experiment.
"The transformative effect of this research will be to understand the world we live in much better," said Gordon, at Brookhaven National Laboratory. "It's important for just who we are, what we are."
Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them -- including the whole Earth. Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, alleging safety concerns regarding black holes and other phenomena that could theoretically emerge.
Although physicists acknowledge that the collider could, in theory, create small black holes, they say they do not pose any risk. A study released Friday by CERN scientists explains that any black hole created would be tiny, and would not have enough energy to stick around very long before dissolving. Five collider collaborators who did not pen the report independently told CNN there would be no danger from potential black holes.
While observers were left nonplussed by the anticlimactic flashing dots on a TV screen that signalled the machine's successful test run, among teams of scientists involved around the world there were jubilant celebrations and popping champagne corks.
In the coming months, the collider is expected to begin smashing particles into each other by sending two beams of protons around the tunnel in opposite directions.
Skeptics, who claim that the experiment could lead to the creation of a black hole capable of swallowing the planet, failed in a legal bid to halt the project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Others have branded it a colossal waste of cash, draining resources from its multinational collaborators that could have been spent on scientific research with more tangible benefits to mankind.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the project as a major achievement for Europe.
"The repercussions of this scientific investment without precedent in the history of humanity will be essential not only for the intimate knowledge of our universe, but also for the direct applications in fields as varied as intensive calculation or even medicine," he said. Watch as Big Bang experiment gets underway »
The collider will operate at higher energies and intensities in the next year, potentially generating enough data to make a discovery by 2009, experts say.
Don't Miss
Watch scientists monitor CERN data
They say the experiment has the potential to confirm theories that physicists have been working on for decades including the possible existence of extra dimensions. They also hope to find a theoretical particle called the Higgs boson -- sometimes referred to as the "God particle," which has never been detected, but would help explain why matter has mass.
The collider will recreate the conditions of less than a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, when there was a hot "soup" of tiny particles called quarks and gluons, to look at how the universe evolved, said John Harris, U.S. coordinator for ALICE, a huge detector specialized to analyze that question.
Since this is exploratory science, the collider may uncover surprises that contradict prevailing theories, but which are just as interesting, said Joseph Lykken, theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
"When Columbus sails west, he thought he was going to find something. He didn't find what he thought he was going to find, but he did find something interesting," said Lykken, who works on the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of six experiments inside the collider complex.
Why should the layperson care about this particular exploration? Years ago, when electrons were first identified, no one knew what they were good for, but they have since transformed our entire economy, said Howard Gordon, deputy research program manager for the collider's ATLAS experiment.
"The transformative effect of this research will be to understand the world we live in much better," said Gordon, at Brookhaven National Laboratory. "It's important for just who we are, what we are."
Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them -- including the whole Earth. Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, alleging safety concerns regarding black holes and other phenomena that could theoretically emerge.
Although physicists acknowledge that the collider could, in theory, create small black holes, they say they do not pose any risk. A study released Friday by CERN scientists explains that any black hole created would be tiny, and would not have enough energy to stick around very long before dissolving. Five collider collaborators who did not pen the report independently told CNN there would be no danger from potential black holes.
John Huth, who works on the collider's ATLAS experiment, called such fears "baloney" in a recent interview, and noted that in normal physics, even if the black hole were stable, it could just pass through the Earth without being detected or without interacting at all.
"The gravitational force is so weak that you'd have to wait many, many, many, many, many lifetimes of the universe before one of these things could [get] big enough to even get close to being a problem," said Huth, professor of physics at Harvard University.
"The gravitational force is so weak that you'd have to wait many, many, many, many, many lifetimes of the universe before one of these things could [get] big enough to even get close to being a problem," said Huth, professor of physics at Harvard University.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Sound Barrier
F/A-18F Super Hornet
The space shuttle passes through the sound barrier during ascent.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Body proves Bigfoot no myth, hunters say
Story found on CNN.com
North Georgia men say they've found a den of Bigfoot creatures
They say they'll reveal details of one Bigfoot on Friday in California
The body of the furry half man-half ape is 7 feet, 7 inches tall, they say
Men won't reveal Bigfoot den's location because they don't want others disturbed
They say they'll reveal details of one Bigfoot on Friday in California
The body of the furry half man-half ape is 7 feet, 7 inches tall, they say
Men won't reveal Bigfoot den's location because they don't want others disturbed
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Scientists say they're closer to invisibility material
This is a news article i just read on cnn.com. I googled the picture.
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects.
Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.
The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.
The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects.
Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.
The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.
The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.
People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye.
Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object.
Metamaterials are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fibre composite."
Monday, August 11, 2008
Kirby
Ok i thought i loved my Kirby alot. i just ran across a video where some guy liked he's Kirby so much that he recoreded video vacuuming.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Work
Well shit. . . it's just about 4 in the am and i have to work in like 4 hours. . . so i guess i'm headed to bed. . . to watch tv for a while. : ) that is after i make another drink. 
Well sheesh. . .
Everyone always says you have a twin in the world. I found the Beast's twin. (which btw the picture below was from my phone . . . click on it and you will see the detail . . . for a phone!!!) Anyways I'm on Myspace and I happen across a guy's page in Austria I think, sheesh I can't find it now. I was watching videos about owls er something. : ) But here is a pic of his dawg. The beast is below (in other postings) and above.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Idea
I was just watching House and there was a scene where there were wind generators in the artic or north pole, which I thought would be the best place for that device but they showed them freezing over. So my question is. . . wouldn’t there be a way to create the propellers out of a lighter material but then incorporate a water heater that would circulate warm water through out the device. Hence the faster the device moved it would create warmer water, in turn ensuring a longer life of the generator. 6 degrees. If I know someone that knows someone that creates or works on these please pass this idea along. : )
Monday, August 4, 2008
2012?
Yeah, memories that this movie brings back. Places I would not want to die if a pandemic broke out: Jail. Would stuck with no food or water in a cage. Songs I like: Don't dream it's over by Crowded House.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
This was a cool article I read back in Sept. 07 if they would have started working on this back then the gas prices wouldn't carry over to food as much as they have been as of late. . .
Farming goes vertical
Skyscrapers may provide new source of farmland.
By Hillary Woolley, Business 2.0 Magazine
September 11 2007: 5:57 AM EDT
(Business 2.0 magazine) -- The term "urban farming" may conjure up a community garden where locals grow a few heads of lettuce. But some academics envision something quite different for the increasingly hungry world of the 21st century: a vertical farm that will do for agriculture what the skyscraper did for office space.
Build a 21-story circular greenhouse, says Dickson Despommier, an environmental science professor at Columbia University, and it can be as productive as 588 acres of land - growing, say, 12 million heads of lettuce a year. With the world's population expected to increase by 3 billion by 2050 - nearly all of it in cities - and with 80 percent of available farmland already in use, Despommier sees a burgeoning need for such buildings. So he talked to fellow academics at the University of California at Davis about using rooftop solar panels to power 24-hour grow lights and found NASA-like technology that would capture evaporating water for irrigation.
Two Buck Chuck takes a bite out of Napa
"We need to devote as much attention to vertical farming as we did to going to the moon," Despommier says. "It will free the world from having to worry where our next meal will come from."
It should also turn a handsome profit. Despommier's calculations peg the construction cost of a 21-story vertical farm at about $84 million, operating costs at $5 million a year, and revenue at $18 million a year, based on the price of produce at upscale Manhattan delis.
Getting product to market is one of the most expensive parts of traditional agriculture, but with a vertical farm, your retailers are just down the block. Despommier has been talking to VCs in both the United States and Europe.
The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, a group of 20 food companies including Coca-Cola (Charts, Fortune 500), Kraft (Charts), McDonald's (Charts, Fortune 500), and Nestlé, has expressed interest, as has IBM (Charts, Fortune 500). Kristin Reynolds, program representative at the University of California's Small Farms Program, says her only concern is that vertical farming could grow too big too fast: "It needs to be developed cautiously, so it doesn't take markets away from small-scale farmers."
Here is what one thinks (he quotes books but who has time to read) the poles will look like after 2012. Aaahh yeah I like the snow . . . but not north pole snow.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
I love this show!! Medium. . . it comes out on NBC but they show reruns on A&E. Or at least I think that is where my DVR gets them. I was unable to locate the time on A&E website.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Neutrinos are electrically neutral, virtually mass-less elementary particles that can pass through miles of lead unhindered. Some are passing through your body as you read this. These "phantom" particles are produced in the inner fires of burning, healthy stars as well as in the supernova explosions of dying stars. Detectors are being embedded underground, beneath the sea, or into a large chunk of ice as part of IceCube, a neutrino-detecting project.
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