Monday, July 28, 2008

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Loving this show. . .

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."

Go!!! Joe!!!!!!



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

2012


4 Year 5 Months 6 Days
Polar Shift, Comet, Solar Flares, Mayans. . . take your pick

Monday, July 14, 2008

I like this picture better than the last one.



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.
Dude, craziness. There was a meth fire or something at my neigbor’s place. (yeah I live in the ghetto) cuz it smelled kinda weird outside from my back yard and now I want to wash dishes, do my laundry, clean the floors and stare out the window. Aaahh which brings me back to the Phoenix. I had Googled fire men in Phx and it brought up the fire bird Phoenix. Crazy. Not sure which one I liked better top or bottom bird. Ok I lied I like the top. : )




Thursday, July 10, 2008

The Sun

Latest image from Solar and Heliospheric Observatory . . . yup The Sun is still there.

In my search of 2012 stuff that I wanted to blog about I ran across this DJ. On his page you are able to listen to some of his mixes. Below is what Eric Jordan has to say.

Neverrain Listeners,

This month I bring you a set with such complexity that it defies any genre, which is always my goal. This set brings everything from progressive house, to breaks, to trance, to orchestral ambience. It is an artistic journey to a threshold of events that I think will occur in the year 2012. I prefer not to preach my ideas about what I believe will happen in 2012, but I do wish to explore it through audio as an artist. As a researcher of the Mayan calendar system, the "I-ching", and other timekeeping methods of ancient civilizations, I can only state that I believe something profound will happen in the year 2012. Despite numerous claims that the world will end in 2012, I choose to believe that something far more profound will happen....and this is my "auditory painting" of that event (For a visual exploration of my interpretation of 2012, please refer to the paintings that exist at 2advanced.com). Let your imagination interpret what it will, and enjoy the sounds.

The Reaper

From a desert outpost northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away.
It might be the world's longest commute, except that these armchair pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada never leave the air-conditioned comfort of their command center. The Reaper can carry the same bomb load as an F-16 fighter plane, but its pilots are not put in harm's way. Reaper pilots so far this year have launched 64 missiles and dropped seven 500-pound bombs in Afghanistan. (as stated on cnn.com)

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Mega Disasters . . . one show that I love! Am i morbid?

Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis June 8, 2007

Sheesh I'm sorry but I love this picture. Really, just look at it.


No, it doesn't look like a penis. . . he he he penis.
Yeah I know it's a picture of the Solar System. . . but this was off of The Universe web page.



Tom and Jeri wanting food

http://s308.photobucket.com/albums/kk326/Sunnydawg2012/12-10-6/?action=view&current=100_5788.flv


Some of my favorite shows

Dude I love this set up



I Ching Trigrams


The I Ching. . . sheesh i really wanted to learn this


Maya math uses only three symbols - a shell-shaped glyph for zero, a dot for one and a bar for five to represent units from zero to 19. For instance, the number 13 was represented as three dots and two bars.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Way cool figured out how to blog from phone. ; )


a virus under a scope


The Pleiades Star Cluster

The Majestic Sombrero Galaxy




Galaxies taken from Hubble Telescope






























Hurricane Elena pounds the Gulf of Mexico

Storm forming. . .


Storm viewed from ISS

The International Space Station (ISS). . . did i ever tell you i want to buy Boeing stock? They are the primary contractor building the space station.


Hubble Telescope


Earth viewed from Shuttle Discovery


a little more air. . .


The Shuttle taken off