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« on: January 26, 2010, 07:39:30 PM »
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« on: January 26, 2010, 07:36:33 PM »
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« on: January 26, 2010, 07:24:09 PM »
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« on: January 26, 2010, 06:36:19 PM »
Space travel is almost upon us as Virgin Galactic unveil pictures of the SpaceShipTwo planes. The $200,000 price tag buys you a once in a lifetime experience as well as all the training required to survive the flight. Imagine soaring 65 miles above the earth and seeing the blue of Earth's atmosphere transform before your very eyes into the black of space...and then you see Earth. For those rich enough to afford this very short holiday, we envy you very much!
Virgin Glactic claim that 300 people have already paid in full for the trip, and thousands more have got in queue to be the next space tourists. Virgin Galactic hopes that after the first few maiden flights even more space tourists will come forth, eventually driving the costs down for these flights to more modest figures.
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« on: January 26, 2010, 09:01:20 AM »
With only two steady hands and a buttload of eggs, this artist creates works of art that make us egg-static!
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« on: January 26, 2010, 08:56:45 AM »
Patrick Lawler went to the Dentist complaining of a toothache and when the x-ray of his teeth and skull was developed, the dentist was shocked to discover a four-inch nail in Patrick's head, apparently from an accidental impalement six days earlier. There's a reason why some toys have suggested ages on the box. This young boy swallowed some magnetic Kinex toys. When they met in the stomach, they reconnected. This kid swallowed a clothespin. That's going to be an interesting journey. That's a fork Australian Pat Skinner returned to his doctor complaining of abdominal pain and x-rays revealed a 6-inch pair of scissors that had accidentally been left in his body from a previous operation. Finally, consider the case of Isidro Mejia who not only got six nailed imbedded into the back of his skull... he survived the injury
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« on: January 26, 2010, 08:42:26 AM »
Born with leg deformities, Faith had to have both of her front legs removed when she was only seven months old. For most dogs, this would lead to a life that really wouldn't be worth living, but her owners kept the Faith - literally - and most astonishingly, this perky little pooch discovered how to walk on her hind legs alone, walking upright like a person.
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« on: January 26, 2010, 06:37:57 AM »
Top 10 Twitter account and their worth 1. aplusk $2,216,582 2. britneyspears $2,141,957 3. theellenshow $2,076,542 4. barackobama $1,599,459 5. Oprah $1,532,934 6. johncmayer $1,473,835 7. twitter $1,459,370 8. RyanSeacrest $1,449,064 9. KimKardashian $1,425,788 10 cnnbrk $1,419,535 How much is you Twitter account Worth? :happy:
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« on: January 26, 2010, 06:04:11 AM »
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A Michigan company announced the release of software
Tuesday that introduces new punctuation to the typed word: The sarcasm mark.
Sarcasm Inc. of Washington Township said the SarcMark, which resembles an open circle with a dot in the center, can be installed on computers via a program that can be downloaded from sarcmark.com for $1.99.
The company said it has versions of the program for several computer systems
as well as BlackBerry devices.
"Statements have the period. Questions have the question mark. Exclamations have the exclamation mark. When you see the newest punctuation mark for sarcasm, you'll know the writer of that sentence doesn't literally mean what they're writing; they're being sarcastic," the company said in a release.
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« on: January 25, 2010, 07:00:24 PM »
What is deepest well in the world? Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village Abhaneri near Jaipur in Indian state of Rajasthan. It has 3,500 steps, spread over 13 stories, with one vertigo inducing view. At 100 feet deep, Chand Baori in Abhaneri, India is the world’s deepest stepwell. No railings and a 100 foot plunge into water? Cool!!!
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« on: January 25, 2010, 06:44:47 PM »
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« on: January 25, 2010, 06:32:13 PM »
“What is the object of this?” inquired the man.
“No matter. All you need to know is that it brings you fifteen cents wages per hour. It is a bit of my fun, and to assist me properly you must seem to be as deaf as a post; wear a serious countenance; answer no questions; pay no attention to anyone; but attend faithfully to the work, and at the end of every hour, by St. Paul’s clock, show this ticket at the Museum door; enter, walking solemnly through every hall in the building; pass out, and resume your work.”
Within an hour the sidewalks were packed, and many spectators bought tickets so they could follow the mysterious man inside. “This was continued for several days — the curious people who followed the man into the Museum considerably more than paying his wages — till, finally, the policeman, to whom I had imparted my object, complained that the obstruction of the sidewalk by crowds had become so serious that I must call in my ‘brick man.’”
“This trivial incident excited considerable talk and amusement; it advertised me; and it materially advanced my purpose of making a lively corner near the Museum.”
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« on: January 25, 2010, 06:24:17 PM »
Ralph R. Maerz patented this snowball maker in 1989, to produce balls with an “aesthetically pleasing and aerodynamically sound round shape.” It would have been a doomsday weapon in Edinburgh in 1838, when a snowball fight escalated into a full-scale riot:
On the 10th January some snowballing took place in front of the College, in which the students took part. The warfare between the students and the townspeople was renewed on the 11th, and became more serious. Several shop windows were broken, the shops were closed, and the street traffic suspended. The students, believing that the constables took the side of the mob against them, appeared on the 12th armed with sticks, to defend themselves against the constables’ batons. Then a regular riot took place, sticks and batons being freely used, and matters became so serious that the magistrates found it necessary to send to the Castle for a detachment of soldiers of the 79th Highlanders, which arrived and drew up across the College quadrangle, and peace was restored.
This may be history’s only instance of military intervention in a snowball fight. Five students were tried; all were acquitted.
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« on: January 25, 2010, 06:17:49 PM »
Arguments against Galileo:
“Animals, which move, have limbs and muscles; the earth has no limbs or muscles, therefore it does not move.” — Scipio Chiaramonti, University of Pisa, 1633
“Buildings and the earth itself would fly off with such a rapid motion that men would have to be provided with claws like cats to enable them to hold fast to the earth’s surface.” — Libertus Fromundus, Anti-Aristarchus, 1631
“If we concede the motion of the earth, why is it that an arrow shot into the air falls back to the same spot, while the earth and all the things on it have in the meantime moved very rapidly toward the east? Who does not see that great confusion would result from this motion?” — Polacco, Anticopernicus Catholicus, 1644
More recent:
“[Astronomers give the rate of Earth's rotation as 1,000 kilometers per hour.] An aircraft flying at this rate in the same direction as that of the rotation could not cover any ground at all. It would remain suspended in mid-air over the spot from which it took off, since both speeds are equal. There would, in addition, be no need to fly from one place to another situated on the same latitude. The aircraft could just rise and wait for the desired country to arrive in the ordinary course of the rotation, and then land; although it is difficult to see how any plane could manage to touch ground at all on an airfield which is slipping away at the rate of 1,000 kilometers per hour. It might certainly be useful to know what people who fly think of the rotation of the earth.” — Gabrielle Henriet, Heaven and Earth, 1957
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« on: January 25, 2010, 06:10:31 PM »
Dodge introduced an alluring new option package in 1955: For $143, you could have the Custom Royal Lancer feminized, with rose paint, gold script, and a pink interior complete with rosebuds.
“The first car ever exclusively designed for the woman motorist” came with a rain cape, rain hat, and matching umbrella, plus a pink purse with a compact, lipstick, comb, and cigarette lighter. The marketing brochure read, “By Special Appointment to Her Majesty … the American Woman.”
It went nowhere. Fewer than 1,500 La Femmes were sold, and the model disappeared in 1957.
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« on: January 25, 2010, 05:58:13 PM »
Yet another way in which 21st-century China trumps America: The Telegraph reports on a mountain town in Kunming, China, where all of the citizens are dwarves. This sounds so magical:
Everyone in the commune must be under 4ft 3 ins tall and they run their own police force and fire brigade from their 120 residents. Now the group has turned itself into a tourist attraction by building mushroom houses and living and dressing like fairy tale characters.
“As small people we are used to being pushed around and exploited by big people. But here there aren’t any big people and everything we do is for us,” said spokesman Fu Tien.
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« on: January 25, 2010, 05:41:23 PM »
A team of physicists from the universities of Bristol, Glasgow, and Southampton have succeeded in tying light into knots using holograms, a discovery that will lead to greater control over the flow of light, allowing advances in lasers and other optical technologies.
They were able to do this by designing the holograms using Knot Theory, a hitherto purely abstract mathematical field that was founded by Lord Kelvin in his quest to enlighten Humanity as to the knotted aetheric vortices that comprise material reality.
As Dr. Mark Dennis, the lead author of the research team, notes "This work opens a new chapter in that history" (of Knot Theory).
Once ridiculed for their strange fascination with tabulating different types of knots and their eccentric shoelace patterns, and only occasionally finding themselves in the news with the discovery of new aesthetic tie knots, Knot Theorists can now claim control over light itself, making their tangly passion key to Humanity's photonic future. What opportunities this creates -- the power, the prestige, the grants, being invited to all the trendy parties once only open to Chaos Theorists and Fractal Geometrists. Never again will a Knot Theorist be ashamed to walk the Halls of Science with the dawning of this, the Decade of the Knot!
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« on: January 25, 2010, 05:34:05 PM »
It's one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The amount of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region and only affects dozens of people and thousands of dollars. Secret Service agents quickly notify the banks on how to recognize these phony bills and retail outlets usually have procedures in place (such as special pens to test the paper) to stop their proliferation.
But what about gold? This is the most sacred of all commodities because it is thought to be the most trusted, reliable and valuable means of saving wealth.
A recent discovery -- in October of 2009 -- has been suppressed by the main stream media but has been circulating among the "big money" brokers and financial kingpins and is just now being revealed to the public. It involves the gold in Fort Knox -- the US Treasury gold -- that is the equity of it's national wealth. In short, millions (with an "m") of gold bars are fake!
Who did this? Apparently the US government.
BackgroundIn October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is regularly exchanges between countries to pay debts and to settle the so-called balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test, four small holed are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.
Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. What's more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!
At first many gold experts assumed the fake gold originated in China, the world's best knock-off producers. The Chinese were quick to investigate and issued a statement that implicated the US in the scheme.
What the Chinese uncovered:Roughly 15 years ago -- during the Clinton Administration [think Robert Rubin, Sir Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers] -- between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten blanks were allegedly manufactured by a very high-end, sophisticated refiner in the USA [more than 16 Thousand metric tonnes]. Subsequently, 640,000 of these tungsten blanks received their gold plating and WERE shipped to Ft. Knox and remain there to this day.According to the Chinese investigation, the balance of this 1.3 million to 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten cache was also gold plated and then allegedly "sold" into the international market. Apparently, the global market is literally "stuffed full of 400 oz salted bars". Perhaps as much as 600-billion dollars worth.
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« on: January 25, 2010, 05:16:33 PM »
The rapping and tapping,
the hitting and slapping,
sipping and slurping,
The munching and crunching,
the snacking and slacking,
hunching in a darkened room,
Facebook steals your youth.
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« on: January 24, 2010, 09:27:15 PM »
Life is feelings! Life is happiness! Life is joy! Life is love! Life is unity! Life is care! Life is faith! Life is freedom! Life is peace! Life is fantasy! Life is art! Life is a mystery! Life is splendour! Life is nature! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, ISN'T IT?
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