This is my new best meteor photo, and it came with some faint aurora (northern lights) at the bottom of the frame too! CFI had a star party for watching the Perseid meteor shower on Saturday night. There should be more meteors tonight too, so head outside and look up
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Dead Wild Roses: Do We Expand With The Universe? – Minute Physics
Good video, but I just can’t see a cat on a leash. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: 2 mintues of interesting stuff, Expansion of Spacetime, Minute Physics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Limits of Science
Thia simple face bears repeating, especially to the religious minded among us. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Limits of Science, Science
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Peter Buffett rightly questions the trend toward making the provision of basic necessities subordinate to a corporate mindset, rather than putting human needs first: As more lives and communities are destroyed by the system that creates vast amounts of wealth for the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quackery Smack Down on the Australian Broadcasting Network
Chiropractors it is your term to take the sauce and see that the woo you peddle is twaddle and dangerous to people. Filed under: Quackery, Science Tagged: ABC, Chiropractic Woo, Quackery
Continue readingPostArctica: Strandbeests by Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen (born 1948) is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began what he is known for today: building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own, known as Strandbeest. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering; in a car company (BMW)
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: The colonization of land by life pushed back in time
A recent story on Science Daily made me stop and read with fascination. It’s about the discovery of fossils that showed life colonized land more than two billion years ago. That’s a shocker, because all indicators are that the Earth was a hostile place, land was barren, and life was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hyper Earth is Awesome
Join me in being mesmerized by the high tech modeling of the earth now possible with current super computers and satellite data. Filed under: Science Tagged: Climate Change, Climate Modelling, Earth, Science, Super Computers
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Nifty Cloud over our Neighborhood
Since there was hail coming out of it, this can be assumed to be a shelf cloud, not a wall cloud, which would have been found in the rain-free part of the cloud. Apparently I didn’t need to get quite as excited as I did. Filed under: Science Tagged: Alberta
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wave At Saturn Friday #saturnpic
Are you shy about having your photo taken? What if you’ll be an indistinguishable smudge on a pale blue dot, then are you still shy? If so, don’t go outside tomorrow. NASA is hyping the fun occasion of Earth being imaged from the outer solar system for only the third
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: In Canada, hungry aboriginal kids, adults used as nutritional experiment subjects
In Canada, hungry aboriginal kids and adults were used as unwitting subjects of nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats during and after World War II, The Canadian Press reported Tuesday. The post In Canada, hungry aboriginal kids, adults used as nutritional experiment subjects appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Sun and Quantum Tunneling
Who knew that our Sun was being so shifty and taking the easy way out to produce energy? 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Minute Physics, Quantum Tunneling, The Sun
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Check-Mate #ClimateChange
What’s utterly frustrating when discussing Climate Change with Deniers, is they don’t plan the big picture logically. More specifically, their plans can be shown to place civilization into extreme danger of ending [GAME OVER]. Perhaps because I grew up playing Chess, I’m familiar with the concept that no matter how
Continue readingRedBedHead: Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
I was hoping to get to this sooner but life intervened (and technology in the form of a sick computer), along with the second Egyptian revolution, which has been riveting, inspiring, frightening. Nonetheless I wanted to complete my thoughts on the question of Marxism, capitalism and technological advancement – at
Continue readingRedBedHead: Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
I was hoping to get to this sooner but life intervened (and technology in the form of a sick computer), along with the second Egyptian revolution, which has been riveting, inspiring, frightening. Nonetheless I wanted to complete my thoughts on the question of Marxism, capitalism and technological advancement – at least this portion of it. In the future I want to write something on Ray Kurzweil
Continue readingRedBedHead: Genes, Robots & The Internet: How Capitalism Revolutionizes The Planet
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Driving the Zipper Merge
Common sense and human behaviour are two concepts that, when seen in concert, should be looked upon with some skepticism. Take for instance the idea that when there is road construction and one lane is closed you should get over to the other lane ASAP as to not cause
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Harper Government Must Be Right On Track #cdnpoli
This morning, I dealt with indignant HarperCons on Twitter, while they didn’t take my advice about the validity of claims by a certain tweeter not shy of bending the truth a lot to fluff his dear leader. Sorry for what you’re about to see, because if you drill down a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 4 Atom Bombs of Heat Per Second
Need to visualize the amount of heat trapped due to the greenhouse effect enhanced by excessive carbon dioxide levels. By raising carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s air, the land, ice, and oceans are warming significantly, even during the last 15 years when climate change deniers attempt to claim there hasn’t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – The North Pole?
Shifty little bugger when all is said and done. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Minute Physics, North Pole, Science
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