afternoon post

names, gatta work on the names of my posts

WOW, thats what i have to say. this is damn cool stuff. Ok so here is the small article that caught my attention, sent to me by the science in the news daily email: Mystery Squid Helps Prove Ocean Research but it had no picture of the mystery squid in question so i went looking for it at the home page of the research group in question. And in the fourth dispatch I found it, here is the link to the quicktime however that was not what got me, look at some of the other photos and movies they got, plus the specimens they brought up from the deep, a very cool and fascinating scientific effort. I hope they get more funding. As a matter of fact I find it very interesting that this gets a total of 500k in funding but a TV show get 3 MILLION in private funding..... nah I see nothing wrong with those priorities.

lets discuss asinine concepts and items: Light your bible on fire. now i know its a fake bible, and honestly if you want to run around burning your own holy book (just not anyone else's) thats your problem, but I cannot figure out what possible purpose such childish parlor tricks serve in the greater scheme of religious teaching.

In the world of government finance that was touched upon earlier, Greenspan, that wonderful old codger who keeps his personal retirement savings in the form of precious metals in his home rather than trust it as American dollars in a bank (read that somewhere, can't find it now, so take it with a BIG grain of salt), is giving warnings regarding deficit spending. Its a good thing our current president and his cronies...er...I mean appointed government staff, do not believe in big deficit spending. Can't say that with a straight face, you can't see me but I am laughing..... and crying.

Now what would you do if someone reneged on a secret deal? If your the mafia you have their legs broken. If your the US government, you likely are the one reneging and so you cover things up as fast as you can. If your a spy come in from the cold you go to court incognito and ....lose. I wonder if the CIA thought through the other side of this. In their argument no one will work for them if their is the CHANCE they might one day be exposed in a court case. On the other hand is the much more logical argument that if the CIA renegs on their promise, no one in their right mind will work for them. After all, any contract between a spy and the US government is on the honor of both to uphold. If either is in question, it makes it hard to close the deal. They may want to very publicly re-instate those benefit checks, while keeping the identity of the recipients very private. Otherwise the credibility of the CIA is worth less than spit.

A while ago Kodak announced that they figured you would need 25mega pixels to reach the level of standard 35mm film. well.... Here is a 22mega pixel camera for 12 grand I wonder if its worth it.

GIZMAG TIME:
I was going through some gizmag posts from times gone by (bout three months ago) and found an article on improving the internal combustion engine as well as a car for the paranoid person in you and if you remember me pointing to a gravity car racing thingy being done.... well here is the airborne equivalent of it. Course in my mind using gravity to power an airplane is kinda like using fire to power a paper-airplane..... self destructive..... but who am I to say such things. While the gravity powered 'plane' (read it, its more of a balloon meant to fall from great hight) is se to lift 1000tons, there is a project called pelican set to lift 1400 AND have an engine, I wonder which will win out? i wonder if they know they are in competition with each other?
Once upon a time someone came up with the idea of creating a blimp that could move at 300 miles an hour, stay aloft for a month at a time, and carry an entire platoon into battle at once, with administrative buildings and heavy armor support. That company went bankrupt and their HUGE hanger is now an indoor tropical island in germany. So much for modern heavy lifting blimps. I hope these guys fare better.