Ya gotta love kind people. I got my car back today. Not only did the timing belt replacement come in under $400 (just barely, still–UNDER) but this lovely man adjusted my carburetor and got my car through emissions! I came home and paid the registration and penalties online and for the first time in three […]
Okay, I officially nominate school monitors for most un-appreciated (in proportion to how hard they work) people on the planet. I made a point of keeping tabs on one of them today, just out of curiosity. Last week he wore a pedometer and told me he’d walked seven miles in his eight hour shift. So
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Quoting from this site: The complexity of life took billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that is Earth. It would seem prudent – if one had the means – to save some portion of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start over
Quoting from this site: Scientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen. And they could eventually be used to make more advanced prosthetic limbs, say researchers at University of Texas. Writing in Science, they say these artificial muscles are 100 times more powerful than the body’s own. They said they
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Quoting from this site: Terrestrial rocks blown into space by asteroid impacts on Earth could have taken life to Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have announced. Earth microbes in these meteorites could have seeded the organic-rich world with life, scientists believe. They think the impact on Earth that killed off the dinosaurs could have ejected enough
Ooh, Ooh, Ooh!! Coooollll… Read More »
Rand, as promised. Here. Hopefully that will get you there. Drop in, have a listen, and if you like, buy. If the link doesn’t work, go to Myspace and search Random Hubiak. Hopefully Search works better for you than for me. geez, even when I Google it, I only get his friends, what’s up with
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From a press release: NASA researchers using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft have developed a method of seeing through the sun to the star’s far side. The sun’s far side faces away from the Earth, so it is not directly observable by traditional techniques. Only it’s not seeing, it’s hearing. The sun is
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