ramblings

This is from Dude, regarding the possibility of creating a black hole with with the LHC. I agree:

This supercollider is the one that **was** going to be built in Waxahachie, Texas before he Republican Congress dubbed the “Republican Revolution” came into power in 1994.  This work *could* have been done in the United States.  Instead, we have outsourced our place as the leader of innovation and cutting-edge science to other countries that do not spend over half of their annual budget on making military contractors rich.  Furthermore, Jesse’s knee-jerk reaction to condemn science is so typical among Americans these days that we now have a country in which the majority of people (a) think its a good idea to teach the Bible in public schools, (b) think that Creationism should be taught in science class, and (c) deny that Global Warming is even happening despite the mountains of evidence.  where did my country develop this irrational fear of science????  and what’s so crazy is that they are not scared of science that they *should* be scared of such as genetic modification of food and so-called “clean coal” power plants.

Family holidays ruined by earliest Easter in 90 years

It was felt that to celebrate Christ’s resurrection on the wrong day would be blasphemous so it was very important to get the day right. The general rule was agreed at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD.

hahahahahahaaaha!!!

This cracks me up.  The idea that God / Jesus / anyone-who’s-enlightened would be displeased/upset/blasphemised if a celebration were held at the wrong time..

Or even not held at all…  no big deal!

hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Who cares about Easter anyway?  Kids!  Eggs!  Families!  Is there a wrong day for families to celebrate their lives?  Are the eggs fresher in late March than in mid April?  Is it better for kids to chase eggs when the weather is cold?

Spring hasn’t even sprung here in Tokyo.  Good thing we don’t have Easter!!!

Whether it is the loss of a decent job, impossible conditions at work, rising prices, the threat of foreclosure or bankruptcy, the promise of endless war in Iraq and elsewhere, crumbling infrastructure, the elimination or slashing of social services and programs—US society is coming apart at the seams. None of the presidential candidates of the two big business parties is either willing or able to address these burning problems.

Film and television writers’ strike: picketing resumes and so does the political discussion

I’ve been thinking this for most of the time I’ve been in Japan; it’s one reason I’ve not wanted to go back.  Usually I just say I don’t want to support a government that’s trying to kill the world.  But that it’s killing its own citizens is equally good reason not to go back.  Killing in terms of letting Katrina victims die; crappy health care system; crappy education system; crappy use of energy; crappy etc.

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Questions like these will continue as more and more religious astronauts travel into space. When is sunset in low Earth orbit if you’re experiencing a dozen sunrises and sunsets in every 24-hour period? When does Sabbath begin on the moon, where the sun sets once a month? When is the first sighting of the crescent moon if you’re on Mars? Religious councils of all faiths will have plenty to keep them busy for years.

A Muslim Astronaut’s Dilemma: How to Face Mecca From Space

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!

Yes, I realize I have used the term “week” in my religion, but I’m going to go change it right now!  Hahahahaha!  Relax your rules, silly religions!

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Worcester Telegram & Gazette News

All regions of the world will change, with the risk that nearly a third of the Earth’s species will vanish if global temperatures rise just 3.6 degrees above the average temperature in the 1980s-90s, the new report says. Areas that now have too little rain will become drier.

Yet that grim and still preventable future is a toned-down prediction,

And I’m glad to see that people are beginning to realize that we are in for some shit. I am beginning to think Trent Reznor’s Year Zero (wiki is more understandable to the average bear) will come true. We are raping Mother Nature and she has to defend herself.

(smack!)