🙂 curmudgeon cat thinks they are all slow, that’s for sure… slow enough to catch! in our old neighborhood, when i first moved there, i used to let him out in the front yard — with supervision — until he started attacking the neighborhood dogs when they walked by.
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PS: Love that pic on your Curmudgeon post! 😀 (There was probably someone standing next to the camera with a cheezeburger with catnip garnish! A cat would go through flames for that! Besides, most of the properly self-respecting cat’s think dogs are amazingly stupid and slow.) 😉 😆
]]>stargate of shiva, eh? i always thought it was teh kittehs engineering things for their own evil purposes…
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America elected Barack Obama. He’ll have, essentially, two chances to fix things. He’s failing the first one already, with his botched stimulus bill and that’s going to be disastrous. If he fails the second one, that’ll be catastrophe.
Yeah, really. Personally, if I were living in the USA right now, I’d be seriously considering emigrating almost anywhere.
]]>and LOL at that Ian Welsh post! The comments were especially… interesting(?) 😉 🙄
Here’s a (better) example of the LHA scare: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER EXPOSED: The stargate of Shiva
Heh… At least it’s one of the more… thoughtful(?) examples than the usual “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE (because I don’t have a clue about Science and anything more complicated than a grocery receipt makes my head ache!)” type stupid panics. 😉 I guess we’ll all find out Dec. 2012. 😉 Watch this space… and time… 😉
Enjoy! 😆
]]>the first thing my browser window showed me was this part of your comment:
The purpose of this post is not to address these trivial issues though. It is infact to address a much more serious and much more likely issue. That a nearby supernova will wipe out all life on Earth.
right after i switched over here from reading this post.
i wonder if the lhc could be programmed to make a very tiny micro black hole that would then target just some select politicians. it would only need to happen to a few of them before the rest of them decided to straighten up and fly right for a generation or so. i should probably take up writing sci-fi novels…
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Example:
The media loves to grab onto any new technology or experiment that has even the tiniest whiff of controversy about it and whip up some fanciful scare stories about how it will (not if, will) end the world and we all have to sign a petition and protest. Fair enough, with big experiments there is always going to be a small risk involved. The potential benefits to science and progress always far outweigh the potential risks, however, as if they didn’t the experiment just wouldn’t be feasible.
A recent example is the LHC. Everyone got into a huge panic shortly before the first beam last September when the idea came to light that a micro black hole might be formed. People immediately hear the words ‘black hole’ and ‘new experiment’ and ‘expensive’ and immediately assume a group of geurilla scientists are trying to take over the world. These people should not be allowed to leave the house.
The purpose of this post is not to address these trivial issues though. It is infact to address a much more serious and much more likely issue. That a nearby supernova will wipe out all life on Earth.
Yup! 😉 😛
http://onehundredmiles.co.uk/blog/2009/09/05/a-bit-of-shameless-scaremongering/
Anyway… It’s called OneHundredMiles
Enjoy! 😀
]]>In Santa Rosa County, economic development boosters are also watching the budget negotiations closely. At stake for them are hundreds of new jobs and a $23.6 million payroll.
“This is exactly the kind of thing a community wants to establish,” said Ildi Hosman, a spokeswoman for TEAM Santa Rosa. “This has been one of our very top priorities.”
ugh. more of the same…
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