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News Briefs 04-04-07

Poles feature again, and again in the minds of nuts.

  • We’d be better off without religion.
  • UK impact crater debate heats up.
  • Revisiting the work of Linus Pauling.
  • Bizarre human brain parasite precisely alters fear.
  • Blair faked Iran map.
  • The real face of the European Union.
  • Rocket man!
  • Tunguska – the fire in the sky.
  • It is not so hard to feel sorry for sharks.
  • Unveiling the mystery of the construction of the Great Pyramid.
  • Did Hitler have an Antarctic base? Or why nuts are attracted to the poles.
  • Big auroras on Jupiter.
  • Jurassic art.
  • Massive Antarctic lakes discovered.
  • Weaving together minds, machines and mathematics.

Quote of the Day:


To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Re: It is not so hard to feel sorry for sharks.
    As I recall the numbers, elephants-both African and Asian- kill on the order of 100 people a year. They’re sometimes placid and sometimes twitchy and they have a way of changing from one mood to the other quite unpredictably. Sharks, on the other hand, kill about 4 people a year, most of them doing rather stupid things such as flailing about in murky water near to shore, behavior the shark could understandably associate with the presence of prey.

    Despite the number of people being killed by elephants there is a large conservation effort underway on their behalf and quite a few people will bawl their eyes out when one elephant gets bumped off. Sharks are well on the way to being fished to extinction, dragged out of the water by the thousands, their fins cut off and the resulting logs of meat dumped back in the ocean.

    The utterly stupid waste is appalling, just so that some fatuous morons can eat shark-fin soup; aside from anything else, taking an apex predator out of the food-chain can’t help but have unpredictable and probably undesireable effects further down the food-chain.

    Sharks have an important role to play in the oceans of the world and elephants are an ecological dead-end, yet one species is villified and the other is revered and protected.

    What curious priorities we have.

    ttfn

    Good News: There’s a guiding force at work in the Universe. Bad News: It’s Irony.

  2. Rocket Man
    Geez, do you need a driver’s license to use this in New York or LA?

    It did not say if it comes with flashers or back up lights either.

    I am just trying to imagine everybody switching their car for this thing.

    What happens if you collide mid air?
    Can it be used as an ambulance?
    How about fire fighting equipment?
    Where do you tag the parking ticket?
    Do they have limo versions?

    So many questions.

    1. short range
      How much damage are you going to do in the 20 second flight time?

      I would assume that since it is not a wheeled vehicle that travels on roads, the local DMV has nothing to say about it.
      In the US, the FAA might, but they already let you fly ultralight aircraft without a pilot license. If this rocket man thing is anything, it’s an ultralight aircraft.

      As for ambulance use, I doubt it. It can lift 1 person, and probably won’t even work for some really fat people.

      —-
      Failure is not an option — it comes bundled with Windows

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