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News Briefs 17-08-2007

So much of interest to learn about, so little time on this Earth…

Thanks Kat and Ross.

Quote of the Day:

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

Marshall McLuhan

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  1. Eennnt – wrong!
    >>Are giant octopi eating swimmers in Oklahoma’s lakes?

    Okgazette.com has it wrong — they’re octopuses, not octopi.

    They’re also intelligent extraterrestrials, imho. 😉

    Kat

    1. Actually
      I think it’s octopodes. You shouldn’t get in trouble for either of the 3 though.

      More worrying is the American terminology in which jam becomes ‘jelly’. That can only end in disappointment if you ask an Australian for a jelly sandwich…
      ;P

      Kind regards,
      Greg
      ——————————————-
      You monkeys only think you’re running things

      1. La Venganza del Ceviche!! 😉
        Well, octupusses… I mean, octopi… or WHATEVER, are supposed to be highly intelligent, and according to Discovery Channel, a fair contestant for the next sapient species on Earth after we’re gone.

        Maybe they’re tired of waiting hundreds of millions of years to take our jobs ;-).

        PS: Oh, BTW, ceviche is a cold dish we make here in Mexico with octopus, shrimp and other molluscs… Delicious (MMM!) and aphrodisiac too! (I give you my word)

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

  2. Breaking the light barrier.
    We are getting close to the point where science will have no alternative but to treat with values that can only exist in dimensions that cannot be investigated with materially based observations.

    It may have to forfeit its long time cherished falsification concept.

  3. “Faster” than light?
    The rush to notoriety by being the first to disprove Einstein is leading many into very close-minded avenues of analysis, IMHO. I think that maybe the concepts of speed and movement should be bumped aside for a closer examination of “existence”. It’s quite possible that Einstein is fully correct in his special theory and that what appears to be “movement between two points” in this case is actually something quite different.

  4. Holy Eggplant Batman!!
    Well I have heard the Virgin Mary and Jesus had appeared on tortilla chips, and now this…

    Looks like God is riding along with the trend of going low on the carbs and trans-fats 🙂

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  5. what is the speed of light?
    We base the speed of light from an observational point of view. Accurate measurements are based on laboratory experiments. No real experiments have been done in the “vacuum” of space. We assume light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach us. But is this the case. Earth rotates at the equator at 1,040 miles per hour and 1,100 miles per minute around the sun, at the same time we are moving 150 miles per second around the galactic centre.
    So what really is the speed of light? I don’t think we have the means to determine that as yet.
    Einsteins theory is based on assumptions.
    If the speed of light is found to be defunct, then our distance from other galactic bodies may be inaccurate.

    To have scientists willing to challenge long standing theories is a very good thing. Theories have a habbit of becomming fact if left unchallenged for too long.

    “Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told.”
    LRF.

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