Fresh cores taken from the bottom of the Dea Sea indicate it fluctuated wildly for tens of thousands of years and may have dried up once or twice along the way: [Read more…]
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Fresh cores taken from the bottom of the Dea Sea indicate it fluctuated wildly for tens of thousands of years and may have dried up once or twice along the way: [Read more…]
Moments ago a Florida prosecutor said she would make a significant announcement in a case that sounds like the Trayvon-Zimmerman deal in the next 72 hours. It’s possible an arrest warrant could be issued and/or announced at that time. But George Zimmerman, the 28 year-old man who ignited a firestorm after he shot and killed 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, FL., last month, has apparently wigged out. He’s reportedly been behaving so erratically over the last two days, that his lawyers had to hold a press conference announcing they have no idea what’s going on with him, and therefore cannot be said to represent him in any practical way: [Read more…]
Paul Ryan was informed by The Catholic Magisterium. That’s right. The supposedly buff guy who seems more in the dark about anaerobic training than the muscles he brags about confusing, made up the catfood-for-grandma budget he likes to wave around proudly guided by his faith (The numbers used on the other hand may have come from a random player tripping on mescaline while questing through Kalimdor): [Read more…]
Mitt Romney’s strategist field tested the infamous Reagan quote, are you better off today than you were four years ago? Maybe it’s not gonna work so well now though. Because the answer is, yes.
Not be left behind by Mittens, Mitch McConnell lent his gravitas to the endless series of GOP lies that now makes up the religious-right conservative movement these days, with this comedy styling on the conservative crusade against women:
Talk about a manufactured issue. There is no issue. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine I think would be the first to say — and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska — ‘we don’t see any evidence of this.’
After I picked myself off the floor following a debilitating laughing attack, my colleagues and I at Daily Kos collected the statements below from those very female lawmakers names above for McConnell’s edification. [Read more…]
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shown in a hypothetial dock with the ISS. The next test of this system is scheduled for 30 April
That was my opening line at a small talk over the weekend, my warmer upper, it’s not exactly a spine tingler, but it’s the truth. The only manned ground to orbit launch capacity on earth exist in Rsocosmos, the dregs of the Russian manned program. Because of management missteps, congressional malfeasance, a world-wide recession and austerity programs in the few space faring countries left standing, we as a species, ladies and gentlemen, are about one single launch/operational/reentry disaster away from having no manned capability at all, while a luxury free-fall hotel and science station weighing in at almost a million pounds whizzes around empty of science and man until it burns into a briefly spectacular, $100 billion high-altitude fireworks show. Right now much of our hope hinges on this event: [Read more…]
I think I got most of it. It turns out a few readers’ comments got hung up in a spam file. I believe I found most of them and approved those users. Feel free to email me if you still have issues starting tomorrow morning.
An exosolar guide of planets by size vs density and theoretical composition.
What with Pluto being demoted and exosolar astronomy going gang busters, a solar system with more planets than our own was bound to turn up sooner or later. New data from a near twin of our sun 130 light-years away has come sooner: [Read more…]
I’ve received two emails from readers over the last few days saying they can’t comment elsewhere on FTB nor on this site. My guess is this is yet another in the endless series of obscure technical glitches plaguing this medium, having something to do with the fact that we use computers, computers suck beyond words by themselves, and add to that they have to try to operate on an Internet well into the process of being utterly ruined by thieves, scammers and spammers.
I apologize for any frustration this may have caused. FWIW I have not messed with comment permissions or banned anyone, ever. And I’ll see what I can find out about this. For now, let’s get techy with it! [Read more…]
Calenders, and their close mechanical relative the clock, developed in large part to keep track of important ceremonial dates like today. But I didn’t know until a few minutes ago the connection between the full moon and easter Sunday: [Read more…]