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A Sale in sports equipment

You should have seen the deal on ebay.

A used trampoline, for a real good price.

I definitely had to jump on that one!!

Entry #167

A new perspective on old science

The first chapter in the link below is free.

Click on the MS word format to the right. The PDF on the left is not working.

The most interesting part of the chapter was about how gravity can travel faster than light.

Think about this for a moment. If the sun exploded right now, we would still see the light for about 8 and a half minutes, because it takes that long for the light to travel to our planet. However, the earth would instantly fly off into space because of the lack of the gravitational force, which no longer exists. So, gravity travels through vast distances, instantaneously. Fascinating, because I've never thought about that concept.

Take the time to read it, or skim through it. It's well worth it.

http://www.thefinaltheory.com/pages/9/index.htm

 

Entry #165

Youtube

I'm sure most of you have heard about this site. It let's you broadcast yourself.

But for those who haven't, check it out. I might go out and by a digital video recorder and film myself playing the guitar and upload it, and have the whole world see how crappy I sound...Just kidding. I'm not that bad.

 The first one on the list on top, is awesome for his age. I'm jealous. He's the best one so far.

http://www.youtube.com/results?related=guitar

this guy iz great!!!
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Entry #164

May 25 2006 Comet

http://www.exopoliticsinstitute.org/Eric-Julien-25-MAY-2006-En.htm

Comet Warning

First half-hour guest, former air traffic controller Eric Julien spoke about his belief that comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann will impact Earth on May 25th, 2006. He has concluded this from his study of NASA simulations as well as information given to him by ET contacts. Julien revealed that he communicates with what he calls "the blue beings."

They confirmed to him that his vision of something hitting the Atlantic Ocean causing a huge wave to crash into a city will occur on May 25. For more, see his article The Day of Destiny.

Entry #163

Think you're smart????

 See how you get on with this......
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>    Test for Dementia
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>    Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer
> them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately.
> OK?
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>    Let's find out just how clever you really are....
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>    Ready? GO!!! (scroll down)
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>    First Question:
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>    You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What
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>    Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are
>    absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his
> place, you are second!
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>    Try not to screw up next time.
>    Now answer the second question,
>    but don't take as much time as you took for the first question, OK?
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>    If you overtake the last person, then you are...?
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> wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?
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>    Very tricky arithmetic! Note: This must be done in your head only.
>    Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
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>    Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 . Now add 30.
>    Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000
>    Now add 10. What is the total?
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>    If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator!
>    Today is definitely not your day, is it?
>    Maybe you'll get the last question right....
>    ....Maybe.
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>    Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini,
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>    A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By
>    imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully
>    expresses himself to the shopkeeper and! the purchase is
>    done.
>    Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of
>    sunglasses; how does HE indicate what he wants?
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>    It's really very simple.... Like you!
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Entry #161

Warning to Paypal users

I just recently ordered something through them a few days ago, and noticed today that 4 charges have been made on my check card account totaling about $1100.00.

The lady at Bank of America said they will pay me back the money. Bank of America has a policy of insuring their customers, thank God.

She also said that the probable cause was because of a purchase I made through paypal and that there are ways for people to have access to my info. So much for paypal security. However I did recently remove a dangerous virus from my computer called "Surfsidekick", having to call Microsoft to remove it, because non of my antivirus could do it, and that might have been the cause, because of being able to get into your credit card info. But I think it was through paypal, because Surfsidekick mostly just invades the computer for advertising. Bank of America said that they've had other customers who've complained about the same thing, right after using paypal. So I'm pretty sure it was through paypal.

I can't put a stop on the transactions until they are processed on Tuesday. But my card has been blocked, and I'm receiving a new one in a few days.

Well so much for online purchases. NO MORE. Atleast through Paypal.

Entry #160

Monkey Hospital

April fools.....HA!

Made you look...........

Actually my next band will be named "Monkey Hospital".

Entry #158

Microwave sized ice falling from cloudless skies

Falling ice perplexes scientists
Theories abound after 2 chunks land in state in a week

Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Falling Ice. Chronicle Graphic

 

 

The skies are raining big chunks of ice, and experts ranging from scientists to federal investigators are scrambling to learn what's going on.

For the second time in a week, California was the victim of an aerial, icy assault, the latest being early Thursday when a chunk of ice the size of a microwave oven plunged out of a cloudless sky into the San Bernardino County town of Loma Linda. The ice punched through the metal roof of a recreation center, leaving a hole up to 2 1/2 feet wide, then fragmented into opaque, brilliant white chunks, one as big as a bowling ball. No one was hurt.

Two tennis players were batting a ball around outside the Drayson Center at Loma Linda University on Thursday morning when they heard a strange sound, said Rolland Crawford, Loma Linda Fire Department division chief.

"They described it as the sound an artillery shell would make -- shoosh, shoosh,'' he said. "They looked up. They didn't see the ice, nor did they see a plane.''

A similar incident occurred last Saturday in Oakland, where a plunging ice ball plowed into a field at Bushrod Park on Shattuck Avenue and blasted out a crater up to 2 feet wide. Again, no one was hurt.

The simplest, least controversial hypothesis is that the ice was dropped from airplanes, but there's little direct support for that view. A few experts who study such phenomena have suggested that similar occurrences around the world owe more to exotic causes, perhaps even global warming.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the two latest cases under the theory that the ice fell from an aircraft, FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said Friday.

Such cases can be very tough to solve, he said.

In both cases, the ice was clear or whitish -- not bluish, as one would expect of ice that had leaked from an airplane's restroom, for instance.

The agency has traced blue-ice cases back to aircraft, but Fergus said that is extremely difficult to do. One of the many reasons is that wind speed and direction can vary at different altitudes and often change suddenly. As a result, the otherwise smooth trajectory of falling ice can be radically altered.

For this and other technical reasons, investigators can't always be sure whether a particular piece of ice fell from a particular airplane even after they've reconstructed the probable plane's flight path, Fergus said.

Legends about plunging ice go back for centuries. They didn't begin to receive serious scientific attention until a few years ago, however, when Spain and other countries were pelted by the mystery intruders.

Possible explanations range from the mundane to the bizarre.

One theory is that ice is somehow forming on the outside of aircraft, perhaps in areas that aren't protected by deicing equipment, said David Travis, a climatologist at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. Last year, he and 11 others co-wrote an article on the ice-fall mystery in the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry.

Lead author Jesus Martinez-Frias of the Planetary Geology Laboratory in Madrid and his colleagues have collected reports of 40 cases around the world since 1999 of puzzling falling ice, or "megacryometeors," as they call the strange objects.

Martinez-Frias hypothesizes that the ice forms in the upper atmosphere by a process similar to the formation of hail inside thunderstorms but without a thunderstorm.

Inside a thunderstorm, hail forms like this: Extremely violent vertical winds can repeatedly blow water vapor up and down, like clothes inside a washer. In this process, moisture rises to a high, cold altitude, where it freezes. Then its weight causes it to plunge back toward Earth -- until new winds blow it back to a high altitude, causing it to gain an additional layer of ice.

The process occurs over and over again until the object falls to Earth as a hailstone, sometimes as big as a baseball and occasionally bigger.

But how can ice fall from a cloudless sky? Martinez-Frias speculates that global warming is causing the lower part of the atmosphere -- the troposphere, where we live -- to expand and rise. This means that the tropopause, which is the so-called roof of the troposphere, is forced to a greater height, where it cools more than normal.

Thus, he suggests, the new, steeper temperature difference between warm and cold air in the upper atmosphere generates turbulent up-and-down winds that repeat the hail-formation process, without a thunderstorm.

Although he co-wrote the paper on megacryometeors with Martinez-Frias, Travis is leaning toward the aircraft theory for what happened in Oakland and Loma Linda. "I've talked to a lot of pilots who tell me there are places on airplanes where the deicing equipment doesn't cover," Travis said Friday.

Then there may be the conspiracy theorist who might suspect the ice is falling off the kinds of supersecret spy planes that the military tests in the Southern California and Nevada deserts. But spokesman John Haire of Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert said any such theorists are all wet: "We don't do test flights over Loma Linda or Oakland."

Chronicle staff writer Elizabeth Fernandez contributed to this report. E-mail Keay Davidson at kdavidson@sfchronicle.com.

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