Tuesday, October 31
Robot Dog Becomes Tour Guide
“Shall we commence our journey?” Spot asks. “The charging stations, where Spot robots rest and recharge, is our first point of interest. Follow me, gentlemen.” As shown in the demo, Spot is capable of answering questions and even opens its “mouth” to make it seem like it’s actually speaking. READ MORE...
Electron Charge Within Millisecond Coherence Time
A team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has achieved a major milestone toward future quantum computing. They have extended the coherence time for their novel type of qubit to an impressive 0.1 milliseconds—nearly a thousand times better than the previous record.
Cannabis Compound Found
The team found CBD in the fruits and flowers of a plant known as Trema micrantha blume, a shrub which grows across much of the South American country and is often considered a weed, molecular biologist Rodrigo Moura Neto of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro told AFP in June. READ MORE...
WD - 40
>> What Is The Main Ingredient of WD-40?
>> Before you read to the end, does anybody know what the main ingredient of WD-40?
>> No Cheating.....
>> WD-40 ~ Who knew!
>> I had a neighbour who bought a new pickup.
>> I got up very early one Sunday morning and saw that someone had spray
>> painted red all around the sides of this beige truck (for some unknown
>> reason).
>> I went over, woke him up, and told him the bad news.
>> He was very upset and was trying to figure out what to do ....
>> probably nothing until Monday morning, since nothing was open.
>> Another neighbour came out and told him to get his WD-40 and clean it off.
>> It removed the unwanted paint beautifully and did not harm his paint
>> job that was on the truck. I was impressed!
>> WD-40 who knew?
>> "Water Displacement #40".
>> The product began from a search for a rust preventative solvent and
>> degreaser to protect missile parts.
>> WD-40 was created in 1953, by three technicians at the San Diego
>> Rocket Chemical Company.
>> Its name comes from the project that was to find a 'Water
>> Displacement' Compound.
>> They were finally successful for a formulation, with their fortieth
>> attempt, thus WD-40. The 'Convair Company' bought it in bulk to
>> protect their atlas missile parts.
>> Ken East (one of the original founders) says there is nothing in WD-40
>> that would hurt you.
>> When you read the 'shower door' part, try it. It's the first thing
>> that has ever cleaned that spotty shower door. If yours is plastic,
>> it works just as well as on glass. It's a miracle!
>> Then try it on your stove-top.
>> It's now shinier than it's ever been.
>> You'll be amazed.
>> WD-40 Uses:
>> 1. Protects silver from tarnishing.
>> 2. Removes road tar and grime from cars.
>> 3. Cleans and lubricates guitar strings.
>> 4. Gives floor that 'just-waxed' sheen without making them slippery.
>> 5. Keeps the flies off of Cows, Horses, and other Farm Critters.
>> 6. Restores and cleans chalkboards.
>> 7. Removes lipstick stains.
>> 8. Loosens stubborn zippers.
>> 9. Untangles jewellery chains.
>> 10. Removes stains from stainless steel sinks.
>> 11. Removes dirt and grime from the barbecue grill.
>> 12. Keeps ceramic/terracotta garden pots from oxidising.
>> 13. Removes tomato stains from clothing.
>> 14. Keeps glass shower doors free of water spots.
>> 15. Camouflages scratches in ceramic and marble floors.
>> 16. Keeps scissors working smoothly.
>> 17. Lubricates noisy door hinges on both home and vehicles doors.
>> 18. It removes that nasty tar and scuff marks from the kitchen
>> flooring. It doesn't seem to harm the finish and you won't have to
>> scrub nearly as hard to get them off. Just remember to open some
>> windows if you have a lot of marks.
>> 19. Remove those nasty bug guts that will eat away the finish
>> on your car if not removed quickly!
>> 20. Gives a children's playground gym slide a shine for a super fast slide.
>> 21. Lubricates gearshift and mower deck lever for ease of handling on
>> riding mowers.
>> 22. Rids kids rocking chair and swings of squeaky noises.
>> 23. Lubricates tracks in sticking home windows and makes them easier to open.
>> 24. Spraying an umbrella stem makes it easier to open and close.
>> 25. Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well
>> as vinyl bumpers.
>> 26. Restores and cleans roof racks on vehicles.
>> 27. Lubricates and stops squeaks in electric fans.
>> 28. Lubricates wheel sprockets on tricycles, wagons and bicycles for
>> easy handling.
>> 29. Lubricates fan belts on washers and dryers and keeps them running smoothly.
>> 30. Keeps rust from forming on saws and saw blades, and other tools.
>> 31. Removes grease splatters from stove-tops.
>> 32. Keeps bathroom mirror from fogging.
>> 33. Lubricates prosthetic limbs.
>> 34. Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell).
>> 35. Removes all traces of duct tape.
>> 36. Folks even spray it on their arms, hands, and knees to relieve
>> arthritis pain.
>> 37. Florida 's favourite use is: 'cleans and removes love bugs from
>> grills and bumpers.'
>> 38. The favourite use in the state of New York , it protects the Statue
>> of Liberty from the elements.
>> 39. WD-40 attracts fish. Spray a little on live bait or lures and you
>> will be catching the big one in no time. Also, it's a lot cheaper than
>> the chemical attractants that are made for just that purpose. Keep
>> in mind though, using some chemical laced baits or lures for fishing
>> are not allowed in some states.
>> 40. Use it for fire ant bites. It takes the sting away immediately and
>> stops the itch.
>> 41. It is great for removing crayon from walls. Spray it on the marks
>> and wipe with a clean rag.
>> 42. Also, if you've discovered that your teenage daughter has washed
>> and dried a tube of lipstick with a load of laundry, saturate the
>> lipstick spots with WD-40 and rewash. Presto! The lipstick is gone!
>> 43. If you spray it inside a wet distributor cap, it will displace the
>> moisture, allowing the engine to start.
>> My discovery, Ants don't like it..................
>>
>> P.S.
>> As for that Basic, Main Ingredient.......
>> Well.... it's FISH OIL....
>> Now This Is Definitely Worth SHARING!!
Halloween
I don't know and I don't care when TRICK OR TREAT was added but I am glad that this practice is fading away.
People are really cruel and mentally misguided when they hide things in the candy that can hurt children. Most parents only take children to a few houses that they know the owners.
The other aspect of that, equally as negative, is all the candy that children ingest on that night. That cannot be good for their health, especially their teeth.
Costumes are another ridiculous expense that some people have and many of those less intelligent people spend hundreds of dollars on their costumes just to wear at work for one day, not the mention the outside decorations that some people like to put up.
Many Christian families will not let their children celebrate Halloween because it is a PAGAN celebration not a Christian one. That also seems kind of silly to me as well, because kids aren't trying to change their beliefs, they are just trying to have a little fun.
Ancient Landscape Beneath Antartica
Formed close to 34 million years ago, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) has seen significant change over the course of the last several geological epochs, with its ancient ice retreating and advancing like the ebb and flow of ocean tides, resulting in variations in ice coverage that have altered the Antarctic landscape. READ MORE...
They Are Not Happy
They're not happy in Gaza ..
They're not happy in Egypt ..
They're not happy in Libya ..
They're not happy in Morocco ..
They're not happy in Iran ..
They're not happy in Iraq ..
They're not happy in Yemen ...
They're not happy in Afghanistan ...
They're not happy in Pakistan ..
They're not happy in Syria ..
They're not happy in Lebanon ...
SO.. WHERE ARE THEY HAPPY?
They're happy in Australia ..
They're happy in Canada ..
They're happy in England ..
They're happy in France ..
They're happy in Italy ..
They're happy in Germany ..
They're happy in Sweden ..
They're happy in the USA ..
They're happy in Norway ..
They're happy in Holland ..
They're happy in Denmark ..
Basically, they're happy in every country that is not Muslim and unhappy in every country that is!
AND WHO DO THEY BLAME?
Not Islam ..
Not their leadership ..
Not themselves ..
THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN !
AND THEN- They want to change those countries to be like, THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY!
Excuse me, but I can't help wondering...
How frigging dumb can you get?
Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim Terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.
Lets have a look at the evidence:
- No Christmas
- No television
- No nude women
- No football
- No pork chops
- No hot dogs
- No burgers
- No beer
- No bacon
- Rags for clothes
- Towels for hats
- Constant wailing from some bloke in a tower
- More than one wife
- More than one mother-in-law
- You can't shave
- Your wife can't shave
- You can't wash off the smell of donkeys
- You cook over burning camel shit
- Your wife is picked by someone else for you
- and your wife smells worse than your donkey
- Then they tell them that "when they die, it all gets better"???
Well No Shit Sherlock!
It's not like it could get much worse!
Blob Outside of Space Station
The leak, confirmed earlier this month by Russian space agency Roscosmos, came from the backup radiator mounted on the outside of the Nauka module launched in 2021. The main radiator remains operational, but Rosmocos scheduled in a spacewalk to fix the problem.
Inspecting the source of the leak, Oleg Kononenko reported seeing a number of holes on the radiator panel.
"The holes have very even edges, like they've been drilled through," Kononenko told Moscow Mission Control, Space.com reports. "There are lots of them. They are spread in a chaotic manner."
The cosmonauts were equipped with a cloth towel to soak up any escaping liquid, but Kononenko was told to leave the area immediately after encountering a blob of coolant, which had moved onto his safety tether. READ MORE...
Monday, October 30
New Battery Breakthrough
Software Updates Millions of Miles Away
One update, a software fix, ought to tend to the corrupted data that Voyager 1 began transmitting last year, and another set aims to prevent gunk from building up in both spacecraft's thrusters. Together, these updates intend to keep the spacecraft in contact with Earth for as long as possible.
"This far into the mission, the engineering team is being faced with a lot of challenges for which we just don’t have a playbook," Linda Spilker, project scientist for the mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. "But they continue to come up with creative solutions." READ MORE...
Sperm Breaks Law of Motion
Newton's third law states that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force back. In other words, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. However, for biological swimmers such as sperm, this may not be the case. READ MORE...
Time For Another War
The benefits have nothing to do with all the military personnel that are killed or severely wounded as a result of war.
Think about it...
- militaries are war need food
- they need clothing
- they need weapons
- they need bullets
- they need tanks
- they need missiles
- they need bombs
- they need airplanes
- they need trucks
- they need medical supplies
- they need camping supplies
- they need helicopters
Wages will be spent for all these items and those wages will be spend in the communities, increasing the revenues of local businesses.
Taxes will be taken out on all those wages and more taxes paid on April 15, which allows the government to give the military more money or increase the welfare programs for its citizens.
Then after the war, the destroy buildings will have to cleared away and rebuilt and MORE MONEY will be spent, again increasing wages by increasing employment as well as benefitting local businesses.
BECAUSE OF THIS...
The USA need to go to war.
While it might be a mistake to go into Ukraine, it would not be a mistake to go into Israel nor would it be a mistake to go into Taiwan should China invade while sending one of our carrier groups to the South China Sea.
Yes, it is true that many lives will be lost and many families will be destroy, but think of ALL THE MONEY that will be generated.
THE NEED OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS OF THE FEW... Spock...
Author's Note: this article was written tongue in cheek with a lot of sarcasm and does not reflect what I truly believe.
Missing Law of Evolution
Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far larger natural phenomenon.” Similar marvels occur with stars, planets, minerals, other complex systems; When a novel configuration works well and function improves, evolution occurs.
A paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world’s workings.
In essence, the new law states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity. In other words, evolution is not limited to life on Earth, it also occurs in other massively complex systems, from planets and stars to atoms, minerals, and more. READ MORE...
Time Jumping Multiverse
If Penrose isn’t a sensible physicist it’s because the laws of physics aren’t making sense, at least not on the subatomic level where the smallest things in the universe play by different rules than everything we see around us. He has reason to believe this disconnect involves a fissure that divides two different kinds of reality. He also has reason to believe that the physical process that bridges these realities will unlock answers to the physics of consciousness: the mystery of our own existence. READ MORE...
Sunday, October 29
Wiping Out Humanity
Google is placing a huge bet on an artificial intelligence start-up whose owners have admitted it could wipe out humanity.
Anthropic is seen as one of the biggest rivals to OpenAI, behind the hugely popular ChatGPT that took the world by storm this past year - leaving Google's Bard in the dust.
Anthropic's CEO and co-founder, Dario Amodei (left) said earlier this week that AI has a '10 to 25 percent' chance of destroying humanity.
The report has claimed an upfront $500 million has already been invested into the startup, and the rest will be allocated over time.
The whooping investment comes just one month after Amazon invested $4 billion in Anthropic, The Wall Street Journal reports. READ MORE...
We Don't Have Free Will
This means accepting that a man who shoots into a crowd has no more control over his fate than the victims who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It means treating drunk drivers who barrel into pedestrians just like drivers who suffer a sudden heart attack and veer out of their lane.
"The world is really screwed up and made much, much more unfair by the fact that we reward people and punish people for things they have no control over," Sapolsky (left) said. "We've got no free will. Stop attributing stuff to us that isn't there." READ MORE...
Are Your Religious or Spiritual?
If one is religious does one, go to church?
Does it matter what church one attends?
Like:
- Baptist
- Methodist
- United Methodist
- Presbyterian
- Orthodox
- Pentecostal
- Jewish
- Islamic
- Apostolic
- Mormon
- Church of God
- Mennonite
- Lutheran
- Catholic
Why do we have so many denominations?
Is one better than another one?
But there is more to it than just being religious... and attending church...
ONE MUST BELIEVE IN GOD/JESUS
ONE MUST HAVE HOPE
ONE MUST BELIEVE IN THE AFTERLIFE
BUT, does one have to believe in Heaven?
But, there is more to this than just being religious, attending church, believing and having hope...
So, what is left, you may wonder?
Simply said...
You can talk the talk
But can you walk the talk???
And, therein lies our biggest problem... being religious is not just about SUNDAYS, it is about living every day of the week as if it were a Sunday and treating others like you want to be treated, and not being prejudice or discriminatory...
I SERIOUS DOUBT THAT MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVE THEIR LIVES LIKE THAT... IF THEY DID, WE WOULD NOT HAVE HATE IN THIS WORLD NOR WOULD WE HAVE PREJUDICE...
The problem with our religion and our religious beliefs is that we only believe in them and support them and incorporate them into our lives ON SUNDAYS...
Weak EV Demand
"It's been a challenging situation, for sure," Ford CEO Jim Farley (right) said during the company's third-quarter earnings call after posting greater losses than expected on EVs. "Matter of fact, our business is never short of challenges, especially right now with the evolution of the EV market and new global competitors from China, as well as the technology disruptions." READ MORE...
Saturday, October 28
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Chinese Investors DUMP US Stocks
Not Enough Time
24 hours or 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds...
Our problem is NOT THE LACK OF TIME but how we manage the TIME that we have...
- We spend 8 hours sleeping (on average)
- We spend 8 hours working (on average)
That leaves us with 8 hours to do with what we want... however, some of that time is spent eating... shall we say 2 hours?
Now we have 6 hours... however, we must drive to and from work... shall we say an hour?
Now we have 5 hours... however, we need to get ready for work and change clothes when we return home from work... shall we say an hour?
THAT LEAVES US WITH FOUR HOURS, typically in the evening assuming most of us work first shift.
So, how do you spend your FOUR HOURS?
- Watching television/cable/Satellite
- Listening to music
- Talking with friends on the phone or next door neighbors
- Zoning out in an effort to relax
- Working on a hobby
- Playing with pets
- Listening to the news
- Reading a novel
If you noticed, I have yet to include washing and drying clothes, or cleaning the house, or working outside in the yard or washing the car, or doing outside maintenance or other chores... usually all of these tasks are left for the weekend... however, what about watching sports on the weekends or entertaining or going out to eat or to a movie or to a party at a neighbor's house.
When we leave tasks for the weekend, those tasks usually occupy both days... and if you are religious then there is not much work that you want to do on Sundays, so you try to get everything done on Saturdays.
And, you wonder why you do not have enough time...
IMAX Movie DEEP SKY
Director Nathaniel Kahn probed the world of art sales in 2018’s The Price of Everything and the search for extraterrestrial life in 2021’s Emmy-winning Hunt for Planet B. His latest film, however, goes where no man has gone before: a million miles from Earth.
Deep Sky, a 40-minute Imax original documentary about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that opened yesterday, showcases the mind-blowing images captured by the $10-billion telescope, which started beaming pictures of stars, nebulae, galaxies, planets, and a massive black hole back to Earth in July 2022.
It is surely the most expensive “camera” Kahn, or any filmmaker, has had the privilege to work with, and viewed on nearly 100-foot-tall screens, the footage becomes transporting.
Kahn, who also wrote and produced the film, spoke with Fast Company about what drew him to the project, what the telescope’s “non-optical” electromagnetic spectrum revealed, and why it gives him hope for life on Earth. READ MORE...
Kahn, who also wrote and produced the film, spoke with Fast Company about what drew him to the project, what the telescope’s “non-optical” electromagnetic spectrum revealed, and why it gives him hope for life on Earth. READ MORE...
Friday, October 27
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