Something to Ponder

Follow the math...It takes between 21 to 35 days for a Russian oil tanker to get to US ports to be offloaded.


It takes between 35 and 60 days for a tanker from the Middle East to make the same trek.


It takes about 10 hours to load the tanker and up to 24 hours to unload. If it has to wait in port to get to an unloading dock, it can take up to 3 days.


The average tanker burns 2,625 gallons of diesel fuel per hour. 22.38 pounds of CO2 are created from burning 1 gallon of diesel fuel.


So, in one hour, a tanker ship hauling oil to a refinery in the US creates 58,757.5 pounds of CO2 per hour. Averaging the travel time of the tankers, that's 27.67 million tons of CO2 PER TRIP.


In comparison, your car creates between 6 and 9 tons PER YEAR.

Without going into all the equations of how many tankers come to the US per year, let alone our exports, will someone please explain; how can banning and limiting the drilling our own oil and moving it through pipelines, along with importing oil from Canada via pipeline NOT BE MORE environmentally "green" for the world!?!

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Secret Tunnels Between Skull and Brain

Did you know you have tiny tunnels in your head? That's OK, no one else did either until recently! But that's exactly what a team of medical researchers confirmed in mice and humans in 2018 – tiny channels that connect skull bone marrow to the lining of the brain.

The research shows they may provide a direct route for immune cells to rush from the marrow into the brain in the event of damage.

Previously, scientists had thought immune cells were transported via the bloodstream from other parts of the body to deal with brain inflammation following a stroke, injury, or brain disorder.  This discovery suggests these cells have had a shortcut all along.

The tiny tunnels were uncovered when a team of researchers set out to learn whether immune cells delivered to the brain following a stroke or meningitis originated from the skull, or the larger of the two bones in the shin – the tibia.

The specific immune cells they followed were neutrophils, the "first responders" of the immune squad. When something goes awry, these are among the first cells the body sends to the site to help mitigate whatever is causing the inflammation.

The team developed a technique to tag cells with fluorescent membrane dyes that act as cell trackers. They treated these cells with the dyes, and injected them into bone marrow sites in mice. Red-tagged cells were injected into the skull, and green-tagged cells into the tibia.    READ MORE...

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Self-Esteem Influences Purchases

Think back to the last time you went out to a restaurant of your choosing for no particular occasion. Where did you choose to go—and why did you choose to go there? For me, it was the McDonald’s drive-through. Although you can practically smell the French fries from the balcony of my apartment, there may have also been a hidden reason that you and I chose to eat where we did: our self-esteem.

Our identity has an undeniably important impact on how we view ourselves and the world around us. A concept from social psychology labeled self-verification theory finds that we prefer that others view us the same way that we view ourselves.

For example, if you view yourself as intelligent, you likely appreciate it when someone compliments you for being a smart person. However, if you view yourself as unintelligent, you may feel uncomfortable and downright awkward when someone calls you clever. In other words, we prefer when others view us similarly to how we view ourselves because it justifies our sense of self.

How we spend our money is hardly any different. When shopping, we will often perform mental gymnastics to convince ourselves that we deserve the product we want. Self-esteem plays a key role here, meaning that people with low self-esteem gravitate towards cheaper, more affordable, and more mundane options.

Even factoring in one’s income or budget and frugality as a personality trait, self-esteem can predict which product participants chose to buy.  Research finds that we tend to self-verify in our buying behavior, meaning if we view ourselves as having low self-esteem, we will choose, consciously or unconsciously, to buy things that reinforce our self-view.

In one study, the researchers measured participants’ self-esteem and asked them how willing they would be to dine at two restaurants, one described as “cool” and the other described as “non-cool”. The study revealed that participants with the lowest self-esteem opted for the restaurant described as “non-cool” whereas participants with the highest self-esteem picked the “cool” restaurant.  READ MORE...

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Aircraft Without Moving Parts

As a kid, steven barrett, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, would watch the movie and tv series ‘star trek’ during his free time. his young eyes would gaze upon the shuttle crafts, so futuristic and dystopian that they would glide through the horizon at a lightning speed. barrett noticed how these space crafts seemed frameless, bare of their moving parts such as the propellers, and noiseless. such an observation still influences him today to the extent that he thinks, in the long-term future, planes should be stripped of their turbines and propellers to be more like the shuttle crafts of ‘star trek’ in their glowing light. at MIT, the professor did just that.

MIT engineers, led by barrett, have introduced the world’s first plan without moving parts, bare from any propellers and turbines. the lightweight aircraft relies on an ‘ionic wind’, or the abundant flow of ions produced aboard the plane that generates enough force to thrust the plane over a steady and sustained flight. through this concept and design, the plane ditches the use of fossil fuels, an element that adds to its silent glide.

As the professor spoke to the university’s official news site, he describes how the plane is the first-ever sustained flight with no moving parts in the propulsion system. ‘this has potentially opened new and unexplored possibilities for aircraft which are quieter, mechanically simpler, and do not emit combustion emissions.’ the design weighs about five pounds and has a five-meter wingspan attached to thin wires resembling fences. these wires act as positively charged electrodes, while similarly arranged thicker wires, running along the back end of the plane’s wing, serve as negative electrodes.

The fuselage of the plane holds a stack of lithium-polymer batteries. barrett’s ion plane team included members of professor david perreault’s power electronics research group in the research laboratory of electronics, who designed a power supply that would convert the batteries’ output to a sufficiently high voltage to propel the plane. in this way, the batteries supply electricity at 40,000 volts to positively charge the wires via a lightweight power converter.  READ MORE...

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My Daily Journey

There are 12 major religions in the world today which are:

1. Christianity
2. Islam
3. Hinduism
4. Buddhism
5. Judaism
6. Sikhism
7. Taoism
8. Confucianism
9. Shinto
10. Jainism
11. Baha'i
12. Zoroastrianism

Which one is the correct one to believe as the followers of each of these 12 are convinced that they are following the correct one?

So... what if...  each one was correct...  as they were all given to us by our CREATOR to satisfy a particular need at the time...

This cannot be because we are told that there has always got to be a winner and a loser...

Bayes Mathematical Probability Theorem states that there is a greater probability that GOD exists than there is that GOD does not exist.  Therefore, mathematically, we must believe that GOD exists...

It naturally follows that God created everything...  that is to say that God created both good and evil and that God created all 12 major religions and the reason that this was done is only for God to reveal...  but the fact remains that it was done and that nothing is done without God's approval...  including evil...  as evil is necessary so that GOD'S WILL BE DONE...

God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven...  so, where is heaven?

Is our expanding universe heaven?

Is our multiverse heaven?

Did not God create the universe?

Some believe that our vast and expanding universe was created from NOTHING...  a void of sorts...  non-existence spawned existence...  and since everything moves towards entropy...  then existence will one day spawn non-existence and we will all cease to be...

So...  where will God go then?

Will God return to that place before he created everything?

Returning to our 12 major religions for a moment...  what if...  each of those religions possessed a concept in its bank of philosophy and doctrines that if combined with all the other concepts created a SUPER RELIGION that God believed would unite all the factions of mankind on earth.

OF course, God could force this to happen but it is not the same as it would be if we decided on our own that this needed to be done...

WHAT KIND OF WORLD WOULD WE HAVE THEN?

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Egypt's Pyramids of Giza

An ultra-powerful scan of Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza could help identify two mysterious spaces that potentially house the legendary tomb of the pharaoh. The watershed study was published last month in arXiv by University of Cornell archaeologists.

“We plan to field a telescope system that has upwards of 100 times the sensitivity of the equipment that has recently been used at the Great Pyramid,” wrote the researchers of the proposed scan, which is titled “The Exploring the Great Pyramid Mission.” They use advanced cosmic ray technology to map the internal structure of the Great Pyramid, which is Egypt’s largest pyramid and the last surviving wonder from antiquity.

The team’s research is based on a study by Scan Pyramid group, which conducted a series of scans between 2015 and 2017 that analyzed muons — cosmic particles that regularly fall on Earth — to detect any voids, Live Science reported. Muons react differently to air and stone and are therefore ideal for mapping air pockets in stone structures such as pyramids.

The scientists found two spaces, the larger of which measures 98 feet long and 20 feet high and sits above the grand gallery. Meanwhile, the smaller void is located near the citadel’s north face.

And while neither void’s function is clear, scientists speculate that the large one could lead to the secret burial chamber of the pharaoh Khufu (reign circa 2551 B.C. to 2528 B.C.), for whom the Great Pyramid was originally constructed in the 26th century B.C.

In order to peer inside the void, researchers plan to scan the area with supercharged cosmic ray muons, which are 100 times more powerful than the ones used in the prior scan.

Utilizing them will allow researchers to “image muons from nearly all angles and will, for the first time, produce a true tomographic image [three-dimensional internal images created by analyzing waves of energy] of such a large structure,” per the study.  READ MORE...

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Grilling Burgers

Two things you can never go wrong with: burgers hot off the grill and plenty of icy cold drinks. And with the warmer months approaching, there’s no time like the present for a grill and chill.

Regardless of how you like your burger toppings—piled high with crispy bacon, stacked with thick slices of tomato and chilled pieces of lettuce, loaded up with pickles, fried onions, avocado and cheese—one thing’s for sure, there’s nothing like a grilled burger. Unless of course your burger isn’t grilled enough, or grilled too well. Then you’re going to have some seriously unhappy and hungry guests on your hands.

Even rare burger fans still want a little sear on their meat. After all, no one likes a totally raw burger, which is why we’re breaking down exactly how long to cook burgers on the grill with this helpful guide.

Best Burger Buns
Planning a DIY burger buffet? Get a variety of buns at the market to serve with your grilled burgers. Pick up some classic potato rolls along with brioche buns, ciabatta and onion rolls, Kaiser rolls, a good loaf of sliced bread and English muffins that can be lightly toasted on the grill, while the burgers are cooking. Let your guests make their own burger just the way they like it and dinner is done!

Best Burger Condiments
Now that you have your burger toppings and buns out of the way, all that’s left is condiments, like tangy ketchup, creamy mustard or chopped dill pickles as a relish. You can customize anyone’s burger to their liking just by setting out a few sauces and condiments.  READ MORE...

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How Fast are we Moving?

No matter what perspective you choose to look at it from, planet Earth is always in motion. Our planet rotates on its axis continuously, spinning and completing a full 360° rotation approximately once a day. As we spin, we also revolve around the Sun, completing a nearly 1 billion kilometer journey every single year. Moreover, the entire Solar System — Sun, planets, moons, and all — moves through the Milky Way galaxy, orbiting around the galactic center on timescales far greater than humanity has existed for. And finally, the Milky Way galaxy moves within the Local Group, which itself moves through intergalactic space.

Depending on what we’re measuring our motion relative to, we can quantify just how quickly planet Earth moves through the Universe. Even though our motion is barely detectable through the experiments we can perform here on Earth, a look out at the Universe enables us to understand precisely how we’re in motion on each and every scale. Here’s how we know what our cosmic motion is, from each individual component to the entire cumulative effects of everything combined.

This view of the Earth comes to us courtesy of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which had to perform flybys of Earth and Venus in order to lose enough energy to reach its ultimate destination: Mercury. The round, rotating Earth and its features are undeniable, as this rotation explains why Earth bulges at the center, is compressed at the poles, and has different equatorial and polar diameters.(Credit: NASA/MESSENGER)

How fast does the Earth spin?
This question, although it might seem simple, has a different answer dependent on where, precisely, you are on the planet’s surface. Planet Earth is a rigid body, meaning that the land masses remain relatively constant with respect to one another over time. As the Earth rotates about its axis, practically every point on the surface completes a full rotation in just under 24 hours: 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.09 seconds, to be precise.  READ MORE...

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Now Just Wait a Damn Minute

What do I care about them Ukrainians anyway... if the Ruskies want that country, I say let them have it...  what good is going to do them now anyway...  since it is all bombed out?

But...  nothing would have happened to them in the first place is this here president Biden had not of pussy-footed around like he did.  I'm surprised that we let him get away with that crap in the first place...  don't the sonnofabitch work for usins?

And what the hell do I care about nuclear war for anyway?  I ain't gonna live much longer noways...  so what's a few months either way mean?  It's them kids who get screwed the most...  hell, they ain't even begun to live their lives and now these assholes up north want to take that away from them too.

In my day, if someone had of acted like that, we'd of kicked the shit out of them and left 'em for the dogs to piss on.  I just don't know what this ole world is coming to.  We don't know how good we got it until it gone...  and hell, with these pussies around today, if that happened, we'd never get her back.