Funny Signs

 

I'm All For ABORTION

Whether you want to have an abortion or not is YOUR DECISION and is none of my business and never should be any of my business...  UNTIL...  you ask our federal government to pay for it...  This is when I will stand up against you.  My government...  our government...  has no right to pay for your abortion.  They did not pay for you to have sex and they did not pay for your IUD or condoms...  Those are YOUR DECISIONS and YOURS ALONE.

My tax dollars pay for government and pay for this country's defenses against its enemies...   that's is...  The government should keep its nose out of the rest of our business including:

• Unemployment
• Social Security
• Medicare
• Public Education
• Public Transportation
• Public Parks and Recreation

Personally, I like idea of ABORTION because it keeps many of the undesirables off the streets once they become teenagers.  If someone wants an abortion (outside of being raped) then they have no business being a parent and would probably be a terrible parent.

Abortion also helps reduce crime because not wanting a child and having sex anyway, means that the likelihood of your child growing up to be a criminal is HIGH.

Those females who do not want an abortion will typically make good parents or a good single mother and the odds are in her favor that their child will not grow up to be a criminal.

There is nothing wrong with SEX.  I personally really enjoy it.  However, if you don't want to take precautions to keep from getting pregnant then you should have no problems at all getting an abortion.

I also believe that the STATES should not be able to tell you whether you should get an abortion or not.  If the states are for religious freedoms then not being religious is one of your freedoms and should be honored regardless.

Frittata

 

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox

In the most massive test to date, physicists have probed a major paradox in quantum mechanics and found it still holds even for clouds of hundreds of atoms.

Using two entangled Bose-Einstein condensates, each consisting of 700 atoms, a team of physicists co-led by Paolo Colciaghi and Yifan Li of the University of Basel in Switzerland has shown that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox scales up.

The researchers say this has important implications for quantum metrology – the study of measuring things under quantum theory.

"Our results represent the first observation of the EPR paradox with spatially separated, massive many-particle systems," the researchers write in their paper.

"They show that the conflict between quantum mechanics and local realism does not disappear as the system size increases to more than a thousand massive particles."

Although we're pretty good at mathematically describing the Universe, our understanding of how things work is patchy at best.

One of the tools we use to close one of the gaps is quantum mechanics, a theory that arose in the early 20th century, championed by physicist Niels Bohr, for describing how atomic and subatomic matter behaves. In this tiny realm, classical physics breaks down; when the old rules no longer apply, new rules must be made.

But quantum mechanics isn't without its flaws, and in 1935, three famous physicists found a significant hole. Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen described the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.  READ MORE...

Bear Rescue

 

Ex Marine Indicted

 

Tractor Beams - No Longer SciFi

Rebel ships better watch out because, apparently, we’re closer to making tractor beams a reality than ever. Once relegated to the realm of fantasy in Star Wars and Star Trek, Phys.org is reporting that a team of aerospace engineers led by Professor Hanspeter Schaub is working on electron beams that use attractive or repulsive electrostatic force to remove space debris from orbit. Presumably, if the team finds success in creating these beams, we could prevent Kessler Syndrome from becoming a reality.

Kessler Syndrome is a phenomenon, laid out by NASA scientist Donald Kessler, where the space debris in Earth’s orbit becomes so significant that it hinders our ability to launch satellites, spacecraft, orbital stations, and anything else into orbit. It’s a major problem that could easily become the state of our orbit if measures aren’t taken to prevent it. Using so-called “space dump trucks” with tractor beams could be one way to lessen our debris problem.

The main problem with space debris is that it’s not so easy to clear out, as objects in space move rapidly and unpredictably, so you can’t just grab it like you would grab trash out of the ocean. Tractor beams would allow us to move debris and other objects out of the way without having to touch them directly. Another example of the usefulness of these beams would be moving old satellites out of the way to make room for new satellites.

Of course, there is still a lot of work today before these tractor beams can be applied in real-world scenarios. To test the technology, the team uses a vacuum chamber called the Electrostatic Charging Laboratory for Interactions between Plasma and Spacecraft. The vacuum chamber can simulate a space environment, and the team can place simulated debris made out of metal to experiment with the electrostatic tractors.  READ MORE...

Candles in the Wind

 

The Marriage License

I have been married twice, divorced once and have children from my first marriage.  My divorce resulted in 2/3 of everything going to my ex-wife, even 10 acres of land that was in my name, paid for my me, and was mine before we got married.  Divorce left a bitter taste in my mouth for both marriage and women.  My daughter sided with my ex-wife on everything and because I got remarried (as did her mother), she had decided not to have anything to do with me for the last 6-7 years...  which is her loss as well as mine.

But, what of marriage?

What's the point of getting married, outside of some religious belief that one should not engage in sex until one gets legally married?

I don't think there is a point...

While I did get married a second time, there was absolutely no reason to get married except to give the female financial security that she did not have simply living with me.

Not that I will have another chance but if I did, I would not get married.  I would keep my own checking and savings account.  All expenses would be shared based upon one's contribution to the overall finances.

For example, if I contributed $2,000 a month and she contributed $1,000 a month and our expenses were $4,000 a month, the I would pay 2/3 and she would pay 1/3 of $4,000.  My share would be $2,640 and her share would be $1,360.

Any purchase of a house would be done the same way and when it sold, I would receive 2/3 and she would receive 1/3.  If there was a parting of the ways, then she would take her assets and I would take mine...

Marriage is overrated and more often than not, marriage is simply a financial arrangement between two people that see themselves as either partners or roommates...   NOTHING MORE...

For Future Generations

 

White Dwarf Star

To us, stars may resemble cut jewels, glittering coldly against the velvet darkness of the night sky. And for some of them, that may actually be sort of true.

As a certain type of dead star cools, it gradually hardens and crystallizes. Astronomers have found one doing just that in our cosmic backyard, a white dwarf composed primarily of carbon and metallic oxygen just 104 light-years away, whose temperature-mass profile suggests that the center of the star is transforming into a dense, hard, 'cosmic diamond' made up of crystallized carbon and oxygen.

The discovery is detailed in a paper accepted into the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and available on preprint website arXiv.

"In this work we present the discovery of a new Sirius-like quadruple system at 32 parsecs distance, composed of a crystallizing white dwarf companion to the previously known triple HD 190412," write an international team of astronomers led by Alexander Venner of the University of Southern Queensland in Australia.

"By virtue of its association with these main sequence companions, this is the first crystallizing white dwarf whose total age can be externally constrained, a fact that we make use of by attempting to empirically measure a cooling delay caused by core crystallization in the white dwarf."

All things in the Universe must change. Every star that hangs in the firmament, shining brightly with the light generated by atomic fusion, will one day run out of fuel for their fires and evolve into something new.

For the vast majority of stars – those below about eight times the mass of the Sun, and including the Sun – that something is a white dwarf star.

When the fuel runs out, the star's outer material is shucked into the surrounding space, and the remaining core, no longer supported by the outward pressure supplied by fusion, will collapse down into an ultradense object, around the size of Earth (or the Moon!), but packing in as much mass as 1.4 Suns.  READ MORE...

Avoids Censorship

 

Cooking Biscuits

 

Species Buries Dead Before Humans 100,000 Year Ago

A reproduction of the skull of a Homo naledi named Leti, found inside the Rising Star Cave System at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site near Maropeng, South Africa.   Wikus de Wet/AFP via Getty Images

An extinct species called Homo naledi buried their dead 100,000 years before humans.

These actions were previously thought to be associated with larger-brained species.

The findings challenge previous assumptions about the progress of human evolution.

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Researchers have found that an extinct human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls 100,000 years before humans, challenging previous assumptions about human evolution.

The species, called Homo naledi, had brains about one-third the size of a modern human's, according to CNN.      

Until now, these behaviors had only been associated with larger-brained species such as Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.

The research is laid out in three studies accepted for publication in the journal eLife, CNN said.       READ MORE...

An Opening Rose

 

Saving Money

When I was lad growing up, I earned money by babysitting, mowing lawns, and selling vegetables that I grew in the back yard.  My parents encouraged this behavior only if I agreed to save half of whatever I earned.  The other half I could spend as I wanted.

I mowed 2-3 lawns a day in the summer of neighbors in our community and earned about $2/lawn after buying gasoline.  That worked out to about $40/week or $20 after half was saved.  That worked out to about $300 that I could spend each summer that I did this.

With my money, I purchased a set of weights, a TV, and a motorbike that I purchased in Italy on our way to Egypt.

All the money that was mine to spend, I kept with me in an envelope, but I do not remember ever being given the money I saved.  It would have been less than $1,000.

The point here is that I was TAUGHT TO SAVE MONEY...

Currently, my wife and I are saving $30,000/year from our retirement incomes that also includes a Trust Fund that will be depleted of money in 5 years or less.  From that point on, we will take money out of savings.  I would not be able to live like I do unless I had saved money.

During my 45 year career, I very seldom ate lunch at a restaurant.  I always brought my lunch.  I never purchased brand new cars, always purchased year old leased cars and saved thousands.  When on vacation, we would eat out once or twice, the rest of the time, we cooked our meals.  I never wasted money on lots of clothes, shoes, jackets, sweaters, or on the latest fashion.

At the age of 40, I stopped spending money on cigarettes and alcohol and by the age of 50, I was DEBT FREE...

I only purchased what I absolutely needed and did not care what the neighbors had and was never motivated by GREED.  I have enjoyed myself and lived an above average lifestyle all my life which for me and my wife, was all we ever wanted or needed.

 

Dazzle

 

Light Years In Length

It turns out those stretched-out hyperspace lines from Star Wars are real. Sort of. According to EurekAlert!, a team of astrophysicists has discovered a bunch of one-dimensional filaments between 5-10 light-years in length chilling in the middle of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

While the long white lines that appear when Han Solo throws the hyperspace lever on the Falcon are actually stars, these new filaments are thought to be some kind of outflow from Sagittarius A—a supermassive black hole that lies at the center of the Milky Way. 

Essentially the filaments are exceptionally long strings of electrons interacting with a magnetic field. These new filaments run horizontally and only appear on one side of Sag A, leading scientists to believe they were birthed from the black hole millions of years ago.

That’s right; these “new” one-dimensional space strings aren’t exactly new. Even if we set aside their age, the existence of gigantic one-dimensional filaments in the Milky Way was discovered back in the early ’80s by astrophysicist Farhad Yusef-Zadeh. 

The filaments Yusef-Zadeh discovered, however, were huge vertical monoliths measuring up to 150 light-years high. It’s the horizontal orientation of the new filaments that make them so interesting.

“I’m used to them being vertical,” Yusef-Zadeh confessed in the new paper released by Northwestern University. “I never considered there might be others along the plane.” 

Yusef-Zadeh went on to explain that studying the Milky Way’s filaments could help scientists learn more about the way Sag A spins and its orientation relative to the rest of the Milky Way.

The old vertical filaments first discovered hanging around the Milky Way in 1984 run perpendicular to the galactic plane. The new horizontal filaments, however, are parallel to the plane and point radially toward the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Another difference between the two types of filaments is how they behave.   READ MORE...

Change the World Robots

 

Time Explained