Posted by Catfish as USAUSAUSA, humor, politics
After weeks of hinting, Stephen Colbert has declared his intentions to run for President in the coming election. Most will chuckle at this seeming stunt, but I’d like to suggest we don’t write Colbert off simply because he is a comedian. Some might say we’ve had the ultimate slapstick president for past two terms as it is. On his show, Colbert plays the part of an ultra-conservative right winger, but most of his fans are left wingin’, pot smoking, internet luvin’, peace nickin’ liberals, so it’s not clear yet under which party he will run. Perhaps something along these lines: The Progressive Opposition Populist People’s Party. :P
Heck, I voted for Nader before…
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Posted by Catfish as Tech, UFO, science
After reading the headline, you might wonder, isn’t 1 Jodie Foster enough? Humans are set to do some siruis (ahem) interstellar peeping with the instillation of 42 new radio dishes at the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, around 270 miles north of San Francisco.
“The Allen Telescope Array will be like 200 million Jodie Fosters sitting out there listening,” says Seth Shostak of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.
The newly installed 20 ft wide dishes are part of an eventual array of 350 dishes, estimated to cost an additional $41 million to complete. Besides eavesdropping on E.T.’s phone calls, the array will also help search for new phenomena such as black holes eating each other and dark galaxies, which have no star.
OK, the only reason I am blogging about this is because the quote about 200 Jodie Fosters made me spit my tea.
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Posted by Catfish as Tech, enviornment, science, sexuality
Round and squishy is a shipping nightmare. Think of how many bruised fruits we could prevent if Mother Nature had just planned accordingly and engineered fruit to be sqaure instead of spherical. Well, proving once again that we think we can do anything, we’ve come up with square watermelons. By placing frames around the melons when the reach about 11cm diameter, square shaped melons were brought into this world. I have to say, I was quite relieved to find out that these melons were grown with frames or boxes around them in order to constrain the melons’ growth into the square shape. If we had somehow discovered a gene to make round things square, that would square me, uh I mean scare me. All the soft suppleness of nature suddenly subject to the boxy minds of mad scientists. Not my reality…
Anyhow, go here for more square melonage.
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