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.
(link)
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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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Posted by Catfish as Tech, survival
An alarm clock with a propeller that takes off when it is time for you to wake up. The only way to turn the alarm off is to return it to its base. Seems like a great way to ensure you won’t succumb to the seduction of the snooze button and its sleezy 9 minute interlude. I’ve known a couple heavy as a Chevy sleepers who could use a product like this. One of these ripvanwinks had 3 alarm clocks in her room that she would rely upon to make sure she got up for classes and work on time. See the problem here is, what if the person who is buying the alarm clock is on Ambien for insomnia…I’m sure you’ve heard about the bizarre sleep walking like behavior have exhibited while on Ambien, such as driving a car in their sleep! Just like I think the inclination not to mix alcohol and shooting apples off of your loved one’s head is a healthy survival instinct for one’s genes, perhaps Ambien and flying alarm clocks might also be something to think twice about before mixing. Especially if you use the radio to wake instead of the alarm beep sound…I could imagine dreaming a conversation with the deep, luring announcer voice, and then getting up (in my sleep) to stumble after Howard Stern down the hall (which is really out the window) because what he is saying about panties is so enlightening and fresh, and if I miss one bit of it, my life may miss a very important omen.
Moral of the story: fear everything.
(link to the flying alarm clock)
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