Science Etcetera Marsday, 20071225

Posted on 25th December 2007 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera - Tags: , , ,
Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky
  • The above photo is of the Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky for 2005 photo by Danilo Pivato, who has many other multiple exposure shots equally stunning.
  • Catholics take note: Pope Benedict XVI used Christmas Mass to give a speech stressing the importance of environmentalism. Go Pope!!!
  • Scientists are researching holes in the Greenland Ice sheet called moulins that channel water to the bedrock below and act as a lubricant, speeding its meltdown into the ocean from Global Warming.
  • Animators Simulated 128 Billion Elements to produce one scene in the film 300. Fantastic special effects, too bad they were ruined with such crappy plot and directing.
  • Israeli scientists have fit the entire Hebrew Bible onto a space less than half the size of grain of sugar.
  • The Oldest Human Powered Transportation was on skates made of bone 3,000 years ago.
  • Go fly a kite, and use it to tow a ship.
  • Satire Alert! Bush Acknowledges Existence Of Carbon Dioxide.
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    1. Ryan, get over your hatred of 300 ;)

      Comment by Nick Hamden — December 30, 2007 @ 3:31 pm

    2. 300 was one of the worst suckfests I saw all year.

      Comment by Clint — December 30, 2007 @ 3:52 pm

    3. That is okay if you just think it was bad. But Ryan only hates it cause it isn’t historically accurate, which is a dumb reason to hate it, since it wasn’t trying to be. :P

      Director even said it was at its core, a fantasy film! :o

      Comment by Nick Hamden — December 30, 2007 @ 8:14 pm

    4. Well yea, I would think if it was to be based on history, it would be based on historical texts, not Frank Miller’s comic book.

      But it still sucked. If I could, I would have slowed down the word “sucked” to slow-motion as I typed, it, then sped up a lot during the typing of the “ed” at the end of “sucked”. But there is no emoticon for how I feel about this.

      Comment by Clint — December 30, 2007 @ 9:48 pm

    5. I think kirby is always an appropriate emoticon.
      <(^_^<)

      Now damn it, I want a picture of me by my name, how must I do this?

      Comment by Nick Hamden — December 30, 2007 @ 10:14 pm

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