Archive for January 19th, 2008

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Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080119

Saturday, January 19th, 2008
  • The World’s Fair has an old image that relates to what we’ve got floating in the middle of our oceans right now: Synthetica, A New Continent of Plastics.
  • Texas Is America’s Biggest Carbon Polluter. To quote the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket, “Texas? Only Steers and Queers come from Texas!” Not that there’s anything wrong with being homosexual or bovine, unless your a heterosexual human male from Texas.
  • A Nobel Winner’s Speech at Montana High School has been Canceled Over Global Warming Controversy, for fear that his speech might be “anti-agriculture.”
  • We are now living in the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, and it will take life on our planet 30 Million Years to Recover from it if past performance is indicative of future performance.
  • Oh Please! Oh please! Oh Please!!! NASA’s considering making a virtual world.
  • A tiny robot the size of the thickness of a finger nail uses Rat Heart Muscles to walk.
  • Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data. This is going to be huge when the online scientific community dives into it.
  • History Channel’s gotta cool website up brimming with data related to it’s upcoming two-hour special, Life After People

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