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Category Archives: Science
The Vehicle Arms Race Begins
The overprotected generation has continued past the age of 16. You know what I mean; that generation that is almost loved to the point of being smothered with their ever present helmets and padding. Before the age of 16 that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Science
Tagged arms race on our roads, best crash test results ever, big SUVs intimidate, big vehicles, cars, inexperienced drivers, make cars like bullets or arrows to intimidate, normal car drivers are at risk the most, not sweet after age 16, smothered with helmets and padding, sports utility vehicles, superstructures for cars can help, SUVs, the overprotected generation, worst drivers on road in toughest vehicles
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Super Plan of the Diamond Giants
Since 1938 the diamond mining giants have been running scared. That date is important because it marks the 1st time that Superman appeared on the scene. Soon after, it was revealed that Superman had this trick of squeezing coal just … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged 1938, artificial diamonds, artificial diamonds are cheaper, De Beers tried to be a premium diamond brand, diamond mining giants, even De Beers just entered the artificial diamond market, natural diamonds, squeezing coal into diamonds, Superman, Superman could flood the diamond market, windows of diamond, with good enough equipment you can tell mined diamonds from artificial ones
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Time Traveling Like an Animal
Certain earth animals can time travel two different ways. They are both methods of what I call ignorant time travel. If you can somehow ignore time’s ordinary passage and “wake up” in the future – that is ignorant time travel. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged animals, bears, blood freezes first, can now fly like animals, corpsicles, could skip winter in future, cryogenics, experimenting on humans, freezing and thawing, Futurama, hibernater and human hybrid, hibernation, human and wood frog hybrid, ignorant time travel, Larry Niven, liver fills cells with glucose, science fiction authors, suspended animation, time travel, time travel to the future only, tropes, water sucked out of cells, wood frogs
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Why We Won’t Find Aliens by SETI
Those aliens, precisely because they are intelligent, are in hiding, of course. What else would you do with the human race and its addiction to violence? Transmitting higher technology to us just sounds insane. We are violent when we are … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
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3 Things
First of all tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Ma, you have such a positive image that there have been attempts to corporatize your image. The first one is Mother’s Pizza. This chain of restaurants is back from the dead in Ontario … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Politics, Science
Tagged collar and button of Wendy, Kitchener-Conestoga, Michael Harris, Mike Harris Jr., Mike Harris Sr., Mom in Wendy's corporate image, Mother's Day, Mother's Pizza, natural end of the solar system, Neptune, Ontario, Pluto, Progressive Conservatives, the VW symbol upside down says Ma, there was a time when Uranus was the end of the solar system, Uranus, William Herschel
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More Anecdotal Proof of Erich von Daniken
Does anyone remember my pseudo or alien accent post from many years ago? Here is a link. In it I showed (via Youtube) my alien accent that contains a smacked M (like a kiss), clicked N and a flatulated (my … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Pseudo Science, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged alien accent, alien collusion when designing our alphabet, Chariots of the Gods, clicked n, clip clopped L, consecutive consonants in alphabet, Erich von Daniken, flatulated p, right at the centre of our alphabet, smacked m
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Password Progression
For many years now, having a password hasn’t been enough security for anything. Instead, many of us started using passphrases such a long, long time ago. And you know, I have been told for years that this just isn’t good … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Mathematics, Science
Tagged entering a passchapter without a mistake needs a computer program, home security, online security, passbooks, passchapters, passmonologues, passpassages, passphrase, passsentence, passsentences, password, these programs need to be password protected
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Fewer Colds, Coughs, and Flus?
I have now heard people my age and older mocking the young for sneezing into the inner elbow part of their sleeve. What? Are you serious? Are you so intent on mocking the young that you don’t realize that this … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged cold, cough, coughing into your inner elbow, dip to taste, double dipped finger, face masks, fist bump, flu, germaphobes, hand sanitizer, hand shake, hospitals, hygiene, ick factor, kids today, licking finger to turn page, millenials, public places, retirement homes, SARS, sneezes can be clocked at 100 mph, sneezing into your inner elbow
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See! 1984 Didn’t Happen!
I am just old enough to have gone through high school in 1984. Being science fiction literate, I was aware of George Orwell’s prognosis for that year. But Big Brother didn’t show up that year, at least not as heralded … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged 1984, 1984 as guidebook, AIs are good enought for limited things, album, big brother, book, Cameras are really cheap, Canada has secret trials, David Lee Roth, dictatorships, facial recognition software works now, fake news, free countries, George Orwell, Trump, Van Halen, watchdog media
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A Letter to the Editor of the Kitchener Post
I have written this letter to the editor in response to a letter in the Kitchener Post (a newspaper local to me), Climate Change Gurus Have No Evidence published on January 11, 2018 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I think you … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Politics, Science, Wry
Tagged .4 m ocean level rise, .8 degree celsius temperature increase since 1970, Al Gore, Antarctica, average surface temperature of earth, better hurricane projections, big oil, big tobacco, board up house because of hurricane, climate.gov, Europe, flee hurricane, global warming, Greendland, Kitchener, Kitchener Post, leading climate change advocate, Lloyd Fex, more hurricane deaths in early 1900s, NOAA, severity of hurricanes by deaths, severity of hurricanes by unadjusted dollars of damage, spot hurricanes by satellite, US Weather online, we're supposed to notice a .03 sq. mi. increase in the total polar ice cap., YouTube
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