Archive for the 'Science' Category
Friday, July 24th, 2009
A peer-reviewed study on the affect of humans on the global climate has shown that over 80% of climate changes over the ladder half of the 20th Century can be attributed to nature. Further, the study found that human activity has little affect on the climate. Three Australasian researchers have shown that natural forces are [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Culture War, Environmental Wackos, Human Stupidity, Science | Comments Off
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
At long long last, nuts like Bill Kaysing can be exposed as the crackpots they are. Fresh from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) come these pictures of the Apollo landing sites: The arrow points to the desent stage of the lunar module Eagle and its shadow. For more LRO pictures of the landing sites, go [...]
By: Nick | Category Conspiracy, History, Pictures, Science | Comments Off
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
I am old enough to remember sitting in front of the television with the rest of my family and watching the Apollo 11 moonwalk live. In living black and white. I remember thinking that surely nothing is beyond man’s grasp, now that manned interplanetary travel has been proven and accomplished. Heck, we’d probably be strolling [...]
By: Nick | Category Conspiracy, History, Human Stupidity, Science | 2 Comments »
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
For my money, the coolest picture of the space shuttle ever: Source
By: Nick | Category Pictures, Science | Comments Off
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Doctors have developed a transplant technique which can allow recipients to forgo the use of anti-rejection drugs: The treatment involved weakening the patient’s immune system, then giving the recipient bone marrow from the person who donated the organ. In one experiment, four of five kidney recipients were off immune-suppressing medicines up to five years later. [...]
By: Nick | Category Health Stuff, Science | 11 Comments »
Friday, December 15th, 2006
The following article is of great interest to people like me who have suffered with Type 1 diabetes for close to thirty years: In a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body’s nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential [...]
By: Nick | Category Health Stuff, Science | Comments Off
Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Usually, our environmental wacko friends on the left try to limit their attempts to destroy the American way of life to one thing at a time. Australian Dr. John Reid is trying to destroy the entire thing all at once: Consider just a few examples of the measures people will have to accept: First and [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Environmental Wackos, Political Correctness, Science | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 7th, 2006
Still working on the two new call centers at work. Programming telephone systems can be fun, but it is a lot of work the way we are setting these places up. Will be working on these two centers for another week and a half at least. Will somebody please tell North Korea that unless they [...]
By: Nick | Category Computers, Entertainment, Pictures, Politics, Science, War on Terror | Comments Off
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Islamofasicts and Cartoons: Looks like Muslims around the globe are upset over some depictions of Muhammad in cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. Now Denmark is subject to a Muslim boycott and Muslims around the world are threatening to kill, behead, or otherwise terminate Danish citizens where ever they may be. They’re doing this, by [...]
By: Nick | Category History, Life, Politics, Religion, Science, World Opinion | Comments Off
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
On January 28, 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after liftoff due to a design problem with seals on the solid rocket boosters. 7 astronauts lost their lives, and NASA was subjected to several months of investigation by a Presidential Commission. The Commission’s Report revealed a lot of problems at NASA, mostly [...]
By: Nick | Category History, Science | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
The United States will retain control over the Domain Naming System of the Internet, according to an agreement reached at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society: TUNIS, Tunisia (Reuters)—The United States will keep control of the domain-name system that guides online traffic under an agreement on Wednesday seen as a setback to [...]
By: Nick | Category Computers, Government, Science | Comments Off
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Several countries are trying to have the governance of the Internet turned over to the United Nations, or an organization based upon the U.N.: Since the latest round of talks began Sunday, the specific wording of the summit’s draft declaration has evolved from “international management of the Internet,” written by Pakistan, to far less specific [...]
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