After listening to a few rememberence podcasts from the CBC I've had a craving for hearing the bagpipes..
Here is an great video of a bags and pipe band on the streets in Scotland.
Talent with Bagpipes.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Religous biggots threaten land owner to remove Godless billboard
A billboard in Cincinnati has been taken down and moved to a new location after threats to the owner of the land were placed; most likely by "peace loving christians".
The billboard put up by the United Coalition of Reason read “Don’t Believe In God? You are not alone”.
The full article in RichardDawkins.net. Ensenada needs a free thought group. I had to correct a person when they said "I respect belief..." Why!? Do you respect people who believe that Harry Potter is real too.. no you ridicule them for being idiots." We laugh a children who cover their eyes and ears to hide.. belief is the same thing, but on a much more dangerous level.
Belief: "an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists" But without proof. This is dangerous, and in any other context is called stubborn.
A couple of good videos have been posted on you tube.
Transition to atheism, and my favorite No true Scotsman. A nice little tidbit of wisdom is in the first video; "one of life's little rules, People who don't want you to think are never your friends."
The billboard put up by the United Coalition of Reason read “Don’t Believe In God? You are not alone”.
The full article in RichardDawkins.net. Ensenada needs a free thought group. I had to correct a person when they said "I respect belief..." Why!? Do you respect people who believe that Harry Potter is real too.. no you ridicule them for being idiots." We laugh a children who cover their eyes and ears to hide.. belief is the same thing, but on a much more dangerous level.
Belief: "an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists" But without proof. This is dangerous, and in any other context is called stubborn.
A couple of good videos have been posted on you tube.
Transition to atheism, and my favorite No true Scotsman. A nice little tidbit of wisdom is in the first video; "one of life's little rules, People who don't want you to think are never your friends."
Lots of water on the moon
NASA sent a probe to the moon that took its old booster and threw it into a crater wall on the lunar pole; LCROSS mission. The idea was to make a large explosion of material from the moons surface that is in permanent shade (at -230 deg C) and send the ejecta into the sun light. The probe, who collided several minuets later to make its own crater, quickly looked at the spectra of the ejected material to see what it was made of. They were hoping for teaspoons of water in a football field sized area, but have found buckets of water.
Why is this important? Because water is heavy, and crucial to life and rocket propellent. Ideally, we want to send up people and a few machines to the moon, but need there to be raw materials there to live off. A base on the moon is useful because it would be an ideal jumping point to go to other planets.
Videos are on CNN and youtube. I'm excited. A dream for me would be to design habitats on the moon and mars for people to live in. Sustainable living in these environments would is a necessity and the idea of designing this type of habitat here on earth is what I've been thinking of for a while.
Why is this important? Because water is heavy, and crucial to life and rocket propellent. Ideally, we want to send up people and a few machines to the moon, but need there to be raw materials there to live off. A base on the moon is useful because it would be an ideal jumping point to go to other planets.
Videos are on CNN and youtube. I'm excited. A dream for me would be to design habitats on the moon and mars for people to live in. Sustainable living in these environments would is a necessity and the idea of designing this type of habitat here on earth is what I've been thinking of for a while.
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