BS: New news *not* about the virus

Subject: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 10:54 PM

Virginia is acting like a grownup, passing legislation increasing gun control, protecting abortion rights, and expanding voting rights. They also (finally) got rid of Lee-Jackson day, although, to be fair, when I first moved here we had Lee-Jackson-King day, I kid you not, as the Feds imposed MLK day on top of prexisting L-J day. They eventually moved L-J to the Friday before, making for a 4-day weekend.

Now, *that* will be missed.

What non-virus-related stories are you finding in your local papers? Good news preferred but interested in anything.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 04:53 AM

the four-leaf clover season is well under way. I am hoarding them (Oh! Hus ma mouth!)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 05:23 AM

Sun's fair blazin' innit!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 09:34 AM

The bilby is Australia's very own Easter bunny, but how much do you actually know about it? Forget Easter bunnies, in Australia we're all about the Easter bilby*
The bilby is a small native marsupial with huge ears and a pointy snout that makes it look like a cross between a bandicoot and a hare, but with extra fluffiness.

*We have been assured that the Easter bilby is also an essential worker and will be distributing eggs this Easter.

Wikipedia - Easter Bilby (books & merchandise)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 09:37 AM

but what about the quokka?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 09:45 AM

The UK politics thread is more entertaining than watching the Life of Brian scene, "Aside from the roads, health care, schools, aquaduct, sanitation, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

If Iains is the winner of the Insult King Award and Steve is the 3rd runner up who wants the right to have babies, who is second runner up?
I'm tellin ya Bull Shit, its not good for ya.

Now for new News:

Pay Pal is approved to give out pandemic relief money.
Is this too virusy?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 10:36 AM

this Easter quokka?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 11:11 AM

Also new law allows us to get rid of the confederate statues that caused all the trouble in Charlottesville.

Wonder how *that* will go.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 20 - 10:16 PM

Goons will not replace us.

Even Germany doesn't display Nazi statues of Gherring , Goebbles and Ribentrop.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 01:04 AM

Virginia has apparently kind of decriminalized pot. I tell ya, we are adulting all over the place.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 07:10 AM

The difference between my State and your State used to be VA made the weapons and MD made the medical treatments to save its victims.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 08:35 AM

I don't think I realized we were neighbors...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 01:32 AM

Prickles the sheep returns home to Dunalley farm after fleeing 2013 bushfires

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 07:23 AM

Prickles has quite a fleece! Will be interesting to see how much it weighs.

We used to have a cat called Prickle, a black and white puss......lived to be 15 or so......our boys gave her the name. When we were bringing her home in the car from the animal shelter she was stretching and 'kneading' as cats do; "she's very prickly" said the boys. And so 'Prickle' she became.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 06:47 PM

Aw, Brian Dennehey died. I liked him though I confused him a lot with Brian Keith. Whom I also liked.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: leeneia
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 07:21 PM

It's not local news, but see my thread on amazing sea creatures filmed off western Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 09:47 PM

amazing sea creatures here - https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167634&messages=2&threadid=167634&messages=2

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Apr 20 - 11:49 AM

Cool stuff! And neanderthals had string.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 08:31 AM

On an unhappy note, mass shooting in Nova Scotia (of all places). Thoughts, but not prayers, in my case.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Apr 20 - 09:28 PM

Interesting toke, er, take: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/20/21225731/what-is-420-coronavirus-marijuana-legalization-covid-19

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 07:37 AM

The price of oil is A MINUS $37 per barrel. Thats right because it costs money to store surplus oil, buyers are paid by the sellers.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 08:16 AM

The Lyrids peak tonight, a-wimoweh.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 06:39 PM

The perfect supream leader of North Korea had heart surgury and is in critical condition.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 07:36 PM

Mrzzy you posted "Oh weem oway"

Heres one

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Apr 20 - 09:35 PM

2 Feral sheep shorn for first time in years after discovery near WA beach

they couldn't move fast enough to get away from the bloke who saw them! The average fleece weighs 5 kilos (11 pounds), these lost 19 kilos (41 pounds) each, but the record for a feral sheep is still 41 kilos (91 pounds) from the sheep found in 2015! Check out the before & after photos.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 09:56 AM

Has it only been 15 years?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/tech/youtube-first-video-jawed-karim-trnd/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 10:32 PM

COVID-19 restrictions don't make sense to Jon, but letters from strangers are making a difference

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: JennieG
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 10:51 PM

I plan to make Anzac bikkies tomorrow, first time in many a long year. Probably since my boys were in high school, which is *ahem* more than 20 years ago......

Recipe will come from the Commonsense Cookery Book, for many Aussies over the span of many years their first cook book on leaving home.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Apr 20 - 11:09 PM

Sandra, wrong thread, no biggie.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 02:07 AM

My sister used to make Anzac biscuits, and sent the NZ recipe book for mum to make them.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 08:20 AM

Hmmm. Not new news, but not about the pandemic.

Tough thread, this.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 08:48 AM

Here's something *and* it is music-related!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/us/chattanooga-tornado-church-piano-trnd/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 09:58 AM

Americans are suffering from Trump fatigue to the point of completely giving up.
The unfathomable ignorance has no bottom.
We are shell shocked into submission.
All we can do is to ignore.
We need to look away.
We know it is
at our own
peril.
But
There will
be a renewed
interest as the election
is called into question or even be done.
All the dirty tricks in the book will be in full force.
The absurdity is to the point of abbandoning the sinking ship.
Twice in the last 2 Republican Presidents the US is robbed by bail outs


Millionares are getting $ while millions of americans scramble for food

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: gillymor
Date: 24 Apr 20 - 09:59 AM

"Americans are suffering from Trump fatigue to the point of completely giving up." so true, Don. Most everyone I know is hunkered down in this very conservative district and just waiting for their chance to vote out this cretin. Judging from the Democrat turnout and the results in every election since and including the mid-terms,in spite of all the efforts at voter suppression, Americans are highly motivated to remove this malignancy.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 01:27 PM

Kim jong un is apparently dead. Unsure if virus-related so posting in both threads.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 10:23 PM

Normally only tourists are seen wearing Fly Mosquito Head Net Mesh Hat Face Protectors

but today workers in Central Australia have started wearing them - Booming fly population making life difficult in Australian outback, even four-legged workers!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Apr 20 - 10:30 PM

Now, can you people in North Carolina and Michigan and Wisconsin send us some good news?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 05:09 AM

How Navajo Code Talkers of World War II Saved the Day

messynessy - Blogging on the off-beat, the unique and the chic & a fantastic place to spend time (lose time?)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 06:45 AM

Mrrzy is correct, Kim is both dead and alive like Shrodingers cat.

On SNL Dr. Fauci was of course portrayed by...Brad Pitt.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Apr 20 - 09:09 AM

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/23/21232665/north-korea-kim-jong-un-coronavirus-sick

He may not even be sick.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 10:36 AM

Ok, no two spaces after full stops:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/tech/microsoft-word-two-spaces-trnd/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 11:43 AM

Americans are suffering from Trump fatigue to the point of completely giving up.

You are explaining his technique, if you can call a blunt instrument - technique.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Apr 20 - 11:50 AM

oh! yes, 2 spaces is a hangover from the old typewriter days,

As a picky, pedantic proofreader I get annoyed by spare spaces!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Apr 20 - 03:45 AM

Oh      Really?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 May 20 - 10:05 AM

I always thought the two spaces marked the slightly longer pause than adter a comma and its one space.

My phone, if I hit space twice, types a period and a space.

Meanwhile the Mars helicopter has a name:

https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-named-ingenuity.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 May 20 - 11:11 AM

Also this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sudan-outlawed-female-genital-mutilation-but-experts-warn-it-will-take-more-to-end-the-practice/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 03 May 20 - 12:01 PM

Society is getting more cynical and full of gallows humor.
Budget Nursing homes used to have happy pastoral names.
But more and more truth in advertising seems to be taking over.
Like:
Roach Motel Manor -they check in but...
Memory Loss Manor
Vertigo Village
Disorientation Terrace
Get Me Outta Here Gardens
Altzheimers Acres

D emented Gardens
E nd O’ Life Residence
A lmost Heaven Homes
D eathview Villas

Reaching The End Estates
Abandoned Here Pasteurs
Corona Cottages

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 May 20 - 08:43 AM

Murder hornets

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 May 20 - 11:34 AM

Hee hee who knew Autumn Down Under was so dangerous?

Man, dog and five camels rescued from fall in Australian bush

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 May 20 - 09:05 AM

Also check out this pic of moon composed all of terminator images as moon waxed to full, seriously lovely:

https://www.livescience.com/terminator-moon-composite-image.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 May 20 - 08:43 AM

Germany grows up some

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/europe/germany-gay-conversion-therapy-ban-intl-scli-grm/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 May 20 - 04:33 PM

Aaand astronaut pee = lunar concrete

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5eb58485c5b6197b8461b289

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 May 20 - 08:50 AM

Ben Stiller's dad, so sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 May 20 - 03:47 AM

Cool stuff! And neanderthals had string. - is that a string theory they can actually prove?

Not to be picky or pedantic, but it might have been a binding to hold the flint on a stick. eg axe they say, and not to be cutting maybe even be a knife say I.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 May 20 - 08:06 AM

Penna becomes 3rd US state to ban child marriage! Woohoo!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 13 May 20 - 08:38 PM

Mrrzy:

For a reason I no longer remember, I get a daily email with the 5 top stories of the Virginia Pilot. I have been delighting in what goes on in VA! It gives me hope that at least one State is making good choices!

(I am in Canada.)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 May 20 - 03:21 AM

I found a tricorn walnut today. How's that for unusual? Inside was tricorn too. Tasted the same.

I only buy them for the craic.








I'll get my face mask

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 May 20 - 04:57 AM

Penna becomes 3rd US state to ban child marriage! Woohoo!

Mrrzy, I am confused. I had assumed that Penna was an abbreviation of Pennsylvania but, according to Wikipedia: "Since 2018, three states, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey have banned underage marriages without exception."

It would appear that whichever state you are referring to is, at least, the 4th.

If one of the participants is underage, how can the marriage be legal?
If it is not legal, why is specific legislation required to ban it?
In the case of child marriages, up to what age are people still considered to be a child?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 May 20 - 05:15 AM

The questions in the last paragraph of my 04:47 AM post were rhetorical. I am not expecting you to justify anything, Mrrzy. As you say, whoohoo!

DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 May 20 - 05:19 AM

... of my 04:57 post...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 May 20 - 09:56 AM

Before, yes Pennsylvania, you could marry underage with judge's or parental permission. Wiki (shocked, shocked!) must have been mistaken...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 20 - 10:01 AM

Can a 12 year old get married in the US?
Hell yes with judicial or parental consent, children as young as 10, 11 and 12 have been married in the U.S. in the last couple of decades. When exceptions are taken into consideration, 25 states actually do not have an absolute minimum marriageable age.

In a way I married a 12 year old in that I am 12 years older than my one and only.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 May 20 - 02:23 PM

"Since 2018, three states, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey have banned underage marriages without exception."


OK, I should have read the Wekipedia page more thoroughly. I took it that the three states had their bans in place since 2018. In fact, they brought them in at different times and not in the order listed. The page has been recently updated to include Pennsylvania, which is identified further down the page as having brought in the ban this month. Confusion over.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 May 20 - 01:02 PM

Ooh ooh new Trek!

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/star-trek-series-anson-mount-ethan-peck-rebecca-romijn-cbs-all-access-1234607259/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 May 20 - 08:32 AM

Neural communication without synspses:

https://www.sciencealert.com/neuroscientists-think-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 20 - 10:27 AM

"To ensure that the slice was completely cut, the two pieces of tissue were separated and then rejoined while a clear gap was observed under the surgical microscope," the authors explained in their paper.

"The slow hippocampal periodic activity could indeed generate an event on the other side of a complete cut through the whole slice."

If you think that sounds freaky, you're not the only one. The review committee at The Journal of Physiology – in which the research has been published – insisted the experiments be completed again before agreeing to print the study.

Mrrzy, now imagine not just a slight gap but a distance measured in meters or more in which info is transmitted and received.

Also checkout; nano tubuels and brain communication
The 'Egg' project in communicating info before and after a mass event.
CIA and FBI war regarding remote viewing.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 20 - 10:36 AM

Third eye spies non fiction

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 May 20 - 01:30 PM

Ha! Non-fiction! Guffaw!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 May 20 - 01:37 PM

Did you watch it?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 May 20 - 06:54 AM

The post? Yes. Guffaw again.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 20 - 08:46 AM

We have found your reality horizon?

If so do not go here

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 20 - 09:15 AM

For 40 years or more this is my reality horizon
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2011/09/06/911-and-global-consciousness/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 May 20 - 09:25 AM

And an attack on a maternity ward in Afghanistan.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 May 20 - 05:01 AM

"The slow hippocampal periodic activity could indeed generate an event on the other side of a complete cut through the whole slice."

Quantum entanglement?
Jim Al-Khalili (et al) reckon the way our olfactory system & the way European Robins navigate is via quantum entanglement. If it is present in the body - who nose? (sic)

Spooky action at a distance.....................

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 20 - 07:47 AM

NANO TUBUELS give our brains quantum scale communication.
They are too small to see with anything but electron microscopes and only recently discovered.

Senseing entanglement or discovering instant communication is objectivly only a possible truth today but I would not rule it out even though current knowledge is relatively blind to this emerging surprise.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 May 20 - 11:45 AM

'Ere, U sayin' Ima quatum computer?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 May 20 - 03:14 PM

I'm sayin a books worth. This brain of ours has the ability to see beyond the split second of now and can peer into the fuzziness of future and past, pick up on info like manna blowin in the wind and see with far more than our eyes.

I am not saying everyone can do this.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: leeneia
Date: 20 May 20 - 01:22 PM

Yesterday somebody landed a small airplane on I-470 in the thriving suburb of Lee's Summit, Missouri. FYI - An 'I' road is an interstate freeway, like a motorway in the UK or the Autobahn in Germany. This was in the middle of the afternoon, and the only mishap was that one wing tipped a freeway sign. (The plane had lost one of its two engines.)

Having driven the freeways of my area (Kansas City) I was convinced that most of the drivers don't know what they are doing, but now my hat is off to the drivers who handled this situation so well.

==========
Come to think of it, what's the French for freeway?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 20 - 01:58 PM

My guess is Arterie

2 dimensional drivers made room for the 3 D voyaging plane.
Seeing the plane above and behind you is a challenge.
We 3 D beings can make extra room for 4 D tourists.
Seeing them is tricky like seeing flashes of
glowing globes that
ignore walls

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 20 May 20 - 02:16 PM

Come to think of it, what's the French for freeway?

L'autoroute

DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 20 May 20 - 03:40 PM

Its not Mille Bornes?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: leeneia
Date: 21 May 20 - 03:47 PM

Thanks, Doug. Now I remember encountering "autoroute."

When I thought more about the airplane landing on the freeway, I realized that the common bad habit of driving in tight clumps paid off for once. The pilot managed to line up with empty space between clumps, and the cars behind let the plane in.

Well, I'm sure it was not that simple. The plane could have been going 140 mph, the DH tells me.

I, who always aim to drive between clumps, would have messed it all up. Good thing I avoid driving on the freeway in town.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 May 20 - 05:25 PM

You call it driving in clumps which is a good observation but bad conclusion.
Traffic actually moves like a WORM stretching and contracting.
Once cars are slowed by cars in front of them a clump forms. The gap behind is thinned out as they play a brief catch up game. Blood even moves in a similar fashion.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 May 20 - 11:42 AM

The US is getting globally shorter, and I don't mean the population:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/science/maps-elevation-geodetic-survey.html

Blicky

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 22 May 20 - 03:45 PM

Mrrzy you remind me that the only thing that does not exist in our cosmos is something that does not move.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 May 20 - 09:00 AM

Hmmm. I can think of lots of other nonexistent things! But hey.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 23 May 20 - 07:37 PM

Name one
I bet they all move though. I don't know how to prove non existence.
We assume the properties of space are the same elswhere as here.
We keep getting surprised.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 May 20 - 03:45 PM

If it is nonexistent, motion is moot. Or non-applicable.

Beards evolved to help men take punches:

https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/2/1/obaa005/5799080

Blicky

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 20 - 06:16 PM

Ha. I guess good themes for PHd dissertations are getting rare.

Massless particles must always move at the speed of light unless it passes through mass. Mass can never go as fast as light.
One of the tricks to slowing light to a halt is creating a cloud of nearly motionless atoms at near absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit). This is called a Bose-Einstein condensate.
But everything wants to move. Existence is moot and just an aspect of language.

CAN gravitons which move at the speed of light be slowed down or stopped at absolute zero? If so, anti gravity could be manipulated.
I want an anti gravity car.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 20 - 06:43 PM

The problem is that gravity may be an emergent force that comes from 2   or more force vectors, which means that gravitons may be only a figment of our imagination.
We tend to think of gravity as an enormous force but it is actually the tinyist.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 May 20 - 12:37 PM

If so, anti gravity could be manipulated.

Call me simplistic, but.

I predict that if, and it is a big if, we find anti-gravity, we will find negative time, or negative mass. Gravity comes out of how mass interacts with space-time, ne c'est pas?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 May 20 - 02:07 PM

Asimov wrote a great short story about someone inventing a gravity-less field and putting it, for demo purposes, on a billiards table, asking a rival scientist (poopoo-er) to play. The cue-struck ball took off at the speed of light, punching a hole through the poopoo-ed scientist, because it was actually a mass-less field and things with no mass travel at the speed of light...

Also one about a quantum black hole which punches a microscopic hole with huge tidal effects through another poopoo-ing rival scientist.

Don't poopoo Asimov's science!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 May 20 - 04:05 PM

Gravity-less conditions to create a null gravity zone (not anti gravity) is possibly not the problem. How does incredible inertia free accelleration work? If you master the inertia free maneuvering thing perhaps gravity wouldn't even matter. Yeah we always refer to warping space as an answer. Now how do you create a confined parastaltic motion in space time and remain in the center of it, like a turd in a space time intestine? Humans can manipulate mass and even turn it into E.
But have we manipulated space? -nope- I have long postulated that black holes generate space and neutrinos like a wild factory. At least it is a good place to start looking.

{Trekies would see this as the Romulan warp drive theory as opposed to the Federation method} :^/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 May 20 - 06:47 AM

I read a really good book about anti-gravity. I just couldn't put it down!

DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 May 20 - 10:40 AM

Snicker.

And news on our magnetic field is getting interesting...

https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-anomaly-weakening-earth-s-magnetic-field-seems-to-be-splitting-into-two/amp

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 26 May 20 - 11:11 AM

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 May 20 - 01:33 PM

articles says - Earth's magnetic field is constantly in a state of flux

Pun not intended I would guess. The unit of Tesla is a measure of what we electrical engineers call magnetic flux.

But the South Atlantic anomaly reminds me of Jupiter's red spot. I have seen experiments with rotating inner core with viscous fluids as thin layers and they often produce a single large eddy. And our molten outer cored is just such a system, a viscous layer trapped. And Earths magnetic field is produced by a rotating core we are told.

Well that's my take. Other than the warning that the magnetic pole reversals won't go in one huge flip, it will most likely appear "reversed" in spots, say those that study these things. Timescale long.

We may get a hint of what to expect any day in our life time. The last big coronal mass ejection to hit the Earth was the Carrington Event in 1859 and it wasn't pretty.
viz
A solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage due to extended outages of the electrical grid. - bloody coronas and people think the virus is THE big deal! Keep that food/bogroll hoard topped up, there is no predicting...................

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 May 20 - 07:43 PM

Pole flips are old news

Sci fi chuckles to serious investigation
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-feasible-is-a-warp-drive-here-s-the-science

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 May 20 - 08:07 PM

If you are seriously interested
https://youtu.be/Wokn7crjBbA

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:10 AM

New view of Earth and Moon

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:30 AM

A doctor arrived at his surgery one morning to find a large bag on the doorstep. He looked inside and found a new born baby with a note saying "Please look after my child". As a medical professional, he knew that it was a responsibility he could not shirk but there would be so many forms to fill in and he had patients waiting. He took it inside and examined it. As the baby seemed in good health, he decided to deal with his morning patients before handing it over for further care.

The first patient was the local vicar, a hypochondriac whom the doctor knew well. He had suffered every disease known to man and, this morning, was complaining of acute stomach pains. The doctor suspected trapped wind but thought that if, this time, he could convince him that it really was something serious, it might shock him out of his hypochondria. The situation gave him the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

He told the vicar to drop his trousers, lie on the examination table and open his legs. The doctor then pressed on the vicar's belly, causing him to let out a long fart. The doctor picked up the baby and said "Congratulations! You have given birth to a healthy boy".
"B..b..but I can't have done" stammered the vicar, "It's not possible!"
"God moves in mysterious ways" replied the doctor.

The vicar, being a good Christian, accepted his apparent responsibilities a brought the child up as his own. When the boy reached the age of 18, the vicar thought that it was time that he knew the truth. It was a difficult conversation but it had to be done. He said "You have always been my son and always will be. You have grown up calling me Dad but, in fact, I am not ACTUALLY you father.

Looking rather shocked at the news, the young man asked "Then who is my father?"

In an anguished tone, the vicar replied "The bishop!"


DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:34 AM

OOPS! WRONG THREAD.

Could a MudElf please delete the above post, together with this one. I will repost it in the Joke thread.

Sorry,
DC

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 20 - 08:36 AM

Nice view of earth and moon, Donuel. Lovely.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 20 - 02:51 PM

Also can watch space launch today space.com or nasa.gov

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 20 - 05:27 PM

About 500 businesses are burned or destroyed along with a police station by a race riot over more murders by police of black people.
I made a complete list but is too much data to post

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 29 May 20 - 05:49 PM

DemonstrTIONS HAVE SPREAD TO aTLANTA sAN jOSE wASHINGTON dc...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 May 20 - 06:41 PM

Seriously, can't we just grow the fuck *up* already.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 20 - 07:15 AM

Its very hard to grow up when you are murdered legally by indemic institutional racism before you have a chance to grow up.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 30 May 20 - 05:16 PM

OK mods enough trying to exponge any mention of GEORGE FLOYD

REMOVING legal arguements regarding 1st degree murder is jeuvenile

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 May 20 - 10:32 PM

Wrong thread for that conversation. It has its own.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 06:50 PM

Ebola is breaking out again, in the Congo. (Not *that* virus.)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jun 20 - 07:13 PM

Australia - Endangered animal breaks into shop & trips alarms

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 07:34 AM

37 kids stabbed in China...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 02:59 PM

The death of the last American to receive Civil War pension!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/04/she-was-last-american-collect-civil-war-pension-7313-month-she-just-died/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 09:48 PM

thanks for posting the story, Mrrzy, some years back I read about much younger second wives of Civil War veterans & thought the story might be about a widow's death.

Back in the 70s I had an older friend who was a 2nd generation Australian. She was born before or during the first world war, a late child of a man whose father arrived in Australia in 1793, 5 years after British settlement.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 20 - 11:49 PM

When I was a little kid some older folks could remember that the President when they were kids was Ulysses S. Grant. They said the S stands for secret.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 08:24 AM

When I was growing up, we had old cousins whose parents had been kids during the Civil War. It was like that Ray Bradbury story about the time machine, hearing them tell their parents' stories.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 20 - 08:41 AM

This today from cnn: looking bad for Trump in electoral college!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/electoral-map-2020-election-donald-trump-joe-biden/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jun 20 - 11:21 AM

And we are tunneling on Mars

https://www.universetoday.com/146361/finally-mars-insights-mole-is-now-underground/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Jun 20 - 08:11 AM

Aaaand more massacre in Nigeria

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/nigeria-borno-state-attack-coronavirus/2020/06/10/0147e06a-ab1b-11ea-a43b-be9f6494a87d_story.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Jun 20 - 02:54 AM

This today from cnn: looking bad for Trump in electoral college!

It is hope, but what people say to pollsters, and how they vote does not always tally. Given Twitler's record, people would be ashamed to admit to liking him. But they also vote for a party, so you have to ask the right question. And even then, polls and votes are different.

The UK had an expression "Shy Tories". And it proved decisive.

Be afraid America, be very afraid.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Jun 20 - 09:23 AM

It get worse: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sanctions-international-criminal-court-us-war-crimes-investigation-a9561901.html?amp

Sanctioning in the sense of punish, not permit, the ICC so Murrican military can't get done for their war crimes.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jun 20 - 11:24 AM

The mudcat pandemic thread has fallen off the front page.
This is the ideal time to get infected when your guard is down.
The virus is still content to infect at a 50% contagion rate.
We need to have a discontented virus.

Welcome to the second half of stage one. On a NIH conference call Dr. Fauci was asked why Trump acts as if he is immune. He said he told the president that in a time with no cure, anything is better than nothing except those things that are worse to your health. The prsident asked if their was vaccine he could have now and Fauci told him he could have a Faucine today. What's a Faucine? Thats where I spit on my hand and shake yours.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jun 20 - 11:37 AM

If ya wanna add to the virus thread do, but don't contaminate this obe while complaining the other isn't here.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jun 20 - 03:20 PM

Ooh you go SCOTUS! Sexual identity and orientation are, too, covered by the civil rights act, so there!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jun 20 - 08:11 PM

And this, from Forbes of all places:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/06/15/there-are-36-intelligent-alien-civilizations-in-our-galaxy-say-scientists/amp/

Blicky

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 20 - 07:13 AM

Only 36 civilizations? Do humans count?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 20 - 08:31 AM

The Dropa civilization is one of the more prolific in our area.

They are curious of us too
Note you will not see 'debris' but the distinctive Dropa swarm of crafts.   nasa video of STS 75

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 08:28 AM

Is the UK a nuclear power?
Is Finland part of Russia?
Why don't we use nuclear weapons more?

Things Trump has asked

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 12:16 PM

Go SCOTUS again! DACA stays!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 05:08 PM

Trump did have the right to challenge DACA, a mere presidential order, the Supreme court found his argument for doing so was insufficint when his legal team argued "because Obama did it".

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 10:10 AM

Women seeking abortions are right about why they wanted one...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/20/abortion-denied-debt-bankruptcy-eviction

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jun 20 - 11:33 AM

Intact six-metre long whale backbone washes ashore, Australia

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Jun 20 - 09:35 AM

Totally cool, Sandra in Sydney.

And in *other* virus news, the Ebola outbreak is being declared controlled.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jun 20 - 12:11 PM

And the Supreme Court, in another spasm of adulting, strikes down Louisiana's abortion restrictions.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jun 20 - 03:33 PM

On the other hand, quoting Slate, John Roberts Just Bulldozed the Wall Separating Church and State.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/supreme-court-espinoza-montana-religious-schools.html

Blicky.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jul 20 - 08:29 AM

Yay the awful Atlantic pipeline idea is no more!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jul 20 - 08:33 AM

Blicky no paywall

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jul 20 - 04:45 PM

What do you guys think of SCOTUS saying No faithless electors?

One view on Slate.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 12:02 PM

And fish eggs, soft tiny things, can survive gizzard stones, stomach acid, and the rest of a goose's digestive system. Goose poop can spead invasive fish species. Cool.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 06:12 PM

SCOTUS has not helped Trump regarding faithless electors


Geese can change the biome of wetlands via bacteria.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jul 20 - 04:03 PM

Gary Larson is back! New Far Side cartoons! Yay!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jul 20 - 06:43 PM

Prez of Ivory Coast resigns, following death of prime minister. Iyé aconde quoi?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jul 20 - 06:46 PM

Oops Veep. Still!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 05:57 AM

tonight over the UK

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 11:50 AM

Wow, beautiful, thanks Donuel!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 07:05 AM

China is not out of the woods yet. 6 Quakes, 3 dams at risk, serious flooding, and grain quality scandals. All that without Hong Kong.

The 3 Gorges Dam is not entirely out of risk, it can't hold any more water so floods downstream are serious.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 08:32 AM

The taxidemist was like the secretary of state in ancient Egypt. I did 2 taxidermy cartoons. 1 was a tax attorny taxidermy and the other was the chancellory of Taxidermy. I too discovered digital cartooning but 10 years ago/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 08:57 AM

my cartoons are too monstrous or controversial to be published but times are achangin. My last cartoon was of 5th avenue looking through a large hole in the back of a black man's head revealing Trump holding a smoking gun. See what I mean.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 05:17 PM

Has anybody seen the comet?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Jul 20 - 08:57 AM

I saw it. What was cool was knowing about it.

Also this.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/world/god-good-pew-survey/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Jul 20 - 07:00 PM

I stuck something on the new team name for the WashDC [American] football team into the BLM thread.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jul 20 - 09:32 AM

Money is more likely to answer prayers than a fickle god.


WTF-Washington Tough Football [the toughs]

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 02:37 PM

Sperm swim like otters, not like snakes or eels. Cool 3D pix available here.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 05:31 PM

France is building their first fusion reactor (*)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: robomatic
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 07:17 PM

I listened to the show about sperm this morning on NPRs Science Friday. But somehow I cannot imagine that is news. I'm pretty sure I've seen some HD documentaries which show sperm doing the corkscrew motion. Plus, from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who first saw (his own) magnified sperm in motion, people weren't stupid and so must have appreciated that they were observing what they could see only in 2 dimensions. So, interesting story, but I think it's being hyped.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 20 - 07:23 PM

My random thoughts are not news either but why be critical?
Watch a baseball game and you may see statisics being made or an unlikely tremendous play so while we see the same game we each bring something different to the experience. Parts of the 'unlikely' IS enjoyment of the game. SO this is why baseball entertains us. It is a demonstration of the wierdness of quantum mechanics. It is true anyone who says they understand quantum mechanics - doesn't.

Sometimes it may even be a boring game, which is wierd in itself.
I've wondered about the split screen experiment since I was 13
Probabilities have shown us that we can get entangled with a destructive moron becoming President. We can complain when reality isn't rational BUT ITS NOT. Perhaps we should make a new kind of computer that uses spooky action at a distance and employ only entangled atoms - instead of electrons and calculate an accidental utopia just for grins and giggles.
But a game of all home runs would not appeal to us for long.
Wierdness is a strength And Not A Weakness.
It is our raison d'etre.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 07:16 AM

You could easily be right about sperm, robomatic, too!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Aug 20 - 09:54 AM

Theft proof electric bike VanMoof

Satillie tracking and free replacement does the trick

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 07:39 AM

The motion of sperm mirrors the sprial progression of DNA.
The same motion of the solar system in its orbit around the galaxy.
Its the same mathematic and geometric path a pendulum takes through time. The human egg also sprials in its free fall journey through the Fallopian tube.

Ain't life cool. At least its the way I see it.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Aug 20 - 07:51 AM

Here is a way to see an xyz pendulum over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwYLKFJoUk#:~:text=This%20pendulum%20is%20mesmerizing%20to,another%20plane%20at%20right%20angle

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Aug 20 - 08:14 AM

Also, perseids.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Aug 20 - 12:52 PM

RE: Singing -
things you don't want to know

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Aug 20 - 10:31 PM

That fascinating article should go above the line!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: robomatic
Date: 07 Aug 20 - 01:28 AM

My bonnie lass sends me her droplets
They flash in their phoneme streams
And I catch them on my tonsil goblets
I turn them to memories and memes

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Aug 20 - 03:23 PM

Bring back my gobbets?

Meanwhile Liberty U seems to have fired Jerry Falwell. Lessee how well he falls...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Aug 20 - 08:29 AM

The Supreme Court has just okayed laws that force women impregnated by rape to tell their rapist before being able to get an abortion *and* give him more of a say if he's over 18 and she isn't. Also outlawing medical [non-surgical] abortions. Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Aug 20 - 07:36 AM

A 3D ZOOM https://portlhologram.com/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Aug 20 - 04:56 PM

Kamala Harris

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Aug 20 - 11:21 AM

Aricebo telescope ruined https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-cable-failure-investigation.html

That leaves https://www.sciencealert.com/china-s-huge-500-meter-fast-radio-telescope-is-finally-up-and-running

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Aug 20 - 11:45 AM

I read about the telescope but thought it was damaged, not ruined...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Sep 20 - 04:06 PM

Somebody has nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 20 - 04:12 PM

He has said he hoped that would happen, telegraphing to his followers to give it a shot.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Sep 20 - 07:38 PM

NYT got the tax returns!


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html

Also posted to Elections thread.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 05:29 PM

And now for something completely different:

https://neurosciencenews.com/electromagnetic-consciousness-17191/amp/

Blicky.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 08:08 AM

Consciousness is EM but also quantum tubule* communication.
The 'empty' limbic system is also far more than a shock absorber.
*an actual neural structure.

Mrrzy likes pot more than bacon
This is a loss for our nation.
If he ended the smoke
and laid off the toke
We'd have a world class statesman.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 01:44 PM

Teehee

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 20 - 11:02 AM

Come explore a real Disneyland a century before our US fake one.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/quinta-da-regaleira

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 01:47 PM

whirlled series game 4 was won on the last play which contained 5 errors on that 1 play alone. Still that was better than the Washington football team. They didnt even bother to recover their own fumble on the goal line. What I see is that sports are not taking 2o2o seriously and why should they. There are more serious things.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 04:15 PM

I keep forgetting that the World Series is on, since I typically don't watch sports. But that would have been fun to watch.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 07:34 AM

The hit was not caught in right field and when he finally threw to 3rd base the runner was on his way home when he FELL DOWN. The pitcher got distracted and forgot to back up home plate. The runner got up and the 3rd baseman threw home which the catcher could not catch. With no back up the ball sailed away allowing the runner to reach home which he kept comicly pounding with his hands.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 09:07 AM

Very glad to see that a contingent of SBS were able to board an oil tanker in worsening weather by "fast roping" from a helicopter 5 miles off the Isle of Wight, to detain a group of stowaways who illegally boarded the tanker in Nigeria, had turned violent!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 05:12 PM

4 helicopters it seems were used to fast rope down to the tanker. It took just 7 minutes for our excellent SBS boys to secure the ship, and detain the hijackers who will now doubt face substantial prison terms and subsequent deportation!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Oct 20 - 12:06 AM

Lorises are venomous.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Nov 20 - 01:27 PM

Aw...

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/11/19/21575025/arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-decommission-structural-collapse-cable-break

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Nov 20 - 04:57 PM

Scotland makes all period products free. I am stifling obvious puns.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Nov 20 - 07:13 PM

What is with the monoliths, Utah and Romania?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Dec 20 - 12:00 AM

Don't you love it?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Dec 20 - 04:45 PM

The Chinese lander is collecting moonrocks.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 20 - 07:04 PM

Mrrzy Aricebo was teenyweenieanyway but geta load of this one

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 12:53 PM

Ooh a third mono-not-lith! California.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 04:13 PM

Aaaand... The Romania one has vanished.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 04:40 PM

Aaand ... the California one has also vanished!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Dec 20 - 11:54 PM

OMG there's a monolith under the tree at the white house

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 07:14 PM

Ooh ooh the US House just passed pot decriminalization! It won't go farther but hey [*cough cough*]!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 07:54 PM

I don't know what comprises dark matter exactly but I know where it came from. It came from the annihilation of matter and anti matter, Besides the energy release from matter being converted, there is a certain amount of residue in which the energy converted to matter. But what kind of matter? Certainly one which had the property of gravity but not made of normal atoms.
How about an experiment to create dark matter? We need a shitload (scientific term) of antimatter and measure what dissappears in annihilation radiation (E) and how much is converted to Mass and how much disappears (C). This will be a first measurment. The results will give us more understanding and questions.

I have a sneaking suspicion the mass is all quarks and neutrinos with no protons, neutrons and electrons. If they loan me the LHC I might blow it up but at least learn something new.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 08:08 PM

We see what dark energy is doing but how?
By converting time into space inside a singularity.
Not just converting mass into energy like a star but something bigger.
https://www.einstein-online.info/en/spotlight/changing_places/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 08:24 PM

If you got lost just remember that the magical transformation begins when Time stops, making the black hole an eternal space making factory.
Eternal up until energy and space can balance no longer and rips bringing the entire cosmos into a lower energy state - even black holes die in such a rip.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 20 - 10:41 PM

That's not news.

*This* is news: DACA's back!

Blicky.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 09:50 AM

That's certainly better news that the viral videos of Giuliani farting. I haven't opened any of those links for fear someone has invented smellivision.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 02:00 PM

I was watching a cooking show where the host wished we in the audience had smell-o-vision. I want it, but only for the cooking shows.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Dec 20 - 04:17 PM

We have 3 kinds of neutrinos that change as they travel, maybe just maybe dark neutrinos don't travel. Speculation ain't news by a long shot but the Cosmos is a stage for entertainment. My human bias
is believing one thing leads to another. Its probably 2 things create a third....

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 02:45 PM

From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Nov 20 - 04:57 PM
Scotland makes all period products free. I am stifling obvious puns.

You may ignore the obvious puns. Some of us don't have the same self-control.
Scotland is not a rich country. For this new announcement I wonder what the 'monthly' expenditure is.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 09:55 PM

These days? Bwahaha.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 08:40 AM

Any idea what is sickening hundreds of people that is not covid? Southern India, convulsions and nausea, possibly no deaths though. Likely water-borne.

One blicky.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 01:08 PM

And another mono-not-lith, in Britain!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 05:09 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christmas-star-will-be-closest-visible-conjunction-jupiter-saturn-800-n1250418

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 05:08 PM

Going back to language pet peeves, conflating a planetary phenom with xianity just chaps my cheeks.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 09:05 AM

Happy Ckkhunukah.
Don't miss out on online dreidel gambling
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dreidel-invented-dreidel-games-generation/story?id=9315727

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 07:30 AM

The few new movies that are being made are Sci. Fi.
People are in spacesuits or walking a lonely post apocolyptic desert.
An example is the new Cloony movie Midnight Sun.

The sequel is still alive; 'Return of the prequel', 'Back to the Jedi', 'Rocky Home Alone XI', 'Harry Potter and the Michilein Man', Germinator on Mars II, 'The Thing Whatever III', 'Man in the Cotton Mask 6'.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 04:36 PM

And again, go scotus! They have refused to damage marriage equality.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 08:32 AM

And Cleveland is dropping the name and I do so hope the cartoon mascot of their sportsball team. Go Cleveland.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 10:48 AM

They lay eggs, they have fur, they make venom, they are amphibious live on land have a duck bill. And now it has finally been discovered that the Platypus glows under black light. https://www.livescience.com/platypuses-glow-uv-light.html

Maybe in antiquity the Platypus was the winner of genetic manipulation contest by an advanced civilization.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 11:22 AM

What the *fuck* was evolution thinking.

But the platypus is no longer the only venomous mammal, slow lorises have venom too.

This is a straaaange planet.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 20 - 01:06 PM

They look like lemurs.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Dec 20 - 05:40 AM

I have an updated theory of evolution.
Survival of the most joyous and good feelings.

On a quantum level of cillia on a paramecium to a human being's comprable micro tubuels in our pryamidial cells the good feelings of being alive and reproducing are factors in the continuation and groth of life.
The power of orgasm derives all life in the universe.
If it feels good, its alive. This an eastern concept that life is derived from the innate joyous universe and not just organization and computation by accident or pan spermia.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 08:03 PM

Adelaide firefighter's unique gold ring recovered after 13 years offshore, found by a metal detectorist

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 02:41 PM

Poison Underwear

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 02:44 PM

Solstice tonight

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Dec 20 - 04:50 PM

Nanoplastic is showing up in human placentas, both sides, fetal and maternal.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Dec 20 - 12:45 PM

An observation and not news;
All the worst winter flavors are here like Spiced pumpkin wintergreened cranberry paw-paw. Mmmm plastic pumpkin, Krayzee Krapberry and Extreme Ginger ill. Novochuck swirl is not bad.
Satan will hate to see 2020 end.










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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 03:40 PM

What do we think about the Nashville bombing of that AT&T building?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 10:36 PM

Never mind. Tinfoil hat brigade.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 06:23 PM

Wild swimming and the search for Australia’s best waterholes

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 08:02 PM

That was fun in the sun

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jan 21 - 03:21 PM

They overrode the veto...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 03:46 AM

New Zealand: hiker who spent lockdown in a hobbit hole

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 12:09 PM

Huge news not about the virus - but that isn't helped by the virus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/us/politics/russian-hacking-government.html

Here's a piece of that article:

Interviews with current and former employees of SolarWinds suggest it was slow to make security a priority, even as its software was adopted by America’s premier cybersecurity company and federal agencies.

Employees say that under Mr. Thompson, an accountant by training and a former chief financial officer, every part of the business was examined for cost savings and common security practices were eschewed because of their expense. His approach helped almost triple SolarWinds’ annual profit margins to more than $453 million in 2019 from $152 million in 2010.

But some of those measures may have put the company and its customers at greater risk for attack. SolarWinds moved much of its engineering to satellite offices in the Czech Republic, Poland and Belarus, where engineers had broad access to the Orion network management software that Russia’s agents compromised.

The company has said only that the manipulation of its software was the work of human hackers rather than of a computer program. It has not publicly addressed the possibility of an insider being involved in the breach.

None of the SolarWinds customers contacted by The New York Times in recent weeks were aware they were reliant on software that was maintained in Eastern Europe. Many said they did not even know they were using SolarWinds software until recently.

Even with its software installed throughout federal networks, employees said SolarWinds tacked on security only in 2017, under threat of penalty from a new European privacy law. Only then, employees say, did SolarWinds hire its first chief information officer and install a vice president of “security architecture.”

Ian Thornton-Trump, a former cybersecurity adviser at SolarWinds, said he warned management that year that unless it took a more proactive approach to its internal security, a cybersecurity episode would be “catastrophic.” After his basic recommendations were ignored, Mr. Thornton-Trump left the company.

SolarWinds declined to address questions about the adequacy of its security. In a statement, it said it was a “victim of a highly-sophisticated, complex and targeted cyberattack” and was collaborating closely with law enforcement, intelligence agencies and security experts to investigate.

But security experts note that it took days after the Russian attack was discovered before SolarWinds’ websites stopped offering clients compromised code.

It's difficult to believe that there is a reputable individual in the world with the last name "Trump." In this case, Ian Thornton-Trump. It looks like he's a Canadian.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jan 21 - 01:23 PM

I would change my name.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jan 21 - 08:17 PM

very important article, answering a lot of vital questions ...
Why can’t the stormtroopers in Star Wars shoot straight?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jan 21 - 12:23 PM

I can't see out those damn trooper helmets either

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 03:05 PM

Signs like Jesus saves and 'Don't read on me' are among trump signs outside the capitol building
Inside they are carrying flags

Its been 2 hours before any police other than the capitol police are responding. hmmm

I don't see any melee or fights

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 04:44 PM

They have been thrown out says cnn...

I like yoyr typo!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 04:47 PM

I can talk, eh.

WashPo reports someone was shot.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 04:52 PM

No typo
Don'tread on me

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 21 - 05:55 PM

Some re too young to know how and when the brown shirts stormed th streets link

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Jan 21 - 11:04 AM

Ok this is different: Japanese scientists report cases where babies being born vaginally to women with cervical cancer caught their mom's cancer during said vaginal delivery. It showed up as lung cancer in the newborns.

I read that in Le monde this morning.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 10:10 AM

damn virus/altered cells. Maybe the new RNA vaccine method will provide a good direction for cancer vaccines.

I don't think these guys
will help

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Jan 21 - 10:13 AM

Wrong thread don.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 07:59 AM

No, I was respondimg to YOUR post regarding cancer.
interesting graphic

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 09:34 AM

Ah. Never mind!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 10:19 AM

Cute inclusion of random beauty, there!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 10:36 AM

2017 photo from space of solar storm hitting earth
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2101/aurora_iss052e007857.jpg