BS: New news *not* about the virus

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: 29 Oct 20 - 12:06 AM

Lorises are venomous.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Oct 20 - 01:44 PM

Teehee

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11 Aug 20 - 04:56 PM

Kamala Harris

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: 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: 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: 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: 06 Aug 20 - 10:31 PM

That fascinating article should go above the line!

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: 04 Aug 20 - 08:14 AM

Also, perseids.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 05:31 PM

France is building their first fusion reactor (*)

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: 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: 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: 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: 16 Jul 20 - 05:17 PM

Has anybody seen the comet?

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: 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: 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: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jul 20 - 11:50 AM

Wow, beautiful, thanks Donuel!

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: 13 Jul 20 - 06:46 PM

Oops Veep. Still!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 06 Jul 20 - 08:33 AM

Blicky no paywall

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: 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.