Category Archives: real world

things in the real world, usually not fun, and usually things we have to do, no matter how much we hate it.

I wonder what this is …

Original Article [nasa]

Engage psudo-science/fiction : So, when you decelerate out of FTL, aren’t you going to give off a lot of Cherenkov Radiation, and doesn’t the transition from hyperspace to realspace carry over a lot of tachyon/dark-matter particles that have to get shed from the ship in a ‘discharging’ action in the relative proximity [...]

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Few things make me cry.

One of them is having perspective on the universe I live in.
This blog post at : http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/11/incredible-vista-of-the-cosmos/ has done that to me today.
Here’s another phenomenal picture. It’s an amazing 2 x 1.5 degree field toward the center of the Milky Way, revealing about a million stars! It’s taken completely in the near infrared, just outside [...]

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Eloquence in description. An awesome write up on something I’ve been unable to put words too.

http://reddit.com is one of those nerd/geek websites doing social news aggregation. Its much more geeky then digg or others, so the content seems to be of higher quality, if not focused more in to my spectrum of interest. A lot of it can be tripe, but every so often, a diamond comes out of [...]

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War Made Easy

Something to watch while we celebrate the birth of this nation, and to make us think about what it has become.

The more of us who are aware, the less they can lie to us.

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Single Payer

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I love it when John Stewart destroys the mass media machine…

John Stewart kept calmer then he was when he destroyed Crossfire…
But none the less, Cramer just got destroyed.
Edit:
You just have to watch the whole damn thing.
All 3 segments across the whole episode.
The Dailyshow posted the ENTIRE interview, all excerpts included.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=220533

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Lets have a real conversation…

From Daily Kos

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It’s got feet!

Suck on that creationists!

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Stop HR 6304, the FISA amendments act of 2008. Click the link, help support your rights as a citizen.

Tell Senator Obama: Hang up on Big Telecom
This week, Senators Dodd and Feingold won a battle in the fight to stop the FISA capitulation. In an attempt to stop retroactive telecom immunity, they delayed a vote on the bill until after the July 4th recess. This buys us more time to shore up the votes [...]

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Our responsibility…

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