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[25 Jan 2007 | No Comment | ]

The United States Military unveiled a heat-ray gun today, a weapon designed to disperse crowds and make enemies surrender their guns.
The heat-ray gun is a huge apparatus that is attached to Humvees, and has a range of 550 yards. While it doesn’t do any lasting damage to the person it rays down, it gives them a strong burning feeling and heats up the outer portion of their skin to 50 degrees celsius.

This is pretty amazing. If any person carrying a gun can just be heat-zapped and forced to drop …

Government/Politics, What's Shakin'? »

[25 Jan 2007 | No Comment | ]

John Kerry announced yesterday that he won’t be running for President in 2008, holding back tears on the Senate floor.

“We came close – certainly close enough to try again,” Mr Kerry told senators, at one point choking back tears. “But I have concluded this isn’t the time to mount a presidential campaign. We have to find a way to end this misguided war and bring our troops back home.”

He talks about it like it’s Vietnam, the great war that once made Kerry declare that Communism can’t be stopped.
My question is, …

Syncopation (Off-Beat) »

[25 Jan 2007 | No Comment | ]

This basically sums up the story:
A married woman who was having an affair with a fellow skydiver plunged 13,000ft (4,000m) to her death after her love rival and best friend tampered with her parachute, police say.
Kids, don’t play with people’s feelings and then go parachuting.  It’s just not prudent.

Nerdness, Science, Uncategorized »

[25 Jan 2007 | No Comment | ]

Just watched a video on YouTube that talked about the “most important picture ever taken,” which was a Deep Field image taken by the Hubble.  Showing the Universe as far as we can see. 
It’s insane to see specks of light being galaxies, but this isn’t what the post is about.
The moon is going to disintegrate!
The Moon is now moving away from Earth and by then [when the Sun goes crazy, 5 billion years from now] will be in an orbit that’s about 40 percent larger than today. It will be …