Home sweet home...

I always thought I was from another place far, far away... Now we know.

Scientists believe that our little region of space objects didn't come from the Milky Way. We were actually pulled from a small galaxy that we are crashing with over millions (billions) of years. The little orange dot below notes approximately where we are located. The red dots note the left overs of the galaxy we are/were a part of. The evolution of space. Just as smooth, structured and chaotic as our own planet. A microcosm with a microcosm. Its all makes such complicated, smooth sense.

The Lard of the Land

The Food Supply will Change

"Rice prices are climbing worldwide. Butter prices in Europe have spiked by 40 per cent in the past year. Wheat futures are trading at their highest level for a decade. Global soybean prices have risen by a half. Pork prices in China are up 20 per cent on last year and the food price index in India was up by 11 per cent year on year. In Mexico there have been riots in response to a 60 per cent rise in the cost of tortillas."

What this really means for us is that economics is coming back into play. Maybe this is the best thing for our obesity problem. Life in this universe wasn't designed. It comes through struggle against the continual oncoming rush of entropy in the universe. Change is the only real constant. Maybe we should eat a little less. Maybe we should save some of that food for a meal later on. Maybe we should be a little more mindful.

The Striker Diary: From Egg to Chick

First you get -




Then, after a while, you get -

$300,000,000 Million for Nukes?

I call Bullshit.

"North Korea reached a tentative agreement in February on a deal to begin to close down its nuclear program in exchange for $300 million in energy and financial aid."

China has approx. $1.3 Trillion in American currency in their holdings. That is less than .01% of that number. The cost of building a nuclear program? If you include all of the research. I would guess it will move very close to that number. Energy resources? $300 Million worth? That wouldn't feed the US for very long, and really, in exchange for nuclear power, won't feed North Korea very long. If a solution as simple as this little diddy that they decided to allow out to the world was there then we would have jumped in a long time ago. I think we have fools governing ourselves acting in their own best interest. I wonder.

My thoughts on the news this evening...

We live in space. For limited periods of time and under very defined and limiting set of rules. In time, probability willing, we might master the process and make it a commodity to be accepted as commonly as floating in a boat. A little farther down the larger number of us might live in the sky and look at land based existence as the aberration. The pictures to the left show some amazing thing. Makes me think of something else I once watched on the tube...human spirit (and maybe stupidity). We humans do random incomprehensible things in random instances. We build upon each other.

I stare at global climate change and I think about our species pushing along and trying to get into space maybe as an escape. Maybe (as many of these scientists like to think) there are a multitude of universes and our universe happens to have a set of properties which makes it very costly to get into space and as a result no other race in the universe has gotten there yet and the future is peering back hoping we are to be the first.

You see us building pretty neat things these days hoping to keep from killing ourselves. Our houses have finally become more important. They are off to a good start. These gentlemen have a carbon neutral house. Why only neutral? Why not build the house that has a negative carbon footprint? The technology, tweaked here and there (big tweaks of course, nonetheless tweeks), is already here. Solar power. Wind power. Biomass energy. All making hydrogen stored in tanks spread in small volume tanks (just in case anyone begins to worry about blowing up their neighborhood).

I have confidence. I am wary. I wonder of the true potential and what we will find once we get there. Will we skip over it as we learn to leap beyond it?

Just because...

http://nynerd.com/happy-monkey/

Monkeys...who ever thought they might be like us? What indications have we EVER gotten that they might be similar? Its not as if some random scientists ever placed a theory in front of us noting that, say, EVOLUTION might have led to something as wonderful as us from something as wonderful as, say, Monkeys.

Titular I think...

First how does one relate touch to sight when dealing with sexuality? Please let me know...I would like to find out.

:-)

Is a common disinfectant a cure all? Or are we monkeys...

One wonders...

I have my general doubts about whether a pesticide would cure AIDS in the human body. But one never knows...bleach kills AIDS. It just so happens that in some quantity I am going to guess (this is based upon general distaste for the effects of bleach as I have no stats or experience) blech will kill you as well. And the quantity. Probably small. Why would people inject themselves with pesticide? Does no one remember Silent Spring?

Now, on a whole different level of cynicism I doubt the validity of all news to a certain level in that only part of the story is ever told. And yes I understand it is impossible for all parts of the story to even be known by everyone else...so, I doubt. Therefore, I am. Did a real life, real world educated PhD with research in a true laboratory setting discover some amazing new substance accidentally? Possibly. Would be nice. We know our continual accidents in the past lead directly to certain benefits of a scientific nature. Penicillin anyone?

In the end, I think I like most the fact that I was able to find a news source like this that can be based wherever (South Africa I believe) and know that area in a subtle, local manner that is always lost when internationally reported.