Water in Zero Gravity

Water in Zero Gravity and The Theory of Everything

The above clip is of water in zero gravity. It is in what is referred to in science as "a perfect state." Perfect state is what scientist call anything approaching a circle (if I put on anymore weight, I too will be approaching a "perfect state," but my doctor will disagree with this confused definition of "perfection").

Fire also burns in a perfect state in zero gravity; that's why it is so dangerous. As the burning object floats around in a ball consuming on all sides the much richer oxygen found on board all spacecraft, it searches for other things to burn, spreading quickly, easily, leaving only smoke and poisonous gas for those still alive to breath.

I have been on a science kick for the last week or so, and when I get on a science kick I begin to speculate on the "Theory of Everything." For those of you who have never heard of the "Theory of Everything," it is a field of study which captures the imagination of physicist, chemist, mathematicians, and astronomers alike. They are all looking for what is called the "Grand Unified Theory." They often wear T-shirt which say, "I_Have_Guts". In theory, people with G.U.T.s have insight into how to reconcile Einstein's theories about space and time with Quantum Theory. They believe that when one runs the numbers for the big stuff (stars, black holes, gravity, light, and such), the numbers should also work for the little stuff (atoms, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electrons, protons, gluons, photons, muons, and such) -- the numbers don't work.
So, as you can well imagine, the person who thinks up a simple explanation(there have been many not so simple explanations, most of which are unworkable) of why they don't work, and then shows the world how to reconcile gravity, light, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force in one simple mathematical expression which will be the "Theory of Everything," will be looked upon as the Great One the scientific world has been waiting for since Albert left us still counting on our fingers and toes.
"Theory of Everything" is what I have been reading about for the last week. Reading about only one subject on the computer you would think would be an efficient way to immerse oneself in an esoteric topic and get to the meat of the matter, not deviate from the quest until attaining the goal of knowing everything on the chosen subject; but, oh no, that is not what happened to me. What happened was, while I followed a thread spun by thinking about the "Theory of Everything", it occurred to me, (while considering the force of light and the force of gravity as well as electrostatic force, i.e. Coulomb's law, all fall off at a geometric rate which is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from their respective sources), that there might be further evidence of other symmetrical geometric fall-offs elsewhere: falling objects; objects dropped in water; the strong nuclear force; in the progression of prime numbers -- ah ha!!, in the distribution of primes!! (a real shot in the dark), I was in hopes of following phenomenon from nature to the nature of numbers. "Maybe the key to "The Answer" is also shadowed in the structure of existence itself!"

You see, all these things occurring in different forces in the same way made me thing these forces were not forces at all, but effects of a force. ( the ringing of the hammer on different materials, but not the hammer itself). I thought, altogether ready to have an EUREKA moment, with a little more work, the answer would come to me. The Physics Muse would flutter to my shoulder and whisper "The Answer" into my virgin ear. I could then call Stephen Hawkins to confirm my findings and we could share the Nobel Prize!

I Googled prime numbers--no answer. I Googled larger and larger primes--still no answer. I then found out large primes are important to codes, codes for banks, credit card companies, the Federal Reserve, Department of Motor Vehicles. Then I began to get interested in cryptology. Then in the early cypher machines, machines used to help us win World War 2. All this information was only a Google click away. And each click led me further and further away from my Noble Prize. I fell asleep dreaming of my Nobel Prize. Then I had a dream. I was scrolling down post on blogs. There was one about apes, then one about George Bush, and then the one I clicked on, and this is what happened:

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Yes, it is The Nobel Prize!!, and it was all mine!!! What happened? It slipped from my fingers and "Ther Answer" slipped from my thoughts. WOe is me, woe is me. Sleep and forgetfullness more important than the Noble Prize. I could cry.

Art Frahm painted the same situation over and over: a leggy girl carring a bag of grocerys, much to her surprise, looses her panties. WoW!, Art?

Jerry's back, and he's never been more himself !!

AP NEWSWIRE:>>>JAN>>>17>>>...Jerry Lewis grew a clone in his bathroom in the early 1980's. The almost one billion dollars of private research for cloning technology was skimmed from money raised by "Jerry's kids," and I don't mean his seven biological children. (It was Jerry's disappointment in them which initially led him to the idea of cloning).
Jerry's estate lawyer, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, leaked this story to the SUN yesterday.
A gorgeous SUN reporter got the old legal geezer snookered and then squeeeezed it out of him. Let me tell you, Scooter's no friend of Jerry's -- but what do you expect from a lawyer?
The SUN is saving the story until Jerry's death. (which won't be long -- just look at him!!! )
Jerry's luck is getting worse and worse: he has had a heart attack; he's a drug addict; he's had open heart surgery; suffers from diabetes and a sugar addiction; pulmonary fibrosis; and his star on the Hollywood walk of fame has cracked right down the middle. GOOD GOD!!!!!



"Little Jerry," at twelve years old. Jerry's staff of doctors are not sure if he is 1/2 she, or just likes to wear dresses. "Little Jerry" is the sole inheritor of Jerry's vast fortune. (his other kids are shit out of luck).




"Little Jerry" when he was just a cute little homunculi floating around in his clonebox.

Sarah McLachlan - World on Fire

What's wrong with this video? It cost $150,000, but only $15 to produce. Where did all the money go? A Message from Sarah McLachlan: When Sophie Muller and I made World on Fire, our hope was to show how easy it can be to use your wealth to help make immeasurable improvements in peoples lives. Media that Matters is about people making the switch from apathy to action. I’m so happy to have World on Fire be recognised as a motivator of that kind of change.

THE MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY
COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
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The Floral Stereoradiographs of Albert G. Richards

Hey you, aren't these BeautifulThings

I am happy to announce the TOWER OF BABEL has been rebuilt, it now reaches the heavens.

Would I ever love to be in school nowadays. You can take foreign language translation assignments and "click;" the translation is given to you -- free. All that agonizing over not knowing French-- only a fleeting concern. Your test is finished in one or two clicks. You can head to the smoking area for "la cigarette de la celebration" (I did that with Babel Fish), but I don't know if schools still have smoking areas.
If I were in school nowadays, the recurring nightmare of being arrested in Paris while naked and no one understanding when I insisted I simply forgot my clothes in Arkansas would not only quit recurring, I never would have had the nightmare in the first place. All that foreign language agonizing would have been over before it started.
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU, BILL GATES, STEVE JOBS, MICROSOFT, WORLD WIDE WEB? BabelFish , where were you when I needed you?
Oh! and you E-bayers, do you have an item you would like to list with descriptions and key words in French or German? -- no problem. (I've tried it,and it worked!! I've shipped an 1860's, leather and boards, "Les Vies des Saints" to Paris for much more money than I would have sold it to someone in Dallas, Boston, or Bangor). It worked like a Pope blessed charm!
The only drawback is Babel Fish won't translate javascript to my website page. Darn!

Immigration: a curbside view.

With silent lips she says, "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
What a beautiful sentiment. I know some of you have your theories and charts of how immigrants are tearing down our country. I only ask you to keep an open mind and use the Internet to investigate further. You will be surprised at the good things immigrants do for the United States.






















From another website I found, "ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?"



Of course, he had an opinion: "If you want to come to America, do it legally, speak English and assimilate to our culture."



Then we'd not have any problem with you being here living the American dream.



I commented in the comment section:

I am not sure as an immigrant coming to America you might not want to keep your own language, values, religion ---culture. Should you assimilate to our culture, in five years you'll speak English and you will also: quit sending that money order back to your family in Mexico: you'll know all the gang signs; drink beer; beat your girlfriend, maybe your wife and kids too; carry a gun in your pickup; smoke cigarettes, quit going to church; you will have become Americanized. You will have more than you ever had in Mexico, but you will be on the lowest step of the economic ladder here. And you will feel the classism, racism, and hatred for the poor that makes this country what it is. You will no longer be hungry, but you will hunger for all those material goodies that were only a dream in Mexico. You'll have drank the Kool-Aid, and the Kool-Aid comes from the poisoned well of American culture. You will be advertised to from billboards, magazines, television, enticing you to consume. Consume for the sake of consumption, no matter if what is consumed is good for a human or not. You will become a consumer. You will start to be like the rest of us and life will become all about you and your stuff.

OPENS NEXT WEEK IN A THEATHER NEAR YOU: MOMMIE GETS PUNKED.

"You never going to see a bad guy like this again. Now,bitch, where's my sister?" Tony Montana had a short fuse.

STARRING: AL PACHINO as a cuban gangstr.

News from the future. Dateline: 2015

We are real sorry for what happened to Donald. It seems that after he resigned he developed an "I don't need that" attitude toward everything(especially the press).

There are penny pinchers and then there are PENNY PINCHERS. Well, Donald became a PENNY PINCHER after he entered retirement. It all started when he refused to buy gas for his car. Next he had the electricity turned off at his house --to save money. And Donald did save money, as a matter of fact, he was so impressed with the money he saved, he went on what he called a "dollar strike." "Anything that cost more than a dollar -- strike it," he would say.

Donald began to live on 99 cents a day. It wasn't long before Donald was homeless, friendless, but not penniless. He had all the money in the world. Donald began seeing a psychiatrist, one who worked pro bono, of course. Donald's doctor traced Donald's penny pinching problem back to his days at the Pentagon. Yes, when he refused to spend money on wars he started.

Because of professional help, Donald today is a changed man. Today he doesn't blink an eye at filling his Hummer up at nine dollars a gallon. Glad to have you back Donald!

Condi and Boxer smackdown, round 1: the squabble -- May the meaner girl win!

"We only gave this much of a tax cut. I don't think that extra money would have won us anything in Iraq."











"Condi, you're no one's mother. But we all know, You're George's baby."

Today, as I waited for the sky to open and spread a slick sheet of ice across my plans for the beginning of the week, I watched the news snows -- snows, hahaha -- I mean shows. Shows showing Barbara and Condi's exchange in a senate hearing. You can't miss it; it is on every channel. It is not as good as the smackdown showdown between The Terrible Trump and Bar-a-que Rosie, but it is more important to our lives.
Barbara Boxer claimed that Condi, most people in power, and herself had an inadequate emotional connection to the sacrifice being made by the young families of soldiers in Iraq.
Barbara goofed. Every Democrat in the house and the senate has made this half of the argument, an argument which should be an argument of comparisons and contrasts. I don't know why Democrats making the point our army is peopled largely by youngsters from families who do not have the money to send their children to Harvard or Yale, don't go ahead and finish the point. The point being these children would be in Harvard or Yale and not going from house to house Trick or Treating for I.E.D.'s. in Baghdad if cash for Harvard or Yale were as readily available to these families as it is to the children of senators. The Republicans would have us believe these young men and women volunteered for our all volunteer army to go to Iraq to "fight for truth, justice, freedom and the American way."
Our young men and women in arms are America's very best children. They are children who refuse, for whatever reason, to burden their families with the obligation of providing them a higher education. America's armed forces have, for as long as I can remember, offered many educational benefits to its men and women. I believe it started with the G.I. bill at the close of W.W. II: a bill which provided funds for a higher education to a generation of America's best, bravest, and brightest. We should not believe, as the Republicans would have us believe, our all volunteer army is motivated only by patriotism, and not at all by health insurance, child care, family housing, and educational benefits. These soldiers are not drop-dead crazy about leaving their families to risk their lives and the future of their families in way off Iraq Christianizing, Republicanizing, and freeing people who have been warring for thousands of years and who can't stand America.
I just can't understand why Democrats cannot link in one breath the two links in a chain of argument. I don't understand how a government can ask our soldiers to go two, three, or more tours of hazardous duty in Iraq at great sacrifice and threat to these soldiers and their loved ones, and be so oblivious to their sacrifice as not to offer some sacrifice themselves. Instead we give the wealthiest Americans tax breaks, and ask them to go shopping. WTF! Wow, do we think our soldiers are motherfuckin stupid?
Why couldn't Barbara say, "While we shopped, they died. Condi, doesn't that show an emotional disconnect on our part? Is it because we don't have children involved? I mean, why would we in power give ourselves a tax break, while they go without the numbers and equipment to win. What we saved in taxes would have won that war at one time." THERE, HOW HARD WAS THAT? Barbara was trying to make a class argument. Why was she afraid to make it? Instead, by saying what she said, it became a slam on Condi's gender and childlessness.
Barbara, you're there -- follow through. They're throwing hardballs at one hundred miles an hour -- SWING, don't bunt.