Physicists find Genesis Footprints 13.8 billion years old
Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprises Professor Andrei Linde with evidence that supports cosmic inflation theory. The discovery, made by Kuo and his colleagues at the BICEP2 experiment, represents the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. These waves have been described as the “first tremors of the Big Bang.”
The Hubble Deep Field in 3D
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D from Deep Astronomy on Vimeo. by Tony Darnell, DeepAstronomy.com Astronomers, in 1996, attempted something extraordinary. They pointed the Hubble Space Telescope into a part of the sky that seemed utterly empty, a patch devoid of any planets, stars and galaxies, this area was close to the Big Dipper, a…
Christmas at a Gas Station
by Anonymous The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn’t been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He didn’t hate Christmas, just couldn’t find a reason to celebrate. He was sitting there looking at the snow that had been…
The Ultimate Flight
Think you’re a pilot? Try this! No airplane. – Ed 150 mph, 4000 ft descent, 170 bpm heart rate SENSE OF FLYING from Goovinn on Vimeo
Live to fly another day
December 7, 2012, Lethbridge, Canada. Pilot ejects from damaged FA-18. Rockets blow away canopy. This is about 2 seconds before crash, shown below. (If you don’t have fast reactions, don’t fly these babies.) Canopy gone, now the solid fuel rockets blast pilot from cockpit with drogue chute opened. Note left engine nozzle at rear is fully…
What a great country!
This morning I went to sign up my dogs for welfare. At first the lady said, “Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare.” So I explained to her that my dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddy’s are. They expect me to feed them, provide…
Little Akio
The teacher said, “Let’s begin by reviewing some American History. Who said ‘Give me Liberty , or give me Death’?“ She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Little Akio, a bright foreign exchange student from Japan, who had his hand up: “Patrick Henry, 1775,” he said. “Very good! — Who said, ‘Government of…
When the Poo Hits the Fan
My son, Kim, produced this musical video. – Ed Copyright (c) 2012 by Kim Berry This song is a tribute to “Doomsday Preppers” using a PC version of “WTSHTF.” LYRICS Verse 1 [A] Stock piling ammoMy [G] friends call me Rambo[D] Got no respect for the [A] lawDressed in fatiguesI shoot what I pleaseNot going…
Samuel Alexander Armas: Hand of Hope
A 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas was operated on in his mother’s womb by surgeon Joseph Bruner
Montana Storms
Photographs by Sean Heavy, Glasgow, Montana (for story, see Mail Online) Photographer Sean Heavey, has been taking storm pictures in Montana since 2007. An electrician by trade, Mr. Heavey is an amateur photographer.
9/11 – The largest evacuation by boat in history
In nine hours, boats streaming in from all over the Northeast evacuated 500,000 people trapped on Manhattan Island by the complete shutdown of all trains and bridges in the wake of the fall of the twin towers. (Compare that with history’s second-biggest evacuation, of 339,000 soldiers and civilians from Dunkirk, in WWII, which took nine…
Tennessee Football
This statement was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston, Tennessee by school Principal, Jody McLeod: It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country. Due to a recent…
Monte Carlo Demolition Derby
This is not a normal topic but we couldn’t resist it. – Ed How do you do a demolition derby in downtown Monte Carlo and still come out looking good? She goes for a little drive in his shiny blue $370, 000 Bentley convertible, scrapes a $111,000 Mercedes S class, ploughs into a $207,000 black…
Burial at Sea
by LtCol George Goodson, USMC (Ret) In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a series of vignettes. Some were significant; most were trivial… War is the seminal event in the life of everyone that has endured it. Though I fought in Korea and the Dominican…