FOLIO OLIO

SCIENCE AND STUFF

Mount Everest is 5.5 miles high. Olympic Mons on Mars is 27 miles high.

I'm not much for motorcycles, but I like these...

All it needs is a door to keep you dry and/or warm on the way to work.
I like this very much.

Taking an alzheimer's patient out to the mall? Problem solved.

( I would have put it on his back though. )

Nerd graffiti.

So, if you had an 8 hour lay-over at an airport, how much would you pay for some peace and quite and a place to nap?

You would think this would be completely impossible!

This is a portable RFID Reader, which can steal your credit card information from you pocket or purse without even touching you. I saw a demonstration and it's frighteningly easy.

This is a damn fine idea for the girl who wants to sleep with a guy then steal all his stuff while he's taking a shit the next morning.

One of the most touching images I have ever seen. If you saw a pyroclastic flow heading at you at 600 mph, what would you do.

An image that I would have bet real money did not exist...

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GETTING FROM DOWN HERE TO UP THERE

No, no, no, noooooooo.

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There are millions of people who get up each morning and read their horoscope in the daily newspaper. I want you to think about that a minute.

When no evidence whatsoever and every voice of science telling them that it's non-sense, these people still believe.

Further, it could be pointed out that there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of people writing contradicting horoscopes. But the true believer believes that their horoscope writer is the correct horoscope writer.

Now let's imagine that whole cultures are hated and wars declared over a belief in your horoscope writer and the fallacy of all others. Would you call that delusional?

Does that sound at all familiar to you?

The relevance of this will become crystal clear if you will just substitute the word "bible" or "horoscope".

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One of my very own...