SATURDAY #3217

One Of My Very Own

EMAIL: ralph.henry.at.folio.olio@gmail.com

YOUR CHEATING HEART

Sorry.

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A giant hole the size of Maine or Lake Superior has suddenly appeared on the surface of Antarctica and scientists are not quite sure how it came into being. “It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice,” said atmospheric physicist Kent Moore, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus. The sudden emergence of this hole, for the second year in a row, has confounded scientists, whose access to the site is limited.

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Sorry I missed it. It was Friday.

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On the bright side, you can't lose a World Cup if you never qualify for a World Cup.

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Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running when he tried to walk twice at the same time.

THINGS I'VE GOT A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT

I dread that the Mars mission will be a disaster and it will set back space settlements for decades.

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This looks extremely dangerous.

Putting slow moving tractors ON the interstate? Why not just drive regular mowers on the shoulder?

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Superbowl?

While in graduate school, the university art department brought in a traditional native potter from, I seem to remember, Nigeria. She made a coil pot similar to that, but not that big. She did it incorporating a little shuffle dance as she rotated around the pot. And I will never forget it.

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Dear parents, we are not only bigger than children, we are smarter than they are. With that in mind, I once found two towels on the bathroom floor. I just waited until 1am, woke my daughter up and told her she had to hang them up. I then told her that I would wake her up every time she discarded them improperly and she never did it again.

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US Marine gives candy to Japanese child at Internment Camp - WW2, 1944

I've hit on this before, but I think it should be said again. Sure we locked up all Japanese during a war WITH Japanese, but I don't think it was so much because we feared them, but rather to protect them. Can you imagine three brothers getting word that their brother had been beheaded by a Japanese guard and then you look at your next door neighbor who is himself Japanese. And forget about the fight and/or death that would ensure, think of the law enforcement resources that would be expended.

Sherman tank commander bails out, with one of his leg's blown off by a Panther hit. Cologne, Germany, 1945

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NFL concussion protocol and this, where the whole point is to give your opponent a concussion.

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Scientists now believe that approximately 2% of Earth's water at any given time is found on Tupperware containers being removed from the dishwasher.

ANIMALS

I've actually seen horses do that.

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We all have friends like this, don't we.

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What are the odds? 

Do you think the small fish was already stuck in the ice, then was bitten by the big fish who kept trying to get it out, but it took so long it froze too?

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I thought they had to be coiled to strike.

Just another reason I don't ride motorcycles.

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Huge carpet python eating a giant flaying fox...Australia, of course.

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Cereal is like breakfast soup.

A FEW THINGS THAT IMPRESSED ME

In 2012, physicists at CERN used the Large Hadron Collider to smash two proton beams containing trillions of protons at nearly the speed of light and generated temperatures up to 5.5 trillion Kelvin (or degree Celsius, it doesn't really matter at that level). To compare, the temperature at the center of the Sun is 15,000,000 degrees Celsius. 

The record was merely a side achievement. The scientists at the LHC were/are actually studying a state of matter that existed milliseconds after the Big Bang. They are doing this in an attempt to understand more about the beginnings of our universe and how states of matter, that we are generally aware of, came into existence. The experiment (called ALICE), created this state, which is called Quark-Gluon Plasma, where quarks are the building blocks of neutrons and protons, and Gluons are the particles that are responsible for the force between these quarks. 

Normal plasma is when you have heated things to an extent where they go from being gasses to a mixture of electrons and protons, like on the surface of the sun. Quark Gluon Plasma is a level higher where you have crazy amounts of energy and have heated stuff to a point where the neutrons and protons break down into individual quarks.

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Having been married to an advertising executive, I can tell you they take commercials very seriously.

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Finally talked the owner of my bar to put a chocolate dessert on his food menu.

But that ain't it.

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This is amazing.

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I think she's done this before.

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The Mount Rushmore of selfies.

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One of the strangest landscape elements of the Alps are the so-called earth pyramids of South Tyrol. 

This is so very surreal.

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Kalashnikov develops working hoverbike for Russian police use.

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"Metropolis" German Silent Film Masterpiece, 1927

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Harvesting Cucumbers

Remember, anything that man can do with his hands will soon be done by a robot.

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This light post is outside of a popular music club in New Orleans. After 40 years of having band flyers stapled to it, there's no more room.

Those are staples.

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And some people still don't think photograph is art.

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And lastly in this section, my hero.

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Canada is like if America took its meds.

LANGUAGE

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What are your intentions with my daughter?

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My wife's mantra.

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Physics majors throw a lot of shit considering they are still not sure where 95% of the universe is.

(Well, neither does anyone else.)

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My mantra.

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Big deal Jesus, so your dad sent you here to suffer and die, that's what all the rest of us are doing too.

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"Nature is so perfect, then man messed it all up."
Remember what Bucky Fuller said: Man hates nature, otherwise he never would have invented architecture.

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