I was going to cut HBO from our cable subscription as I had not seen anything worth watching in a couple years. This evening I caught the rerun of episode 1 of The Newsroom. I can not applaude it enough. Finally a television program worth our time again.
Jeff Daniels' character Mitt's rant in the opening sequence mailed me to my seat and the following twenty minutes I barely noticed anything but what transpired on the screen in front of me. Arron Sorkin and company had better make room in their schedule and add shelf space for the awards they will surely garner.
I hope the writers can continue to press on with riviting scripts. I salivate for more rants like in this clip:
"America is built on freedoms - of speech, religion, press, assembly, AK-47s and your face."---Mike Strobel
When all is said and done there is nothing left to say or do.
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"The trouble with Republicans is that when they get into trouble they start acting like cannibals"-Richard Nixon
Just Blowing Stuff Up For Fun With A Thumper
What is a thumper, you ask? During office hours, it’s a high-voltage testing unit most often used to stress test electric cables. In the off hours, however, the electrical engineering geeks over at The Geek Group like to shove anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of volts through unsuspecting objects to see what happens. In this installation they’re shooting high voltage through a variety of soft drink cans with an end result that sounds and looks like a cannon loaded with Mountain Dew.
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Toothpick Heist
Each case contains 288 packages of 100 toothpicks. That brings the total number of stolen toothpicks to 374,400 with a value of about $2,808.
Two employees told the owner they saw an unknown man selling containers of Armond toothpicks at a flea market last weekend.
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Dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel in 1994
The was a town near Pittsburgh that produced more steel that Pittsburgh mills but never got the publicity for it. If the road/highway network had included that town it would have been more famous than Pittsburgh. One of the mills produced nearly all the pipe used in the world to drill and transport oil and its byproducts.
The sky would glow red at night as the steel poured into ingot molds. The slag from the mills was hauled and poured as in this video to fill in small valleys that later became real estate for shopping malls. Today the mills are gone as well as the malls where many a hard earned dollar was spent.
Here's a view of a slag pour as shown at a Bethlehem Steel site far east of the Pittsburgh area:
In 2001, Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy. In 2003, the company's remnants, including its six massive plants, were acquired by the International Steel Group.
In 2007, the Bethlehem property was sold to Sands BethWorks, and plans to build a casino where the plant once stood were drafted. Construction began in fall 2007; the casino was completed in 2009. Ironically, the casino had difficulty finding structural steel for construction, thanks to a global steel shortage and pressure to build Pennsylvania's tax-generating casinos. 16,000 tons of steel was needed to build the $600 million complex.
The sky would glow red at night as the steel poured into ingot molds. The slag from the mills was hauled and poured as in this video to fill in small valleys that later became real estate for shopping malls. Today the mills are gone as well as the malls where many a hard earned dollar was spent.
Here's a view of a slag pour as shown at a Bethlehem Steel site far east of the Pittsburgh area:
In 2001, Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy. In 2003, the company's remnants, including its six massive plants, were acquired by the International Steel Group.
In 2007, the Bethlehem property was sold to Sands BethWorks, and plans to build a casino where the plant once stood were drafted. Construction began in fall 2007; the casino was completed in 2009. Ironically, the casino had difficulty finding structural steel for construction, thanks to a global steel shortage and pressure to build Pennsylvania's tax-generating casinos. 16,000 tons of steel was needed to build the $600 million complex.
Venus Transit 2012 - Ultra-high Definition View (NASA/ESA)
Powerful video of something we will not see again. Full explanation of how this was made below the video.
http://www.facebook.com/ScienceReason ... Ultra-high Definition View of the Venus Solar Transit 2012 (NASA SDO, ESA Proba-2).
The first part of this video shows the transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012 as seen from SWAP, a solar imager onboard ESA's PROBA2 microsatellite. SWAP, watching the Sun in EUV light, observes Venus as a small, black circle, obscuring the EUV light emitted from the solar outer atmosphere - the corona - from 19:45UT onwards. At 22:16UT - Venus started its transit of the solar disk
The bright dots all over the image ('snow storm') are energetic particles hitting the SWAP detector when PROBA2 crosses the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region where the protection of the Earth magnetic field against space radiation is known to be weaker.
Note also the small flaring activity in the bright active region in the northern solar hemisphere as Venus passes over. Towards the end, you can see a big dim inverted-U-shape moving away from the Sun towards the bottom-right corner. This is a coronal mass ejection taking off.
http://blogs.esa.int/venustransit/ (Credit: ESA/ROB)
Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate. SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day.
On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.
The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light. 304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum.
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html (Credit: NASA/SDO)
The first part of this video shows the transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012 as seen from SWAP, a solar imager onboard ESA's PROBA2 microsatellite. SWAP, watching the Sun in EUV light, observes Venus as a small, black circle, obscuring the EUV light emitted from the solar outer atmosphere - the corona - from 19:45UT onwards. At 22:16UT - Venus started its transit of the solar disk
The bright dots all over the image ('snow storm') are energetic particles hitting the SWAP detector when PROBA2 crosses the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region where the protection of the Earth magnetic field against space radiation is known to be weaker.
Note also the small flaring activity in the bright active region in the northern solar hemisphere as Venus passes over. Towards the end, you can see a big dim inverted-U-shape moving away from the Sun towards the bottom-right corner. This is a coronal mass ejection taking off.
http://blogs.esa.int/venustransit/ (Credit: ESA/ROB)
Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate. SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day.
On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.
The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light. 304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum.
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html (Credit: NASA/SDO)
Silence In Marriage
The other day our daughter mentioned how nice it was that we (my wife and I) could just be quiet at times and enjoy the moment/ She then compared it to a couple where the wife irritated her husband by constantly having to say something never letting his eardrums rest.
The next day this strip appeared in the newspaper. Timely.
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