Missing link found?

I haven't posted in quite a while. Have been very focused on other things... This however seems post worthy. I'm also not sure how reliable sky news is. Interesting find for the Germans if it really is the missing link though.

Chimp and Dog

I laughed pretty hard at this... can't help myself. Thought I'd share the joy of Chimp and Dog doing sit-ups.

Life in Polaroids...

I love film and have a special place in my heart for old school Polaroids. So, it's pretty sweet that my GF is intent on capturing us in this format. They may be digital by the time they hit this blog... but it the real world they develop right before your eyes and you can stick them on the fridge or in your shirt pocket to look at whenever you want. No magnet will erase them... they are real and tangible. I love it.     : ) 

what the F?

This Senator not only says that the Earth is only 6,000 yrs old, but that we were doing just fine without environmental laws. Also, she states that you'll never even know the mine was there when it's done. Oh, except that it will be a massive radioactive hole.
Oh, and btw.. the radioactive half life of Uranium is longer than she thinks the world is old. The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of uranium-235 is 704 million years, this is why it is used in Carbon dating. The scientific way of dating things. I don't know what Bible she is getting her Earth age from, but after watching Religulous the other night, I think they should have a mandatory IQ test to get into the Senate. Seriously.

They really should mine that uranium, her state needs the money. We really need to be able to coat shells in uranium so that they can get through armored vehicles and young soldiers and civilians can inhale depleted uranium and have deformed and sick children and die of cancer. Or maybe we could use it to create power... that way we only make barrels of toxic waste that will be around hundreds of generations from now. After all, we want our children to have the same lifestyle that we do.

This woman should be forced to work the Uranium Mine.

Monkey's friends with Giant Rodents.

Not much to say. Those things are huge. I'm not sure if they are cute or scary. I feel bad that these guys are in a prison, but glad that they appear to be friends. Those rodents were living too close to the power plant. WTF.

They are almost as poised as big cats though. 

Cute.

Cats...

I haven't posted anything lately due to intense amounts of work.
Since I still don't have time for anything in depth...
here's some cats.

Another Airbus disaster.

This is happening way too often. This is an Airbus with over 200 people on board. I hope it was quick and they didn't live just to get picked off by sharks.

Terrible...

Here is the Airbus crash a little while ago in Brazil. It skidded off the runway and into a fuel station.



In the last year, Airbus has had planes crack in half on take off and landing and had engines explode just after take off. It's a lot of souls at once when one of these things goes down.

Where the sun doesn't set...

ahhh... Water Dragon?

The post where I found it said 

" Biggest Alligator Found in an Indonesia River. "

If this is legit, which is always hard to tell with really compressed footage... this would be like a giant from prehistoric times. That thing must be old growing to that kind of size.  What was it feeding on?  What the hell is in the water in Indonesia? Sometimes I think that there is more in this world to be discovered and that some things that we think are stories to scare children might just be true. 

Ancient stuff, things of legend. Dragons.  

Mr. Clean

He's totally taking care of his own space. He probably looks after his place better than most college kids. It may be a human prison, but he's pretty dignified about it. My favorite part is when he puts the glove on, but misses the thumb... I couldn't help but laugh. Him and his buddies under the blankets were pretty funny too. 

I love Orangutans though... this guy is great.

Dom Deluise is dead.

He was 75, which by all accounts is a long life... I just find it extra sad when comedians die. As anyone knows, life can be painful... people can put that aside when they are entertained. I believe this is a noble pursuit. He lives on in his work. 

Here he is on the Muppet Show. 

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

I hope they washed their hands afterwards.

I'm a nerd.

This is interesting... simplified to a large degree, but a neat 200 year economic sketch. Of course, the map would look a lot different a few thousand years ago. 

The video is cut off at the sides a bit for some reason.

even better than the real thing...

This to me seems like a much better way to blow off steam from a rivalry than to actually murder each other. 

Look how much fun that one guy is having... and quite the spectacle. Just hope there are no oily rags or dry wood piles close to the church.

the 3 stooges

My Mom sent this to me... it's the cover of the first issue of a student comic at SFU that featured my Dad and his 2 best friends.  Who still happen to be his 2 best friends, his life long fishing buddies. 

Swine Flu?

All of the news coverage that I am seeing right now on Swine Flu is stating that it is a virus that has never been seen before. If that is the case then it must be different than this.

The internet is great for referencing the more recent past, when someone tries to pawn something off as new, there is a good chance that it is just recycled. This is of course the most obvious in music. But it works for fear mongering as well. There was a campaign to spread the fear of anthrax a few years ago that mimicked one from 40 years ago. Buy plastic sheeting and duct tape to protect your home. Did wonders for the makers of duct tape and plastic sheeting. Maybe this one is brought to you by the makers of paper masks and plastic gloves.

Not to downplay the seriousness of an outbreak of a potentially deadly flu... it's just suspicious that it is being sold as something new. 

The Nuclear War that already happened...

There have been 2,049 registered nuclear weapon explosions on the Earth. There are also 116 PNE's ( Peaceful Nuclear Explosions ) by the Russians and 26 by the U.S.  These PNE's were for a number of reasons, from snuffing out underground oil fires to excavating. The detonation of the 2 atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki while having a very large death toll, do not come anywhere near the environmental damage that the other explosions caused. 

Chernoble, 1 facility... leaked radioactive fallout that was measured on every continent. I could not even imagine what the real spread of radiation from all that testing would be.

I do admit to seeing beauty in the shapes created by the explosions... the smoke and plasma allow you to see the physics behind the motion. It really is incredible to watch... mesmerizing, beautiful. Unfortunately, each one is a radioactive nightmare that has technically created some post apocalyptic conditions on the planet.  Polluting the air, the water and the soil. We carry the legacy of all this testing in our genetics now. 

Cancer rates are incredibly high all over the world. Not just in older people but in children who have not had time to be exposed to long term effects of anything. Parents are passing genetic problems to their children... War vets from the Iraq wars have come home to get sick and have deformed and sick children. Most likely this has something to do with the depleted uranium that they coat shells with to make them able to pierce heavy armor. Whenever the shells are fired it turns into a fine dust. Every soldier and citizen on the ground there is being exposed it. Cancer rates and birth defects increased dramatically in Iraq after the first Gulf War. 

At the very least, we may not have dropped those atomic bombs on cities, killing, burning and poisoning people, destroying infrastructure... and the tests were also spaced out over time, but it doesn't change the nature of what each one was. 

I also do not think that it is unrelated that we have a massive whole in our ozone and that we set off nuclear explosions in our upper atmosphere. There is no scientific doubt that CFC's are eating away at the ozone layer, but I believe that we may have initially caused the hole through upper atmosphere atomic testing. 

Warning about this next one... turn down off the sound completely unless you want to hear extremely heavy metal music. It is worth watching as it has incredible footage of explosions and the impact of seeing so many explosions back to back does drive home the scale of things. 

Everyone in the world in power during this period of time must have been completely insane. This isn't meant to be doom and gloom, just stating the nature of our situation. This is why you cannot just blindly trust world leaders to do what is right. Scientists warned them about radioactive fallout and they did it anyways. People need to force their leaders to do what is in the best interest of the people and the planet. 

Here is a comparison of yield for a few of the explosions. Hiroshima is a mere 15 and Nagasaki is 21 kt. The Russian Tzar Bomba is 50,000 kt. Insane.

Date	Name	Yield (kT)	Country
1945-07-16	Trinity	19	USA
1945-08-06	Little Boy	15	USA
1945-08-09	Fat Man	21	USA
1949-08-29	RDS-1	22	USSR
1952-10-03	Hurricane	25	UK
1952-11-01	Ivy Mike	10,400	USA
1953-08-12	Joe 4	400	USSR
1954-03-01	Castle Bravo	15,000	USA
1955-11-22	RDS-37	1,600	USSR
1957-11-08	Grapple X	1,800	UK
1960-02-13	Gerboise Bleue	70	France
1961-10-31	Tsar Bomba	50,000	USSR
1964-10-16	596	22	PR China
1967-06-17	Test No. 6	3,300	PR China
1968-08-24	Canopus	2,600	France
1974-05-18	Smiling Buddha	12	India
1998-05-11	Shakti I	45	India
1998-05-11	Shakti II	12	India
1998-05-28	Chagai-I	9–12	Pakistan
2006-10-09	Hwadae-ri	<1	North Korea