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| Name : | JAWBONE |
| Email : | In the noose like a cooked goose. Yikes!!!!! |
Message | Wow! I'll sleep on it. But a busy board no less. Still, Try and have a happy |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Tom |
Message | That is one of the most inane, illogical and misinformed/mis-learned posts by you that I have ever seen. Every time I hear one of YOU dufus's complain about "who sent you to war" gets my shorts in a knot. It upsets me soo.. that I cant even think to type what I want to say cogentally... As a "serf".. you go to war when you are asked, or told, do so. It's been that way since civilization began!! What you should be upset by.. is YOUR OWN RANK in the particular civilization. Think of the Revolutionary war.. our Civil War... You don't want to go to war unless the person sending you to war is a war veteran? Hows about you starting your own country/civilization!!! Then you don't have to follow any rules or dictates. Simple, ain't it. |
| Name : | WRT |
| Email : | Tom |
Message | Because I feel like your guest here on this board, and because I don't think this is the proper venue for a political debate, I won't tell you what I thought of your "flat foot" post. Maybe you could copy and post it to the Politics Board where I can give it the full measure of attention it screams for. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Spelling/Fat Fingers Too |
| Message | Whew, Posting at 11:00 p.m. when one is tired is a mess for one my age. Especially since I was being yelled at to come to bed. No eidting...I apologize. Still, Have a happy |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | df/MrM |
| Message | df: thank you for the excuse. I luv yer mommie. Mr M Good Post very entertaining and to the point.Probably the hardest thing those guys did was sit still when they got their locks shaved off. HAH |
| Name : | Jawbone/L.B. |
| Email : | My Brother Hank |
| Message | Aw, come on. Some authorites wer blaming too many stress fractures were the reason the army didn't draft flat footers. You might remember well that the high and mighty also used the flat footed bs as well as other means to avoid war but root on others to die. Why do you think I hate both major parties nearly equally? Because their flesh and bones and their kins fleash and bones, for the most part, are just too sacred when matched up against the average GI Joe. But the louses are war-mongers when empowered to send us poorer waifs off to die, get injured, or be lucky. Consider some of these holier than thou, hypocritical, cowardly politicos and their buddies and family. Yep, those who hooted and hollered for war and made f-----g sure it was other young Americans that went to fight, die, or ever survive Vietnam. Meanwhile, back in their mansions and boardrooms the draft dodgers were safe and sound and with plenty of dinero to spend. so who and whom am I speaking? Texan G. W. Bush comes to mind first. Daddy knows best and Daddy Bush used his connections to get Georgie Porgie into the Air National Guard..and yet, the dumb ass cowboy of sorts deserted, just disappeared from thin air for two years. Nonetheless, Daddy had the power and Georgie got an Honorable. Like what? Old Yello(w) Cake Cheney himself.Or should I say, 'Yello-Bellied?' His connections saw to it that graduate school superceded the draft. Just another youth with the golden touch getting a deferment.sought graduate school deferment. Getting 'Smarts' beat the crap out of hopefully beating death on a battlefield. All My Children. The Bush's had their own plot for that theme. Consider George W. Bush's Jeb, Marvin,and Neil. Did they serve the Red, White and Blue in a uniform or in a champagne bar with other cowards? And Boo Hoo, George H. W. Bush had three brothers. Neither Jonathan J., William T. , or Prescott S. Bush served thios country as a member of the Armed Services. Continuing with the Bush Dynasty (I like the last 4 letters to represent the family...'Nasty'. Not for one moment would you believe his twin girls would serve? Not and No!!! But Jeb had a son in the Navy reserve. Land Ahoy!!!! And Jonathans sones? Aw shucks, their ain't no burning Bush...yet. Who is afraid of the Big Bad Donald, the big Bad Donald? Not the enemy, he never got to show his ugly, vicious face as he was back in the states living in luxury what with five deferments (1964-69) to escape the Vietnam War. And who can ever forgive Guliani for questioning the courage of war hero John Kerry. Yikes, he got a student deferment from Mahnattan Collegeand yet another at NYU so as to dig the college girls and the bustling nightlife. When he finished law school at NYU, oh damn, he was reclassified as 1A. Hi Ho, Hi Ho, its off to war Juliani goes. Your gullible as all get out if you believe that he was patritoic. Nope, he applied for a deferment but was shocked when turned dfown. Whoopee! In 1969, But Judge MacMahon who had hired Juli as a clerk wanted none of that Americaninism and shot off a hot ldetter to the draft board to reclassify Julie as 2A. That is a hook name for getting the elite out of war because one holds an essential civilian job. Just in the nick of time, Julie, who had then received a high draft lottery number number, had his deferment was granted even though he was actuaklkly 1A again. Ah, next time a war comes up, I'm flat-footed and college bound...again. No happy back later with more goodies. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | WRT/Obi/coriolis |
| Message | The upwelling is caused when the water, here, being pushed north by the wind, actually travels around in a circle vertical to the surface of the earth clockwise, in a manner so as to go away from the coast, westerly, then dives to the bottom and on to the east, rising and bringing colder water with it. I have to give you and Obi both credit for your approach to this. Coriolis is a difficult thing to understand especially for someone without a physics background. The second coriolis question about upwelling was posed to several of us physics students when I as a senior at SDSU by an assistant of Steve Hawking. We were able to handle it by deriving the correct equations from the more basic equations describing the simpler coriolis of the first coriolis problem. If you guys had solved that one it would have been really impressive and really you guys did a decent job on the first, all things considered. Obi correctly noted the driving force of gravity and WRT struggled with visualizing the whole thing in a constructive manner. Please don't take this wrong somehow, I give you both a good evaluation for your handling of these very difficult questions. It would virtually a take an Einstein class visualization ability to solve the second with no prior training. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
Message | For a racist, you are a funny guy. I ain't gettin me no avacados am I. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | d |
| Message | My mom claims that calculators are making the mistakes, not her. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | oops |
| Message | wases is my way of saying waxes. I think my fingers are getting shoprter and touch the wrong keys. NO? you mean it's my brain sending wrong signals? |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jo |
| Message | Well of course I didn't think of that kind. Ha ha ha ha ha But the all out wrapping and oils and wases and what ever the heck them gyptians used over there. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Tommy Tommy mcmommy, banana nana mo tommy.. |
| Message | You're a science guy and a professed Biology 'espert. So.. I've had this question-thought for a long time... FLAT FEET. What the hell is the big deal with flat feet? In my day, you could not join the military service if you had flat feet. Since I got in, I guess I don't have flat feet. But I don't understand what the big deal is. You cant march?.. you cant hold a gun?.. you cant pick up hochie mammas in foreign bars??... what?? |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Jo Is A-Okay |
| Message | Jo, How right you are. have a happy |
| Name : | Jo |
| Email : | d |
| Message | I don't know about that...I know several alcoholics that are mummifying their selves! ....:) |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | |
| Message | That has to be fake. White people don't mummify their dead. |
| Name : | WHITE PEOPLE?? |
| Email : | |
Message | 9,000 Year Old Caucasian Mummy Found in Nevada http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=No_aGmprKM8 |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | coriolis.2 |
| Message | So once we bend our minds around the drain spin thing how about this. Coriolis causes upwelling along the whole of the thousands of miles long California Current. It is the reason that the water temps are so cold along our coast and especially in IB. The California current is driven by the prevailing winds. They push the ocean water south along the west coast from Canada to the tip of Baja. So the question is why does coriolis cause that southerly current to create upwelling along our beaches? This one is easily visualized in a 3D display. Correct answers entitle one to a raised eyebrow at SIO. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | WRT |
| Message | It rotates clockwise in the northern hemi because moving north in the north hemi means you have more angular momentum than the new patch of the surface of the earth you are now on, pushing you in the direction of the spin of the earth. So while the left side of the spinning water is going north, the right side is going south and therefore being pushed in the opposite direction by having less angular momentum than the places it is going to. The whole thing rotates clockwise. In the southern hemisphere it works the opposite. North movement means you have less, not more angular momentum, and south movement means you have more, not less angular momentum. So it spins the other way. I hope this is at least as clear as mud. Illustration makes this much easier to visualize. Maybe Obi can let us somehow post something like that. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | WRT & Obi |
| Message | First, Obi's observation that gravity has something to do with it, is true for the drain situation. That drain is providing the push or in this case suck. I want to read WRT's comment more carefully before I address it. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Tired ol sucker |
| Message | I am tired but hanging tough on getting this hall of fame completed for June. Meanwhile, those posting are doing a bang-up job. I might get toasted if I chime in now. Have a happy |
| Name : | WRT |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Okay, so the water circling the drain is moving north, south, east or west because it's in a sink in an Italian cruise ship or something. I get that. I also get the change in rotation speed depending on the proximity to the poles. But I don't think I'll EVER understand why it rotates clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter in the southern. Let me try to illustrate my pathetic confusion. You say the water "curves in the direction of the spin". But, we're talking about a circle. No matter what compass direction you "tell" that circular body of water to spin toward...a full HALF of it, at any given time, will be going the opposite way. For example, imagine a dodge ball circle with a single line of kids around the circumference. There's a teacher north of the circle that tells the kids the Coriolis effect has demanded that they start to rotate (walk around the circumference) toward the north. The kids on the left (west) side will start walking clockwise. The kids on the right (east) side will start walking counter clockwise. See the problem? What law of physics determines which hemisphere of the circle gets to lead and which half must follow? In my simple mind, it seems to me that water MUST always just go straight down the drain from all directions at once as it does, I imagine, right smack dab on the equator. But I know it spins its way in, and that's why my head hurts. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | coriolis |
| Message | The coriolis effect: Objects moving north are getting closer to the axis of the spin of the earth. And going south they are getting farther away from that axis, in the northern hemisphere. It is the opposite in the southern hemisphere. Objects moving east or west do not get closer or farther from that axis. The actual speed of the revolution of the earth is slower closer to that axis. By moving north in the northern hemisphere you are getting closer to the axis of the spin of the earth and therefore are going faster that the part of the earth you are approaching. That makes you curve in the direction of that spin. Going south you are getting farther away from the axis so seeming to go slower and curving the opposite direction of the spin of the earth. In the southern hemisphere it works the other way. Coriolis was thought to be force at one time but is actually an artifact of the conservation of angular momentum on a sphere. This is easy to visualize with a diagram. "How can water circling a drain be considered as moving north, south, or ANY specific direction?" The different parts of spinning water at one time or the other go sequentially in all the directions. The parts going north or south are affected by coriolis. |
| Name : | WRT |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Aw shucks, Henry. Thank you for the kind words! I'll do my best to live up to them. Now we need the blushing icon! |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Gloing 78 & acting like 45 |
| Message | I'm a busy bee. Back soon. have a happy |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | WRT |
| Message | You are a "laugh riot".. and a remarkably accurate pundit.. Have I told you lately that "I lub you"??.. 'cuz I do. You have brought so much smartness and enjoyment to our website... SINCERELY... -dufus Henry P.S. WARNING.. but, if I find out who you are.. there will be no end to my torment! |
| Name : | WRT |
| Email : | df |
| Message | How can water circling a drain be considered as moving north, south, or ANY specific direction? Other than clock or counter clock and down? Henry, I think we need the confused icon for this board. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | the Coriolis effect |
| Message | The Coriolis effect is the name given to the effect in drains. It is observed in anything moving north or south but not east or west. The next question is why this north-south movement and momentum conservation would create this effect but not east west movement? |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | An earth like planet found |
| Message | A planet said to be the best candidate for life as we know it has been found a mere 22 light years away in a triple star system. There are only 100 known closer stars. The star it orbits is called GJ 667 C. The other stars in this system should be very bright in the sky of the new planet and one astronomer said it must be a truly beautiful sight. The star is a type M dwarf with 1/3 the mass of the earth. The planet is 4.5 times as massive as the earth and is located exactly in the middle of the "Goldilocks" zone around this star. A planet of that size is known as a super earth. Super earths are thought to have more stable climates than planets the size of the earth. This star and it planet seem to have very low amounts of metals compared to our system. Some astronomers are saying that this planet was found so easily that they speculate that planets like these must be extremely common. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | d |
| Message | There's a continental divide like that. I think it's pretty much in the Rocky Muntains. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Well, gravity does pull the water down the drain, so in a sense it's part of the answer. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | WRT |
| Message | A good start to answering this one. A hint: the California Current produces upwelling that makes the ocean water so cold in IB for the same reason. |
| Name : | WRT |
| Email : | |
| Message | Oops! I forgot the "why" part. No clue. |
| Name : | WRT |
| Email : | |
| Message | Toilets and drains go counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Your question reminds me of something I read or heard some time ago... about rivers. All rivers flow in one/the same direction.. but there is at least one river that flows in the opposite direction that it's supposed to... that's all that I remember. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | DF |
| Message | Just a SWAG.. does it have something to do with gravity? |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | What a cool question.. I have no idea.. but now I'm force to ponder it. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Pierce Arrow/Nikola Tesla/1908 |
| Message | Whoo who, good stuff Mariners. Alternate automobile energy. You know well that brings me back to Nikola Tesla.Indeed, that genius bought an expensive Pierce Arrow back in 1930 and converted it to run on electricity. He replaced the original ICE engine with an Electric Motor of his own making. His only vehicluar power source was a black box of radio tubes and an antenna placed in the glove compartment. The genius then adjusted his tuners to a frequnecy of 240 volts delivered through the air to his car from his big electric tower a few miles away. He whizzed around New York as growds gazed and were amazed at the low noise coming from the car. After showing off for a few hours he drove the vehicle to a barn garage he had over at Niagara Falls. But he was about to get axed in a sharp way. He told his investor,J.P. Morgan, that the electric car could be a boon to society and with some tinkering it could be mass produced. Morgan and other industrialists were in awe but sincerely worried. Tesla was going to give the world a cheap way to run autos. Morgan and others refused to fund his grand idea and instead, in one way or another, had to be happy that Tesla's Wardencliffe Tower, the one that received signals from the Pierce arrow, was destroyed. Strange, eh? But not really unexpected knowing what I do over the decades about Corporate America. Just what went on at that tower? Some weirdos , (or are they?), believe that Tesla sent a particle beam to the stratosphere and down to Siberia that destroyed some sixty million trees over two thousand square kilometers in Tunguska, Siberia, Russia in June of 1908. Other UFO dudes propose that an alien flying saucer crashed there while scientists seek out an explnanation for a meteroite of some type. The bottom line is the fact that since the auto was invented, humankind has suffered, along with the V8 joy, ghastly smog and respiratory diseases to name a couple, from the burning dirty hydrocarbons and other harmful chemcials in the gas processing plants, a few known to cause cancer. There is more but I am very busy with the hall of fames. later alligators with my wild crocodiles have a happy |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | |
| Message | I remember whne the news media used to predict that. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Hows about a small atomic pellet to run your car FOR EVER? |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | Does that shop have some kind of insurance for this kind of stuff? |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Hoodlums |
| Message | Man, When it rains it really pours. I went to pick up my car at the auto shop this morning and discovered that during the night, some punk(s) had entered the area and broke out about 5 car windows and one of them was mine. They shattered the passenger side window. Damn rotten luck. Looks like they used a hammer of some sorts. Rats!!!! No happy |
| Name : | Catmandu |
| Email : | Can Do Cat |
| Message | If Hank drops a elastic ball from his high perch in IB onto the sidewalk below, the primary force acting on it is our gravity...duh!!! However, just before before he dropped the ball, guess what? Yes, the ball has gravitational potential energy. And for beginners, what the hell is that, right? Well, that G potential energy is the arithmetic product of the ball's mass, the constant of acceleration due to gravity, and the ball's height or in the book, expressed as Ep = mgh. Now, is the ball falling freely when it leaves Hanks hand or did he add some force and acceleration to change the amount of compression and bounce? Hopefully not. Thjerefore, potential energy is converted to kinetic energy or simply equated like the following:(Ek = [1/2]mv2). Notwithstanding any trickery, the vball will strike the surface and its kinetic energy will apply a "force of impact" on same and th e cement will react with a nearly equal force of impact against the ball. Les I forget, don't neglect the fact that the surface and other things involved, like pebbles, rocks, or water, even extreme heat, will absorb some energy, leaving a little less energy to act upon the ball. Consequently, the amount of energy absorbed by the surface by common sense has to do with the nature and condition of the cement. And then again, what kind of ball did Hank launch down? If not elastic, then changes happen for example, a glass ball ain't going to bounce, it is going to shatter. Yep, because kinetic energy not absorbed by the atmosphere would work to deform or crack the surface and shatter the ball. Yet all energy is still accounted for. We will assume that Hank drops an elastic ball and hollow inside. If so, then the side impacting the surface is compressed and deformed. Consequently, the ball and the air inside are compressed, creating increased pressure inside the ball. The reaction to this pressure and compression is for the ball and air inside it to expand. The expansion applies force against the surface, which reacts by pushing back against the ball with force. And it comeback up and hiots Hank in the mouth as he peers down. Not really, because some energy was lost due to absorption and heat at the surface. Too, remember that the air will absorb heat and sound energy. Also remember, if the ball is not totally elastic,then some energy cannot be converted back to kinetic energy. And so forth. If you are a fan of a perpetual motion machine, then guess again. The ball would have to retain all of the lost energy described above in order to shoot back where Hank dropped it. No way Jose, it is a fact Jack that air friction acts on the ball causing the air and ball to warm up. And that my Dear Mariner's leads to entropy along with the loss of useful energy. No can do reaching Hank. Is that a Happy or not? |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Doctor, doctor!!! |
| Message | Hank, Thanks for Newton. I am so busy right now. Also, my car water pump is out and my mechanic is swamped. My doorbell just broke and my sliding door wheels went bad. Shucks!!!!! It is expensive being a homeowner. Still, Have a happy ps. some good news. I now have a doctor taking boxing lessons from me. He is built like Superman but not even close to being a mighty mouse. the Wizard will have his work cut out. have a happy |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Probably almost anything if it falls hard enough will have some bounce. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | question 4 |
Message | Hey.. I don't claim to be no scientific Messican.. BUT... regarding question #4.. don't it depend on what the ball is made out of??.. LOL I'm being like "Ralph".. superfluous and minutianus.. BUT, I'm smarter then the average Messican.. 'cuz I says so!! |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Tom/df |
| Message | 4. Question: Why does a ball bounce upon falling? Answer: When a ball falls, it is temporarily deformed. Because of elasticity, the ball tends to regain its original shape for which it presses the ground and bounces up (Newton's Third Law of Motion). |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Tom/df |
| Message | It appears that TOM and "df" have raised the white flag. I guess they ain't the smarty science bozos they thought there were.. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | 3 or 4 letters only |
| Message | Who out there can name 10 words that begin with G and end with G (English only)but only have 3-4 letters. Ah Ha. have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | to DF |
| Message | Inductive Capasitance. have a happy |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Yeah, but Henry always says... "me thinks me be a butthead" |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | What did Mr. Lee at MV used to say? "Me thinks thou dost protest to much." |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | |
| Message | What is xc=2pie fl? |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | xc=2pie fl |
| Message | Busy as an ion, an wbc, an anion and a cation. Have a happy |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | What a gracious butthead you are.. let the "little people" have a chance. Can you be more disrespectful?.. I think NOT!! |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | |
| Message | 'll wait on this compressing one till others have a fair chance. It's siesta time. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | question 4 |
| Message | Question # 4 is sooo cool. The answer is soooo cool.. I had no idear. Come on Tommy.. don't let "df" steal your thunder!!.. LOL |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | These games on our website are experimental and evolving. To be frank.. it takes a MOUNTAIN OF TIME from your lazy ass webmaster. I don't know if I can maintain it. And YES, I did, and am, thinking of prizes for the winners. My FIRST thought for a prize was an avocado from YOU. I also did a cursory search for "trophy" icons/pics that I could award. I just haven't come up with a unique trophy photo and name for our games. I did look for a picture of a brass/gold "grasshoppah" as a trophy... LOL |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | I did search the internet for INTERACTIVE games to post on our website. Games where I don't have to maintain, grade, judge, etc. But 90% of them require a link to the website that is hosting the game. The other 10% require a software engine on my website (host server) that uses bandwidth and CPU power of my host's server. And.. all that I found have "cheat" or "solve" buttons. The two options above also have the same problems as with my games.. PLUS, anybody can go to a million websites to play games. I'm trying to make our games as unique as possible. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Question 3 winner |
| Message | "df" had the best (right) answer. 3. Question: Why does a liquid remain hot or cold for a long time inside a thermos flask? Answer: The presence of air, a poor conductor of heat, between the double glass wall of a thermos flask, keeps the liquid hot or cold inside a flask for a long time. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Well, that is my major problem with all these tests, quizzes and puzzles I have posted. Some people work days.. some people work nights and some people are retired. Second major problem is.. how long do I leave the questions before everyone has had time to answer? My goal was to make some fun competitive games. But, obviously because of the two problems I mentioned above I cant figure out how to make it fair for all. Suggestions are welcome. Part of the answer might be.. NOT to make them competitive. But doesn't that make it less fun? |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Tom nails it. |
| Message | Tom nailed it. 2. Question: A piece of chalk when immersed in water emits bubbles. Why? Answer: Chalk consists of pores forming capillaries. When it is immersed in water, the water begins to rise in the capillaries and air present there is expelled in the form of bubbles. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | DF/Marfa |
| Message | DF, that is about as good an answer as I can get. I have watched the lights many times. Don't tell the locals that the 67 lights are the answer. The mystery keeps guests and tourists available. Money my good man. have a happy |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Marfa lights |
| Message | Is this cheating to use Wikipedia? In May 2004, a group from The Society of Physics Students at the University of Texas at Dallas spent four days investigating and recording lights observed southwest of the view park using traffic volume monitoring equipment, video cameras, binoculars, and chase cars. Their report made the following conclusions:[3] •U.S. Highway 67 is visible from the Marfa lights viewing location. •The frequency of lights southwest of the view park correlates with the frequency of vehicle traffic on U.S. 67. •The motion of the observed lights was in a straight line, corresponding to U.S. 67. •When the group parked a vehicle on U.S. 67 and flashed its headlights, this was visible at the view park and appeared to be a Marfa light. •A car passing the parked vehicle appeared as one Marfa light passing another at the view park. They came to the conclusion that all of the lights observed over a four night period southwest of the view park could be reliably attributed to automobile headlights traveling along U.S. 67 between Marfa and Presidio, TX. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Na =Sodium, H = Hydrogen, C= Carbon, O = Oxygen |
| Message | NaHCo3 For Sodium bicarbonate. Do you Mr. Hank have a keyboard that will show the bonding? Have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Ah ha |
| Message | Hank, I am doing the letters for the hall of fame nominations. Also, I am doing the adds to sell and some flyers. I ordered the tickets today. I got plaqye quotes today. I have already rented a hall site. Lety got us a caterer. I am on the phone, hardly at home and busting my ass. I have to raise about $7500 for this event. Ouch. As for chalk,it is similar to things in our body. They have pores that eventually form capillaries. If you suds them in H20 the H20 will rise through the capillary openings and be thrust out or expelled in the form of bubbles. I tell you what. Try this one of for size. What causes the Marfa Lights? Now that is a real toughie. Go DF. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | You may be right. But going by the answer I have.. it's a little more (actually, a lot more) scientific/technical/detailed... When I post the answer, you can tell me if you or "d" is righter. Where the heck is Tom.. is he a sceerdy cat? |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | |
| Message | It's a reaction giving off CO2? |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | DF |
| Message | What is the scientific word for baking soda? |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Sorry.. that is WAAAYYY too general. You are going to have to give a more precise answer. Where is Mr. Science guy? |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | |
| Message | Some kind of chemical reaction with the water? |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | I have the answers, but they are not from me. I didn't know the answer to the last question. Personally, I prolly don't know any of the answers.. we'll see. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | d |
| Message | Sorry.. that answer is insufficiently detailed-specific enough. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | |
| Message | It's full of air to make it soft. And has baking soda in it. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | oh oh |
| Message | I don't like the looks of this. Obi knowing things. Be afraid, very afraid. |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | Tom/df |
| Message | 1. Question: A man with a load jumps from a high building. What will be the load experienced by him? Answer: Zero, because while falling, both the man and the load are falling at the same acceleration i.e. acceleration due to gravity. Oh oh... "df" 1, Tom 0 |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | |
| Message | While falling he will feel no load. This one of the clues Einstein had about gravity/matter curving space-time. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Web guy |
| Message | You're the best. Now I am just a little dummy |
| Name : | Webmaster |
| Email : | d |
| Message | Thank you for telling me that. I put a link on the winners board to get back to the Science Board. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Well I figured that because I couldn't even get back from the winners box or what ever that was. How come on this end of the boards I'm such a dummy and canget pretty smart on the other end. Why am I not balanced like normal people? It's lile being top or bottom heavy. He he |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | d |
| Message | wrong and wrong... |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Or is the load a parachute? |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Obi |
Message | death? |
| Name : | Donna |
| Email : | |
| Message | Beautiful picture... |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | Reading your post to Ralph, I wanted to comment but first appologize for it. I know where Archie Moore lived along the Wabash Highway and always watched for the boxing glove shaped pool which you could clearly see. Sad part was it was right next door to a junk yard. That always made me sad to look at something so pretty as his brick home and pool and a junk yard in my sight at the same time. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Not 27 inch arms on my son |
| Message | Ralph, I meant over 17 inch arms. Damned senility anyway. Or fingers going bad..or is it the eyes? Still, have a happy |
| Name : | Ralph, etc. |
| Email : | Lety & I 1989 |
| Message | Ralph, Age has helped Lety but for me, oh goodness gracious, the ravages just keep on mounting. Ha, but I am like you, a fortunate son. How many of our friends and family died in WW2, Korea, Viet Nam, and et al. How lucky we haven't been killed by a DWI. How awful that we have had loved ones and friends that have died by drowning, in fires, by hoodlums, by the forces of nature. By disease. The list goes on and on. Indeed, you, Henry, DF, Joe, D, and other Mariners and family who have made 70 are just that, fortunate ones.Oops, I didn't mean 'd' was up there with us. My sister Anne's boy died at 42 of Lou Gehrigs Disease. He was a cowboy and had a lot of head injuries along the way. I don't know how I survived a head on collison with a drunk driver and a few years later being hit from behind by racers at night at over 80 mph. In the latter, my head went through the windsheld into the brisk cold air of the night and I was broken up pretty badly and unconsicious for thirty minutes. I thought I would never train fighters again much less spar a few. One of my son's had leukemia and given last rites at age 18 months of age. He beat the odds, was an undefeated boxer, a great wrestler and captain of his high school wrestling team and in his 30's a disc golf national doubles champion. Today, he is a captain on the Austin Fire Department and Ralph, he is shorter than you but just as powerful. He is a stud power lifter and weighs in around 205 pounds with 27 inch arms.He is only 5' 8" tall. He was trained early on in life doing tiles for NASA space shuttles and is a wonderful and skilled carpenter. He buys run down houses, fixes them up and sells them. He also makes some hundred fins on weekends at flea markets. I can't believe he has a genius IQ after having 110 fever when given up for dead when a child. And get this, seven years ago, Lety couldn't draw a straight line. Now she is a pretty accomplished artist and has already had four solo exhibitions and the huge Pinata Extravaganza coming up this April at the famous Chamizal Memorial. She also graduated cum laude from UTEP in 2009. Not bad, eh? Too, she was placed in a Mexican orphanage while very young. Coincidence, I was in St.Margarets Orphanage here in El Paso for half of WW2. My brother Bud and my sister Claire, dropped out of schol and went to work to help my Mother get us out of the orphanage. That is, Bud became a top notch quarter horse jockey and Claire went to work for Ma Bell. Mission accomplished. I was in Pampa, Texas when Bud came through riding match races (winning 90%) in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. I was fed up with Pampa and I left with Bud and we eventually ended up in San Ysidro, California. Next up was naturally Chula Vista but really Mar Vista because MVHS hadn't been completed. I worked at the Tijuana Race Track where Bud had horses he trained. He had spent a tour in the Navy from 1946-49 and grew too heavy to be a jockey. On a rare Saturday morning, Bud took me to Archie Moore's Gym in San Diego. After that, I took a bus there when I had free time. Next, Henry created the website. I am forever thankful that he did.Though we may be odds over our philosphy at times, I still have deep reverence for the friendship this website has brought me. Besides, who wants to be clones? Viva la difference. And may all your Mariner days and memories be happy. Tom McKay |
| Name : | Ralph |
| Email : | |
| Message | Tom, You and Lety are lookin good! |
| Name : | Jawbone. |
| Email : | To DF |
| Message | DF, Done. Wow? You are deserving of being a proud Mariner. have a happy |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | Thanks for the great compliment, coming from someone as knowledgeable as you. You'll find me close to Glenn Foster in the MV roster, another 62er who was in fact a really brilliant student at MV. No doubt it's best to absolve Dennis Finch of being me. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | The Making of a Superstar |
| Message | Yes indeed, Luke Bryan seems to have the voice, a lot of charisma, and the right looks to be a superstar. Check out his latest video of 'I don't Want This Night To End.' I hope he comes this way. I will gladly pay to see him in concert. It is refreshing to hear a voice like his and the little ways that bind one like back in the days of Elvis, Roy O, and Neil. Luke is a happy for me |
| Name : | Jawbone/Video |
| Email : | Dumb Me |
| Message | Sorry DF, you just have to be Dennis Finch. Right? have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | to DF |
| Message | Man, you sure have a dynamic science background. Is it asking too much for you to , a pun now, to 'Come out of the Closet' and let us really KNOW the Mariner who has likley surpassed the rest of us in scientific study and accomplishment? Come on now. And please, list your college institutions and course work as well as what you have done in the public or private sector. I am damned curious...... have a happy |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Tesla |
| Message | "Ah, how terrible it is that we forget the greatest inventor of all time." The old physicists regarded Tesla as the greatest garage inventor of all time. A true successor of Archimedes. People are going to have fun going through the amazing wealth of his work for a long,long time. I had an upper division modern physics class where we spent weeks going over a bunch of things he ran across that he or no one could explain and just don't fit. Then once in a while one of those things makes sense from an advance. It's like finding a great treasure. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Tesla was the Light |
| Message | Ah, how terrible it is that we forget the greatest inventor of all time. Yes,Nikola Tesla, the Serb. Today, let us consider just one of his hundreds of inventions, AC and a few ramifications therof. Let us begin with wireless power transmission via the magnifying transmitter which just happened to be the the crowning creation of Tesla who had earlier brought alternating-current power to the world via his poly phase system. The predecessor of Tesla's A.C. was a D.c. system, not necessarily invcnted by Edison but rather developed, manufactured, and marketed by him. Dc. was so-so at serving small areas but was invalid for long distance transmission. By contrast, Tesla's A.C. could be transmitted for long distances over lighter wires and its voltage could be stepped up for transmission and down for consumption by means of transformers. Tesla was low-funded at first yet invented from zero a new kind of motor (poly phase) that could utilize A.C. Moreover, he stood supreme with his previous concepts of dynamos to generate A.C. as well as transformers to step voltage up and down. Contraiwise, Edison's D.C. was in kindergarten only suitable for small, autonomous communities. At that time, huge industrialists had a lot of power and political clout. They amired Edison and even after Edison toured the country electrocuting animals with A.C. in tent shows to scare America into believing that A.C. was the Devil's electricity, no matter, they were money hungry...they could turn on any one in a New York minute. And they did. They ruled with an iron fist and desired wcentralized power. In brief, they needed A.C.'s long distance capability to serve huge burgeoning populations. George Westinghouse, an inventor and industrialist saw the ebd of the rainbow in Tesla's poly phase inventions and eventually an partnership with the young prodigy by providign him with a million bucks and by contract agred to pay Tesla a royalty of one dollar per horsepower for the poly phase inventions. Ah, all industrialists are a little demonic. Westinghouse found means to renege on his royalty payments to Tesla. Nevertheless, Westinghouse and Tesla kicked butt over Edison's D.C. system. After furious court debates and hearings, Tesla and Westinghosue installed the first A.C. power facilities the most notable being the hydra plant at Niagara Falls which trumped Edison's lawsuits. Tesla nwas sold on hydropower. His ultimate energy-magnifying, wireless power system that was sunk because of industrialist greed, would have been hydro-based. In fact, the centralized A.C. electric power system we have today was forced into existence on a worlwide basis by politicians and utility magnates of that era. This utility mafia complex has developed into a federally protected monopoly with more capital wealth than any other industry in the United states In the manner of energy sources used. So, what do we have? Not Tesla's hydropower which has been left well behind the burning of fossil fuels. Oh yes, I mean those fuel processes that dumps over twenty million million tons of choking pollutants into the nation's air supply each year. Another fact Jack, Tesla's hydropower is eons behind the nuclear powered plants in kilowatt hours produced. So be it, and that sucks. Tesla hung out with Mark Twain and Albert Einstein. He was indded a celebrity in his poly phase heyday. so what happened? Since 1950 his celebrity is esconsed in various cults who relentlessly tout his radically progressive energy-magnifying, free-energy, and wireless power inventions. And yes, most of us know the answer, Tesla is still a threat to the established powers that be. Have a happy More to come...but not too often as I have to raise near 10 grand for the boxing and martial arts hall of fames. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Many Geniuses |
| Message | Note: All of those scientists are fantastic. But never forget who made each of our lives better. None other than the Great Nikola Tesla. He gave us 300 pratical inventions and he lit up our lives. No sages that promise a better life, ever diod give us light like Tesla and a little of Edison. have a happy |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Not only are there many great ones around now but there always have been. Ever hear of Werner Heisenberg? Edwin Hubble, Neils Bohr, Madam Curie, Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Michelson, Albert Morley, James Clerk Maxwell, etc.? The list is really long. Heisenberg is really interesting. His Uncertainty Principle work in many ways eclipses Einstein in the broad sweep of it's effect. All of lasers, quantum mechanics, etc., is defined by them. Ever hear of Einstein's famous quote about spooky physics? He's talking about the effects described by the Uncertainty Principle. Morely was a self taught cowboy from Wyoming who taught himself around a camp fire. He and Michelson came up with their epic experiment that enabled Einstein to come up with special relativity. Morely was also a friend of our own algebra teacher from MV, Mr. Morehouse. Morehouse's father was a famous astronomer who discovered Morehouse's comet and a friend of Morely. Marley and some these other guys used to eat at Morehouse's place a lot in Chicago when our Morehouse was a kid. They later were involved in producing the first chain reaction in Chicago. Maxwell's Equations define nearly all of modern knowledge of electrical and magnetic fields. A huge advance. De Broglie first thought of the wave particle duality. My mentor, whose mentor had been Einstein himself, told me that Einstein said that de Broglie made his discovery while still a grad student and it was rejected at the school they were at in France at that time. The stuft shirt profs there didn't like it cause it was too simple. He ran into Einstein in the hallway one day and showed it, on a single sheet of paper, to him. Einstein read it quickly and was amazed at it. Einstein himself considered these people to be his equal. He said this to my mentor who related it to me as a young physics student. I would think that the word of Einstein himself would be adequate on this subject. You need to give up this simplistic view you have of scientists and fame, etc. The truth is much more interesting. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df |
| Message | QUOTE: I find it interesting that you have been reading journals discussing cosmology and modern physics enough to "know" that no one is referred to as another Einstein." I don't have to read scientific periodicals. 'cuz you must read them. Since you consider your self some kind of rocket surgeon.. you would immediately refer me to the articles/people who mention all these other Einsteins, IF IT WERE TRUE!! Hawkings smawkings.. he's a genius by definition, but he ain't no Einstein. You put your big foot in your mouth AGAIN... there ain't no thousands of other Einstein's and you know it.. but I like seeing you thrash around on deck like a fish out of water. |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | Ralph |
| Message | My memory is spectacular, every thing my senses encounter is stored safely and neatly... however my recall-retrieval mechanism has been known to require maintenance at times. Like everybody else. I noticed when I was questioning you at the Breakfast Club... you paused and stuck your finger in your ear and gave it a few twists before recalling. I'll have to try that. |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | df |
| Message | What is driving me is.. your ridiculous statement that there are thousands of Einsteins out there. And that they are being unrecognized because of the common man. Since you are the only one that knows about these thousands of Einsteins. I guess that makes you UNCOMMON.. right? You're uncommon alright, cuz you're a WACKADOODLE!! |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Your description of Hawking and Einstein is ridiculous you realize. Hawking not having many theories? LOL. Do you have a clue as to what you are saying? Obi ..... please reconsider whatever is driving you to this. |
| Name : | Ralph |
| Email : | |
| Message | Henry, Your memory is flawed. |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Oh.. now you say "candidate" for another Einstein.. where before you stated that there are MANY Einsteins. You tap dance better then Fred Astaire. Grasshoppah.. I will give you ONE thing. Debating Obi-Juan-Cannoli is a sign of confidence.. albeit, false confidence. The only one that can challenge me is Ralph. But Ralph loses every time also. Annoying, ain't I.. LOL I'm not getting any more avacados am I. |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | df |
| Message | See.. here's the deal. Einstein had many, many THEORIES.. that turned out to be facts. Hawkings doesn't have many theories.. Hawkings mostly had fact...ok, he could multiply and divide.. but comparing Hawkings to Einstein is going a little to far.. doncha think? You can find a BUNCH of brainiacs that can add, subtract and multiply. But its the theoretical that makes the difference. Grasshoppah.. do you have a clue to what I'm saying? |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Of course, Hawking is a great candidate for the title "another Einstein" He has both the genius quality and the fame. In truth, Hawking is more famous and respected than Einstein was for most of his life. Einstein, for instance, had to endure endless mocking and derision by the ignorati all during his life time. In truth, the modern world has produced quite a few of these guys and there are more all the time. Pan that little magnifying glass on the bottom of you R&C glass around and you might be surprised what there is out there. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | Obi.......You are surely confusing fame and genius yourself. I find it interesting that you have been reading journals discussing cosmology and modern physics enough to "know" that no one is referred to as another Einstein. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | |
| Message | Isn't df another Einstein? He told me he was once. HEH HEH |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | df |
| Message | I've never heard "Steven Hawking" referred to as "another Einstein".. or anybody else for that matter. |
| Name : | Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | df |
| Message | Who's "they"?.. the "common man"?? I think you are confusing FAME with GENIUS. Even if the "common man" didn't recognize all these Einsteins, their peers would. And in their peer periodicals they would certainly be referred to as "another Einstein".. but NOPE.. not so. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | Obi |
| Message | “So, the "common man" is preventing another Einstein or Elvis” They are failing to notice Einstein class people because as you correctly state there is a huge variety among people, even those quite similar, and that is enough to baffle those who believe in fake reality shows etc. |
| Name : | Henry.. aka Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | df..aka grasshoppah |
| Message | QUOTE: "I've read a couple estimates that there are maybe over a thousand individuals like Einstein running around at this point in time." Where are all these Einstein's and Elvis's??.. "the common man and common man's media" is the problem? So, the "common man" is preventing another Einstein or Elvis??... could you be a bigger wacka-doodle?.. I don't think so. Even if you cloned Einstein or Elvis.. they wouldn't be the same. Why? because of all the variables I spoke of. Mainly life experiences. |
| Name : | Jawbone/L.B. |
| Email : | Prez |
| Message | Uh Oh, I am once again President ot the Boxing & Martial Arts Hall of Fames here in EP. I am excited but hope I stay healthy until June 9th, 2012 for the banquet. What with Lety;s huge exhbit coming up at the Chamizal Memorial beginning in April and this event, we are going to be seriously busy. If any Mariners are vacationing this way in June, let me know if you want to attend. There will only be 250 tickets sold. have a happy...I hope I do...I am excited. |
| Name : | df |
| Email : | more Einsteins? |
| Message | "The odds would say/suggest that there should be another Elvis, Einstein,....." I've read a couple estimates that there are maybe over a thousand individuals like Einstein running around at this point in time. Obviously, the common man and common man's media are way too involved in other things to appreciate them. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | df/Jawbone |
| Message | Just looking at it from the "odds" standpoint is much to simplistic. There are also billions of variables to consider. Saying billions and billions of other solar systems like ours means there must be life, is dufushness. Think about the billions and billions of people who are, and have been, inhabiting the earth. The odds would say/suggest that there should be another Elvis, Einstein, Tom McKay, Henry and "df". But.. nooooo there ain't!.. why?.. too many variables! (besides simple odds). As far as I'm concerned, we are still at square one... one God and one planet with intelligent life forms. Ok, and with some not so intelligent life forms. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Dem Stars |
| Message | Pretty goofy universe.have a happy |
| Name : | To df |
| Email : | Fom PAW |
| Message | Yeah, I have two 13 year old orange trees that have never born fruit until this year. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | I would never eat frog legs... but I do like frogs, cuz frogs eat them some mosquitoes.. I don't like me no mosquitoes.. what are mosquitoes good for??... except frog din-din. Frogs eat mosquitoes.. right? |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Frogs Gone Bye Bye |
| Message | Hank, an easy Google. It is the Chitrid fungus. It is making 1/3 of frog populations extinct...already. and the worst is yet to come. Once it infests an area, 50 - 80% of the frogs die. Why? Because the little devils dig into the frogs skin where they multiply and produce their poison which prevents the frog from absorbing H20 and oxygen. Sad but true. The bacterial fungus is now on six continents. No hope for stopping it at present. A real disaster. No more frog legs for you Hank. No happy |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | HEY...GOOD NEWS, SORTA.. I saw/heard on TV that "they" have finally figured out why the bees are disappearing. I'm assuming you've heard that the bees have been mysteriously disappearing for years now.. not a good thing. We need us some bees to pollinate our crops. It seems there is some microscopic parasite (something like that) that has been infecting the bees and causing them to lose their memory.. like they cant find their way home or remember what their purpose is. I haven't heard anything about the frogs yet. You know they are disappearing also, right? |
| Name : | Henry.. aka Obi-Juan-Cannoli |
| Email : | Jawbone.. aka grashoppah |
| Message | Don't fret my man... nature has NEVER caused a species to become extinct that didn't "work" (adapt)... and it ain't gonna start now. The human species "works" (adapts). And even if the impossible happened and nature, for what ever reason, tried to extinctify humans by the sperm-egg thing. "Man" can artificially inseminate. In other words, "man" is a God.. maybe not your God.. but a God by most any measure. Trust your pappy on that. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Boule, boule, Sperm 600 Million Years Old |
| Message | Darn, I missed this article from Science Daily. Good thing I re-read my mnagazines. From Professor Eugene Lu (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Guess what fellas? There is one sex-specific gene so vital, its function has remained unaltered throughout evolution and is found in almost all animals, according to new research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The gene, called Boule, is responsible for sperm production. Northwestern scientists also discovered in their research that Boule appears to be the only gene known to be exclusively required for sperm production from an insect to a mammal. "This is the first clear evidence that suggests our ability to produce sperm is very ancient, probably originating at the dawn of animal evolution 600 million years ago," said Eugene Xu, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Feinberg. "This finding suggests that all animal sperm production likely comes from a common prototype." Have a happy...and protect your scrotum. New studies show that the 'Y' chromosome is diminishing and that millions and millions of men will be unable to produce enough semen to impregnate a females egg.The egg has a coating that discriminates and fights off millions of a man's sperm to begin with. It is very selctive about opening up for semen. Nowadays, most men's semen is weaker than past studies show and therefore, is it possible, that men making babies, is on the way out? Yikes! Have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | To HANK/VIRUS |
| Message | Well, It is the best infection I have ever had. have a happy |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | Speaking of a new species. I think can "one up" that... In the summer of 1998 it was discovered that mixing a Messican with Rum n Coke produced a here-to-for unknown parasite/fungus. This new species created a website that has been infecting many, many normally sweet people. And is turning them into liberated goobers. This new parasite/fungus grows on it's host.. and eventually takes over, producing an unrecognizable life form that has no reservation, no restriction, no equivocation and no redemption. But!, the good news is, your infected mind has set you free.. welcome to the dark side. Henry William Ascasio the 1st approved this message. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Arsenic & Lace |
| Message | A new species of bacteria found in California's Mono Lake is the first known life-form that uses arsenic to make its DNA and proteins, scientists announced today. Dubbed the GFAJ-1 strain, the bacteria can substitute arsenic for phosphorus, one of the six main "building blocks" for most known life. The other key ingredients for life are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. Arsenic is toxic to most known organisms, in part because it can mimic the chemical properties of phosphorus, allowing the poison to disrupt cellular activity. The newfound bacteria, described online this week in the journal Science, not only tolerates high concentrations of arsenic, it actually incorporates the chemical into its cells, the study authors found. "It's gone into all the vital bits and pieces," said study co-author Paul Davies, director of the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University in Tempe. While for now Earth is the only place we know that life exists, the discovery does hold implications for the search for life elsewhere in the universe, since it shows that organisms can exist in chemical environments biologists once wouldn't have imagined. Surprise! Surprie! Surprise! |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | I never tire of Elvis Music |
| Message | Hank, I don't have a real Elvis Favorite as there are at least 100 songs by him that I cherish. For some people it is Caruso, for other The Three Tenors' and I do like them a bucnh. However, Only Elvis has the charisma, the music, and the man, to be the King of all time. A few you haven't played that are on my fav list include: 1) You're The Reason I'm Living 2) You Gave Me A Mountain 3)It Keeps right On A Hurting 4) Guitar Man 5) Don't Be Cruel ( One of my real tops when I was young) 6) Suspicious Minds 7)Wooden Heart 8)There goes My Everything 9)Baby, what You Want Me To do 10) How Great Thou Art....The old agnostic one loves him some gospel music just because it is good nusic. Even Richard Dawkins likes good gospel music. have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone. |
| Email : | Elvis Music/For Me & Video |
| Message | Henry, Geez, you are ready for a new career...Hollywood calling SOS. Your breakfast clud moderating is pretty swell too. Darn it, Have a happy Lub, Tom |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jawbone/Evil Hank |
| Message | Now that says it all. The best Dad gummed video yet...HA HA HA HA I luv it! How can you not know you are luvved Jawbone? |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Elvis, Jan 8th B-Day |
| Message | I forgot to post yesterday which was King Elvis' Birthday. I sure miss him but he left us a wealth of music and rock and roll memories. What a difference he made in my life. have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone/Video |
| Email : | It Is The Legs Hank |
| Message | Ah ha, Now everyone knows why I was Mr. Legs of 1951. Hee Haw!!!! |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Hanky |
| Message | I would luv to see the other end when he tries to get off. |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Tommy McKay |
| Message | Watching the video of you.. I will give you something.. you still have a good grip. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | Oh yes, I remember watching a documentary of trying to go to a mountain where the ARK was thought to be and the group were forced to vacate the area. Something about going like a foot over the boundary that was approved by that government. |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | I like this Woman |
| Message | The hunt for evolutionary solutions to contemporary mental health problems by Emily Deans, M.D. Dopamine Primer How dopamine makes us human Published on May 13, 2011 by Emily Deans, M.D. in Evolutionary Psychiatry I am citing a few of her paragraphs. google her name and get the whole article. Outstanding. It's time to forge ahead with our basic understanding of neurochemistry and talk a bit about dopamine. As human beings, dopamine is kind of where it's at, meaning overall levels and the left brain versus right brain amounts of dopamine are major distinguishing factors between our brains and those of our primate cousins. Dopamine may well be the secret to what makes us human - meaning awfully bright, able to plan ahead, and resist impulses when necessary. What is dopamine? It's a neurotransmitter, which means it controls communication in the brain. Dopamine can tell a neuron to fire off a signal or not, and modulates the signals. Dopamine is ancient - found in lizard brains and every other animal along the evolutionary tree up to homo sapiens. But humans have a great deal of dopamine, and over many generations it seems we have evolved to have more and more. Control where dopamine ends up in the brain isn't just determined by straight up mendelian genetics. As I discussed in this post, our prenatal neurochemical environment had a lot to do with how our dopamine machinery migrates and works in our brains. Which brings up an important point - one special thing about humans is our bipedalism. Being upright while mom is pregnant exposes our fetal brains to different environments than other primates, so the theory is this elevated the dopamine levels in the left hemisphere of most people's brains compared to other primates. I know. Go with it for a minute. It's just a theory. Humans also eat a lot of meat and fish compared to other primates - meat and fish give us more dopamine precursors. More dopamine is also associated with both greater competitiveness, aggression, and impulse control - one could see how that particular combination of traits would be selected for over human evolution. Serotonin, another neurotransmitter, is our oldest neurotransmitter and the original antioxidant - dopamine is what made humans so successful. Now the biochemistry. Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter called a catecholamine. Catecholamines have, not surprisingly, a catechol chemical group attached to an amine. How do we get dopamine? We eat it. The precursor amino acid from the protein we eat is called tyrosine. Tyrosine becomes dopa via the enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase, and dopa becomes dopamine via the actions of dopa decarboxylase. (One more chemical reaction can turn dopamine into its best buddy neurotransmitter, norepinephrine, but more on that later). As is the case with serotonin and its precursor tryptophan, tyrosine can cross the blood brain barrier, but dopamine itself cannot. That means that the dopamine our brain needs must be manufactured from dopamine machinery and precursors in the brain. good stuff, eh? have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | Aussies)China/Europe/Africa/S america/Island Empires |
| Message | 'd', They are near every where. We have limited investigations in the Middle East because of those lands under sharia Law. Sad. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | I read that and it is quite interesting. Are most of these finds in Australia? Do you think that is where some of these oldest fossils seem to be discovered mostly? Sorry about all the questions. But that is just my pea brain trying to make sense of what I just read. Like I said I need Science for dummies. LOL |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | ONJ Surgery This Morning |
| Message | My good oral surgeon, Dr. Nathan Dickerson of Las Cruces, New Mexico, did wonders on my ONJ jaw this morning in an operation that took about an hour. My wife Lety was able to drive us back to El Paso around 2:45 p.m. So far, so good. Note, I couldn't get completely knocked out so I told jokes to the nurses to try and forget the pain...and there was but Dr. dickerson is smooth and calm and just proceeded to the finish with class and positiveness. Lots of stitches. Have a happy |
| Name : | Jawbone |
| Email : | 'd' Cosmos Magazine |
| Message | 'd', Cancel your girlie mahazines and order cosmos or Archeology or both. discover is good too. They are all top notch. even National Geographic has some outstanding articles and so well written. A preview of Cosmos Online and it is free. Keystones in evolution 2 January 2012 Cosmos Online "One good find is worth a thousand theories," says renowned palaeontologist Patrick Orr, because an extraordinary fossil can change everything we think we know about the evolution of prehistoric life. Here's an overview of high-impact fossils that have recently been unearthed. Related articles Fossil reveals colour of ancient feathers New find may knock Archaeopteryx off its perch Oldest well-preserved fossils found in Western Australia Blood, tissue extracted from duck-billed dinosaur bone Earliest dinosaur feathers shed light on avian development 1. Gasping for air It's not much to look at, but a 375 million-year-old fossil lungfish (Rhinodipterus) could be evidence of one of the most important developments in the evolution of early life: the first air-breathing vertebrates. Australian palaeontologists John Long, now at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and Alice Clement from Museum Victoria, who described the fossil in 2010, noted that Rhinodipterus had large ribs that helped anchor the fish's shoulder girdle, letting it lift its head up out of the water to gulp air. This adaptation was crucial as, during this time, atmospheric oxygen levels had dipped much lower than the 21% we enjoy today. Both fish and our tetrapod (four-limbed) ancestors would have been forced to rise to the surface and gulp oxygen in order to survive. 2. Death of an icon The discovery of a 155-million-year-old feathered dinosaur, Xiaotingia zhengi, in China earlier this year threatened to knock 'first bird' Archaeopteryx off its proverbial perch. When scientists led by Xing Xu, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, ran the new species through a phylogenetic analysis, it caused a slight shuffling of the dinosaur family tree. Archaeopteryx was yanked out of the Avialae group of dinosaur-like birds to join the new fossil in the Deinonychosauria group of bird-like dinosaurs. The reclassification "seems subtle," says Lawrence Witmer of Ohio University in a commentary in the journal Nature, "but it changes how we view the evolution of birds." 3. Breathing sulphur, not oxygen Found among sand grains in a block of sandstone from the Strelley Pool in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, a group of 3.4 billion-year-old fossilised microbes are the oldest well-preserved fossils ever found, a team reported in August 2011 in Nature Geoscience. And the scientists who discovered them, led by David Wacey from the University of Western Australia in Perth, say the fossils hint at a time when Earth was so poor in oxygen, life had to metabolise sulphur instead. The primitive microbes were found alongside the mineral pyrite (also known as 'fool's gold'), which Wacey says is a by-product of their consumption of sulphur compounds. 4. Soft bits In 2005 and 2009, scientists led by Mary Schweitzer from North Carolina State University were able to extract collagen and blood vessels from 68-million-year-old fossilised Tyrannosaurus rex and 80-million-year-old Brachylophosaurus canadensis femurs from the Judith River Formation in Montana. While the team failed to use the cells for a Jurassic Park-style cloning experiment, they were able to sequence the dinosaurs' proteins to construct new family trees, and found that both the dinosaurs belonged to the same group as chickens and ostriches, strengthening the case for the close relationship between dinosaurs and modern birds. A happy for sure |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | I forgot, but when you feel better, could you sent me a cosmos for dummies sight I just want to be a lookie loo. I like looking at new ideas. |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | Oh Ouch I feel for you. Wish I could take at least half for you. Speedy recovery for you sir. Then have your happy. |
| Name : | jawbone |
| Email : | Alrighty 'd' |
| Message | 'd', Thanks. I will be igcognito for a few days as manana I go to Las Cruces for the ONJ plate removal operation. Those titanium screws are driving me crazy Yikes!!!!!!!!!!! have a happy |
| Name : | d |
| Email : | Jawbone/LB |
| Message | I've been house and dog sitting in IB. When I get home tomorrow I'll start taking the photos for you. When I get a good one I'll send it via e-mail to you. I think it will be a fun project. My land lord agreed to help me with it. Since my "friends" won't come visit me. I will send a few so you can make your own deduction if they are good. I realize we could have different tastes but pretty close to he same, I think. HAPPY HOOPLA? Isn't Hoopla some kind of cartoon character? LOL |
| Name : | Jawbone. |
| Email : | to Hank |
| Message | Telepathy? |
| Name : | Henry |
| Email : | Jawbone |
| Message | I love the Marx brothers.. I was watching them last nite.. ^5 Have a happiest... |
| Name : | Jawbone/L.B. |
| Email : | Thye Marx Have It |
| Message | My old brain needs some refreshing too. Laughing refreshment. And by hoot I found it; I am watching four hours of the Marx Brothers slapstick comedy. have a happy |
| Name : | Webmaster |
| Email : | refreshed |
| Message | This board has been refreshed for the new year. To see past posts visit the archives. |