This was some footage Rob T. took on his trip to the Antarctic Marathon, and it’s awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbXtnh2K1Bk
This is not recommended for children too young to watch some of the "meatier programs" on Animal Planet.
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Carnage!
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008I Thought So
Saturday, November 10th, 2007It turns out the Cuero, TX "Chupacabra" was a Texas coyote that had lost its hair.
Nice try, though!
The New ASAT Race
Saturday, January 27th, 2007According to reports, China successfully tested and anti-satellite missile last week. This barely seemed to get the media’s attention. We as a nation are going to have to figure out quickly what our response will need to be to this capability. Assuming a regional war pitting US forces in defense of Taiwan against China, Chinese ability to knock down critical satellites without needing to resort to bombing our spacelift facilities here on the mainland will have grave strategic ramifications for us.
I wish I could explain more about this. Suffice it to say we’re seeing the early potential for that "Space Pearl Harbor" former Secretary Rumsfeld spoke of in 1999.
Turn the Tide of the Debate
Monday, January 8th, 2007It looks from this report like scientists may have found viable stem cells from ambiotic fluid, or something like that.
So add this source of stem cells to the cells you can get from umbilical cord blood and adult stem cells, and stop destroying embryos to harvest their stem cells.
I don’t get passionate about many things, but embryonic stem cell research to me is as bad as some of the "medical research" events that occurred at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Horrific might nearly be a suitable adjective. Call it what you will–it’s destroying a human life in the name of science.
There are a lot of hideous diseases out there. I’d rather have them all simultaneously than know that the cure to all of them lay in embryonic stem cell research. This rings especially true when there’s the possibility that science may not need embryos to get stem cells for research.
I know a certain actor and I would have words over this. If you’re on his side of the debate, fine. If you’re on my side, great. Don’t deride the actor for wanting relief from his suffering. He’s just an actor, not a fighter pilot. Some people can take the pain better than others.
I realize that’s easy for me to say that I’d take diseases over research. But then, that’s why God invented codeine, demoral, and morphine.