The "Andromeda Galaxy..." although it is our closest galactic neighbour... is too far away to be easily seen with the naked eye... but there will come a time when it is close enough to look like this:
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Allan
Well kids... Drumpf hasn't even been sworn in yet... and already, he's arranged for the Government of the U.S.A. to run out of money and be shut down... less than a week before Christmas!
TO ALL YOU ASSHOLES THAT VOTED FOR "THE DONALD" ...this is a small taste of what you have coming for the next four years... kids!!!!!
Allan:
Think about this. Over $2 billion in trade a day goes across the U.S./Canada EVERY DAY.
Almost all the electricity for the US New England and New York area is generated in Canada and this is clean hydro and sometimes nuclear power.
The US midwest runs on Canadian oil.
Canadian “snowbirds” bring billions of dollars every year to Florida and other southern U.S. areas.
Canada is an integral part of NORAD that defends the North American continent against all possible foes. Canadians are part of the people operating the nuclear launch system. And if that facility gets taken out, the backup facility is in Canada.
Canada has billions of dollars of F-35 and P-8 military aircraft on order from the US. The F-35 is also used by Australia and the UK. We only bought these it to maintain compatibility with US logistics if war involves us. If we had no US ties we would have bought European models for less money.
Australia brings to the USA an unsinkable aircraft carrier so they can keep forces a lot closer to China. That Australia is spending billions with the USA to buy the parts needed to build several nuclear submarines.
So before you ask such a silly question like this you better include a damn good reason for the USA to even think of doing such a stupid thing.
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I wrote a Book!
It's no big deal... just the... "Meaning of Life!" 😉
Basically... my idea is that our "consciousness" consists of more than just a bunch of neurons in our brain... otherwise how could you explain things like instinct, intuition, love, music, and those "eureka moments" we all have!
Imagine my surprise when I ran across this guy...
(I will discuss this at the end of the article!)
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A new theory by Michael Pravica, a professor of physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, suggests that human consciousness might originate from hidden dimensions of the universe rather than solely from brain activity.
Pravica claims that during moments of heightened awareness... like making art... practicing music... or even dreaming... our consciousness could transcend the limitations of our physical dimension and tap into these invisible realms!
New research led by a prominent British archaeologist suggests that the human ability to communicate through language might have roots stretching back more than 1.6 million years... a significantly older date than previously assumed.
This finding challenges traditional theories about the origin of language and emphasizes the role of language in the evolutionary success of humans.
Since the discovery of fire was just about at the same time... we can assume that the first thing humans said was "ouch" when they got too close to the flames!
This ruined my whole week... I found out today that Catherine Bell is not only heavy into Scientology... but she's GAY TOO!
This was my vision of her before today!
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A Chinese man was sitting at the bar when a Jewish man comes up and punches him in the nose.
He grabs his nose and says, “What was that for?”
The Jewish man says, “That’s for Pearl Harbor.”
The Chinese man exclaims, “Pearl Harbor?!?
I’m Chinese! That was the Japanese!”
To which the Jewish man replies, “Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese…they’re all the same.”
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The Chinese man sits at the bar getting angrier and angrier.
Finally, he can take no more and goes and punches the Jewish man in his nose and says, “That’s for sinking the Titanic!”
The Jewish man is puzzled. “The Titanic?!?”
“Goldberg, Steinberg, Iceberg…they’re all the same!” Replies the Chinese man.
In keeping with the new mandate for characters on British TV show Coronation Street... Roy Cropper will turn gay over the holidays... thereby making 50% of the cast homosexual!!!!!
If you're a bit squeamish... then maybe ya better not read this...!
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Black Widow spiders live in warm climates... and like to set up their webs in places that will catch the most number of bugs...!
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Smelly toilets have odours and moisture that attract the spider's hapless insect victims...! (Especially outdoor toilets)
This spider likes hiding under the lip of a toilet bowl... and spins its web across the seat to catch anything that flies in to have a meal of poop!!!!!
NEEDLESS TO SAY...!
Men going to the toilet to have a dump... take their pants down... and then sit on the toilet seat... with their balls hanging down below them!
IF his balls touch the spider's web... it runs out and bites him... (GUESS WHERE?) and that's why most of the Black Widow Spider bites result in a very painful death!!!!!!
The ray spider is smaller than a grain of rice. It spins its web as a classic set of concentric "circles" with spokes radiating outwards. But then, the spider strings a thread from the center of the web to a nearby rock or twig. It then grabs the middle of the web with its back legs and then pulls itself along that tension line with its front legs.
"That is what turns that web from a flat shape into a cone shape," says Han. The conical web is now spring loaded. When an insect flutters by, the spider releases the tension line, flinging the web forward and entangling the prey.
"So they're not just passively sitting there," Han says. "They're using the web like a slingshot without the insect ever touching the web."
This is unusual, and Han wanted to know how the ray spider figures out when to sling its web.
During her Ph.D. at the University of Akron, she collected ray spiders from the local parks. "I would just go around peering into cracks and crevices," she recalls. "I would see that tiny little spider. Then I would grab it."
Han also grabbed a bunch of spider prey. "I was just standing around in various places waiting for mosquitos to land on me and then I would catch them," she says.
Back in the lab, she glued those mosquitos to little paper strips. "We started calling them mosquito lollipops because it was just like this mosquito flying around at the end of the stick," she says. "So I would then slowly move it in towards the spider," all while recording everything using high speed video.
Three out of four times when Han moved the tethered mosquito towards the front of the capture cone, the spider launched its web at an acceleration up to 51 g's.
"It's just like instantaneous practically — a fraction of a fraction of a second," says Han. An insect "would never really see it coming."
Han then tried the same experiment with a tuning fork that vibrated at a frequency akin to an insect beating its wings — just much stronger. The ray spiders flung their webs when the tuning fork was farther away than the mosquitos had been.
Han concluded that ray spiders release their webs in response to airborne prey vibrations, determining both the direction and distance to those vibrations to capture the insect at the right moment.
A little inspiration
"There still are a lot of questions in exactly what's going on," says Han. For instance, she isn't sure how the spider detects the vibrations.
"The vibrations are hitting the silk," she says. "They're also probably stimulating the spider's body, its sensory hairs. So through one of those or some combination, the spider becomes aware that this insect is approaching the web."
Han also can't be sure how the spider deduces when an insect is close enough to the web to capture it.
Nevertheless, she says this is the first time to her knowledge that scientists have documented spiders activating their whole webs to attack prey before they hit those sticky filaments.
"Spiders may be using their webs as greater sensory devices than we previously thought," suggests Han. "The web is kind of like the spider's ear."
"It's exciting to see it in print now because we've been talking about [the idea] for years," says Symone Alexander, a chemical engineer at Auburn University who wasn't involved in the research. She says that spiders are masters of designing webs that allow them to detect stress and strain precisely.
"These spiders — the geometry of their web is slightly different and it's tensed in a different way," Alexander says. "Can we use that as inspiration for building these sensing systems in airplane wings or other materials?"
In other words, Alexander is hoping that scientists can continue to invite the spider-verse to improve the human-verse.
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Our question this week is rather straightforward kids!
Who's the worst U.S. president in history?
Allan: There was this one guy who started a trade war that killed 300,000 American jobs in his first two years.
Then he signed a tax bill that flatlined the stock market and forced the Fed to start lowering interest rates to try to prevent a recession.
Then he said a global pandemic was a liberal hoax to kill the economy he spent three years destroying and he set records for the six worst point drops in the history of the Dow, most new unemployment claims in history, and the largest deficit in history.
He was investigated and found to have welcomed and encouraged election interference by a foreign government and to have obstructed justice to cover his crimes.
He got impeached once for abusing his office to try to coerce a foreign leader into helping him smear a political rival.
Then he got impeached again for inciting an insurrection to try to stay in power after easily and predictably losing his re-election bid.
Then he got indicted for almost 100 felonies after leaving office.
I forget his name.
Draft dodger.
Admitted sex offender.
Painted himself orange and wore a dead rodent on his head.
Wore elevator shoes.
Misspelled three-letter words on a smartphone.
Kept filing for bankruptcy.
Called himself a winner.
Dump?
Rump?
Plump?
Chump?
Drumpf?
Something like that.
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Edit: I’ve never done this before, but this post was like catnip for morons and the most brainwashed fascists I’ve seen all flocked to the comment section to bleat their alt-right propaganda. So I’m disabling comments on this.
I’ve also deleted some of the worst garbage that was posted.
Wow. These people really need therapy.
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The United States is already a second-world country and is sliding to third-world status.
As a second-world country, the U.S. is:
There are more such statistics but these are an indication that the U.S. is already a second-world country.
What is worse is that Americans:
For all you assholes who still think the world is flat...!
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