Sorry for the lag. I have been a bit preoccupied for the past couple weeks, and for that I apologize. I have moved from Hong Kong back to the US of A, and I am currently sleeping on a dining room floor. No I am not looking for pity or anything like that, I am just mentioning it to illustrate my lack of connection with this thing called the internet.
A lot has happened since the last time I have really updated: London was set on fire by a bunch of stupid fucks:
A Ferrari sold for 16.4 million US monies:
An earthquake hit the east coast of the US:
And a bunch of other shit too. Like rebels trying to overthrow Qaddafi and a train crashed. This might come off as just mean, but I assure you, I am not qualified to give an accurate account of most of these going-ons. I do agree with Mr. Condell on the London riots, and I am pretty sure nothing in your life will change if that Ferrari went for anything less, or more for that matter, and if you are in the mid east coast area.. it was a 5.9, your reactor survived as it was rated for a 5.9 and so you are fine...
Anyway, I am back. I am working a lot, no complaints as I get paid by the hour, but more of a heads up that updates will be a bit more spread out. And with that I shall try to find you something of interest...
PS where are the other people who are on this blog?
This video is responsible for the loss of 7,844 year... YEARS of work... That is 9 hours a day 5 days a week, for 7,844 years straight.... and you wonder why we are not on Mars...
Again, let me reiterate: seven thousand eight hundred and forty four years of working hours have been lost due to this man's dancing routine...
And this is not the worst case, there are several videos out there over this amount of time wasted... Immagine what we could have created with 7,844 plus years of working hours...
These next two weeks are the last two weeks NASA will operate a space shuttle program. Right now Atlantis is docked with the ISS traveling around 17,227 mph over the surface of the earth. I just want to mention this as a reminder that we need to focus on bigger things then ourselves. Our dreams seem to be suppressed by a massive consumer state of mind that makes people spend more on their pets than the entire United States spends on scientific endevers in a year (see here and here):
Just incase you did not click on those links the American pet industry last year made 48.35 billion USD; the budget allotted to NASA (who also has to split it with Science and Exploration) is 11.85 billion USD... Riddle me that...
This saddens me, the clip below is of the shuttle doing a back flip while orbiting the planet over NZ and the Pacific Ocean. It is doing this so that an external HD camera on the space station can take pictures of the heat shields and pass the information along to engineers in Houston. It's quite elegant, and yet it will never happen again... Too expensive they say... Bull shit I say.
Also just so you can try to grasp this concept: Atlantis is 176,413 pounds on its own, 122.17 feet in length, 56.58 feet tall, with a 78.06 foot wingspan; traveling at 17,227 miles an hour at between 173 and 286 miles in the sky.
