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News Briefs 11-06-2010

“The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.”

Quote of the Day:

“….At the subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operates, location ceases to exist. All points in space become equal to all other points in space, and it’s meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else.”

Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe

  1. Galileo’s finger
    Ahh… the macabre worship of religious relics. Such an enduring fetishism.

    Incidentally, just a few weeks ago the Mexican government had a rather peculiar idea to keep ‘celebrating’ the bicentennial of our national independence: A grim parade of our Forefathers’ bones*!

    So tragic to resort to the disrespectful display of deceased heroes, when there are no live ones available…

    (*)the alleged bones of our Forefathers, that is.

  2. Snakes
    I haven’t noticed a decline in the number of snakes in my garden – still have 6 resident green tree snakes (harmless), and no bitie ones at present as they are all asleep for the winter (yay!!). There are probably more, but those are the ones I know of.

    Maybe if there is a decline worldwide in snakes it could be attributed to the decline in frogs, which probably are the most common main course in their diet. There has certainly been a decline in the number of frogs due to increased use of chemicals, viral diseases etc.

    Maybe I still have snakes because I use no poison sprays and thus have quite a population of several species of frogs (rather noisy here in the Wet Season!).

    Regards, Kathrinn

    1. look inside planes! 😛
      Make up your mind, people! first you tell us that global warming will cause an spread of invasive species of reptiles in many areas of the United States, and now they’re telling us snakes are on a global decline?

      Obviously if we keep on deforesting jungles and places where these little critters live, we’re going to see an extinction of snakes along with many other species —species we haven’t even officially discovered yet! Boy does that piss me off…

      But chances are snakes will survive, and some will thrive even in new urban environments. snakes are among the most successful organisms in this planet. The simplicity of is er… design? 😉 allow them to adapt to almost any condition. They are not like saber-tooth tigers who over-specialized in taking down megafauna, and thus became extinct when they weren’t any of those to hunt down.

      1. ask st. patrick
        [quote=red pill junkie]Obviously if we keep on deforesting jungles and places where these little critters live, we’re going to see an extinction of snakes along with many other species —species we haven’t even officially discovered yet! Boy does that piss me off…[/quote]

        THAAAANK YOOOOUUU!!! And while your at it you should yell at China for still eating panda and tiger on the black market and saying they’re going to crack down on the illegal process but do nothing!

        We should be eating humans………if they tasted any good that is 😛

        1. Soylent green!

          We should be eating humans………if they tasted any good that is 😛

          I keep the names and addresses of all my Vegan friends, just in case —cleaner meat than that of burger lovers 😛

          1. You are what you eat
            [quote=red pill junkie]I keep the names and addresses of all my Vegan friends, just in case —cleaner meat than that of burger lovers :-P[/quote]

            Heck, that’d make you just one step away from being a Vegan yourself, no?
            😉

          2. *burp* sorry just ate dinner
            [quote=red pill junkie]

            We should be eating humans………if they tasted any good that is 😛

            I keep the names and addresses of all my Vegan friends, just in case —cleaner meat than that of burger lovers :-P[/quote]

            agreed, and no kids either, too hard to catch and kind of stringy.

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