This is something I bring up a lot. Private companies sending people into space, it's all the hype nowadays, and obviously people are unable to see the dangers, after all what's the track record of private companies on the ground? I was reading Another World is Possible, the blog of John McDonnell MP, who is standing in the Labour leadership contest when Blair steps down, he wrote the following entry:...
Some of you may remember my entry a few months back, dealing with the ridiculous claims of some individuals that we're being visited by alien rods. Yes the article was satire, I am not disturbed like one of the comments seems to suggest. A bit of background, back in the summer I went out and took some images of rods; in reality I knew they were just flies or other insects....
Today (well I'm 30 minutes late) was the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, or to be more exact the anniversary of when Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos returned from exile from Mexico onboard the Granma, to start the revolutionary war to overthrow the tyrannical regime of Fulgencio Batista. Ernesto "Che" Guevara remembered by the people: Veterans of the revolution out in force: Full text of Raul Castro's speech:...
I know this has been going on for sometime, since 1.8.x I believe and is present in the 1.9.x builds too, to save me having to tell everyone hosted here: Under some conditions, such as editing a post under a locale that's not m/d/y the system will return invalid date. I avoid this by changing my user to English (US), this puts the post by default as English (US). However you can easily change the language on the entry itself back to English (UK) when composing your post without being tripped up by the invalid date error....
This is a real shame; I was hoping the Daily Creationism was going to be updated on a much more regular basis, perhaps even in line with its name. I subscribe to this blog and well, I get one or two updates come down and that's it. Disappointing after months of silence and then a re-launch I was hoping for something more, something fresh, but we've had a few rehashed arguments, disproven a hundred years ago....
Those familiar with Bungie Studios will probably be aware of the long tradition of Pimps at Sea. Some might remember it as being an April fool's joke one year (they announced they were producing a pirate game called Pimps at Sea). It's also been used to refer to games that are currently in development. Well as you can see (assuming the image hasn't been doctored) people are playing Pimps at Sea (Alpha)....
A couple of months back the Cassini spacecraft took the following spectacular image of Saturn. This image is actually composed of 165 individual images in total all stitched together and taken over several hours, the reason it looks so weird compared to other images of Saturn you have seen in the past is this was taken during an artificial solar eclipse, the team positioned Cassini on the opposite side of Saturn to the Sun....
It always struck me as being weird for people to claim god created the universe, it just strikes me as arguing from ignorance and throwing Occam's razor in the bin. We've either got an enormously complicated arrangement of matter and energy popping into existence out of nothing. Or we've got simple arrangements of matter and energy popping into existence out of nothing. What's more likely? The universe through natural laws has taken 13....
From the Guardian: Dozens of schools are using creationist teaching materials condemned by the government as "not appropriate to support the science curriculum", the Guardian has learned. The packs promote the creationist alternative to Darwinian evolution called intelligent design and the group behind them said 59 schools are using the information as "a useful classroom resource". A teacher at one of the schools said it intended to use the DVDs to present intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinism....
Ask any geek and he'll tell you that QuickTime and RealPlayer are less than desirable to have installed on your PC, they do a few things that geeks hate. Ask them why and they'll tell you because they both insist on running applications on start up, that means every time you start your PC, they'll have their own little programs running all the time, even when you're not using them. Even if you use the registry or msconfig to remove them, the next time you start them up you'll probably find they have changed the registry back....