The merest hint of white fluffy stuff, much more lack of
warm, minimal atmospheric movement and not even a glimpse of Dawn’s crack at
the Castle this morn, late again, I seem to be going into hibernation
mode-going to bed earlier-getting up later, I blame the Government.
Dahn at Eastleigh in ‘Ampshire he told an audience of
by-election voters at the event: "To get an EU referendum you need to vote
for a Tory-only government."
Which is of course yet another 180 from the Prime Monster
after he pledged at the end of last month's Bloomberg event that a referendum
would take place "if I am prime minister" – whether
in coalition or not.
And so the lying, gutless, inept, inbred, arrogant, brain
dead, shirt lifting tosser multi millionaire once again takes the piss out of
us.
Who is allegedly a member of the House of Lords economic
affairs committee Britain's lack of growth is more bearable while unemployment
is low in comparison with other recessions.
Writing in The Times, he said the relatively high level
of people with jobs is the reason why people are not rising up and rioting.
"The employment figures mean that, whether or not the
recession is working, it is not really hurting — at least not really hurting
the people who still have jobs and don’t claim benefits," he said.
"An unemployment-lite recession has nothing like the social impact of a
job-crushing one."
He said it is much better to be poor with a job than without
one.
Fuck orf...
If you can be arsed you can read about the not very poor “Lord”
who doesn’t have a clue about real life HERE.
A firm based in
Taiwan is hoping to crack the mobile market by launching a transparent phone with
functions “similar to a Smartphone”.
• Handset will be
able to display images on front and back.
• Touch screen
device will be cheaper than iPhone 5.
The lightweight
device, which is completely see-through, is made of a toughened glass and can
display images on both sides.
The company, which
is the Taiwanese division of US-based Polytron Technologies, will put the
handset into production this year after six years at the development stage.
The prototype
currently shows some items, such as the battery and sim card, as
being visible through the glass, though it is thought that part of the handset
will be covered up to hide these elements.
Polytron has yet to
reveal the price tag for the device but it is reportedly cheaper than the
iPhone 5, while the screen is 0.3 inches bigger.
The company are
even reportedly looking at ways to make the batteries transparent in the
future, and it is hoped the phone will be available later this year.
Oh great; an invisible phone that’ll be a plus.....
Allegedly China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from
reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by
the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect
next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to
reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of
reincarnation."
By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from
seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power
to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new
human to continue the work of relieving suffering.
At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is
beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet
so long as it's under Chinese control.
NASA scientist Joseph Zawodny has come up with a device used
to test low-energy nuclear reactors .
This reactor does not use fission, the process of splitting
atoms into smaller elements employed by every commercial power reactor
currently operating on earth.
And it does not use hot fusion, the union of hydrogen atoms
into larger elements that powers the sun and stars.
Instead, a low-energy nuclear reactor (LENR) uses common,
stable elements like nickel, carbon, and hydrogen to produce stable products
like copper or nitrogen, along with heat and electricity.
“It has the demonstrated ability to produce excess amounts
of energy, cleanly, without hazardous ionizing radiation, without producing
nasty waste,” said Joseph Zawodny, a senior research scientist with NASA’s
Langley Research Centre.
“The easiest implementation of this would be for the home,”
he said. “You would have a unit that would replace your water heater. And you
would have some sort of cycle to derive electrical energy from that.”
The LENR offers a slow-moving neutron to an element – NASA
researchers are working with nickel. The nickel absorbs the extra neutron,
rendering the nickel unstable. To regain stability, the acquired neutron splits
into an electron and a proton.
“So where it once had an extra neutron, making it an
unstable isotope of whatever element it was, it now has an extra proton
instead, which makes it a more stable isotope of a different element,” Bob
Silberg of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrote last week on the agency’s
Global Climate Change blog.
“This process releases energy which, hypothetically, can be
used to generate electricity.”
With its new proton, the nickel has gained stability as
another element: copper.
LENR reactors use common, stable elements like nickel,
carbon, and hydrogen and produce stable elements like copper or nitrogen. NASA
researchers are leaning on the Widom-Larsen Theory published in 2006 by Boston
physicist Allan Widom and Chicago physicist Lewis Larson, who speculates that
low energy nuclear reactions are already happening on earth – in lightning, for
example. And according to Larson, LENR reactions may be responsible for
occasional fires in lithium-ion batteries.
Which underscores that even low-energy nuclear reactors can
produce dangerous amounts of energy.
According to Bushnell “Several labs have blown up studying
LENR and windows have melted,” “indicating when the conditions are right
prodigious amounts of energy can be produced and released.”
Think I’ll wait for the mark 2, or 3 or maybe 4...
And finally:
The US is to bomb
the tiny territory of Guam with dead mice laced with painkiller in an attempt
to kill off the brown tree snakes that have taken over the island.
The reptiles, which
can grow to be more than 10ft (3m), have caused misery on the territory for 60
years, since they were unwittingly introduced by US military ships after World
War Two.
Now there are
serious fears they could slither on to planes at the US military base and hitch
a lift to Hawaii, where they would decimate the island's wildlife.
As a result, US
government scientists are to drop the poison mice near Guam's sprawling
Andersen Air Force Base, which is surrounded by heavy foliage and could offer
the snakes a potential ticket off the island.
Scientists
calculate there may be two million of the reptiles on Guam, killing wildlife,
biting residents and even knocking out electricity by slithering on to power
lines.
The mice carcasses
are being laced with acetaminophen, the active ingredient in painkillers such
as Tylenol.
Unlike most snakes,
brown tree snakes are happy to eat prey they did not kill themselves, and they
are highly vulnerable to acetaminophen, which is harmless to humans.
To keep the mice
bait from dropping all the way to the ground, where it could be eaten by other
animals or attract insects as they rot, researchers have developed a flotation
device with streamers designed to catch in the branches of the forest foliage,
where the snakes live and feed.
Mr Vice said the
goal was not to eradicate the snakes, but to control and contain them.
Spiffing-must cross Guam orf the bucket list....
That’s it: I’m orf to
decipher the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind (if I can stay awake long enough)
And today’s thought:
Managed to get out of that one for a while...
Angus
