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In case you haven't noticed, the Bushie-Kerry (Rep-Dem oligharchy) types have stopped pushing major scientific projects (per population %) other than military and big-govt projects in the past few years (I'm still pissed about the SSC falling through). As well, the same bureaucrats have been making it harder for people who have real-world experience in a subject area to become certified teachers. [BTW Quick note: If you have extra time in the stilly watches of the night, and you want to see what I have said taken to a horrible extreme, try Alex Jones - prisonplanet.com - I think he's a nut, but his observational basis is similar to mine.] Anyway...

My response, as some of you know, was to take up a business field -- apparently without honing such skills, I'll never get anywhere in my career unless I move to Europe or Canada. The business field I chose was that of Real Estate.

As of three weeks ago, today, I have been a Certified Real Estate Sales Professional in the great State of Texas. I am also a member of the Austin Board of Realtors. I have two front-end appointments on Monday,,, and I am going to sell some freakin' houses! If you know anyone in the Austin area who might be looking for a home, please forward their info (or go to www.sname.com).

Nicola Tesla's biggest mistake (besides irratic/absent notes) was using/relying on JP Morgan's money -- he got screwed repeatedly for that -- being the inventor of radio, radio control, etc --- Marconi wasn't forced to release the false patent until the year of Tesla's death (1941). Even Einstein was someone else's scientific patsy most of his life because he only was able to make money by being paid by people getting infinitely wealthy off of his scholarly work. I will not make the same mistake. My research tells me that I must take the stab... and fund myself.

Call me crazy, irresponsible,,, that's fine... I want to be the big guy on all of my projects,, or no one will be. :) I will not make the same mistakes as Tesla and Einstein.

Today's Attitude: [Angry/Crazy]

Bush gives the Sign of Satan to the World

This article is a mirror of an 'Associated Press' article today. The implications are just too eerie: (Original Artricle)


NORWEGIANS CONFUSED BY BUSH SOLUTE

OSLO, Norway (AP) - President Bush's "Hook 'em, 'horns" salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan.

That's what it means in the Nordics when you throw up the right hand with the index and pinky fingers raised, a gesture popular among heavy metal groups and their fans in the region.

"Shock greeting from Bush daughter," a headline in the Norwegian Internet newspaper Nettavisen said above a photograph of Bush's daughter Jenna, smiling and showing the sign.

For Texans, the gesture is a sign of love for the University of Texas Longhorns, whose fans are known to shout out "Hook 'em, 'horns!" at sporting events.

Bush, a former Texas governor, and his family made the sign to greet the Longhorn marching band as it passed during the inaugural parade through Washington during Thursday's festivities, explained Verdens Gang, Norway's largest newspaper.

01/21/05 12:51

Today's Attitude: [Frustrated/Perplexed]

A New Titanic Consiracy Theory by Bob

Ok, This is what I was freaking out about yesterday. I searched through my archive and found a few pictures. I then haphazardly wrote on them with paint (e.g. the Area 51 pointer needs some work). I know that the laws of physics don't play favorites (in theory) - maybe the same processes are in place on all three. Take a look at these pictures below.

1)Upper-left: Mountains above Area 51 (picture taken by illegal hiker).

2)Lower-left: Submitted by NASA as a Radio-reflection scan during decent to Venus (Magellan Mission)
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3)Lower-right: The most recent Huygens photo as it plummeted.

I just don't know... I wanted this to be a pure and fun mission to Titan and now I'm a skeptical conspiracy freak!!! It just seems like somebody's sick game. I hope there are more pictures to prove me wrong.. but we will see.

Today's Attitude: [Studying Like Crazy]

Huygens Probe is Due on Titan

Since the Cassini Probe was lunched in December of 1997, it has been traveling toward Saturn for it's observation schedule of Saturn's Moons and Rings. Piggy-backing on Cassini was the Huygens probe -- yes, yes, named after Christian Huygens, the Ether-theorist who first succeeded in challenging Newton's Particle Theory of Light and, of course, plotted out a number of Saturn's moons (including Titan). The Huygens Probe is meant to fall through Titan's atmosphere (with a progressive parachute system) for a few hours and land taking lots of data.

Titan is one of the oddest moons in the solar system. It is the largest natural satellite of Saturn and even bigger than both planets Mercury and Pluto. Because of Titan's unusually thick atmosphere (even by Earth standards), it is difficult to measure anything of significance on its surface (if it even has a well-defined surface). If calculations are correct, the air pressure at the surface might be as high as 1.5 times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level. Because of Absorption curves and reflection factors, it seems as if the atmosphere is made of an odd concoction of simple Methane, Nitrogen, Argon, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Cyanide. Though approximations of temperatures are much cooler than the Earth (~ -290 F), it is thought that some of these atmospheric elements may act much like water does near 30 - 50 F. The Hubble Telescope has shown evidence of clouds and possibly a sea of some liquid - but nothing absolutely definable. The Huygens probe has a transmitter powerful enough (it is hoped) to penetrate the atmosphere from inside.

The Huygens Probe is due to hit Titan's thick atmosphere on January 14th and take data the whole way down to the surface, using a high powered transmitter to send the info back through the atmosphere. Since NASA scientists expect the atmosphere to be difficult to penetrate, they only believe the batteries will only allow about 2-3 hours of transmitable operation.

I have been waiting for this since just after graduation from UD in '95. I hope the wait is worth it. Many fringe scientists hope to find more than just data but weird new self-replicationg molecular forms (aka, a weird definition of Life) using one of its odd atmospheric elements as a base, much like water is used on Earth.

I'm excited!!! I hope you are.

Today's Attitude: [Exasperated]

Einstein's 'Miracle Year' Centennial Begins

All I can say is,, "Please make it stop!!!!' I've already heard of the discovery channel, History Channel, Nova, et al preparing tributes to the man who "revolutionized science and the way we think in the 20th century."

A few comments I feel like belching up here:

1. I do appreciate what the man did for scifi writers, in general. The interest in science and science fiction that resulted from his odd theories. He contributed to physics by not fighting the fall of belief in the "AEthereal Fluid" was a great thing.

2. He's just a freakin guy that had the next better theory than "Static AEther", and that's all. He declared the Ether defunct but then re-established a modified version of it (aka, his "Fabric of Space-time"). He tried like heck to see ways of theoretically violating things people took for granted with the old theories -- that's what drives every crackpot.

3. His math is impeccable. Everything is self-consistent. The lying lawyer in court can do that,,, it proves intelligence, but not genious or morality.

4. He destroyed the essence of Physics.
Physics is the study of how things work. Most of Einstein's work has never been observed working. Everything has been indirect consistencies. I have learned many valuable lessons in life - consistency is not truth (again, imagine the "lying lawyer"). As a result, he widened the schism in Physics between "experimental" and "Theoretical" physicists - neither trust each other, now. Einstein was not a good philosopher, so he was not able to "feel" out whether his theory was actually true to a deeper common sense or not. He just followed all paths tho their results and then told people about his screwy answers, and that they MUST be true with his assumptions -- AH YES,, the assumptions. Einstein's hairbrained assumption that the universe psychotically forces every frame of reference to see light moving at the same speed is (I am not kidding here) what he used to derive all of Special Relativity (time dilation, contractions, frequency differentials). Self-consistent, yes... true,, no,, like the lying lawyer telling the perfect elusive story.

5. Idiots who don't understand Einstein see him as an endorsement for Post-modernism. They think that Relativity means Relativism... completely ridiculous!

Anyway, expect to see plenty of specials celebrating his 1905 paper in which he outlined much of the initial ideas of Special Relativity and his 'Miracle Year' where he took every elses theories about E&M and space and tweaked them to plug into his new reality HUB.

That's my angry two cents about this coming year. :)