July 5, 2006


    • What the hell is up with foam always falling off the Space Shuttles at launch?  I just cannot believe that they don't have a superior material available that doesn't fall off.  Would you fly on airplanes if everytime they took to air you were informed that some bolts were falling off?  hrmmm...*wonders if the bolts are falling off and we are just not being informed*

    • Scientists can be very, very weird.  Here's a study where they put one group of ants on stilts and partially amputated the legs of others.  Damn thing is they discovered something amazing about ant navigation. 

    • Ever sit on one of those automated sensor flushing toilets and get up or move to adjust yourself only to have it flush before you're done?   I've run into too many of them and wonder why they don't just program a delay into them so that if you get up or move around a bit but don't leave the vicinity immediately then the flush gets suppressed.  Damn things can flush 3 or 4 times just because you take the time to zip up your pants.

    • The internet is truly a trip.  Just found an online scientific journal article in Chinese from China where I'm listed as one of several scientific sources.  The chances of ever becoming aware of such a mention without the web are infinitessimally small.  Can you imagine, someday, an omniweb linking together all the intelligent life in the universe capable of recording information?  ha.  I wonder if humanity would be considered for inclusion?!

    • A posionous chameleon snake was recently discovered in Borneo.  Apparently, it is extremely rare for a snake to display any chameleon behavior:

      "The discovery of the 'chameleon' snake exposes one of nature's best-kept secrets. Its ability to change color has kept it hidden from science until now," said Bambang Supriyanto, a WWF specialist on Borneo. -CNN

      But the "what's wrong with this story" aspect leaped at me when I read:

      "I put the reddish-brown snake in a dark bucket," said Mark Auliya, a reptile expert and a consultant for the group. "When I retrieved it a few minutes later, it was almost entirely white."

      Duh!   Aren't chameleons supposed to 'blend in'?!  If it changes into a contrasting color, then scientists should have discovered it long ago! 

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