when you really really need one?  Somebody needs to issue a ticket to a couple of German scientists.

You see, Einstein’s special theory of relativity is quite clear on a couple of things.  First, the speed of light is a “universal constant”.   In fact, it’s the ONLY constant.  Light travels at 186,000 miles per in all situations everywhere.  So far, so good.

His theory also says that we can’t break the speed of light.  You see, it would take an infinite amount of energy to attain that speed, his math demonstrates, so that’s the universal speed limit.

No wonder he argued with Max Planck, the father of quantum theory.  Now, those quantum guys have gone and done it.

Two German scientists claim to have broken the speed of light by using “quantum tunneling” to propel a microwave photon faster than the speed of light over a three foot span.

Somebody needs to issue a speeding ticket.

First, it turns out that the whole universe was explained by Isaac Newton but he was wrong, as Einstein proved when he explained the whole universe and now it turns out that Albert, well not so much as we thought.

Seems like next thing you know, we’ll have to admit that UFO aliens might exist since we just lost a powerful argument against them.

What’s a western rationalist to do?

UPDATE:  Or, maybe not.  This guy swears the reporter got it wrong.

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you can’t believe everything you read.  maybe especially a sex survey.  We think somebody’s maybe fibbing just a little.

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John X reminds me that there was a time in America when GIANT NEGROES roamed our city streets. 

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For the first time in a long time, I miss having a romantic life.

Sunday night at 2 a.m. was the peak for the Perseid meteor shower. 

Laying on my back on a blanket on a slightly slanted bit of ground, smelling the insect repellant and listening to the crickets and tree toads, the shooting stars came pretty fast in astronomic terms, more than one a minute.

You get out in the country on a clear night like last night and there are a LOT of stars. Bunches.

Not much moon to compete and the city lights pretty far off,  it was plenty dark to see a few real spectacular ones — big and slow as well as little and very fast.

Sure would have been nice to have someone to share. 

Then again, if I’d had female company,  don’t know if I’d heard the tree toads and seen so many meteors.

But, I thought about how nice it would have been to have someone to talk to and hold hands with.

If you’ve got a partner, they’ll happen again Monday night.  Look in the NE sky.

Like the man said: watch the sky.

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The PostSecret site has gone video.  Moving.

My favorite scene from one of my favorite movies.  “I’ve seen things … “

to make a long story short, Mom’s fine.  She’ll be in hospital over the weekend, will be able to do stuff in a couple weeks and be 100 percent in three weeks or so.  MindOverMary will be here in town for the two weeks to stay with Mom and expect to see her with me on Paseo.

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On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.

I just got cheered up a little by this funny link.  If you’ve ever internet dated, been on the internet and didn’t get a date, aren’t really interested but will admit to sneaking a peek at maybe one or two (hundred) profiles, this nails things down a good bit.

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