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The odd and strange

Gravity Waves… Hi?

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In 1915 Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity predicted there would be measurable gravity waves. One hundred years later they have been detected. This opens the door to new ways of studying gravity and the universe.

Quoiting news releases:

The gravitational waves were detected on Sept. 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (9:51 UTC) by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA.

My first question is what’s a LIGO? (lī•gō)We know what a laser is, a device that produces collimated, monochromatic, and synchronized light, synchronized with itself. The meaning is each light wave is in step with all its sister waves, all waves are the same length, and all are going in the same direction, parallel. (Reference) 

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Inside a Single Cell

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Occasionally a project takes me off on an unusual tangent. Researching for a recent project I came across Harvard University’s The Inner Life of the Cell. A medical illustrator David Bolinsky spoke at T.E.D. about the video he was working on in 2007. (A better copy of the video than I show here is at T.E.D., but I can’t embed that one.) I thought these too neat not to share.

The collection of animations created by Harvard for their project can be found here: Harvard Multimedia. The 8 minute video The Inner Life of the Cell can also be found at YouTube, which is what I have below. It is a poorer quality than you’ll find at the Harvard site. If you watch from the Harvard site I recommend you use Internet Explorer. 

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Uplifting

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As race relations in the US devolve there are those that are trying to heal the divisions. This one of the people working to stop the division. United we stand… pay attention to who proposes segregation, racial quotas, disregard for merit and accomplishment in favor of race and economic status.

Aliens?

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After watching the Aliens series of movies… would you walk up to this tree? Or even hang around to take a picture? Life is stranger than fiction…

Final Frontier Update

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The latest rave on UFO’s is the supposedly massive ship (size of the state of Idaho, USA – which is a WAY ambiguous comparison because of the state’s frying-pan shape) caught in a video of the sun released by NASA from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on July 15, 2015. Note: NASA was not claiming it was a UFO.

On another scientific (tongue in cheek) front a Muslim cleric has discovered Galileo was wrong. The Earth doesn’t orbit the sun. 

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