Pravda finally comes through!
Yep - Our favorite propaganda rag Pravda - which once conveyed unadorned fact by mistake, much to their chagrin an humiliation - has found some more interesting photos to amuse and titillate you.
That is a snail.
There are more sea critter photos here. BTW: it appears that those deep-sea critter photos I posted the other day came from Pravda, too. Now you can stop worrying.
And in NASA news, seems the first scoop full of Mars dirt had no water in it. Rats.
It may have evaporated while it sat on the sifter for an overly-long time. That white shit in the photo may be salt.
Don’t worry. There’ll be a shitload of water soon. I would reference the article I read but it was in *spit* the NY or LA Times, and I don’t link to them as a rule.
Here is some porn, and the Last Of The few daily something-or-the-other.
June 18, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Mars dirt had no water in it. Rats.
So those rats had to be dead then right? I mean if there’s no water, there’s no way those rats could have survived. Oh, wait a minute this is Mars, so they were the aliens pets weren’t they? They abandoned them there just like people on earth abandon greyhounds in the desert. Such a shame.
June 18, 2008 at 11:05 pm
McGoo, I hereby give thee summons to a meme. Make me proud.
http://lemurking.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/i-was-in-a-mood-today/
June 18, 2008 at 11:41 pm
By the way… if you lick that snail does it get you really high? I mean, people have tried toads (cannot figure that out) so they must’ve snailed once or twice, right?
June 19, 2008 at 4:34 am
LK - I don’t know about the snail, but i saw a video on a centipede some monkeys have learned to lick. It’s moderately poisonous but gets the monkeys higher’n a kite - and protects the monkeys from flies or bugs or sumpin.
…And LK - I don’t have time for the meme right now, so I’m breaking the chain. Sorry…
June 19, 2008 at 10:28 am
McGoo… I’m disappointed in you, but not for the reason you think. Good God, man! You’re an Asshole™®… how *dare* you apologize to me! And to think I looked up to you, man.
Not a problem McGoo. The way I see it, if it is a hassle or it isn’t fun, it ain’t worth doing.
So how’s about a little poetry which, had Frost lived longer, I’m sure he would have said:
“The Denny’s coffee is lovely, dark and deep. But I have Goths to smack, and hours to go before I sleep.” - Bizarro-Frost
June 19, 2008 at 10:47 am
LK, the poetry is fabulous.
The snail looks like a hedgehog to me.
June 19, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Yeah, LK - you shoulda put the poem over at Weasels where it would get a wider and more appreciative audience!
That apology just slipped out. I don’t know what came over me, damn it.
Naaa, this particular meme - for some reason - leaves me irritated. maybe its that they were amusing “once”, but are a bore to me now.
That snail is strange. But I like the ultraviolet blue coloring and the spike thingys on its back.
June 19, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Ah what the hell, I’ll post it over there. My alternative is to get some work done today and it’s been so long since I had a real vacation my concern is measured in micro-give-a-shits.
June 19, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Micro give-a-shits. Hmmm.
Would that be uGAS’s ?
I need to work out the dimensional analysis of that unit of measure. What would that be in Kilogram, Meter, Second, Ampere, candela, etc.
June 19, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Yep, you got it exactly right on the first one.
Units are whatever combination to do X amount of work over a certain amount of time, but I prefer the straight-shooter
uGAS = W*t = 1/2*m*d(v^2)*t
Or
uGAS = W*t = F*d*cos(theta)*t
Don’t know how to show an integral in alphanumerics. Oh geez, who gives a crap anyway? I do prefer Kg/m/s units. A GAS is like a Farad - a whole one is a huge value (for me) so I work in the micro-scale.
Of course, you may find a better way of expressing it that matches real-world measurable units.
June 19, 2008 at 5:17 pm
No - that’s great. I suspected that an entire Give-A-Shit was a hugely unwieldy thing just from your context and usage.
June 19, 2008 at 6:54 pm
oh it’s gnarly, dude… really ginormously fugly.
June 19, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Years ago (when they were “new” ) I got ahold of one of those small 5 Farad energy storage capacitors they were touting for backup uses.
Charged it up and put a li’l 10mA DC motor across it. Ran for almost 10 minutes. I was giggling the whole time. It was unbelievable.
June 19, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Yeah, I ran into one of the supercaps (at 3V) about 3 years ago. Even though I refuse to believe in electrons, the *illusion* of electronical behavior was ultra-cool.
I found an article this last weekend (http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/nanocapacitors.htm)
and I’m really not sure how much is really ready or just pipe dream. If it is true, it’s like really really cool.
Another one that seems really pie/sky thinking is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor
One of the claims (which seems fantastically dope-derived):
# 4-6 minute charge time for a 336 pound (152 kg), 2005 cubic inch (33 L), 52 kilowatt hour (187 MJ), 31 farad, 3500 volt unit, assuming sufficient cooling of the cables.
June 19, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Add one thing that made me snort:
The world patent filed by EEStor in August 2005[14] contains permittivity data averaging 19,818 at 500 V/micron.
June 19, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Energy for a 31 F cap at 3500V is 1.9e08 Joules.
A one-hour charge would require 52.7KW of power for said hour. Alternatively,
Total charge would be 108.5KColoumbs. At a 4 min charge, thats 452Amps charging current.
For a 4-6 min charge, the delivered power level would be 474KW - 527KW.
All assuming I didn’t make a math mistake.
June 19, 2008 at 11:34 pm
500 v/um seems a tad… high, does it not?
June 20, 2008 at 3:31 am
Yes.