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23:17 Feb 26 2010
Times Read: 793


Carentan O Carentan



Trees in the old days used to stand

And shape a shady lane

Where lovers wandered hand in hand

Who came from Carentan.



This was the shining green canal

Where we came two by two

Walking at combat-interval.

Such trees we never knew.



The day was early June, the ground

Was soft and bright with dew.

Far away the guns did sound,

But here the sky was blue.



The sky was blue, but there a smoke

Hung still above the sea

Where the ships together spoke

To towns we could not see.



Could you have seen us through a glass

You would have said a walk

Of farmers out to turn the grass,

Each with his own hay-fork.



The watchers in their leopard suits

Waited till it was time,

And aimed between the belt and boot

And let the barrel climb.



I must lie down at once, there is

A hammer at my knee.

And call it death or cowardice,

Don't count again on me.



Everything's all right, Mother,

Everyone gets the same

At one time or another.

It's all in the game.



I never strolled, nor ever shall,

Down such a leafy lane.

I never drank in a canal,

Nor ever shall again.



There is a whistling in the leaves

And it is not the wind,

The twigs are falling from the knives

That cut men to the ground.



Tell me, Master-Sergeant,

The way to turn and shoot.

But the Sergeant's silent

That taught me how to do it.



O Captain, show us quickly

Our place upon the map.

But the Captain's sickly

And taking a long nap.



Lieutenant, what's my duty,

My place in the platoon?

He too's a sleeping beauty,

Charmed by that strange tune.



Carentan O Carentan

Before we met with you

We never yet had lost a man

Or known what death could do.



Louis Simpson

22:36 Feb 19 2010
Times Read: 804

I'm going through A LOT of numbers trying to figure out (as best possible) how many people have died as a result of war, ever. While going through these figures I came across a bit on lynchings in the US.



Hanging someone just because they're black (or white in some cases) or anything else without them committing a crime is well pretty damn bad. I'm a very proud Southerner, I have a bit of an accent, I've worked with several Southern nationalist groups and so on. I've also tried to cut through a lot of the BS on *both* sides.



When people go about bad mouthing the South, we're all racists, anything racially bad that happened always happened down south, blacks were hung so much you could stack the bodies to the moon and yadda yadda, I get fairly annoyed. Mostly because I know it's far from the truth.



One group I can't stand is the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) apart from many of it's leaders taking part in illegal actions, falsifying statements etc they have it, as a goal, the desire to erase anything pro-southern especially if it has a tie to the Confederacy. And one thing they like to talk about is the civil rights issue, prejudice, crimes etc against blacks during modern times. And while bad things happened, no doubt, it was far from year after year of genocide or anything of the sort.



Now I'm not saying the following numbers are "good", they're horrible and I wish it never happened BUT it may provide some perspective.



Between 1900-1965 how many people do you think were lynched? 8,000, 10k, 100k?



In total 2,900 hangings can be directly accounted for (and legit. estimates might double that amount). With 2,729 being non-white persons. Now that equals approx. 42 blacks hung each year between 1900-65 (although most happened 1900-30). While that number is horrifying:



During that same time 1,652 others were killed for various political disputes (all races).

Between 1960-65 over 16 million violent crimes happened and of those 44,380 were murdered.



During the War for Southern Independence (civil war) over 400,000 innocent civilians were killed (the vast majority were in the South).



In 1988 during pro-democracy rallies in Myanmar over 3,000 civilians were killed. (for general comparison)



So while bad things did happen in the South that were racially motivated don't let popular reporting or greatly biased groups blow things out of proportion and remember to do your own research.

08:11 Feb 16 2010
Times Read: 825

Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab--



-- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe.



They used a giant atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to knock gold ions together to make the ultra-hot explosions -- which lasted only for milliseconds.



But that is enough to give physicists fodder for years of study that they hope will help them understand why and how the universe formed.



"That temperature is hot enough to melt protons and neutrons," Brookhaven's Steven Vigdor told a news conference at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington on Monday.



These particles make up atoms, but they are themselves made up of smaller components called quarks and gluons.



What the physicists are looking for are tiny irregularities that can explain why matter clumped out of the primeval hot soup.



They also hope to use their findings for more practical applications -- such as in the field of "spintronics" that aims to make smaller, faster and more powerful computing devices.



They used the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, pronounced "rick"), a particle accelerator and collider that is 2.4 mile around and buried 12 feet underground in Upton, New York to collide gold ions billions of times.



"RHIC was designed to create matter at temperatures first encountered in the early universe," Vigdor said. They calculate the 4 trillion degree temperature gets pretty close.



"How hot is it?" he asked.



In comparison, "The predicted melting temperature of protons and neutrons is 2 trillion degrees. The temperatures at the core of a typical type-2 supernova is 2 billion degrees," he said.



The center of our sun is 50 million degrees, iron melts at 1,800 degrees and the average temperature of the universe is now 0.7 of a degree above absolute zero.



BIRTH OF MATTER



Vigdor's team believe they are looking at a recreation of the moment just before the quark-gluon soup condensed into hadrons -- the particles of matter that make up most of our universe.



Something happened in the milliseconds after the Big Bang to create an imbalance in favor of matter over anti-matter. If there had not been this disparity, matter and anti-matter would have simply reacted to create a universe of pure energy.



Later this year, physicists using the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland hope to smash lead ions together to create even hotter temperatures that should replicate moments even earlier in the birth of the universe.



Brookhaven has also patented some potential commercial applications of the research, said theorist Dmitri Kharzeev.



"The goal here is to create a device that can operate not only on the current of an electric charge but also on the current of spin," Kharzeev told the news conference.



Quarks spin in different directions and understanding how and why they do this can help scientists harness the power.



It may be possible to replicate a symmetrical spin in graphene, for example, said Kharzeev. Graphene is a so-called nanomaterial that scientists believe may replace silicon in super-fast and super-small devices.



"We are thinking of other practical applications as well," said Kharzeev.





http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100215/sc_nm/us_physics_temperature

01:26 Feb 16 2010
Times Read: 856

Cum is good for you. I'm a scientist and I said so dang it!



:P



Ok here's a bit of proof:



Spermidine: a novel autophagy inducer and longevity elixir.

Madeo F, Eisenberg T, Büttner S, Ruckenstuhl C, Kroemer G.



Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. frank.madeo@uni-graz.at



Spermidine is a ubiquitous polycation that is synthesized from putrescine and serves as a precursor of spermine. Putrescine, spermidine and spermine all are polyamines that participate in multiple known and unknown biological processes. Exogenous supply of spermidine prolongs the life span of several model organisms including yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), nematodes (Caenorhabditis elegans) and flies (Drosophila melanogaster) and significantly reduces age-related oxidative protein damage in mice, indicating that this agent may act as a universal anti-aging drug. Spermidine induces autophagy in cultured yeast and mammalian cells, as well as in nematodes and flies. Genetic inactivation of genes essential for autophagy abolishes the life span-prolonging effect of spermidine in yeast, nematodes and flies. These findings complement expanding evidence that autophagy mediates cytoprotection against a variety of noxious agents and can confer longevity when induced at the whole-organism level. We hypothesize that increased autophagic turnover of cytoplasmic organelles or long-lived proteins is involved in most if not all life span-prolonging therapies.





http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20110777

07:40 Feb 10 2010
Times Read: 876

We mourn the loss of Capt. Phil Harris



It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad - Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end. For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down. We will remember and celebrate that strength. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. - Jake and Josh Harris



It is with tremendous sadness that I say goodbye to Phil Harris. Phil and I have been business partners and friends for nearly 20 years. We have been through a lot of ups and downs together with the F/V Cornelia Marie. As a skipper, he was a great fisherman. He loved his family and cared for his crew. We will all miss him. - Cornelia Marie Devlin



Statement from Discovery - Discovery mourns the loss of dear friend and colleague Captain Phil Harris. He was more than someone on our television screen. Phil was a devoted father and loyal friend to all who knew him. We will miss his straightforward honesty, wicked sense of humor and enormous heart. We share our tremendous sadness over this loss with the millions of viewers who followed Phil’s every move. We send our thoughts and prayers to Phil’s sons Josh and Jake and the Cornelia Marie crew.



Source http://www.corneliamarie.com/



This is really sad. He was an awesome guy and father. During an episode 2 seasons ago he had a pulmonary embolism and barely survived but after a while his health started to get better. Then on Jan 29, 2009 he had a massive stroke. He was 53.

16:51 Feb 09 2010
Times Read: 890

Some interesting info.

The Milky Way actually has 2 smaller galaxies colliding with it right now. The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy and the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy.



We sit at 30,000 light years from the centre of our galaxy while Canis Major orbits the Milky Way sometimes as close as 25,000 light years. Sagittarius orbits as close as 50,000 ly from the galactic core.

This is a collection of images and simulations showing the tidal stream of stars of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy around the Milky Way.







Here we have a simulation of the past 2 billion years of the collision between the Milky Way and Canis Major. You can see Canis Major as the large outer bulge. The stream of red stars are from Canis Major and the blue ones are from the Milky Way.