Hey Toronto and everyone else in the "greatest country in the world"...Reduce the amount of garbage you create!

bottom line (or bottom of the continuum) consider the impact that your actions have on others. but that's hard isn't it. it means reduce the garbage you create. it means consider where your food comes from. it means not using the air, water and land as our dumping ground. it means not breeding and being part of the exploding human population that thinks it has a god given right to this planet above all other creatures.

recycling banana peels is avoiding the issue....stop drinking your precious tim horton's coffee (with two cups so you don't burn your little fingers), stop with the fast food...it's garbage for the body and now it's garbage on the streets.

The Root Of All Evil

a good rule of thumb for detecting institutions, industries and belief systems which are deleterious to society and individuals is spotting those which try to suppress the truth (eg religion, capitalism, oil companies, the meat and dairy industry). that being the case, science and moral philosophy seem to be good bets for the future as they seek the truth, are not afraid of it and want to share it with the rest of the world. bad news for all you priests and politicians, capitalists and masters of war. your days are numbered, for the truth is out there and you cannot keep it from being heard forever.

so in conclusion let me just say that i nominate richard dawkins and peter singer as the spokespeople for a kinder more enlightened future.

DOGMA IS THE PROBLEM

the philosopher paul churchland at the 2006 beyond belief conference gave a speech where he said these words and i want to type them here so i won't forget them because i thought it was bang on.. OKAY !!!? so here it is....ready?

he said...

where does morality come from? it comes from looooooooooooong experience, just as where science comes from. and the process is slooooooooooooow. and the hope that you can settle something quickly by finding a touchstone which can serve you forever is something which has infected badly most of the world's major religions and even philosophers of moral science. now if this is true then dogma is the basic problem here, because if you think you already have the absolute truth, whether scientific or moral, then you have a problem...you can no longer learn.

How Much Earlier Would A Star Rise and Set On Mars Each Night?

excellent question...i'm glad you asked that.....because....

on earth there are 86,164 seconds in a day and 365.25 days in a year. now because of the fact that the earth revolves around the sun in said 365.25 days, a star at any location in the sky at a particular time (say oh, i don't know, just off the top of my head... 10:20...wow, that's ironic...that was what time my camping trip was ruined today due to high winds) will be in that position 3 minutes 55.904 seconds earlier for each subsequent night (86,164/365.25) until a year later when it will be in the very same position at that very same time once again. (let's discount the minor shifts due to precession [about 49.85" {"in this case means arcminutes not inches}/year or a dime's width at 83.76 meters...that is of course a very rough estimate using only "stone knives and bearskins" (" in THIS case means quotes not inches OR arcseconds)] )

on mars there are 88, 775.244 seconds in a day (martian sol) and 668.5991 of those sols in a martian year which means that a star would be in a particular position in the sky 2 minutes 12.778 seconds earlier each night.

OKAY?!

ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY

g = GM/r^2

where:
g = acceleration due to gravity
G = Newton's gravitational constant 6.67 x 10^-11
M = mass
r = radius


39940.65265km = polar circumference of the earth
40075.01669km = equatorial circumference
5.9742x1024kg = mass of the earth

-21.3847km difference in radius to the center of the earth between equatorial radius of 6378.137km and polar radius of 6356.7523km

1° latitude = 110.946km = -.237608km difference in radius to the center of the earth travelling from the equator to the pole

9.79530367199 m/s^2 = acceleration due to gravity at the equator
9.86131913338 m/s^2 = acceleration due to gravity at the pole

.06601546139 m/s^2 difference between the pole and the equator = 7.335051266x10^-4 m/s^2 per degree latitude

.237608km = -7.335051266x10^-4m/s^2 difference in acceleration due to gravity

1000m in elevation = -3.087x10^-3m/s^2 = -.0315% weight difference
31.7460317km in elevation = 1% weight difference
w = mg

84kg mass at the equator = 822.80550844716 newtons
84kg mass at the pole = 828.35080720392 newtons

828.35080720392/g at the equator = 84.56611810541586kg at the pole (which we mistakenly refer to as weight. mass of course remains the same wherever in the universe you are)

At The End Of A Modified Stem

the sepal and petals and stamens all grow
with carpals, arranged all around in a whorl
and this is complete in the way it has four
at the end of a modified stem.

the sepal is usually shaded a green,
retaining a look that is more like a leaf,
enclosing a bud and protecting you see
at the end of a modified stem.

the petals are coloured and brighter than that
of sepals to make all the insects attract,
who pollinate flowers wherever they're at
at the end of a modified stem.

the stamens and carpels are sexual parts.
the stamen consists of an anther atop
a filament like a gigantical stalk
at the end of a modified stem.

the carpal embodies a stylish neck,
an ovary, ovule, egg in a sac.
her gametophyte is a gametofact
at the end of a modified stem.

the stigma resides at the carpally tip
to serve as a platform for pollen to sit,
arriving by wind or a bug who alit
at the end of a modified stem.

Andreas Cantor

Q: What did Andreas Cantor, the Spanish soccer announcer, say when he was asked which organelle carries out the processing, packaging and sorting of a variety of cellular products?

A: GOOOOOOLGI APPARATUS!

YOTTABYTE ME!

1 terabyte equals about 213 4.7GB dvds. 213 dvds is approximately 30cm in length. to equal 1 yottabyte (1000 terabytes = 1 petabyte; 1000 petabytes = 1 exabyte; 1000 exobytes = 1 zettabyte; 1000 zettabytes = 1 yottabyte) would mean 213 trillion dvds or a distance of 300 million kilometers, the distance to the sun and back!

(213 trillion is about the number of cells in 2 human bodies. that being the case, each cell would store about 4.7GB of information or about 1500 pictures, most of these being taken up by the golgi apparatus)

PUNK DADA

All That Is Around You

You and all that is around you is the result of everything that went before.
Your's now is not to question how you arrived or why you are here
but to recognize injustice and cruelty wherever and whenever they occur
and to change the world for the better by lessening their occurance.
One must have a passion for sweets and raw potatoes
and avoid eating broken glass and rusty nails.