Hockey

Autotuner asked me the other day if I was watching the NHL playoffs, and I told him that I was watching some of the playoffs but not like years ago. There is no Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull, or Bobby Clark. The players that I knew when I was playing hockey, plus that game that I watched recently there was nothing but hooking, so to me hockey is not as exciting as when I was playing hockey. I have to admit I still miss playing the game, I loved playing hockey, being on the ice. What I did not like was though was Dad refereeing my games, the other teams always thought Dad was harder on them, then us.

I might feel different or excited about hockey if I lived in Edmonton, here in Tampa football is the big thing here, plus it is hard to freeze water in your backyard to create your own rink.

The Olympic Games


I think that it is wrong that the athletes have to sign a piece of paper that basically states that the athletes will not criticize the Chinese government on human rights, or anything else the Chinese Secret Police deems not in the Chinese political interest. The Olympic games in China are to symbloize China becoming a 1st world nation, but at what price. As you know China is one of the world's top polluters, and that is the reason that the world's top marathoner is not running in Beijing, for fear that his lungs would be harmed by the pollution.

For the games to take place the Olympic area where all that athletes are lodging need food, water, and breathable air. So what is the Chinese government plan to accomlish master plan. First, shutdown a few powerplans ( in a 75 mile radius ) it does not matter if the local people have no power for 2 weeks, but it will cut down on the pollution. Second water (H2O); that plan is to divert enough fresh water (from the same 75 mile radius) to enshure that the athletes have enough water, it does not matter if the local people do not have enough water for two weeks. In short China does not have the infrastructure to host the Olympic games or the freedom for people for which I thought the Olympic games represented.

This is cool link.

The Flood

There is no evidence that a world wide flood happened, but there is evidence that localized flooding happened, that at the time people would have thought that the whole earth was flooded because to them what they perceived (their surroundings) was the whole earth. Anyways, if whole earth was deluged by water, here is the math.

Since the Earth is only 10,000 years old not much geological change has happened, so I took Mt. Everest as the tallest place on earth, and then added 40 cubits to that height. There is some contention of what a cubit so I just took an average. They think a cubit was between 43 to 56 centimeters long so:

43 + 56 / 2 = 49.5 cm
49.5 cm = 0.000495 km

first the volume of the earth:

V = 4/3 x pi x r³
= (1.3 ) (3.14) (6,371)³
= 1055591332674.502 km³

second, volume of earth plus added the height of Mt Everest

Mt Everest = 8.848 km, add that to the radius of the earth
6371.0 + 8.848 + .000495 = 6379.85 km

V_{earth + Mt. Everest} = 4/3 x pi x r³
= (1.3)x(3.14)x(6378.85)³
= 1059995436864.56 km³

Volume of water fallen = V_earth - V _{e + Mt Everest}
= 4404104190.06 km³

converting that to gallons of water = 1.163 x 10²¹

That is one more decimal place that all the water on the earth, and if that much water vapor was in the atmosphere, the atmospheric pressure would have been so great that life could not exist on the earth.

The world is going to end --- 7.6 billion years from now, when the sun engulfs the earth in a supernova. Life on earth only has 1 billion years left, buy then the expanding sun will have boiled the oceans away (fish fry). You will still be able to get a tan though, burnt to a crisp -- toasty; just like Quiznos.

The Sun is 4.5 billion years old, and since the birth of the sun it has consumed 1/2 of the hydrogen in the Sun's core. The temperature of the sun is 15.6 million degrees Kelvin at the core which converted to Celcius is 15,699,726.85 C. At the surface the temperature of the sun is 7000 degrees Celcius.

There was Adam and Lilith, before Adam and Eve.

I was surfing the web, looking for information on a book that I am reading, and I came across this:

The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christianity. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists, and becomes a huge obstacle for the claims of Mormonism. John J. Robinson in A Pilgrim's Path, pp. 47-48 explains: "Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" The first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? To find the answer, I consulted a scholar at the library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. What Hebrew name, I asked, was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell? The answer was a surprise. In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew scholar could only speculate that some early Christian scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer." Why Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King").

billmcelligott; a member of AboveTopSecret.com", and include the title of the message thread, Masonic Sun Worship; and this full link URL to the post: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread29329/pg2#pid633405.

That verse was used alot in many sermans that I listen to in church describing how Satan challanged God's authority in Heaven. I just read a book a few months ago detailing how the scribes from all the 6000 manuscripts that the Bible comes from and how verses were changed because that particular scribe thought it need to be changed to conform to what he thought was right.

How Big is the Universe?

I have never really ever thought about "How Big the Universe" was until my physics teacher asked that simple question, which I readily anwsered about 26 billion light years in diameter, but as soon as I have anwsered I knew I was wrong. What I was stating was that the observable universe is about 26 billions light years ( because we can look back about 13.4 billion light years), assuming that the earth in is the middle of the universe, but even if the earth is not the universe is so vast I really do not think that it matters. Anyways, we have a horizon (so to speak) of light that we can observe, but buy the time the light reaches the earth the universe has expaned from where the light has not reached us yet.

Photons

Photons are massless and travel at the speed of light; approx 186,ooo miles per second. Since photons travel at the speed of light, time = 0 in reference to the photon. I have been wondering if you were on a photon would you be aware of the velocity that you are traveling at. What I mean -- velocity = distance / time. If time = 0, then your velocity = ??? well I guess your velocity would be undefined since you can not divide by zero. From the perspective of the earth it takes light approx 8.5 mins to reach the earth, so the photon has a velocity relative to the earth, but what of the photon it's self? how does the photon perceive it's self? If you were on top of a photon would you be aware of motion? and how would you perceive the universe?

The State of Physics -- String Theory or I guess M-Theory

From all the books that I have read on string theory (the ones by Brain Greene), and the shows that I have seen on NOVA about ST I had always thought that there was some underlying emperical evidence that was pointing to ST but ST is not that cut and dry. The book that I just finnished reading "The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin has painted a dark picture for ST. ST has taken on some religious connotation's that can be eximplified by the argument that took place between the Church and Science, when the observations confimed that the Earth was not the center of the Solar System but the Sun was. When the Earth was the center of the Solar System, the system was so complicated to explain the motion of the sun and planets that it was ridiclous, but once the Sun was place at the center of the Solor System the motion of the Sun and Planets became simplified and able to make accurate prodictions relating the to Solar System.

With ST instead of epicircles you have dimensions, and with these dimensions you have equations that are so complicated that they can not be solve. From what I understand right now there are 11 dimensions in ST, in some other books of ST I have read that there are 16 dimensions; that just seems to complicated to me, and it does not represent the universe that I live in. The other problem that ST has is that the theory does not make any predictions and it is untestable. Once the new super collider comes operational, maybe ST can be tested and evaluated like other theorys have been.

Cool computer, check it out.

There sure is a lot of grey hair on MM's blog.

Another Church.

CW was a funniest Missionary that I ever new, he was cool.

MM, these are the kind of churchs I did missionary work in.

Here is a blast from the past.

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Ancient Manuscript Suggests Jesus Asked Judas to Betray Him.

Shadowpaint99, I had said that string theory was in a dissarry a while ago, and I think that I can answer your question as to why now. I am reading a new book, "The Trouble with Physics" by Lee Smolin, he is a theoretical physicist living in Canada. He worked on ST and now he is working on Loop Quantum Gravity which seems to give results relating to the real world. To the basics of science and how it relates to ST.

The basics of science -- the sceintific method:

1. Ask a Question
2. Do Background Research
3. Construct a Hypothesis
4. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment
5. Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion
6. Communicate Your Results

Example:

1. "Is the earth 10,000 years old?"

2. The earth strata, dinasours seem to indicate that the earth is older then 10,000.

3. I think the the earth is older then 10,000 years.

4. Determine how hot the earth is after 10,000 years by using heat equations -- yea that's that anwser.

5 & 6 After working out the heat equations, if the earths was 10,000 years old the earth would be 15,000 degrees C, so the earth is NOT 10,000 years old because the earth is colder then 15,000 C.

Will back to string theory, right now there is no way to apply the sceintific principal to ST, I emphasis there is NO empirical evidence for string theory, it is all math, and right now there is no way to do any experiments to prove string theory. This is causing some people to rethink their position and wonder if they have spent their lives for nothing because there is no hard evidence or experimental data for ST. When the new particle accelerater (the biggest) which is being built in Geneva, Switzerland it could provide the first emperical evidence for string theory or againest the theory but even that is not sure.

Brian Greene is the person I guess you could (lead physistics person on string theory), he is the person who did the show on NOVA said in his book "The Fabric of the Cosmos"; "Even today, more then three decades after its initial articulation, most string practitioners believe we still don't have a comprehensive anwser to the rudimentary question, What is string theory? ... Most researches feel that our current formulation of string theory still lacks the kind of core principle we find in the heart of other major advances."

There are equations in ST that are so difficult that cannot be solved. I think that the real problem is that ST does not model the real world, and lacks real empirical evidence.

You Are an Alien

You're so strange, people occasionally wonder if you're from another world. You don't try to be different, but you see most things from a very unique, very offbeat perspective. Brilliant to the point of genius, you definitely have some advanced intelligence going on. No matter what circles you travel in, you always feel like a stranger. And it's a feeling you've learned to like. Your greatest power: Your superhuman brain Your greatest weakness: Your lack of empathy - you just don't get humans You play well with: Zombies

What Kind of Monster Are You?

Boat Owners

There were these two twins Jim Ryall and Bill Ryall. Jim was the owner of an old dilapidated boat. It just so happened Bill's wife died the same day Jim's boat sank. A few days later a kindly old woman saw Jim and mistaking Jim for Bill stated "I'm sorry to hear about your loss. You must feel just terrible." Jim, thinking about the boat said, "Hell no, fact is I'm sort of glad to be rid of her, she was a rotten ole thing from the beginning. Her bottem was all shriveled up and she smelled like an old dead fish, she was always losing water. She had a crack in the back and a pretty big hole in the front too. Every time I used her, her hole got bigger and she leaked like crazy. I guess what finally finished her off was when I rented her to four guys looking for a good time. I warned them that she was'nt very good, but they wanted to use her anyhow. The damn fools all tried to get in her at once and she split right up the middle. "

The old woman fainted!!!

NOVA had a show the other day about what happened in Washington State about 15,000 years ago, how glaciers from Canada created a huge dam ( Glacial Lake Missoul ) with trillions of gallons of water or 500 cubic miles of water estimated. When the dam broke it created the Scablands about 200 miles east of Seattle. The interesting was part was how the scientest discovered the process by which water (which is supercooled, below 32 C) interacts with the ice breaking the glacier apart which then creates deluge of water and ice. The process was discovered I think they said Greenland; in 1993 there was a glacier/water flood on a smallar scale but it was discovered that water under tremendous pressure water will not freeze, it then becomes "supercooled" and then starts running through fissures in the glacier, this in turn starts to weaken the structure of the glacier which then results in the water and ice creating a flood. This is what happened in the Scablands, but on a much larger scale it created valleys a 1000 feet deep, a waterfall 5 times wider then Niagara Falls and the evidence seems to point that is all happened over a 48 hour period. Interesting show.

J's new duty station will be Ft. Lewis, Washington. I will think he will have s good time there, he may end up with a cushey job, maybe. Ft. Lewis was the place where the some drug pushers decided to take on the Rangers that where stationed at Ft. Lewis. I do not remember all the details, it happened between 1989 or 1990, somewhere in that time frame, anyways from what I remember one of the Ranger's wives, or home was threated by some not too intelligent drug dealers that where in the neighorhood, and thought they owned the block. Idiots, do not threated Rangers, where there is one, there is many, they are brother's in arms. So, about 30 Rangers (if I remeber right) came armed with a basic load, and cleaned out the drug dealers. The dealers did not know what hit them, the neighborhood was cleaned out and everybody was happy except the police, and the CG. I do not remember what happen to the Rangers.

My first duty station was Ft. Riley, KS. I was with 1st Engineers ( 12B's Combat Engineers ) I was working in the S-3 shop, or operations for the Battalion (that is what S-3 does), or command and control. This where I drove a track vehicle; M577A2, Command Carrier, 13 tonnes of fun. Other then that, I really did not like being there, but the housing that me and Lily lived in was great, we really like our quarters after the new living room was added on. For the most part I was gone from 5:00am till about 6:00pm, I usually was home by 6:30. We had a idiot major who did not want to go home, it seemed that 4:30pm (when everybody else was going home) was time to start work with him, so we always had to do crap for him.

One weekend the whole Battalion was locked in because some idiot lieutenant, and sargent tried to steal M16A1 and colt .45. That Friday about 12:00pm a rumor started circling that a weapon was missing from one of the line companies arm's room. At 4:30 the whole Battalion was marched down to the motor pool for formation and the Battalion commader was there, since he was there we knew something was up. Anyways he said that a M16, and .45 was missing and we could not go home until it was found. Everything in the motor pool was tore apart, all storage containers emptied, but no weapons. So we had to go back to our offices and lay everything out and be inspected, and no weapon. So the whole Battalion stayed in the barracks Friday and Saturday night. On Saturday we had to walk the whole route by foot from the firing range to the barracks. On Sunday morning an anonymous phone call (so we were told) told where the weapons could be found, so once the weapons were recovered and secured in the arms room, we all went home. Fun in the Army.

J is still at Ft. Jackson going through AIT or Advanced Individual Training, in other words he is learning how to do his job which is "Light Wheel Mechanic." Basically working on Hummers, and other SUV's in the military motor pool's. I have talked to him a few times and things seem to be going alright for him.

I took my AIT at Ft. Belvior, Virgina and I had a blast. We had weekend passes all the time, and we (my class) all the time went into Washinton DC. I went to the Smithsonian and went through all the exhibits plus I saw all the other things to see in DC. You may be wondering how we got there since no one had a car, well there was this guy that we called Mr. Bill and he had a old school bus. I am not sure who or why he did this but he would come around on the weekends and pick up the GI's on post and then pass a hat around and everybody would put in a few dollars for gas and he would take us to DC. He had regular stops in DC at specific times, so that is how we travelled from the post to DC.

There was this guy who was in the National Guard and he was from the Virgin Islands, he never come out of his thermal underwear. He said that he was always cold, and we thought that is was hot at Ft. Belvior. Every night at last formation we had 13E (MOS) I forget what their job title was, but they were some kind of Nuclear specialist, anyways they allways ended formation by saying:

"Nuc them until they glow, and then shoot them in the dark"

I always thought was quit humours, Lily did not think so, ooooowellllll.