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miscellaneous postings by Lawrence R. Spencer

SEX WITH PLANTS

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It’s Springtime!!  If you’re sneezing, your eyes are red and your sinuses are completely full of pollen, it’s because all the trees and grasses and flowering plants are having SEX!  Here is a wonderful lecture on TED Talks given by Johathan Drori, that explains the phenomenon of plant sex.  (Ladies, be careful that you aren’t impregnated by pollen floating in the wind!  🙂

IMMEASURABLE HEAVENS

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Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii has come up with a new technique that maps the Universe according to the flow of galaxies across space. Redrawing the boundaries of the cosmic map, they redefine our home supercluster and name it Laniakea, which means ‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian.

The Millennium Simulation featured in this clip was run in 2005 by the Virgo Consortium, an international group of astrophysicists from Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and the United States. A virtual cube of 2 billion light years on a side was “filled” with 10 billion “particles” whose evolution was computed using the physical laws expected to hold in the currently known cosmologies. The initial distribution of matter, that resembled the conditions present when the cosmic microwave background radiation was emitted was allowed to evolve, and the formation of galaxies and black holes in the simulation were recorded. After all the computing work was done (28 days, at a rate of 200 billion calculations per second) 20 million galaxies were formed in the initial space. These galaxies and the dark matter around them formed web-like structures that resemble the shapes observed by the most recent data available in cosmic surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

LIVE MEN HAVE MORE SEX THAN SKELETONS

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8 REASONS TO AVOID WAR:

Violence is proof of mental weakness.

Wars are fought by criminals and cowards.

Cooperation requires strength.

Communication has more power than force.

Intelligence is more effective than power.

Life is more pleasant than death.

Kindness is more honorable than war.

Live men have more sex than skeletons.

NASA DISCOVERS MICKEY MECURY MOUSE

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The recent “scientific discovery” by NASA of an alleged Mickey Mouse Face on the planet Mercury given birth to a litter of “scientific theories” to explain the phenomena.  Here are a few of my personal favorites:

1) The Mickey Mouse “face” is proof that Douglas Adams book, “The Hitchhikers Guide to The Universe” was correct in saying that mice are the Creators of The Universe.  Obviously, these Mighty Mouse Gods left an imprint on themselves on the surface of Mercury so that Mankind could discover that Humanity was created by alien mice from space.

2) Disney Corporation has landed on Mercury and is laying the foundations for  a new Disney World theme park called “Mercury Mouse House” as a speculative real estate investment funded by Wall Street Bankers and endorsed by Congress  in anticipation of the potential colonization of that planet by humans.

3) NASA is making another lame attempt at discrediting the “face of Mars” by coming up with this kind of nonsense.

4) NASA employees don’t really have any good excuse to collect a paycheck.

5) The “Mickey Face” is undeniable evidence that people will believe anything they are told by “the authorities” or “scientists”.

6) This Mickey Mouse evidence proves the “Theory of Human Stupidity” which states “THE AVERAGE HUMAN  IS REALLY STUPID.  THE REST ARE EVEN MORE STUPIDER THAN THEM.”