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Lost Continents

August 9th, 2011 · No Comments

Have you ever heard of Mu? Nor I. The idea of Mu first appeared in the works of Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), after his investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán.[1] He claimed that he had translated the ancient Mayan writings, which supposedly showed that the Maya of Yucatán were older than the later civilizations of Greece and Egypt, and additionally told [...]

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Today Was Tomorrow Yesterday

November 15th, 2010 · No Comments

I am very hungover.. if only there was some way I could have known I would feel so hungover today whilst boozing it up last night… Well, hold on to your hats.. cos the new scientist has a story on a study that’s to be published soon.. It describes a series of experiments involving more [...]

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Something is off..

November 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Huh.. so I know I’ve not been posting much in these past couple months.. what can I say? not much mind blowing going on and I really doubt readers are that interested in my personal life.. Soooo.. why has readership doubled in the past month? DOUBLED, that’s a lot. Do people come here more when [...]

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The Gentleman’s 90

October 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Back in the time of yesteryear I came up with a term for how long one must wait after a couple breaks up to ask one out.  It ended up being a calculation.  1 week for every month they were together with a minimum 90 days, unless they were together less than 90.. then it [...]

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Sploosh!

September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

So, turns out us guys have the best.. invisible ink option as recommended by MI6.. sorry ladies.. this is something only we make.. *wink wink wink* *nudge* *poke* *sploosh* In October he noted that he “heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen”, which did not react to the main methods of detection. [...]

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The Grand Design

September 17th, 2010 · No Comments

So Stephen Hawkings new book came out, it’s called The Grand Design Here’s what Ol’ Steve (that’s what I call him) Hawkings has to say.. In The Grand Design we explain why, according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence, or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe [...]

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Too Much is Never Enough

September 14th, 2010 · No Comments

I get the feeling that some people wouldn’t be happy with even this as their engagement ring.. “You would need a jeweller’s loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond,” says astronomer Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who led the team of researchers that discovered it.

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Biological Wackiness

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments

In some movie I recently saw (I think, I’m just saying I don’t believe it was me to first say this), one character asks the question “Why are human females the only mammals with big boobs?” It’s a good question, and one I proposed in the bar recently.  I, naturally, have no idea why this [...]

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Lulz! You’re doing it wrong!

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Even though I am no fan of The Beatles. (seriously, just no…) I will still entertain you with this video that includes a montage from the “As Seen On TV” commercials where people suffer problems that no one ever has suffered. I’ll point out that I’ve yet to accidently get wrapped up in a hose, [...]

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LHC Success?

March 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Welp, the LHC smashed some particles today [BBC].  Two streams at 3.5 TeV (Thats short for “a whole fucking lot”) were sent right into each other, and look, we’re all still here.. “unless we aren’t” I said to a coworker. Mind… Blown.. Maybe we’re already in an alternate reality where men want to be me [...]

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