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[Valin]

 

Evidently De Nile river goes through Saudi Arabia.

[SrWoodchuck]

Oblunder Voter Bloc:

 

 

 

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[clearvision]

Utah Proposes Firing Squad for Executions

 

Ten years after banning the use of firing squads in state executions, Utah lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow the practice again to avoid problems with lethal-injection drugs.

 

The proposal from Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield would call for a firing squad if the state cannot obtain the lethal injection drugs 30 days before the scheduled execution. Utah dropped firing squads out of concern about the media attention, but Ray said it's the most humane way to execute someone because the inmate dies instantly.

 

"We have to have an option," Ray told reporters Wednesday. "If we go hanging, if we go to the guillotine, or we go to the firing squad, electric chair, you're still going to have the same circus atmosphere behind it. So is it really going to matter?"

 

[SrWoodchuck]

Paid Trolls for ObamaCare http://iotwreport.com/?p=262186

 

From the Washington Times:

 

Obamacare Facebook page comments mostly from small group of supporters… [More than] sixty percent… of the 226,838 comments [on the official Obamacare Facebook page] generated from September 2012 to early last month can be attributed to fewer than 100 unique profiles, according to an analysis completed by The Washington Times with assistance from an outside data analytics team. Many of those profiles belong to just one person who created multiple aliases or personas to widen her influence and multiply her voice.

Remember when the Obama campaign was caught doing the same thing with ‘letters to the editor’ back in January 2010? Does the name “Ellie Light” ring a bell? (Ms. ‘Light’ wrote dozens of identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of Obama that were published in dozens of local newspapers. Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.)

 

Cindi Huynh, an Obamacare supporter in California, posted on average 59 times a day on the site in 60 days, making her the No. 1 poster in that period. She posted only during work hours — as is the trend of the top 25 posters on the site — and never on weekends.

 

Meaning, it was a job and they were paid.

More here, from Sweetness & Light: http://sweetness-light.com/archive/most-o-care-support-on-facebook-was-from-paid-trolls#.VG1OPnCeJpN

 

 

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[nickydog]

 

Evidently De Nile river goes through Saudi Arabia.

De Nile for sure. In spite of "some spectacular failures."

[SrWoodchuck]

What Philae Did During Its 60 Hours on a Comet http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-philae-did-during-its-60-hours-on-a-comet/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20141120

 

The simple reason why the lander was sent all the way to a comet was to do chemistry that can explain the origin of life.

 

November 18, 2014 |By Mark Lorch and The Conversation UK

 

Editor's note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.

 

 

The drama of Philae’s slow fall, bounce and unfortunate slide into hibernation was one of the most thrilling science stories of a generation. But what in its short 60 hours of life on Comet 67P did it achieve?

 

The short answer is analytical chemistry.

 

Philae’s payload included three instruments that are quite common in chemistry labs, but when deployed on a comet could answer questions about the origins of the solar system and life itself.

 

Right- or left-handed life

 

Four billion years ago the solar system was an unsettled place. Earth was undergoing heavy bombardment by asteroids and comets. This continuous shower may have delivered a significant amount of water to our planet. But the comets weren’t just dirty snowballs. A third of their contents was probably complex organic (that is, carbon-based) molecules. These compounds may well have triggered the chemistry that led to life on our planet.

 

One of Philae’s goals is to provide evidence that the organic chemicals on a comet are sufficiently similar to the building blocks of life to support the comet impact theory for abiogenesis. A key factor is whether Comet 67P (and by extension other comets) contain predominantly right- or left-handed molecules.

 

Many molecules come in one of two forms, known as stereoisomers, which chemists designate as left- or right-handed. These two forms are identical apart from the fact that they are mirror images of each other.

 

Your hands are a perfect analogy. Structurally, they are the same except for the fact that you can’t superimpose one on the other. And so it is with stereoisomers.

 

Strangely, life on Earth is based entirely on left-handed molecules. It is perfectly possible to make the right-handed versions, but life just doesn’t.

 

Where this preference for left-handedness comes from is a mystery. One theory is that the bias came from within the chemistry of comets. In the comets, right-handed molecules may have been preferentially destroyed by a combination of sunlight (to provide energy to trigger chemical reactions) and liquid water (with which the organic compounds could react).

 

Philae’s COSAC instrument is designed to sniff away at the comet’s organic contents and figure out whether they look like the building blocks of life and, importantly, whether the comet contains the same preference for lefty chemistry as Earth-bound life.

 

Homegrown detritus or alien debris

 

Most theories hold that comets were formed from the same nebula that gave birth to rest of the solar system. But this need not be the case. It could be that they are truly ancient bodies that entirely, or in part, pre-date the solar system, or perhaps they have congregated here much more recently? Philae’s Ptolemy instrument aims to answer this question by comparing the ratios of different isotopes within Comet 67P.

 

A given element is defined by the number of protons in its nucleus. For example carbon always has six protons. However the number of neutrons can vary giving rise to carbon-12 (six protons and six neutrons), carbon-13 (with seven neutrons) and carbon-14 (with eight neutrons). All these different variations are known as isotopes. The ratio of these isotopes in any given body will vary depending on its origins. And since the material in the solar system came from more or less the same place, the isotopic carbon ratios for the Sun, the Earth and asteroids are pretty much the same.

But comets might be different, in fact remote measurements of comet Hale-Boop suggest that it may be an extra-solar alien. The problem is there were large uncertainties in these readings, so we can’t be sure of their accuracy. By sending the Ptolemy instrument to the surface of a comet this should all be resolved, as its isotopic measurements are meant to be as accurate as those performed on Earth, and the solar or alien origins of Comet 67P can be confirmed.

 

 

 

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[Valin]

No doubt you've been asking yourself....Just how stupid is Nancy Pelosi?

 

This Stupid

 

 

 

[Valin]

What Philae Did During Its 60 Hours on a Comet http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-philae-did-during-its-60-hours-on-a-comet/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20141120

 

The simple reason why the lander was sent all the way to a comet was to do chemistry that can explain the origin of life.

 

November 18, 2014 |By Mark Lorch and The Conversation UK

 

 

 

Thank You.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

What Philae Did During Its 60 Hours on a Comet http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-philae-did-during-its-60-hours-on-a-comet/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20141120

 

The simple reason why the lander was sent all the way to a comet was to do chemistry that can explain the origin of life.

 

November 18, 2014 |By Mark Lorch and The Conversation UK

 

 

 

Thank You.

 

 

You are welcome.

 

The commenter's seem to shred the article....so went to the linked source & not as much dispute....and a short, but better discussion: http://theconversation.com/explainer-what-philae-did-in-its-60-hours-on-comet-67p-34289

 

Then went here, which has a better explanation: http://www.space.com/20888-earth-life-amino-acids-asteroids.html

[Valin]

 

 

What Philae Did During Its 60 Hours on a Comet http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-philae-did-during-its-60-hours-on-a-comet/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20141120

 

The simple reason why the lander was sent all the way to a comet was to do chemistry that can explain the origin of life.

 

November 18, 2014 |By Mark Lorch and The Conversation UK

 

 

 

Thank You.

 

 

You are welcome.

 

The commenter's seem to shred the article....so went to the linked source & not as much dispute....and a short, but better discussion: http://theconversation.com/explainer-what-philae-did-in-its-60-hours-on-comet-67p-34289

 

Then went here, which has a better explanation: http://www.space.com/20888-earth-life-amino-acids-asteroids.html

 

 

For tomorrow.

[SrWoodchuck]

Go here to see if your Senators & Congressmen.....got a Pass....or a Fail: https://www.conservativereview.com/scorecard

 

 

Via iOTWReports

[SrWoodchuck]

Righteous Indignation:

 

Five year-old Laylah Petersen was killed when a black gang shot her dead this month while she was sitting on her grandfather’s lap.

 

Two black males in Milwaukee walked up to the home of a white family, in a majority black neighborhood, and unleashed a hail of gunfire. A five year old white girl was murdered while sitting on her grandfather’s lap.

 

Milwaukee police say there is no question the shooters were deliberating trying to kill people inside the house. At least a dozen bullets were fired directly into the house. There may have been a third person driving a getaway car.

 

The house was located in a census tract that is 77% black and 14% white.

 

The Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee channel 6 have actually been trying to downplay the murder. They are falsely reporting that it was “a stray bullet.”

 

That directly contradicts all the evidence found by police.

 

The family donated Laylah’s heart after her death.

 

 

Via iOTWReports

[nickydog]

No doubt you've been asking yourself....Just how stupid is Nancy Pelosi?

 

This Stupid

 

 

 

 

No, no, no, @Valin! Didn't you hear her? "The people need to understand...." i.e. we the people are the stupid ones, not Nancy. We need her to explain stuff to us.

[Valin]

 

No doubt you've been asking yourself....Just how stupid is Nancy Pelosi?

 

This Stupid

 

No, no, no, @Valin! Didn't you hear her? "The people need to understand...." i.e. we are the stupid ones, not Nancy. We need her to explain stuff to us.

 

 

Riiiight! Thanks, I forgot what a bitter clinger I am.

 

After all Nan is a certified licensed smart person.

[nickydog]

 

 

No doubt you've been asking yourself....Just how stupid is Nancy Pelosi?

 

This Stupid

 

No, no, no, @Valin! Didn't you hear her? "The people need to understand...." i.e. we are the stupid ones, not Nancy. We need her to explain stuff to us.

 

 

Riiiight! Thanks, I forgot what a bitter clinger I am.

 

After all Nan is a certified licensed smart person.

 

 

It's too bad she doesn't know remember knowing Gruber. They would get along well together.

[SrWoodchuck]

[pollyannaish]

Only a Professor of Law would say something completely ignorant as this. I'm thinking he got his PHD out of a cracker jack box.

 

Imperfect Union: The Constitution Didn't Foresee Divided GovernmentWatching the battle between Obama and a Republican Congress for two years may shake Americans' faith in the Framers.

Garrett Epps

Nov 18 2014

 

 

 

And From The Comments

 

LittleWillie • 10 hours ago

 

The Constitution's biggest fault is its inability to protect the United States from people who fetishize the Constitution. (Understandable, given that it arose from a culture swooning over Stuff That Other People Wrote Down--e.g., the Bible.)

Seeking Truth, I stuff words into my mind's pipe as quickly as possible and inhale. But so much of Truth is nonverbal. Words fail us; they can't tell the story. We think they can; we're mistaken. We're addicts in denial, so we keep smoking.

 

.... ...

 

What the....what?

[SrWoodchuck]

Pompous, Pseudo-Intellectual, Secular, Revisionist & Elitist O-bots

 

(Understandable, given that it arose from a culture swooning over Stuff That Other People Wrote Down--e.g., the Bible Das Kapital.)

 

[SrWoodchuck]

We Can All Be "Dreamer's"

 

 

Pic via TheoSpark

[SrWoodchuck]

Watch His Lips Move.....It's a "Tell" That He's Lying!

 

 

 

Via TheoSpark

[Geee]

Righteous Indignation:

 

Five year-old Laylah Petersen was killed when a black gang shot her dead this month while she was sitting on her grandfather’s lap.

 

Two black males in Milwaukee walked up to the home of a white family, in a majority black neighborhood, and unleashed a hail of gunfire. A five year old white girl was murdered while sitting on her grandfather’s lap.

 

Milwaukee police say there is no question the shooters were deliberating trying to kill people inside the house. At least a dozen bullets were fired directly into the house. There may have been a third person driving a getaway car.

 

The house was located in a census tract that is 77% black and 14% white.

 

The Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee channel 6 have actually been trying to downplay the murder. They are falsely reporting that it was “a stray bullet.”

 

That directly contradicts all the evidence found by police.

 

The family donated Laylah’s heart after her death.

 

 

Via iOTWReports

6 is the local channel we watch. I can't see any evidence that they are downplaying the murder. Cover it almost daily since it happened and have seen the picture of that adorable girl many times. The Sentinel - I don't know. Wouldn't read the rag. She was visiting her grandparents. I can't imagine the grief.

[NCTexan]

The MSM have all lined up with the White House scripted talking points:

Obama just did what Bush did!

I can already just hear Rush's montage of voice/video clips on it today.

 

[Valin]

Smirks Maddow had an orgasm

 

 

Andrea Mitchell proof that sometime old age just shows up alone.

[SrWoodchuck]

[SrWoodchuck]

A timelapse of the Sun in 4K

 

 

 

Published on Nov 7, 2014

The surface of the sun from October 14th to 30th, 2014, showing sunspot AR 2192, the largest sunspot of the last two solar cycles (22 years). During this time sunspot AR 2191 produced six X-class and four M-class solar flares. The animation shows the sun in the ultraviolet 304 ångström wavelength, and plays at a rate of 52.5 minutes per second. It is composed of more than 17,000 images, 72 GB of data produced by the solar dynamics observatory (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) + (http://www.helioviewer.org/). This animation has be rendered in 4K, and resized to the Youtube maximum resolution of 3840×2160. The animation has been rotated 180 degrees so that south is "up". The audio is the 'heartbeat' of the sun, processed from SOHO HMI data by Alexander G. Kosovichev. Image data courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams."Image processing and animation by James Tyrwhitt-Drake. To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com

 

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