A common complaint is that Hollywood has no imagination.
Rebuttal: Ummm… this.
Well… alrighty then.
Nov 032018
Oct 312018
Yes, this cat seems like it is (probably “was,” video’s from a decade ago) something of a nightmare. But I just gotta respect the heck out of a small little animal that has that much fight in it when giant monsters come up on it and start stabbing it. Defiance: the greatest expression of freedom known.
Some people don’t like cats because, unlike dogs, they don’t do what the people think they are supposed to. The cats instead do what the *cat* thinks it aught to. Sometimes it results in awesomeness. But it’s always gratifying to see feline defiance in the face of threats or idiocy.
And of course, the ultimate expression of feline awesomeness via jerky behavior:
THAT. IS. AWESOME.
Oct 112018
No. Just no. Nope. Nuh-uh.
Did I watch the video? Yup.
Once again: a steaming pile of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE.
Video: 15cm long parasitic worm extracted from patient’s eye
Sep 232018
Nothing immediately comes to mind to explain why there are apparently such high differences in pet ownership rates between various American ethnic groups. It can’t really come down to socioeconomic status… even Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel had himself a smell hound.
Dog or cat ownership rates in households by race/ethnicity in the United States in 2011
Black : 22%
Asian: 27%
Hispanic: 40%
White non-Hispanic: 61%
Me, I can’t imagine not having pets. To the point that I don’t think any properly designed space station doesn’t have proper litter facilities for the station cats.
Aug 292018
I think Foamy The Squirrel is *partially* on to something, in that the issue he raises could, if it continues, lead to substantial population declines. But where he’s ultimately dead wrong: this will only affect part of the population. The “civilized” population will decline and simply be replaced by people from cultures where this issue… isn’t an issue. The end result will be a population *boom* with the civilized lands becoming increasingly uncivilized and simultaneously overcrowded, with ecological catastrophe upon catastrophe following the disappearance of Enlightenment values and populations.
Once again: thank an SJW for destroying not only civilization but the world.
Aug 232018
A miniaturized spawn of Ungoliant hanging around outside a friends home. I know it’s very likely harmless to humans, but, dayum. Just no.
Aug 122018
This giant beast resides up the hill from me. Clearly a fearsome killing machine, a nightmare creature from the age of legendary monsters such as Cerberus and the Minotaur.
Aug 102018
I’ve repeatedly pointed out that committing acts of violence against another person for their beliefs or their words is unacceptable and should result in legal sanction up to and including prison. But *this* video… I hope whoever was responsible comes to some violence.
Video after the break. You may not wish to look.
Aug 042018
The Goring Fire seems to have moved on from “humdinger” to “whamdoodler” overnight; 15,000 acres burned. Here are some photos…
Jul 242018
The moon is a terrible place for life. Primarily, it has no atmosphere of note, so no form of life currently known could live in any meaningful way there. But there were a few points in the *distant* past when the Moon could have supported a meaningful atmosphere. The possibility exists that very early on (3.5 to 4 billion years ago) it could have had a liquid water over, enough to cover the whole moon 1 kilometer deep; and while the atmosphere would be held to the Moon rather weakly due to the low gravity, and thus be easily blown away by the solar wind, the atmosphere would have been constantly replenished by evaporation from the ocean. A later phase would theoretically have seen a thick atmosphere generated by outgassing from the basalt rocks. The lifespan of this sort of atmosphere would be short on geological timescales… seventy million years or so. But while that is pretty short for biogenesis and natural selection to produce a native ecosystem of any complexity, had terrestrial organisms such as cyanobacteria been blasted off Earth by meteor bombardment, they *could* have been carried to the moon and set up shop there, spending several million years spreading and thriving until the atmosphere did eventually fade away. Additionally, it *seems* that Earth generated primitive cyanobacteria in a very short time once the conditions were right for it… something like ten million years. If the moon had windows of 70 million years, that would have been enough.
Was There an Early Habitability Window for Earth’s Moon?
Had life started off on the moon, I’m not sure we’ll ever know. The place has been blasted to hell and gone by meteor bombardment; any fossils would likely have been quite near the surface, and likely long since turned to powder. I suspect, though, that once we set up shop there and generations of humans start calling the place home, there will be big rewards set up to be the first to find a fossil lunar stromatolite. Long before they find a fossil stromatolite, they’ll probably have to find a fossil shoreline or a fossil river.