RIP Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson,
Today is the day the music died in 1959
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Jan
19
There is quite the buzz about the sun rising in Greenland 2 day early. Theories abound, mainstream media and the powers that be wanting us to believe that it has to do with man-made climate change.
Global warming has so they claim done at least one of two things. One the ice cap melted so much that the horizon is lower so the sun came up earlier (and due to the health crisis the people in Greenland have been exercising more thus breathing harder thereby melting their icecaps). Two global warming released so much methane in the air that refraction of the light in the atmosphere changed so that it appears as though the sun rise came earlier (and I have been eating more beans lately so I am the cause).
A factor that could actually cause this is a change in the earths axis. The problem with this is that there would have to be a global conspiracy of governments and scientists to keep this a secret from every one. Possible but not probable. One would think that there are enough armature skywatchers in the world that the word would get out.
The three above theories are possible suspects in this anomaly but there are problems with all of them. The third and later idea problems have already been brought forth. The amount of methane in the air to cause a 2 day early refraction seems to be out of reach. Increases in that quantity of methane in the atmosphere should have been seen and reported long ago. The melting of the icecap has its own problems. One would have to have information like the distance of the observed phenomenon to the ice that blotted out the sun. That not withstanding, it would seem to have to be an enormous amount of topical ice that vanished and again someone should have been able to predict this cause and effect. Again without proper information like distance it is a very difficult thing to predict but it still stands to reason that a titanic amount of ice would have to be removed because as the weight of the ice is removed from the land the land will “float” higher counter acting the effect of an early sunrise because of the loss of ice. I will name this “The Venice Effect.” If you do not know what I mean the bottom line as to why that historic city is sinking, it is because of the weight of the buildings upon the earth.
It is interesting to note that none of the agencies that predict sunrise and sunset predicted this early rise of the sun.
So what caused this phenomenon? I cannot answer that but it would seem that we are in the dark either by lack of intellegance or because all the facts have not been released to us. One thing is sure it does not seem possible that any of the three proposed theories hold water.
FORMULA
Height of the object (ice cap) X (1.17 X hight of your eye) = the distance you can see that object
This does not take into accunt
Dec
17
OK,
To the right under “Pages” click on Town of Tonawanda. This is a page for you to discuss anything you desire about the Town where you do not have to comment on off topic blogs. Have fun, visit often, tell everyone.
Comments are closed on this blog but not on the one to the right.
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Dec
03
The six elements essential to live are Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur, right? Not any more. Yesterday December 2, 2010 all this has changed with profound implications that cannot be imagined. In California life was discovered without one of the essential elements that scientists believed were necessary to be . . . well living. Phosphorous was conspicuously missing in this life form.
This reminds me of the movie “Evolution” where arsenic is poisonous to us but not the alien life because the life discovered was based on nitrogen rather than carbon. Interesting it is how closely the movie called it to what we now know.
December 2, 2010
by Mark Memmott
There’s lots of chatter on the cable channels and on the Web today about the news from NASA that researchers found a bacterium that can live without phosphorus — something scientists didn’t think life forms, at least those we know about, can do.
What’s more, it’s able to survive on a diet heavy in arsenic, which we all know isn’t good for you.
Among the feverish headlines is FoxNews.com’s “Are Aliens Among Us? Sort Of, NASA Says.”
We’ve turned to NPR’s Science Desk for an explainer. Here’s what Jon Hamilton has filed for the next newcast:
“One of the truisms of science is that life isn’t possible without six elements, one of which is phosphorus.
“But a young scientist at NASA wondered whether that truism was really true. She thought arsenic, which is chemically very similar to phosphorous, might work as a substitute.
“So she and other researchers began studying tiny organisms taken from the mud of Mono Lake in California. That mud contains a lot of arsenic. And they found at least one bacterium that was able to adapt to a diet that included lots of arsenic, but no phosphorus.
“What’s more, the bacterium appeared to be using arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA. Scientists say that suggests organisms could exist in places on earth, or elsewhere in the universe, that were previously thought incapable of sustaining life.”
NASA sums up news this way: “This finding of an alternative biochemistry makeup will alter biology textbooks and expand the scope of the search for life beyond Earth. The research is published in this week’s edition of Science Express.”
And there’s a free abstract from that Science Express paper here. An excerpt:
“Our data show evidence for arsenate in macromolecules that normally contain phosphate, most notably nucleic acids and proteins. Exchange of one of the major bioelements may have profound evolutionary and geochemical significance.”
One has to wonder what else our scientists have got wrong. Perhaps our search for ET has gone in all the wrong directions with this perception of what really is life.
Dec
02
PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH EVERYONE INVITE THEM TO COMMENT AND SHARE THEIR IDEAS http://bikerbernie.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/christmas
As the great story “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” taught us all, Christmas after all CANNOT be stolen. The Grinch found out that “It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes, or bags! “ My oldest daughter brought to my attention, perhaps because we are in a position of understanding, peoples money and employment is so bad this year that people have come up with a creative solution to explain the situation to the little ones. Some would say so that they do not find out that Santa does not exist (I will NEVER say that because he does, he is mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, the Salvation Army, the random stranger on the street, and the myriad of others that embody the spirit of Santa.)
- The idea afoot is to give you more time to gather some money to buy your gifts. So explain that Santa had a mix up with the naughty and nice list and he is straightening it out.
- Sticking with the naughty and nice list, Santa’s computer got a virus that mixed up the naughty and nice list, he will straighten it out but presents may be delayed
- Santa’s computer lost some of the email requests and he is recovering the lost emails now but it may delay the presents.
- Many of the elves are sick
- A production line machine broke down
- Huge demand for particular toys has caused a backorder (explain backorder the best you can but kids are fairly smart today with on-line ordering)
Here are a few more ideas I came up with, some more updated for the tech or savvy kid in your life.
Production of toys is delayed because:
PLEASE SHARE YOUR IDEAS HERE IN THE COMMENTS ON HOW ELSE YOU MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY PRESENTS WILL NOT BE UNDER THE TREE ON CHRISTMAS
Life can be tough at times let us help make these tough times easier on those that are distraught over the inability to spread Christmas cheer with their children this year and every year. After all there is a need for this for some one every year.
NOTE: only helpful respectable answers will be approved
Remember the reason for the season CHRISTmas if my family and I can say that right now destitute and homeless anyone can say it.
PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH EVERYONE INVITE THEM TO COMMENT AND SHARE THEIR IDEAS http://bikerbernie.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/christmas
Dec
02
Stuck on the highway, awwwwww.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility? Almost all of the stranded motorists need not have been stranded if they did not try to beet the odds. They knew what they were doing when risking travel on the 190 – 290 – 90 during a snow storm. Traffic was backed up from only exit 50 – 55 after 13 hours. It would have been much worse if no one headed the warnings. There were signs up warning people to seek alternate routes and the radio also warned of this situation. Blame no one but yourselves especially if you have lived in Buffalo for more than a couple of years, if it is snowing pay attention to signs and the radio and stop blaming others for what you done to yourselves.
By the way I was out there because of work and the signs and radio guided me away from the 90 just fine.
Thank you Thruway Authority for the information. I know that you are accepting blame because it is the easiest way to defuse an intense emotional bomb for all those that will not take any personal responsibility. I wish you did not have to be PC to save your jobs and just tell people to stop being jackasses.
Dec
01
Note that this is a low resolution image, scanners will actually have hi def that will show much greater detail. I remember when this was just a joke in the move Airplane, who is laughing now?
In the name of safety all women should go bra-less and men leave their zippers down. Hell since the new scanners at the airports make so many feel so warm and fuzzy and sublimely believe that this is not invasive (by the way just because you are OK with it does not make it any less invasive to be sure these scanners are the quintessential definition of invasive) every one should be made to walk around nude then we will not have to spend any time and money on these scanners. I ask all of you who are OK with these scanners to affirm your convictions and shun your clothes, prove to us the strength of your conviction or prove you are just mindless parrots of political oppressive governmental rhetoric and laws.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Sep
19
Forgive my sense of humor in the use of this pic for this blog
As early as January 2012 women may begin serving on submarines. The government made this announcement earlier this year. Their are several issues that arise regarding this subject and they include but are not limited to:
- Quarters
- Hygiene facilities (the head and shower)
- Fraternization including intimate
- Readiness or the negative impact there in
- Expenses and complications related to the above
Solution
- They are big boys and girls trained with tens of thousands of dollars of our tax money and charged with the responsibility of the security and protection of our country if they cannot behave then discipline them. My God man for decades a Niagara University the Theatre Department had a co-ed shower/bathroom facility with no restrictions on who could use the facility and when. These students with far less training and responsibility were able to deal with the situation. Is the government trying to tell us that the people charged with the above responsibilities, billions of dollars of equipment and the very lives of 350 million American lives cannot? If so then the government had better realize it has bigger issues, maybe in the way of training for such an assignment.
If that does not work how about this for a novel idea a sub crewed by 100% females, hey equal rights right?
I was going to say more but the more I think about it the previous states it all.
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Sep
17
Amigone Funeral Home
2600 Sheridan Dr
6-9 Saturday
2-4, 7-9 Sunday
Prayers Monday at 10:30 at Amigone Followed by a Mass of Christian burial at St Amelia Church 2999 Eggert Rd at 110:30
