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'Floating Bridge' Property of Water Found
eldavojohn writes "When exposed to high voltage, water does some interesting things. From the article, 'water in two beakers climbs out of the beakers and crosses empty space to meet, forming the water bridge. The liquid bridge, hovering in space, appears to the human eye to defy gravity. Upon investigating the phenomenon, the scientists found that water was being transported from one beaker to another, usually from the anode beaker to the cathode beaker. The cylindrical water bridge, with a diameter of 1-3 mm, could remain intact when the beakers were pulled apart at a distance of up to 25 mm.'"
At this point, does anyone doubt that dolphins are the world's true leaders, biding their time until our large network of water bridges and tubes combined with rising ocean levels due to global warming allows them to take back what was once theirs?
It's become a struggle for control. The Republicans are the dolphin elite, cleverly disguised. Take George W.: Jovial, friendly on the outside, but turn your back or threaten him and you're getting a mouthful of tiny little teeth IN YOUR NECK. Meanwhile, Hillary, leader of the lizard people and true bloodline-confirmed heiress to the Reptilian crown attempts to prevent the dolphin's plans from reaching fruition and claiming the planet as her own.
Now, thus, it turns out Jesus was just a hippy under high voltage! That would explain not only his water-walking, but also the aureole he's always depicted with.
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How was that Offtopic? Where's my mod points when I need them? +1 Funny
Subject: The Ant and the Grasshopper
*OLD VERSION*:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Work and be responsible!
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*MODERN (JADED) VERSION:*
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. All he wants to do is be left alone. But times were hard. It seems that between federal taxes, state taxes, sales taxes, Social Security taxes, property taxes, fuel taxes, ad nausem...that the ant had too little left over to properly prepare for the future. Like most ants, he was forced to take a second job, but even with that, during a crisis, he was often forced to borrow money at high interests rates just to make it through a tough period. And getting caught back up again after he got back on his feet was almost impossible.
Ironic, because he paid such a high portion of his income out in taxes -- that were supposed to pay for the "services" he used -- the ant was hit with an extra fee for almost every service he attempted to use. There were fees to drive his car on the road. Fees to see the people whose salary was paid for by him. There were even fees to build on his own property. It seemed that every where the poor ant turned, there was someone with their hand out trying to get another piece of his income.
And, because of ever-soaring health-insurance premiums, the ant's employer was forced to drop to a cheaper insurer, which also meant his coverage was downgraded. Even with having insurance, the ant lived in fear of getting sick. And he was lucky, because many of his friends had lost their insurance all together.
The grasshoppers, however, thinks ants are fools and they all party hard all the way through college. Some grasshoppers become doctors, some lawyers, some politicians, and some go into the energy field. Other grasshoppers rise up the ranks of the military and law enforcement, while others drift upwards in labor unions.
The grasshoppers have figured out a way to live off of the labor of the ants. It is easy money and the grasshoppers party like there is no tomorrow.
The doctor grasshoppers found that they could charge huge amounts of money if the ants got sick. They found any numbers of things they could charge inflated prices for. Many broke the law and charged for things they didn't even do, while many stayed within the bounds of the law legally, while crossing the line morally. While the ants worried about making repairs to their little houses, the doctor grasshoppers had so much money that they pondered how park it in off shore bank accounts in order to avoid paying taxes. The grasshoppers knew that if they ran into real trouble, they could get their lawyer grasshopper buddies to get them off the hook.
The politician grasshoppers worked the ants for all they could, all the time proclaiming to be helping the ants. They tried their best to tighten the screws on the ants, but because some were slipping through the cracks, they installed great monitoring systems to watch the ants. It drove the grasshoppers mad to know there were ants out there that they didn't know what they were doing. They monitored their banking transactions. They recorded their telephone calls. They recorded every ant track left on the Internet. They even installed cameras in every place they could think of. Ironically, they did all of this by using money from the ants, and because that wasn't enough money to pay for it all, they borrowed money that the ant's children would be forced to pay back some day.
To make matters worse, the grasshopper king had conspired with the grasshoppers in the energy field to take over a major oil producing country. It seems the ants in that country
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, religion destroys spirituality