I have a solution that I think everyone will like. We should develope a web site that treats the members of the media just like they treat the people they report. Chase them around with cameras, Spy on them, Broadcast every juicy detail we can find. Even if it's just a shot of a journalist picking his/her nose in traffic.
Problem is the media hires plastic people with no personalities. They ad-lib the personalities in later, and it's usually done with such bad taste that even a blind person can tell.
The media tends to go where the money is, and not the news. If a 9 year old girl gets her PhD in Quantum Physics, they air the story after telling us who's sleeping with who in Hollywood. There is no judgement on what is really important: Which is us. The average Joe.
Another thing that I wish I could stop, is the media making up my mind for me. Everyday, it seems, I have some jerk telling me how I should feel about things that they report. I would like to hit that guy with my car so I can show him how I feel about him, personally.
In case you haven't figured this out already, I really hate the news. It's not the people that report it. It's their bosses that I hate. The owners of the networks I hate. They idiots that let coverage like this continue, instead of letting us decide whether or not JFK Jr. was really the man they made him to be.
As long as there are people in this world with no life of their own, we have to put up with this slop.
The worst thing about JFK Jr.'s death was that I missed 2 back to back re-runs of the Simpsons. For that, I will never Watch the news again.
I remember reading an article not too long ago, that NASA was planning on send a 6 inch version of pathfinder to a comet to collect data and samples. It would "Hop" around the comet to map it, and also collect some chunks for scientiic study. I can see it already...
NASA Corners The Bottled Water Market With "EtherH2O"!!
That is a great solution, but wouldn't work due to atmospheric dispersion. As you recall, the reason why things tend to lose their color if viewed from a mile away, is because the atmosphere tend to bounce light all over the place. So bouncing beams of light from space to a solar collector isn't the answer. The simple truth is Microwave beams wouldn't fry everything in their path. If you all remember your High school physic's class, Radiation is not dangerous. Only certain wavelength are dangerous, because they interfere with certain molecules.
For instance, when you see colored displays of gas or oil floating on a puddle of water. This is actually radiation interacting with the molecules of the gas, causing them to radiate colored light. The same thing happens to you when you walk too close to a rod of plutonium. The radiation's wavelength tends to be about the same distance apart as the molecules in your body. This causes friction, which causes you to get radiation burns.
Now mutations is due to a different ball of wax. Mutations don't effect the person that is burned of effected by radiation. It usually will only effect the offspring. This is because the radiation causes damage to the parents DNA. The idea that "Safe levels" radiation would not harm a human, but would hurt a frog or bird is nonsense. Just because a frog lives in water, and a person doesn't has nothing to do with being different when it comes down to what we are both made out of. If radiation is harmful to humans, it's harmful to just about everything that is comparably made up with the same building blocks.
The only question I have about all of this Microwave business, is where can I place my bag of popcorn to get the best popping action...?
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I have a solution that I think everyone will like. We should develope a web site that treats the members of the media just like they treat the people they report. Chase them around with cameras, Spy on them, Broadcast every juicy detail we can find. Even if it's just a shot of a journalist picking his/her nose in traffic.
Problem is the media hires plastic people with no personalities. They ad-lib the personalities in later, and it's usually done with such bad taste that even a blind person can tell.
The media tends to go where the money is, and not the news. If a 9 year old girl gets her PhD in Quantum Physics, they air the story after telling us who's sleeping with who in Hollywood. There is no judgement on what is really important: Which is us. The average Joe.
Another thing that I wish I could stop, is the media making up my mind for me. Everyday, it seems, I have some jerk telling me how I should feel about things that they report. I would like to hit that guy with my car so I can show him how I feel about him, personally.
In case you haven't figured this out already, I really hate the news. It's not the people that report it. It's their bosses that I hate. The owners of the networks I hate. They idiots that let coverage like this continue, instead of letting us decide whether or not JFK Jr. was really the man they made him to be.
As long as there are people in this world with no life of their own, we have to put up with this slop.
The worst thing about JFK Jr.'s death was that I missed 2 back to back re-runs of the Simpsons.
For that, I will never Watch the news again.
I remember reading an article not too long ago, that NASA was planning on send a 6 inch version of pathfinder to a comet to collect data and samples. It would "Hop" around the comet to map it, and also collect some chunks for scientiic study.
I can see it already...
NASA Corners The Bottled Water Market With "EtherH2O"!!
only 25 million dollars a bottle.
That is a great solution, but wouldn't work due to atmospheric dispersion. As you recall, the reason why things tend to lose their color if viewed from a mile away, is because the atmosphere tend to bounce light all over the place. So bouncing beams of light from space to a solar collector isn't the answer. The simple truth is Microwave beams wouldn't fry everything in their path. If you all remember your High school physic's class, Radiation is not dangerous. Only certain wavelength are dangerous, because they interfere with certain molecules.
For instance, when you see colored displays of gas or oil floating on a puddle of water. This is actually radiation interacting with the molecules of the gas, causing them to radiate colored light. The same thing happens to you when you walk too close to a rod of plutonium. The radiation's wavelength tends to be about the same distance apart as the molecules in your body. This causes friction, which causes you to get radiation burns.
Now mutations is due to a different ball of wax. Mutations don't effect the person that is burned of effected by radiation. It usually will only effect the offspring. This is because the radiation causes damage to the parents DNA. The idea that "Safe levels" radiation would not harm a human, but would hurt a frog or bird is nonsense. Just because a frog lives in water, and a person doesn't has nothing to do with being different when it comes down to what we are both made out of. If radiation is harmful to humans, it's harmful to just about everything that is comparably made up with the same building blocks.
The only question I have about all of this Microwave business, is where can I place my bag of popcorn to get the best popping action...?