Moon Library

Scientists hope to put a library of human civilization on the moon in case of a cataclysmic, civilization-annihilating event. It would protect against the wholesale loss of human achievement.

NASA-Lunar outpost or archive for humanity?
To protect against a nuclear bomb, a plague, a natural disaster, an asteroid collision or some other doomsday event, scientists are lobbying to have a reserve library of human scientific and cultural achievements built and maintained on the moon.

How would one get a library card for that?

Supposing they get up there to do that and find one already there built by one of earth's previous - but forgotten - civilizations? What a howler that would be.

Considering the age of the earth and the apparent time it took us to go from cavemen to hi-tech junkies, its not impossible that this planet could have had a previous civilization more advanced than we are today that was totally wiped out by some unknown world-wide cataclysm. Could have been a huge asteroid, a pandemic disease, a nasty war or just one of the super volcanoes blowing it's top, maybe even... previous global warming!

It would sure explain a lot of our myths and legends, even a lot of religions.

Maybe even tell us who really carved the Baalbek trilithon stones and the Hajar el Gouble(Stone of the South), the largest carved stone ever found.


There are two men standing on the Stone of the South in the above picture. The stone is estimated to weigh over 1,100 tons. The trilithon stones are just a bit smaller.

If one listens to today's "experts", you'll have to believe that primitives in loincloths with copper chisels and hemp rope carved and moved these monstrous stones.

The picture below shows a replica of one of the Romans largest and most advanced cranes. It is capable of lifting 7,000kg. Sounds impressive until you convert that to tons. A Kilogram (kg) is a bit under 2 3/4 pounds, 7,000 of them is only around 19,000 pounds, or just under 10 tons. Whoopee. And the Romans, who arrived on the scene long after the Baalbek foundation was built using those 1,000 ton stones, had much better stuff than loincloths and copper tools.



Can we lift 1,100 tons today? Sure. Below is a picture of the hooks on a floating crane capable of lifting 3,700 tons.



Imagine primitives in loincloths using copper tools and hemp rope trying to build something like that.

But somebody carved and moved those stones. Maybe a moon library from the past could tell us.

Just what We Need...

More fuel on the fire.

NEW YORK (AP) - Katie Couric plans to leave Wednesday for an ambitious reporting trip to Iraq and Syria—the CBS anchor's first time in the war zone—in anticipation of a crucial military report on progress of the American effort.


Couric will anchor the "CBS Evening News" from Baghdad next Tuesday and Wednesday, then from Damascus on Thursday and Friday.

Couric will travel throughout Iraq to talk to military and civilian leaders, soldiers and average Iraqis, spending most of her time outside of Baghdad.

Great. Just what we need, another American single-Mom poking her nose around in a country where women are considered chattel property.

Just what sort of information is she going to pry out of any Iraqi male who believes she should stuffed away in a harem somewhere, remaining very quiet? Whatever is broadcast with Katie doing the interviewing and talking will have been heavily edited and conducted with safe-safe-safe hand-picked subjects, in a safe-safe-safe area. Accurate news? Get real.

OK, so a lot of Americans think women should be able to go anywhere and do anything without consequence. But the Muslims certainly believe otherwise. They believe even talking to a woman in public is demeaning.

Until we learn that tossing women up in their faces is a deadly insult to them, we're not going to get anywhere with these 12th century throwbacks. We need to realize that these guys are a couple generations away from viewing women as anything near equal, maybe more.

That may rub a lot of folks the wrong way but that's the way it is. Those are the guys we need to get to some sort of agreement with to end this war. Man-to-man, no women anywhere in sight. Sending over yet another woman only widens the gulf with these fanatics.

And yet, Bush keeps sending Condie over there in attempts to force these guys into some sort of truce, or agreement, or whatever. But the idiot sends a woman, and a black one at that. A double-heavy super-whammie type insult.

And now CBS wants to join the stupid parade and send a woman - a blonde one - over there to spread the perceived insults around even further.

Cripes... those dudes are used to bidding on blonde American females, not talking to them.

What was that line? Oh yes...

"Stupid is as stupid does".

Just wait until we get a woman president. No talks at all... period.

Bedtime For Gonzo

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned this morning, long after he had become a persistent embarrassment to President Bush, himself a persistent embarrassment to Americans everywhere.

The president praised and defended Gonzales during brief remarks in Waco, Texas. Said the born-again reformed but still highly suspected drinker-to-excess:

After months of unfair treatment, that has created a harmful distraction at the Justice Department, Judge Gonzales decided to resign his position and I accept his decision. It's sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeding from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons.

What a howler. Important work like trashing the Constitution, spying on American citizens, promoting that disgusting North American Union, jailing border guards for doing their jobs, you know - important work.

Some blonde bobblehead on TV stated that Gonzo had attained the highest position ever for a Mexican-American(an oxymoron) through hard work and effort.

No, he got there by riding his buddy Bush's coattails.

Another One

Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina, suffered an apparent "extreme blonde moment" during Friday night's NBC broadcast of the Miss Teen USA Pageant in Pasadena, Calif.


When asked about the reason why some Americans could not locate the U.S. on a world map, her answer was:

I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

Why you bet! That's the perfect answer... clear and precise, cutting, straight to the point.

I expect her to show up in Hollywood any day now.

Orion

Last August, NASA signed a contract with Lockheed Martin Corp to build the Orion spacecraft.


Orion will be capable of carrying crew and cargo to the space station. It will be able to rendezvous with a lunar landing module and an Earth departure stage in low-Earth orbit to carry crews to the moon and, one day, to Mars-bound vehicles assembled in low-Earth orbit. Orion will be the Earth entry vehicle for lunar and Mars returns. Orion’s design will borrow its shape from the capsules of the past, but takes advantage of 21st century technology in computers, electronics, life support, propulsion and heat protection systems.

The lunar landing module it will mate with will put four men on the moon at one time.

I hope to live long enough to see the day this vehicle assembly returns to the moon. Perhaps the crew will grab a few relics from our earlier moon landings and bring them back.

******My Apollo 13 Cap and pin, one of my momentos******

Click on to view close-up.

Maybe that will finally quiet the nay-sayers who think we never went.

Montana's Employment Woes

Montana, in the midst of a fifteen-year economic boom with unemployment rates as low as 2%, is having problems finding workers willing to work for $12.00/hr.

No surprise there.

The average weekly earnings in the United States in July 2007 was $596.76.

$12/hr is $480/week, or $116.76 below the national average.

It seems that the today's Montana worker is aware that the average hourly wage is $14.92/hr, and that they would have to work for five weeks to get four weeks worth of pay at the presently offered $12.00/hr.

Sounds like Montana workers are starting to say "Screw that".

Until Montana businesses start paying at least the average wage, it looks like their problems with worker shortages will continue.

I was in the New York area for awhile in the early nineties. I went to a MacDonald's for lunch one day and noticed a sign on the counter: Now hiring counter workers - starting pay $11.87/hr. That was fourteen years ago.

What does your local MacDonald's pay for a counter worker today? what were they paying in 1993?

Seems that New York understands that to get help, you have to pay for it.

Yet Another Big Joke

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.

************Nicole Richie and her "mug" shot************

The reality show star, who checked into a women's jail at 3:15 p.m., was released at 4:37 p.m. "based on her sentence and federal guidelines," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Maribel Rizo said without elaborating.

Under the guidelines, Richie was "treated in the same manner as other inmates with a similar sentence," the statement said.

Richie, 25, was originally sentenced to 96 hours in jail, but that was reduced to 90 hours because of time served when she was arrested.

What a freaking joke. She was sentenced to 96 hours - 4 days - and actually "served" 82 minutes.

How are the rest of us supposed to respect the courts and obey the law when crap like this happens repeatedly?

Paying the Price

Lindsay Lohan, another tiresome blonde from the same mold as the others of her social status, said:

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs."

"I broke the law and today I took responsibility by pleading guilty to the charges in my case."

Actually her Attorney, Blair Berk, entered pleas on Lohan's behalf: she pleaded guilty to two counts of being under the influence of cocaine; no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above .08 percent and one count of reckless driving. Two counts of driving under the influence were dropped.

Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers (below) after an hourlong hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Chester Horn Jr.'s courtroom, said, "She's getting what everyone else would get".

Yeah, right.

Deputy District Attorney Danette Meyers at press gathering

If Lohan were to be convicted of another DUI, she would receive a mandatory 120-day jail sentence, Meyers said.

In Lindsay's case, paying the price amounted to one day in jail. She won't even need a change of underwear.(if she wears any)

And ten days of "community service". I'll bet Paris Hilton is just livid.

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The Lard Bomb

A letter writer over at WND may just have a great idea:

[To Joseph Farah:] I noticed you concentrated on destruction of the "holy sites" of Islam. How about the alternative of irrecoverable desecration (without physical destruction) instead?

Instead of sending a nuclear warhead, my suggested alternative is one where a cluster-bomb is used with each bomblet containing rancid lard that would be wide-spattered on the sites from high up, as it would be even more appalling (to Muslim mentality) than physical destruction of the same.

That was written by somebody called Srinivasan Varadarajan.

I particularily like the part about "irrecoverable desecration". No death, no massive destruction, no radiation.

The threat would be something like: "You attack us again and we will drop rancid lard bombs on all of your holy sites and towns. And you won't be able to stop us."

Rancid lard bombs. That would be nifty indeed.