tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post7352268368035489296..comments2024-03-20T06:07:07.676-06:00Comments on Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2015-01-27Jonny Mnemonichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-49668416359782194692015-01-30T05:43:48.104-06:002015-01-30T05:43:48.104-06:00The drug cocktail is for injection-based execution...The drug cocktail is for injection-based executions. (Which, as you said, doesn't always work very well.) I was just talking about gas-chamber-based executions - they use hydrogen cyanide for that.<br /><br />Had a bizarre monarch butterfly experience this past summer, or maybe it was the summer before last, I forget. There were like a thousand of them perched on my hedge shrubs and I was watering. Well, they took flight as I got close, but they didn't leave, they spiraled around and around, like a vortex of monarch butterflies, right over my head. I raised my arms to the sky and spun around looking up at them right over me, glorying in the moment. Never seen them do that before, or since. It was kinda magical. Maybe they were thirsty and they were rewarding me or something, I dunno.Jonny Mnemonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-77609560276243136582015-01-30T05:34:33.148-06:002015-01-30T05:34:33.148-06:00Here's another that's scary:
http://www.s...Here's another that's scary:<br /><br />http://www.sott.net/article/292042-Skin-patches-to-turn-people-into-batteries<br /><br />Skin patches to turn people into batteries<br /><br />Battery<br />© National University of Singapore<br />In the sci-fi classic The Matrix, one of the film's most bananas moments reveals that futuristic machines are using cocooned human bodies as a kind of bioelectric power source. Those rascally science fiction writers - always with the crazy concepts.<br /><br />Well, it turns out the people-as-batteries scenario is actually well on its way. A new device unveiled last week at a European research conference is designed to do just that - tapping the energy of human body to generate power for wearable computers and devices.<br /><br />The postage-stamp sized generator, developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore, actuall y leverages the power of static electricity. When certain kinds of dissimilar surfaces are put in close contact, an electrical charge builds that can be harvested when the surfaces are flexed or pulled apart.<br /><br />The phenomenon is called the triboelectric effect, and the new device radically miniaturizes the approach by using nanoscale elements - plus the wearer's skin itself as one of the opposing surfaces. The research was presented at this year's IEEE MEMS 2015 conference in Portugal. [there's more]<br /><br />Tom<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-10483460458106298742015-01-30T05:21:06.136-06:002015-01-30T05:21:06.136-06:00Really? i thought they used some complicated &quo...Really? i thought they used some complicated "drug cocktail" that hasn't worked too well in some cases.<br /><br />i came across this, regarding the Monarch butterfly "come-back."<br /><br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2015/01/monarch-butterfly-population-still.html<br /><br />Monarch butterfly population still perilously low, new survey finds<br /><br />[begins]<br /><br />The world's migrating monarch butterfly population has bounced back slightly from its record low last year, but the new numbers are still the second smallest on record. According to WWF-Mexico and the Mexican government, butterflies covered 2.79 acres (1.13 hectares) in nine colonies this year in the Mexican forests where the insects overwinter. This is a 69 percent increase from last year's nadir of just 1.65 acres (0.67 hectares), however, the new numbers remain hugely concerning.<br /><br />"The population increase is welcome news, but the monarch must reach a much larger population size to be able to bounce back from ups and downs," said researcher Tierra Curry with the Center for Biological Diversity, adding that "this much-loved butterfly still needs Endangered Species Act protection to ensure that it's around for future generations." <br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-77523916073013220372015-01-29T11:05:09.884-06:002015-01-29T11:05:09.884-06:00They use hydrogen cyanide to execute people. Why t...They use hydrogen cyanide to execute people. Why that instead of hydrogen sulfide? Could be that hydrogen cyanide doesn't make people foam at the mouth or start coughing up blood, or not often - a cleanup issue. Plus, you'd have the 'are they REALLY dead' possibility with hydrogen sulfide, and people in the execution chambers aren't there to be put into 'suspended animation'. Families of victims want some certainty on that sort of thing. Heh.<br /><br />Mulch, I know! Nyaaa-aaa-aaah! I have some mulch around too. Was trying to be kind to my trees and shrubs, like most mulch-users. Haven't put any down in two years or so though, so I'm hoping it's mostly broke down into the soil. Not that the GROUND hasn't belched smoke or fire here and there too though!Jonny Mnemonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06516458612879773986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4388504906915444063.post-15844353279324175202015-01-29T10:47:07.075-06:002015-01-29T10:47:07.075-06:00Yo Jonny! Thanks for this latest (scary) update. ...Yo Jonny! Thanks for this latest (scary) update. Just considering being buried alive is too much for me. i'd rather be instantaneously knocked out by H2S. i just had another thought - why don't the authorities use it for those cases where the death of an incarcerated person is called for? It would be over before the person could even think about it! <br /><br />The usual PA calamities made the list - the one in Manheim is within 20 min. of me. <br /><br />How does mulch burst into flames? i have it all around my house!<br /><br />Here's a few more items of interest (for your consideration) from sott.net<br /><br />Icy jellyfish? No, frozen methane bubbles trapped under a lake that can be ignited with a match [spooky pic and the last question asked in the blue box is frightening]<br /><br />Sick sea lions wash ashore at alarming rate, California<br /><br />"The difference this year is we're also seeing different species we don't normally see down here," Matassa said.<br /><br />[hail storm as natures shot-gun]<br />Hailstorm kills 300 birds in Ivaiporã, Brazil<br /><br /><br /><br />A hailstorm that hit mainly south central Ivaiporã on Sunday night killed about 300 birds, including sparrows and doves. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com