Things that make you go .....Hmmm, that's interesting.

[Hardy]

some of their stuff I find insane. But I wouldn't want them to change.

A bit like how I think of Mayo people.

[johnneycool]

The original Atari 2600 ET game, I remember playing it back in the day, god awful pointless game.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22766511

[seafoid]

http://dublin1798.com/

[seafoid]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ecd1f15a-d1ad-11e2-b17e-00144feab7de.html

Dozens of online tracking companies collect details of web activity then sell them to the highest bidder. Companies combine this data with other details about individuals then churn the information through algorithms to determine the type of credit card offers that people see, how long they wait on a customer-service helpline and even when they might die.

[seafoid]

"You can't understand any conflict, you can't understand– not so much the intricacies, the realities, because there's a huge barrage of propaganda and in order to break through the propaganda you have to know the details. It's impossible to do details in 300 words."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jquFBluif6M

[heganboy]

The Alcubierre Drive

wait- how fast?


http://intellihub.com/2013/05/29/nasa-admits-alcubierre-drive-initiative-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/

May 30, 2013

Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when Harold White and his team at NASA started to work on and tweak the Alcubierre Drive. Special relativity may hold true, but to travel faster or at the speed of light we might not need a craft that can travel at that speed. The solution might be to place a craft within a space that is moving faster than the speed of light! Therefore the craft itself does not have to travel at the speed of light from it's own type of propulsion system.

It's easier to think about if you think in terms of a flat escalator in an airport. The escalator moves faster than you are walking! In this case, the space encompassing the ship would be moving faster than the ship could fly, keeping all the matter of the ship intact. Therefore, we can move faster than light, in a massless cloud of space-time.

What is the Alcubierre Drive? It's actually based on Einsteins field equations, it suggests that a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel. Rather than exceed the speed of light alone in a craft, a spacecraft would leap long distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it. This would result in faster than light travel (1). Physicist Miguel Alcubierre was the first that we know to identify this possibility. He described it as remaining still on a flat piece of space-time inside a warp bubble that was made to move at "superluminal" (faster than light) velocity. We must not forget that space-time can be warped and distorted, it can be moved. But what about  moving sections of space-time that's created by expanding space-time behind the ship, and by contracting space-time in front of the ship?

This type of concept was also recently illustrated by Mathematician James Hill and Barry Cox at the University of Adelaide. They published a paper in the journal proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (3).

It was once believed that Einsteins  theory of special relativity means that faster than light travel is just not possible. This is a misconception, special relativity simply states that the distance you travel depends on how fast you move, for how long you're moving for. So if you are driving at 70 mph you will have covered 70 miles in one hour. The confusing part is that, no matter how fast you are moving you will always see the speed of light as being the same. It's similar to sound, if you close your eyes and imagine that the only sense you have is hearing, you will identify things by how they sound. So if a car is driving at a rapid speed and honks its horn, we know that the horn is always tooting the same tone, it's just the car's motion that made it appear to change.

Special relativity also showed us that the atoms and molecules that make up matter are connected by electromagnetic fields, the same stuff light is made up of. The object that would break the light speed barrier is made up of the same stuff as the barrier itself. How can an object travel faster than that which links it's atoms? This was the barrier.

The only problem with our modern day science is that creating distortions in space-time require energy densities that are not yet possible for humans, or so they say. NASA scientists are currently working on tweaking Alcubierre's model.

Faster-than-light travel, also known as hyper space or "warp" drive from what the masses know for sure is currently at the level of speculation. Although there is already a lot of evidence that shows it is possible  and has already been accomplished, mainstream science is still catching up.  We are at the point right now where faster-than-light travel is still theoretical, but possible.

At the same time, we have to look at other factors that are now coming to light. As former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Dr, Brian O'leary Illustrates. This topic has recently had another media explosion and congress recently discussed and looked at evidence for Earth like planets recently found by Kepler Telescopes. Three "super-Earths" to be exact that are most probably teeming with life (4). Furthermore, former congressmen and women recently participated in a citizens hearing on the subject of UFOs a few weeks ago.

[seafoid]

http://www.feaklefestival.ie/programme.html

Doctor Daniele Volpe is not an ordinary Italian neurologist. In addition to heading up the Parkinson's Rehabilitation unit at the St. John of God hospital in Venice, he is a musician who loves traditional music and visits Ireland frequently to play music.

The story begins in June of 2010 in Peppers Pub, when the Italian doctor noticed a man with an unsteady gait enter the pub. "Someone with Parkinson's," he remembers thinking.  About 20 minutes later the band opened the floor for a dance, and Dr. Volpe was surprised to see the man with Parkinson's among the dancers. What followed was incredible: the man who walked so unsteadily required no assistance to dance. Indeed, the man went through the moves effortlessly, as if he were a different person. Thus Dr. Volpe learned about the Reel step. He teamed up with Dublin-based researcher Timothy Lynch and on Dr Volpe's return to Venice, they sent 24 patients with Parkinson's to weekly set dancing classes for six months. A larger research study led by the University of Limerick, with input from Meg Morris at the University of Melbourne, is due to be rolled out in Ireland in the coming months.  The studies have confirmed positive rehabilitative effects from Irish Set Dancing.  Doctor Volpe will present his latest findings "The Therapeutic Effects of Irish Set Dancing in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease." at a conference to be held in Feakle on Tuesday, 6th August.

As part of the 26th Annual Traditional Music Festival, Dr. Volpe's dance group of Parkinson's patients are to be special guest performers and Doctor Volpe will present his latest findings. He will be accompanied by the set dancing fraternity from Venice, Italian Musicians and the mayor of Bendeno.  A truly unique event not to be missed!


The evening will be complimented by an Art Exhibition.

[Orior]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam

The strip search prank call scam is a series of incidents that occurred over roughly a decade before an arrest was made in 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing managers to conduct strip searches of female employees or perform other unusual acts on behalf of the police. The calls were usually placed to fast-food restaurants in small rural towns.

Over 70 such occurrences were reported in 30 U.S. states, until an incident in 2004 in Mount Washington, Kentucky, finally led to the arrest and charging of David Stewart, a 37‑year-old employee of Corrections Corporation of America. On October 31, 2006, he was acquitted of all charges in the case, though he is suspected of making other calls as well.

[Denn Forever]

I was listening to discussion on radio last night about the pope's press conference on the plane where he was saying that no to Women Priests but he wished that there was greater input from women.

What is Hmmm, that's interesting was the statement that you don't need to be a priest or a bishop to be a Cardinal.

[Harold Disgracey]

http://www.geekosystem.com/samuel-beckett-andre-the-giant/

[brokencrossbar1]

http://alphahistory.com/weirdhistory/1827-john-lennon-jim-morrison-theft/


In the summer of 1827 John Lennon and Jim Morrison appeared before the Carrickfergus Assizes, charged with stealing sugar, tea and sundry other articles. They were found guilty and although their offences were punishable by death, Lennon and Morrison were sentenced to transportation for life. According to press reports, they did not accept this verdict well:




"No soon as sentenced was passed, Morrison said "To hell with you!" and, when removing them from the dock, Lennon turned about and threw a penny with force towards the Judge. It struck the head of a gentleman who was sitting under the bench... We have seldom witnessed such a degree of depravity as they evinced."
- See more at: http://alphahistory.com/weirdhistory/1827-john-lennon-jim-morrison-theft/#sthash.s3qLEitE.dpuf

[laoislad]

http://imgur.com/a/M9ks5?desktop=1

[Declan]

http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/

Read the small print!!

[Billys Boots]

http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/

Read the small print!!

Brilliant, made my day Dec. 

[Asal Mor]

http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/

Read the small print!!

I think the headline is as misleading as the Russian man's contract. He hasn't won any money yet. He just won the first case which meant he didn't have to pay the bank what they thought he owed them. Still a heartwarming tale though.