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Post by rockkid on Jul 22, 2004 5:25:53 GMT -5
Some Canuck content..........
Margaret Trudeau vows to keep Canadian 100% Canadian.
Vowing to stop merger Ms. Trudeau single handily drinks all Coors stock & drives away.
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Post by Meursault on Aug 2, 2004 19:59:49 GMT -5
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Post by Thorngrub on Aug 3, 2004 15:12:21 GMT -5
LoL
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Post by strat-0 on Aug 6, 2004 10:16:18 GMT -5
Elaine Steinbeck, John Steinbeck's widow, can spot her husband's name on the spine of a book in many languages, including Russian and Greek. Once she was in Yokohama and, at sea with Japanese, she asked a book-store owner if he had any books by her favorite author. He thought for a moment, then said, yes, he had "The Angry Raisins." [urban legend] |
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Post by Meursault on Aug 11, 2004 9:22:37 GMT -5
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Post by rockkid on Aug 31, 2004 7:45:23 GMT -5
News of the totally weird!!!
MARIETTA, Georgia -- A drunken driver hit a telephone pole support wire that decapitated his passenger, then drove 20 km home and slept in his bloody clothes, leaving the headless body in his truck, police said. The severed head was later found at the crash site. A neighbour walking with his young daughter Sunday morning discovered Daniel Brohm's headless corpse in John Kemper Hutcherson's truck and called authorities, said Cpl. Dana Pierce, county police spokesman.
Officers found Hutcherson asleep inside his home. He was visibly drunk and his clothes were bloody, authorities said.
"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive miles from a crash site to your home and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you," Pierce said.
Hutcherson, 21, was charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident with death or injury.
Police said Hutcherson and Brohm - friends since high school - were drinking at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick.
Brohm, 23, apparently was leaning out of the window when Hutcherson hit the support wire about 2.5 km from the bar.
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Post by luke on Sept 23, 2004 12:12:26 GMT -5
PARIS (AFP) - Rats fitted with radio backpacks reportedly may soon help rescue teams locate earthquake survivors who are buried under rubble.
Researchers at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the State University of New York in Brooklyn have fitted rats with electrode implants in their brains, hooked up to a tiny radio transmitter that transmits a signal of their cerebral activity, the British weekly New Scientist reports.
Trained over months to get a reward when they find a target smell such as a human odour, the rats send back a characteristic "aha!" neural pattern when they reach their goal.
At that point, by tracking the rat's position by triangulating the radio signals, the rescue team will know exactly where to dig.
"The team hope to create a working system within nine months," the report says.
Other approaches in this field have looked at robots that can trundle or slither into wrecked buildings, or "artificial noses" programmed to sniff out the molecular signature of a human smell.
But rats may be the solution because they are small and agile, able to squeeze into confined spaces and surmount unexpected obstacles -- nor do they need an electricity supply, says New Scientist.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 23, 2004 16:22:37 GMT -5
haha -- gotta love it when Rats & Men unite their skills with teamwork like that.
Check this story out:
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 23, 2004 16:22:58 GMT -5
Microwave beam weapon reportedly to be deployed in Iraq
By Peter Clarke
Silicon Strategies
September 21, 2004 (9:43 AM EDT)
LONDON — A beam weapon that uses the heating effect of microwaves to cause pain is to be issued to U.S. troops in Iraq, according to a report on the Telegraph Web site.
The supposedly nonlethal weapon, also called "active-denial technology," has been under development throughout the 1990s at the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland, N.M.), in tandem with the Marine Corps' Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate, the report said.
The weapon uses 95-GHz energy to penetrate the skin to 1/64 of an inch, and hits water molecules in the skin to produce an intense burning sensation that stops when the transmitter is switched off or when the individual moves out of the beam.
The weapon has been cited as being particularly useful for crowd control and urban conflicts, although there thought to be counter-measures (see see June 6, 2001, story). "The skin gets extremely hot, and people can't stand the pain, so they have to move — and move in the way we want them to," the more recent report quoted Col. Wade Hall of the Office of Force Transformation as saying. The weapon is set to be fitted to armored vehicles already in Iraq. This would allow the microwave beam weapon to be deployed in 2005, the report said.
U.S. Army and Marine Corps units should receive four to six vehicles equipped with the microwave weapon, dubbed "Sheriffs," by September 2005.
The system includes a millimeter-wave energy source with waveguides to direct the energy to a dish antenna measuring about 3 x 3 meters, which forms a beam that can be swept across a battlefield or hostile crowd. Beam size, whether it is a convergent, focused beam or a divergent beam, and its range, were classified, although the beam has been reported to have a range of about 1 kilometer.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 23, 2004 16:23:21 GMT -5
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Post by luke on Sept 27, 2004 10:07:24 GMT -5
Goddamn we live in the future.
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Post by Meursault on Sept 27, 2004 10:11:02 GMT -5
It's awesome.
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Post by rockkid on Oct 2, 2004 11:36:56 GMT -5
HAIR OF THE DOG: A man walking through town in Whitehorse, Y.T., Canada, called the RCMP to report a dog was driving a pickup truck on the street. Sure enough, when officers arrived the dog was still behind the wheel, and the red truck was sitting in the middle of the road -- stopped. Police tracked down the owner of the Black Lab, who was at a friend's house watching the World Cup of Hockey on TV. "Subsequent investigation made indicates that the dog was celebrating the Canadian victory in the world hockey game and knocked the truck into gear, causing it to roll down the hill," RCMP officials said in a media release, adding that they did not check to see if the dog was drunk while driving. (Whitehorse Star) ...Yeah, but did he have a license?
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Post by rockkid on Oct 6, 2004 9:59:05 GMT -5
I can’t resist this one. Dumb folks or what.
DUCK, IT'S DISCO: A Romanian village was left deserted when its inhabitants fled in panic after mistaking disco lights in a nearby town for an alien invasion. Hey, disco was an alien invasion, wasn't it?
Anyway, villagers in Cristinesti, eastern Romania, thought they were under attack by aliens when they saw bright, multicoloured lights in the sky and started leaving the village in droves.
But police who were called out to investigate discovered the lights were coming from an open-air disco in the town of Herta near the Ukrainian border, a local paper reported. Cops persuaded the villagers to return to their homes.
Costel Roman, one of the villagers, said: "Everybody was out on the streets and wondering what to do if the aliens landed.
"We were terrified.''
Not as terrified as if they had heard the music, too.
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Post by rockkid on Oct 19, 2004 10:40:36 GMT -5
DUBLIN, Ireland -- A suspected burglar accidentally strangled himself while trying to break into a house in the southwest Irish town of Tralee, police said yesterday. The homeowner discovered the body of a man Sunday afternoon hanging from the outside frame of a bathroom window.
The victim appeared, police said, to have been standing on a lawnmower while trying to break in when he slipped off - and his sweater caught on a hook, choking him.
Police declined to name the victim, but confirmed he was from the nearby city of Limerick and was on their list of local criminals.
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