Pathetic waste of money as offering to PC Tyrants

Navy Barracks near San Diego

From the nytimes.com article:
The Navy plans to spend $600,000 for “camouflage” landscaping and rooftop adjustments so that 1960s-era barracks at the Naval Base Coronado near San Diego will no longer look like a Nazi swastika from the air.

The Anti-Defamation League in San Diego has objected to the shape of the buildings.

“We told the Navy this was an incredibly inappropriate shape for a structure on a military installation,” said Morris S. Casuto, regional director of the organization. He added, however, that his group “never ascribed evil intent to the structures’ design.”

Mr. Casuto praised the Navy for recognizing the problem and “doing the right thing.”

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Odd Skull Boosts Human, Skull Interbreeding Theory

From the nationalgeographic.com article:
A human skull from a Romanian bear cave is shaking up ideas about ancient sex.

The Homo sapiens skull has a distinctive feature previously found only in Neandertals, providing further evidence of interbreeding between the two species, according to a new study.

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NASA aims to put man on Mars by 2037

Mars

From the breitbart.com article:
NASA aims to put a man on Mars by 2037, the administrator of the US space agency indicated here Monday.This year marks the half-century of the space age ushered in by the October 1957 launch of the Sputnik-1 by the then Soviet Union, NASA administrator Michael Griffin noted.In 2057, the centenary of the space era, “we should be celebrating 20 years of man on Mars,” Griffin told an international astronautics congress in this southern Indian city where he outlined NASA’s future goals.

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Western Paradigm 9/24/07

Western Paradigm, September 24, 2007

Journey to the Edge of the Universe

F-22 Raptor

Symbols of the United States

On sale for the first time: Van Gogh’s final masterpiece

Scientists understand 4% of the universe

Scientists understand 4% of the universe

From the afp.google.com article:

Most of the universe — 96 percent, to be exact — is made of dark matter and energy whose composition we simply do not fathom, a Nobel laureate told physicists gathered this week to explore the intersection of the infinitely small and the infinitely large.

“We think we understand the universe, but we only understand four percent of everything,” said James Watson Cronin, who won the 1980 Nobel for physics by proving that certain subatomic reactions escape the laws of fundamental symmetry.

According the most recent models, he said, 73 percent of cosmic energy seems to consist of “dark energy” and 23 percent of dark matter, the pervasive but unidentified stuff that holds the universe together and accelerates its expansion.

The remaining four percent consists of so-called “normal matter” such as atoms and molecules.

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On sale for the first time: Van Gogh’s final masterpiece

From news.independent.co.uk:
A Van Gogh masterpiece believed to be the artist’s final piece of work is to be put on the public market for the first time, where it is expected to become one of the most highly-valued paintings ever auctioned.

The Fields (Wheat Fields) was completed on 10 July 1890, just 19 days before Vincent Van Gogh died. It hung in his room as he bled to death in his bed, where he had staggered after shooting himself in a field.

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Symbols of the United States

Links to information regarding the various symbols of the United States.

See them here. Also see Wikipedias National symbols of the United States here.

F-22 Raptor

F-22 Raptor

From the website:
Welcome to the F-22 Team Web site
As the world’s only operational fifth-generation fighter, the F-22 Raptor is, and will remain, unprecedented in its total integration of stealth and advanced avionics. It quite simply is a revolutionary leap in lethality and survivability over any aircraft in production or design anywhere in the world. With its built-in reliability and maintainability, this fighter will be able to rapidly deploy anywhere on the globe.Read more here.

Journey to the Edge of the Universe

Trying to comprehend the scale of the universe is impossible, this video however provides a unique perspective.

Western Paradigm 9/17/07

Western Paradigm, September 17, 2007

Fake Napoleon death mask ?

Bugatti Veyron “Pur Sang”

Media Studies and other trendy ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees ‘leave students disatisfied’

The mystery of China’s celtic mummies