Cumulus

Quotes…


Edison "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
Thomas A. Edison

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
Thomas Jefferson

Pascal "Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

'An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.'
Repoman

Sobchak “You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ‘Nam’ of course.”
Walter Sobchak

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Berenson "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
Bernard Berenson

"The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire

King "The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
Stephen King

Bacon "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Sir Francis Bacon

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby

Army "You will not rise to the occasion, you will sink to the level of your training."
US Army

Pascal "I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
Fred Allen

'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pascal 'I am a Doctor, not a Bricklayer'
Doctor McCoy

'A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.'
Segal's Law

Army 'In command and out of control.'
US Army

'It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.'
Abraham Lincoln

Army 'If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.'
George S. Patton

'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.'
Lewis Carroll

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
A. J. Liebling

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
William Gibson

NASA’s Desert RATS

I am sure NASA has a handle on this, but this thing looks like it would have trouble moving around the streets of New York, never mind Mars.

“NASA’s Desert RATS – or Research and Technology Studies – will make its 13th trip to the desert this fall for another round of analog testing.”

Source: NASA

 


Belkin Insight


Find out how much power your devices actually use.

Cost: $30.00
Source: Belkin


Lagrangian Points

We all live in our own Lagrangian points.

The Lagrangian points (pronounced /ləˈɡrɑːndʒiən/; also Lagrange points, L-points, or libration points) are the five positions in an orbital configuration where a small object affected only by gravity can theoretically be stationary relative to two larger objects (such as a satellite with respect to the Earth andMoon).

Source: Wikipedia


$250 Million Worth Swine Flu Vacines to be Flushed

DiscoveryNews Article

… A few days ago 40 million doses of the H1N1 / swine flu vaccine went bad; that’s over $250 million worth of drugs too stale to use, the largest amount of a single vaccine ever produced.

And there’s more to come, since another 30 million doses will be expiring soon. If 70 million doses end up being destroyed, that would account for nearly half of the American stockpile of H1N1 vaccine.

Despite grave warnings by public health officials last April, the swine flu epidemic never materialized, and in fact killed fewer people than the annual seasonal flu varieties — about 12,000.


F1 Rocket Engine

The F-1 engine was and still is the most powerful liquid fueled rocket engine ever used. Arguably, one of the most important engineering accomplishments of the 20th century.
Weight: 18,500 lbs
Thrust: 1,500,000 lbs


Another Disaster for New Orleans

NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the Gulf of Mexico on April 25, 2010. Now they are suggesting we should be taxed for the cleanup effort. Don’t take it from the Oil Companies, who had record profits last year…. no, charge more for gas, yaa, thats the ticket.


Daylight Hours

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