Centerfield

Death comes to us all...but it is coming to Saddam within hours!!! Party on!!!

I'm really feeling sorry for Saddam... NOT!

Check out some mathematically generated music if you're so inclined. You can mess with the generator to make up your own stuff. It's pretty cool, as nerdy things go. (There I go again.)

He's dead. Buh-bye.

Bwahaha!

To view a cynical and satirical visual of George Bush playing a round of "Hangman"...link here:

www.thoughttheater.com

Yes, Saddam was well hung so W could prove who was better hung. ;-)

Hey, it was there, I had to take the opportunity.

BTW, I left a reply over at SF, Tully to thank you for the hat tip. Glad you liked the video! I tried to leave a response in the Christmas thread by the comments had closed. That'll teach me to procrastinate.

Yep, if you don't close threads the comment potted meatoid product creeps in and multiplies, growing like a fungus.

Back in the sixties I read a bit of sci fi. I wasn’t into the fantasy of Lewis or the Foundation of Asimov. I liked short stories that spun novel incongruities created by imagined scientific knowledge and human nature. I was amused by a short story by Frank Herbert called “Committee of the Whole”. This story unfolds in real time as an inventor appears before a televised Senate Committee investigating a series of “incidents” involving the said inventor’s prototype invention. It wasn’t the believability of Herbert’s story that held me (I doubt such an event could take place in today’s Congress), but his unsettling certainty of science and ingenuity’s ability to create extraordinary power from ordinary things.

http://www.coilgun.ru/ -This coil gun list reminds me of Herbert’s short story. Although far less lethal than his inventor’s weapon, these coil guns will likely revolutionize guns and rifles. Decades ago, when I first read about rail technology, the power source seemed the ultimate obstacle. You can’t carry a car battery around on your back.

What if one replaces the bullet’s gunpowder cartridge with something else that could translate into electrical charge, like a battery or pressurized gas? Then the gun would not require internal power other than what would be needed to operate its own chip, laser ranger finder and spectrometer. Such a gun could customize the velocity to the intended target. How about the ultimate sniper rifle? It would be easier to carry a few fuel cells than pounds of cartridges. No muzzle flash, no noise (unless the bullet breaks the sound barrier”), and can be locked. I wonder how well these will work in the rain. Electric Uzis?

It should make quail hunting a bit easier….