Daily Archives: September 23, 2012

Battleship – Part 1 & 2 of a 12 part series on the history of the Battleship, including the intro.

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These are copies of what seems to be a documentary from the Discovery Channel on the history of the battleship. I could be wrong and, if wrong, will correct the matter but, to the best of my knowledge this one was done by the Discovery Channel around 2002. ABC and other have similar documentaries and if they have good of differing content I will post them. This being said this is a very good watch if your interested in the most powerful ships to sail the seas. They present a great timeline on the development and evolution of the modern battleships up today when though in moth ball, the mighty Missouri and Iowa lay at ready. Remember they were both once again called back into service during the recent gulf war and, the Missouri fired the first shot of the war in the form of a Tomahawk missile. Once again the mighty 16 inch guns were fired again in anger during this war for the first timer in  50 years since the Korean conflict. I will post all 12 parts two at a time.

Enjoy!

Intro

Part 1

part 2

A Interstellar Voyage, what might be involved?

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I found this and many other space and science videos on one of my favorite YouTube channels, SpaceRip.

This video uses Pandora, the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar, as an example to illustrate a scenario where in a possible future we would need to migrate from our planet for various reasons.  Pandora’s location is based on a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system.

Everything from anti matter as the future fuel of choice to faster than light speed is discussed in this video. Each time I watch it I gain new knowledge and insight, in short it makes you think. I will be posting many more videos of this genre from various “geek” sights I frequent while “jacked into the matrix”, flowing like an excited electron through it’s fabulous wealth of knowledge.

Enjoy!

The 2012 Presidentual Election, either way another 4 years of the same.

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I don’t know about the rest of you but, to me no matter which of the two candidates we have to chose from gets elected in November, half of the country is going to hate it. I don’t like either party anymore and have found myself in a real pickle. I don’t even want to vote though I should and know it. I just can’t see where either party has the best interest of the people in mind, rather it seems it is much more about who has control of the money. To me it’s more of a competition than a election and we the people are the looser in the long run. Perhaps by the time the 2016 election rolls around we the people will have come to our senses and have had enough, one can only hope.

Howdy All, and welcome.

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Take your shoes off, rest a spell, and have a read or watch a video. Who knows, I might have something here that will interest you. I enjoy a wide variety of interest due to being the poster child for adult ADHD, so this is intended to be somewhat of an outlet for some of my interest, we shall see how it evolves ;-) .  Anyhow as this is just the initial ice breaker if you will, I’ll get on with things.