Just Another Reality
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Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair’s government’s attempts to mislead the public.
They were so shocked by the lack of preparation for the aftermath of the invasion that they believe members of the British and US governments at the time could be prosecuted for war crimes by breaching the duty outlined in the Geneva convention to safeguard civilians in a conflict, the Guardian has been told.
Sometimes we forget that this wasn’t just us. It was a whole bunch of assholes.
A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.
And that’s about how I feel today.
Orion’s dark secret: Violence shaped the night sky - space - 23 November 2009 - New Scientist
Yet another cool article on dark matter.
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Sci-fi movies are not nearly as cool as actual science. I see this proven every day by photography.
poisonthemonkey:cocknbull:iamheathen:atheistramblings:callmemrpeerpressured:rabbleprochoice:
As the one commenter on the “high school won’t publish senior girl’s yearbook photo because she’s in a tux,” so aptly put it: Clearly this teen girl is just being selfish. I mean look at her! Getting everyone’s prom canceled just because she won’t go with a BOY. REALLY? Why are you so spoiled, that you won’t deny your sexuality or conform to sexist, homophobic, heteronormative rules that, apart from being used to discriminate against Others and maintaining the status quo, are completely pointless…all so all those other kids can have their prom? GAH! Kids these days! Have they never learned about sacrificing for the greater good?
I’ve heard people say that the gay rights fight has nothing in common with the civil rights battle. They are, of course, wrong.
You want your baby to be popular, don’t you?
Say hello to OUR 5TH KIND OF CLOUD: ASPERATUS *yes elementary kiddies, you have one extra cloud to memorize! XD haha!*
These choppy clouds could be examples of the first new type of cloud to be recognized since 1951. Or so hopes Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
The British cloud enthusiast said he began getting photos of “dramatic” and “weird” clouds (including the above) in 2005 that he didn’t know how to define.
A few months ago he began preparing to propose the odd formations as a new cloud variety to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization, which classifies cloud types.
Pretor-Pinney jokingly calls it the “Jacques Cousteau cloud,” after its resemblance to a roiling ocean surface seen from below. But the cloud fan has proposed a “formal,” Latin name: Undulatus asperatus—roughly, “a very turbulent, violent, chaotic form of undulation,” explained Pretor-Pinney, author of the new Cloud Collector’s Handbook.
Margaret LeMone, a cloud expert with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said that she has taken photos of asperatus clouds intermittently over the past 30 years.Source: National Geographic
I hope to see these new clouds but I’ve been observing our skies lately… there are certainly weirder cloud formations now. I really have to bring a camera outside everyday now. I took some shots yesterday but none like these. I have seen some wavy ones but alas NO CAMERA! argh!
