There is a perennial curiousness about secretive orders and organisations, the Freemasons being the other major subject of scrutiny. But who are they and where did they come from? Read the rest of this entry »
I Don’t Want A Rock, D(aniel) J(ackson) – Stargate SG-1 Rock DJ Song Parody
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Me in the gate glow, Mission:Science is go
Sam looking bored and Teal’c even more so
Wave your hands for the Stargate Command
Can I kick it
(Yes you can)
Have cats taken over the world, but we just don’t know it yet?
Cats have it easy, don’t they? They get fed. They get petted. They get their photos plastered all over the internets for everyone to lol at. Should we finally own up to the fact that cats are in charge of it all? They certainly seem to rule the internet.
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Was Kilroy really here?
For those of you who don’t recognise this one, this little doodle of a man with a big nose peeking over a wall is a very famous doodle dating back to World War II. But we can’t say whether he was there without first starting with the question: Kilroy Who?
Do ants poop?
Ants are so tiny, and their little segmented bodies joined together by next-to-nothing. It’s hard to imagine digestive tracts running down through the length of an ant. But surely everything that lives must eat and excrete – that’s at the core definition of life. However, there’s more to an ant than meets the eye.
What *has* love got to do with it?
The amount that love has got to do with it is the same amount as what war is good for: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Love, in fact, if you want to take the metaphysical view of things, doesn’t even exist. It is a series of chemicals and electrical impulses delivered between your neurons which make you imagine you feel something rather akin to the delicious, juicy steak Cypher eats when he asks to be reinserted into the Matrix. Ignorance is, truly, bliss. And also rather easy to fake.
Call Me Wheatley – ‘Call Me Maybe’ Carly Rae Jepsen Parody
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I woke you up with a thud,
Turned all the turrets to duds,
Trapped GLaDOS into a spud,
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What would happen if you ate a cloud?
In case you missed it, I’ve already documented the makeup of clouds when describing how they harvest helium. The TL;DR version is that helium rises from natural gas in the earth and forms clouds by supporting the water in the atmosphere, so clouds are mostly helium, water, and a little unbound hydrogen and oxygen. We can work out what effect it would have to eat this. Read the rest of this entry »
What is the secret of time-travel?
There are things that we, as humans, find difficult to comprehend. We live only finite lives, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. As a result, it is extremely difficult for us to comprehend the full extent and meaning of infinity… The first question we come out with is, “But what came before the beginning?” We have no experience or understanding of things that don’t have to start somewhere and struggle to come to terms with it (without the use of illegal narcotics or possibly decades of isolated meditation). Read the rest of this entry »
If power stations are there to generate heat, why do they have cooling towers?
We’ve all seen power stations… Big hulking beasts on the landscape spewing out fumes from the cooling towers. But if the point of them is to produce energy, why waste it by cooling everything down? Read the rest of this entry »
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