Fringy, science-stuff, maybe fact or fiction?

 

So, I'm married to many women. Big deal. Here are some of them.

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String Theory? Well, at least I was playing a rarely used inversion of a Cmaj7 chord.

 For you guitar guys and gals out there, the axe is an ES-175D. I have a small collection of guitars, and some range back to the 1940's.

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There was an old lady called Wright
who could travel much faster than light.
She departed one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous night.

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This is where the canal, that runs through my backyard, turns from brackish, to saltwater. At times I see seacows, dolphins, stingrays, and a bunch of diverse saltwater fish. Florida is truly a sportsman's paradise. This spot is about three and a half miles from where I live. Unfortunately, it is by Coral Gables High School, and the water's bottom, which is very, very clear is littered with trash. Beer cans, coke cans, bottles, you name it.

 

 

Note the fish schooling around the trash. Guys! Recycle for the sake of our enviroment. Please, don't litter. How can we justify ourselves to leave such a legacy, for our grandchildren, to cope with and try to repair?

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The iguana and the muscovy duck are not native to South Florida. All these pictures were taken all the way at the end of my back yard. I'm blessed with a fairly nice yard, okay in size but full of diverse wild life.

At times, there are over  40 iguanas, some reaching over five feet in length, hanging out in my yard. My house's yard has something called the Coral Gables Canal cutting through it.  For you fisherman out there, there are largemouth, peacock bass, and a multitude of game fish swiming around the canal. I've even spotted snook and sea cows, from time to time. I use to have fruit trees back here, but lost them. I lost my grapefruit tress and Key lime to citrus cankre, and my papaya, banana, avocado, mango and sugar apple trees to Hurricanes Wilma and Katrina.

We have been invaded by non native species such as the Oscar and blue talapia (fishes.) All these non native species are wrecking our own native biosystems. I do not fish anymore, but when I did, I caught up to 11 lb. fish right here in my backyard. Artificial lures, such as surface plugs or popers seem to work best. Shiners tend to be quite lethal for largemouth.

Unfortunately, I would not take the chance of eating anything caught back here. It seems the mercury content in the fishes' tissues are to high. Pollution from farming run-off, used to harvest sugarcane.

 

 

 

 

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So, what do you think about intelligent design bieng taught in school along with evolution?

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Well, here I go. My first post.

Last night, on the history channel, the UFO phenomena was investigated.

Apparently, these objects have been reported by pilots, picked up by NORAD, and even astronauts have reported and filmed them.

With our current knowlege of physics, which I must add is quite strong, interstellar travel is, well at the very least, most improbable. The distances are just too vast. The energy required, in terms of kinetic enery (K.E.=½ m v², where m = mass, in kilograms and v = velocity in meters per second) is too large a number. For instance, plugging say the speed of light for v in the equation, where the speed of light, c, is approximately equal to 3.00 X 10^8 meters per second. And say, conservatively, the mass of the ship might be in the range of three million kilograms, would yield 13,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy. That's a very big number.  

I tend to view this phenomena as the human psyche's need for mythology.

Well, through history, their has been gods, Marian apparitions, flying carpets, jinns, angels and fairy rings, just to name a few.

Yet, as an amateur astonomer who owns large telescopes, I've seen "stuff" in the sky that was quite wierd, on numerous occasions. The funny part about my sightings is that I was never alone. I had other witnesses to substantiate my claims.

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