Mars Flyover (nobody home)

Fly Over the Potential Landing Sites For Next Mars Rover (Video) | Universe Today

Hang on and take a bird’s eye look at the four different proposed landing sites for the Mars Science Lab! At a briefing yesterday, Dr. Richard Zurek presented a flyover video of the potential landing sites for the next Mars rover, set to launch in 2011. The video is now available, and Zurek narrates the excellent flyover footage of each site, created by images taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Enjoy the video, and find out a little more on each of the proposed sites below.

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and Lovin' It

The Ubuntu promise

* Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates.
* Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world.
* Ubuntu includes the very best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer.

* Ubuntu CDs contain only free software applications; we encourage you
to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

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Enough of that touchy-feely stuff. You have to try the new Ubuntu. I have taken a few runs at Linux in the past and I've gotten it running but the clunky feel and driver issues always brought me back to good old Windows. Times have changed. I have just installed the new Ubuntu 9.04 on three machines and every one installed without a hitch. One machine was an old Dell. I did not have a cabled network so plugged in a cheap USB wifi and bingo ... connected. Linux relies on internet for updates and program/driver installs so without internet access your Linux experience is bleak. The other two installs I used Wubi which installs Ubuntu in a folder on the Windows machine in dual boot. Both installs are perfect. The interface is a pleasure (after some tweaking and addons). It still takes a little research to get Ubuntu as slick (in some ways slicker) than Windows but what a pleasue to use. Maybe I have taken enough runs at Linux so as to be more comfortable with it. But it is more than that. The new Ubuntu just works and works well.

If you have ever thought of trying Linux now is the time to jump. This baby is ready for prime time.

(Refer to this "Perfect Desktop" article for quick add on setup.)

Why bother?

1. Its is free (legitimately free for conscience easing).
2. Is is fun (if you are on the geeky side).
3. It works very well.
4. It is all most people need.

Problems so far?

1. Real Player files (not all work but who cares).
2. Can not mount Vista C: drive (this does matter - still working on it)
3. Network problems on one machine (this could be a killer for me) Internet works fine but even though I have a "windows network" icon, it will not receive server info. I have not found a fix that works. Something broke it because it did work.
   

Give 'um Hell in the People's Republic of Canada

How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built

How Were the Egyptian Pyramids Built: "

Talking Pyramids

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

"In the name of the King they will become indestructible through Him."


What? No Ancient Astronauts?

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

Historical order of pyramid building.

V - Then They Will Believe

Who knows but it is curious, all these movie messages.

Kinda reminds me of a presidential election theme ... hope ... devotion ...
Some believe this is "the lie" predicted in the Bible (or at least part of it). The lie that deceives even the elect if that were possible. It would be convincing would it not? We seeded the planet and we are here to help you (like the government) blah, blah. I'm unsure of the theme of this production but no matter. We are all being conditioned if disclosure should come about. Of course we hard core Christians believe these "aliens" would be you know who (no he does not carry a pitch fork and wear red long johns).

Missing link found? Scientists unveil fossil of 47 million-year-old primate, Darwinius masillae

Missing link found? Scientists unveil fossil of 47 million-year-old primate, Darwinius masillae: "Missing link found? Scientists unveil fossil of 47 million-year-old primate, Darwinius masillae

BY Samantha Strong and Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Updated Tuesday, May 19th 2009, 12:57 PM
Tama/Getty

The 47 million year old fossilized remains of a primate is seen at the American Museum of Natural History in New York."

Feast your eyes on what a group of scientists call the Holy Grail of human evolution.

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BHT thinks we should get a different perspective here:
http://podcasts.reasons.org/newsflash/20090520-fr.mp3

I admit it looks a little like Grandpa but still ...

Groupthink :: View topic - The Purpose of This Site

Groupthink :: View topic - The Purpose of This Site: "The purpose of our Progressive movement is to instill enormous guilt among wealth creators, causing them to give their money to us voluntarily. Think of guilt as secondary taxation. While the government extracts the first round of money by taxing a limited number of activities by wealth creators (with the help of a mind-numbing tax code), the imposition of guilt allows us to extract the remaining money in virtually unlimited amounts by associating guilt with the broadest range of activities - from what you eat to how big your toilet tank is. Most of you are guilty merely for breathing air, and the number of victims suffering from your noxious CO2 exhaust is unlimited - from the whole planet Earth to endangered microscopic communities of bacteria that thrive collectively on dead bodies and whose existence you are jeopardizing by selfishly staying alive."

BHT enjoys The People's Cube

Say what you want but this is one talented bunch of people - collectively.