So maybe my prediction about the war lasting six weeks wasn't that far off. I just found out Gulf War 1 lasted 6 weeks.
That question that reporter asked Bush and Blair this morning about how long the war will last was so nonsensical. Who can predict how long the war will last? We can't even predict when it will rain, when there will be an earthquake, and after the dot com bomb on the stock markets, we certainly can't predict the profitability of companies or their stocks. Didn't the media brush common business sense aside and say that a company without profits was worth over $100 on Nasdaq?
Who can trust the mainstream media after the way they hyped dot com companies?
Thursday, March 27, 2003
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
A fun link from space.com, The Greatest Myths, Hoaxes & Mysteries in Astronomy and Space Science.
According to this article, life is the greatest space mystery.
Life remains the greatest mystery of science. How did it start? Nobody knows. Does it exist elsewhere? Nobody knows. Now that astronomers have discovered planets orbiting other stars, the second question has taken on some added urgency, helping to spawn an entire new field called astrobiology. For now, astrobiologists are the only scientists I can think of who are more clueless than biologists, because they ask both of the biggest unanswered questions (the two above), whereas biologists mostly realize they have their hands full with the first one.
According to this article, life is the greatest space mystery.
Life remains the greatest mystery of science. How did it start? Nobody knows. Does it exist elsewhere? Nobody knows. Now that astronomers have discovered planets orbiting other stars, the second question has taken on some added urgency, helping to spawn an entire new field called astrobiology. For now, astrobiologists are the only scientists I can think of who are more clueless than biologists, because they ask both of the biggest unanswered questions (the two above), whereas biologists mostly realize they have their hands full with the first one.
The following is a transcript of an interview I heard on NPR on March 11 about new military strategies in Iraq if Turkey refused to allow US troops access to its country, Analysis: Pentagon Considering Other Options For Attacking Northern Iraq If Turkey Refuses To Let U.S. Soldiers Deploy There. It's interesting to reread this interview in light of tonight's news of US soldiers parachuting into northern Iraq.
People have been asking about where I heard the rumor about the US dropping an e-bomb in Bagdad to knock out Iraqi TV. Here's the link, U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV.
CBS news reported it first, but then the story seemed to be dropped from the media. Later reports said that the bomb that destroyed Iraqi TV was probably a tomahawk. The fact that Iraqi TV was able to come on the next day discredits the e-bomb report, because if it was an e-bomb Iraqi TV wouldn't have been able to rebroadcast so quickly. You would think that CBS news is a credible source, but it just goes to show you that you can't believe the mainstream news sources or the alternatives new sources.
The Vietnam war happened years ago, and we're still discovering what happened during that war.
CBS news reported it first, but then the story seemed to be dropped from the media. Later reports said that the bomb that destroyed Iraqi TV was probably a tomahawk. The fact that Iraqi TV was able to come on the next day discredits the e-bomb report, because if it was an e-bomb Iraqi TV wouldn't have been able to rebroadcast so quickly. You would think that CBS news is a credible source, but it just goes to show you that you can't believe the mainstream news sources or the alternatives new sources.
The Vietnam war happened years ago, and we're still discovering what happened during that war.
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