Overheard this morning at an eatery....

Some customer divulges he heard the big tsunami last year in Japan knocked Earth's axis off kilter by 1 degree. I googled and ran into this link....scary if this guy from Dallas is correct in his
calculations of Earth and Sun angles....

Update: This makes for a scary future! http://www.novisio.com/htmlearthqt.htm

Humans 49: Animals 1

At last body count, most of the escaped animals near Zanesville, Ohio were shot. Jack Hanna, I thought you would surely rescue more than you did. We need laws preventing whackos from keeping wild predators NOW.

Lifetimes of Freshwater Discovered.....

NASA ESA

140,000,000,000 times more water than Earth has been found far far away....

Cloud Communities

As you look up at clouds, do you realized that they have a hidden community of microflora and microfauna as well as pathogens??? Begin your aeroecology reading with http://www.suite101.com/content/life-in-the-clouds-a135968 which reveals that only recently has man "discovered" that clouds are teaming with life....

Climate Change

For all of you that need more convincing that the Climate Is Changing aka climate change aka global warming...Check these links...

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCY-3XnqS0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

First Artificial bacterium

And we thought it would be grey goo, asteroids, or global warming as doomsday scenario....today's news reports a rogue alchemist (jk) and his team created a computer designed bacterium with NO natural DNA. It's name is Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. Will it mutate or "get loose" in the environment? Don't we have enough bacteria around without creating new variants?
How this Dr. Frankenstein do this with no state or federal oversight?? Look how well Uncle Sam protected our gulf shores........

BoyCott British Petroleum!!!!