Getting some perspective.
Archive for the ‘Trivia’ Category
State of the species: globally there are as many abortions as there are deaths per year
October 31, 2016Paradoxes for our times / 4
October 22, 2016
Paradoxes for our times/ 3
October 18, 2016
Paradoxes for our times / 2
October 15, 2016
Paradoxes for our times / 1
October 15, 2016
Quite unexpected: Dolly Parton at 33
October 15, 2016I only saw this yesterday but this You Tube video was posted by Tom Berry in 2010, so it’s been around for a while.
Dolly Parton must be one of the only singers around whose voice could undergo such extreme manipulation and sound not sadly distorted but, rather, beautifully remade. Her baby-high soprano has always seemed slightly unreal anyway, a record played a little too fast. As it happens, one of her longtime stage stunts is mimicking a 45 r.p.m. record played at 78 r.p.m.: she goes into full Chipmunk mode, not missing a syllable or a wave of vibrato—an offhand joke at the expense of her own voice, as well as a flourishing exhibition of her impressive control of her instrument.
Parton, slowed to a speed at which most people would sound like gloopy, slothlike creatures, comes down to a reasonable alto range, sounding like a soulful male ballad singer.
Dolly Parton was born in 1946 so here’s an image of her at 33 in 1979.
Dolly Parton by Ed Caraeff-1979 (The Red List)
Man smart – woman smarter
October 1, 2016i was 34 when my son was born. My father was 37 when I was born and his father was 41 when he was born. However my mother was 22 when I was born and her mother was 25 when she was born. My great grandmother was 19 when my grandmother was born.
So my grandfather’s grandfather was born at about the same time as my grandmother’s, grandmother’s grandmother. From just about 1860, I am the product of 4 generations on my paternal line but of 6 generations on my maternal line. The same pattern is reproduced all the way back to when Anatomically Modern Humans began some 210,000 years ago and possibly even before that. But that means that everybody living today, for any given time period going back, has a maternal line of descent containing around 40% more generations than the paternal line of descent.
The conclusion is simply that the maternal line, generationally (and therefore also in evolutionary terms), is almost half as long again and therefore, that much more advanced than the paternal line.
Woman smarter (by 3,000 generations)
Since the “start” of modern humans we have 3,000 more generations on the line of all our mothers than the line of all our fathers (7,000 fathers of fathers and 10,000 mothers of mothers).
Much is explained.
Remember the Harry Belafonte song, “Man smart – women smarter”.
I say let us put man and a woman together
To find out which one is smarter
Some say man but I say no
The woman got the man de day should know
And not me but the people they say
That de man are leading de women astray
But I say, that the women of today
Smarter than the man in every way
………..
Garden of Eden was very nice
Adam never work in Paradise
Eve meet snake, Paradise gone
She make Adam work from that day on
Methusaleh spent all his life in tears
Lived without a woman for 900 years
One day he decided to have some fun
The poor man never lived to see 900 and one
……
The consumption of time
September 7, 2016No change without the passage of time.
No passage of time without change.
That is almost trivial. It does not help to tell us what or why time is.
Or perhaps it does.
Perhaps time is a consumable. It is the fuel that is needed for and is consumed by change. Quantum of change per unit of time taken as miles traversed per gallon of fuel. It follows that we can stop the passage of time if we can stop change – down to the motion of the elementary particles. Time does not just pass – perhaps it has to be consumed.
Perhaps the single great mystery is gravitation. Then gravitation (or gravitational energy) is manifested as the passage of time. The speed of the passage of time then varies with the gravitational field. One real second per perceived second now, but perhaps zero at the Big Bang.
The magical speed of an inconstant time
No time without gravity.
And no change without time being consumed.
So, no change without gravity and time is just the medium of change.
Electric dreams – Mercedes-Maybach 6
August 19, 2016
Electric Dreams
Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6
Four electric motors that can produce a combined 738 horsepower. Mercedes says that will be enough to get the car to 62 mph from a standstill in under 4 seconds. The motors are backed by an 80 kWh battery that the company says can propel the car up to 200 miles. Perhaps more interesting than its range is the fact that the Mercedes-Maybach 6 can pick up a charge worth 62 miles in just 5 minutes, assuming you’ve got the right charger.
You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?
Flies are immortal, can reincarnate and can teleport
July 27, 2016We have some building work going on in the yard and the door is left open at times. It has been pretty warm (about 30ºC and humid) for the last few days. Leaving the door open for 5 minutes is sufficient for 20 – 30 squatter flies to enter and take possession. They congregate mainly in the kitchen but they get everywhere in seconds. They are in my study – one floor down – and in the bedroom – one floor up – and in every bathroom even though the doors are shut.
I have flyswatters in every room.
I swat them here, I swat them there,
My wife, she swats them everywhere,
Are they immortal? Are they from hell?
Those damnable Musca domesticels
I have swatted them singly, in twos and threes (but I have never managed seven in one blow). I flush their dead bodies down the toilet, directly into the rubbish bin, wrapped in tissue or wrapped in foil. It does not matter how I kill them and how I dispose of them. They reappear in about 5 seconds. It has become quite clear that they immediately reincarnate and teleport themselves to a place of safety from where they can attack me again. Where they store their spare corporeal bodies is beyond me.
The simple and unavoidable explanation is
- that they are immortal,
- They have an infinite number of spare bodies they can reincarnate in when one is destroyed,
- they can teleport
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