Posted in Curiosities, tagged "I Robot", AI, artificial intelligence, science on 11/05/2012 | 3 Comments »
VIDEO CURIOSITY
Shades of Isaac Asimov’s “I Robot“?
–submitted by “Eric”
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Posted in Curiosities, tagged Landing on Mars, mars lander, NASA Curiosity mission, nasa rover, NASA Spirit mission, science on 09/05/2012 | Leave a Comment »
VIDEO CURIOSITY
These two animations are the best compilations I’ve seen depicting the amazing processes that have evolved in order to deliver NASA rover missions onto the surface of Mars, safely. The first video shows how previous missions (“Spirit“ and “Opportunity”) of rovers were deployed on the surface, similar to dropping a bouncing beach ball. Can you imagine? The second video details how the most recent Mars lander, “Curiosity“ was set gently down on the Red Planet, August 5, 2012.
Part 1: “Spirit” and “Opportunity” missions.
Part 2: “Curiosity” mission.
–submitted by “Rich”
Hats off to NASA and its dedicated team of employees — What an incredible feat!
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Posted in Curiosities, tagged cub reporter, daily planet, dubstep, gamers, gaming, geeza, jimmy olsen, moves, UberStrike on 01/25/2012 | 3 Comments »
VIDEO CURIOSITY
Back in the 70s i was fascinated by MIME. Every city I visited, my then wife and I would go to city center and gawk at the talent. The following Video Curiosity was submitted by “ballisticforce”. “ballisticforce” is one of my UberStrike gamer friends, many of whom have taken it upon themselves to drag “Gray Mouser” (my in-game identity) into the current century. Just last night I was chatting to one of them who was trying to explain to me some of Google’s many features. After a while, a bell went off in my head: “Oh,” I typed. “Are you talking about that CLOUD THINGY?”
Gray Mouser is often referred to as “Mouser”, or “da Geeza”, or “Grandpa”. I’ll be telling you more about him in the near future. Gray Mouser began writing for the UberStrike community several months ago, when he was interviewed and promoted to Cmunity Writer. Since then, Mouser has been promoted once again, this time to Cmunity Leader. Basically, he is now the Perry White of the Cmunity, a group of very talented writers and artists, all of whom have become friends.
Which reminds me of a funny story.
The other day I was interviewing a young teenager in an effort to recruit a new writer who could connect with the prevalent younger demographics of the UberStrike Forum (where we all post our articles). Somewhere in our Skype text chat, I mentioned I would like him to possibly become Cmunity’s Cub Reporter — just like Jimmy Olsen!
“Who’s Jimmy Olsen?” he asked.
I was devastated.
“You know,” I prodded. “Perry White’s Daily Planet CUB REPORTER!“
A few minutes passed. Then, “Who’s Perry White and what’s the Daily Planet?”
Right to the heart!
At any rate, I would REALLY like to see this Video Curiosity’s “Dubstep” dude performing these moves live. (I even like the music!)
–submitted by “ballisticforce”
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Posted in Curiosities, Humor, tagged curiosity, dinner tablr, discoveries, dogs, funny videos, pets, Videos on 01/24/2012 | 1 Comment »
VIDEO CURIOSITY
This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a while. Be sure to watch it to the end.
–submitted by “Mary N.”
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Posted in Curiosities, Humor, tagged advertising, Curiosities, curiosity, discoveries, funny ads, humor, tequila, Videos on 01/06/2012 | 2 Comments »
FRIDAY CURIOSITY TICKLER
–submitted by “Ron”
I love to watch inventive advertising.
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Posted in Childhood, Classics, Curiosities, Illustrated, Indiana, Mother Nature, tagged big fish, fishing worms, nightmares, thing, weird, worms on 12/27/2011 | 2 Comments »
One of my Grandfather’s favorite places to find fishing worms was behind the old Freelandville, Indiana Mill, where tons of spent grain husks and chaff had piled up for decades. The resulting heap of decomposition produced layer upon layer of truly bizarre habitat, and one that to a small boy was downright frightening. Although “Papa” did most of the digging, he always brought along an extra small shovel and encouraged me to find my own worms. “Bigger fish will bite on worms you dig yourself,” he explained.
So, off I’d wander into the rank, steaming mounds of the old Freelandville, Indiana Mill, with coffee can, toy shovel, and teddy-bear in tow.
Whoa!
One day I had just uncovered a particularly nasty patch of compost. Underneath, was the biggest worm I’d ever seen. Even with small, kid’s fingers, the worm was twice as big around as my thumb. “Papa!” I shouted, grabbing hold of it. “There’s a great HUGE worm over here!”
Papa rushed over, thinking I had found a garden snake. He stared down at the worm. “Let’s see what you’ve got there,” he said, stooping as I let go of my discovery. The worm-thing began to pull itself deeper into the compost, its slimy coat glowing faintly as it contracted and expanded its body segments in an attempt at getting away. Papa grabbed it and began pulling on it. The worm tightened, giving up a foot or two, then broke in half, the severed ends exuding an awful smelling pea-green fluid. In his hand was a three feet section of— what?
The front end disappeared down the 3/4-inch diameter hole.
Papa examined the elongated tail section for several minutes. “I’ll be dog-gone if I know what this is!” he exclaimed, dropping the still squirming THING into my can, wiping his hands on his coveralls. (Meme wasn’t going to like that!) Then, we packed up our shovels, hopped in Papa’s 1950s Ford, nicknamed “the Green Hornet” (based on the radio show series), and went fishing. Later that day I learned something very important to a fisherman’s way of thinking: not only do bigger fish bite on worms you dig yourself, even bigger fish will bite on BIGGER worms you dig yourself!
Thing in a Can Planet
Papa never mentioned the thing in a can again, and to this day, when I lie in bed, tossing and turning and unable to sleep, I sometimes think about the bygone Freelandville, Indiana Mill and wonder…
Posted in Anything Goes, Curiosities, tagged animals, Christmas song, Fun, humor on 12/21/2011 | Leave a Comment »
VIDEO CURIOSITY
–submitted by “Annie”
Have a SAFE and FUN holiday!
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Posted in Curiosities on 12/14/2011 | 6 Comments »
VIDEO CURIOSITY
Hahahahaha!
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–submitted by Sally Farmer
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Posted in Anything Goes, Curiosities, Mother Nature, tagged galaxy, science, stars, universe on 12/06/2011 | 6 Comments »
Galaxies Everywhere: these from a tiny sample of the universe.
The next time you step outside on a clear, starry night and gaze upwards—consider this: our planet circles our sun within what we have come to call the SOLAR SYSTEM. A solar system contains a sun and its planets. Our solar system, along with 100 BILLION (100,000,000,000) other solar systems, make up something we call a GALAXY. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy. How many galaxies are there? Well, let’s just say there are TEN galaxies out there for every man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth. In other words, there are approximately 170 BILLION galaxies in the known universe, each one containing over 100 BILLION stars.
Think about that for a second.
That’s a LOT of stars. That’s a LOT of planets. And if your mind can expand enough to comprehend the sheer mathematics of it, astrophysicists now believe there may be BILLIONS more universes out there.
I don’t know about you, but my mind bogs down long before it reaches the moon.
Sooner than We Think
Posted in Anything Goes, Commentary, Curiosities, tagged information age, technology, things to come, tv generation on 06/05/2012 | 5 Comments »
VIDEO CURIOSITY
I was chatting with an UberStrike gamer earlier today, discussing how my generation became the “TV Generation”, and how today’s generation is one of “technology”. Every time I turn on the Discovery Channel, or the Science Channel, or the Smithsonian Channel, I am reminded that, in a sense, we all are still living in the “TV” generation, that the Information Age is everywhere. But, I have to admit, when I peek at, purchase, play with all those things that technology is putting in our grasp, I am more than a little bit jealous about not being more of a part of it.
I suppose that’s what every generation has felt since civilization first began to crawl from the primordial muck: a feeling of being left out of a grander scheme of things we can never quite obtain, but one destined for — in the words of “The Moody Blues“, circa 1969, “our Children’s Children’s Children”.
Here is a video link my new UberStrike friend, Adam, passed along to me. He said, “Next generation will have…”
–submitted by “Adam”
Can you imagine?
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