Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 20, 2012

Of course ! We’ll let the geniuses at the five-sided doughnut shop play with it . What could possibly go wrong ?

Reminds me of the atom bomb testing observations . . not enough was known about the radiation to make them think twice about taking a front row seat. Oops . . .

Does Lars have a green card, or is he an illegal alien?

Imploding is so much cooler than exploding….I wish the boys at the Pentagram good luck……

Perhaps implode just the minds and bodies of those building the bombs…?

Is it real in the first place?

1st part is political. 2nd part isnt

Radish, I’ve always thought it was powered by beans….

Don your sunglasses in case of atmospheric chain-reaction.

No need to get stressed out. This is cartoon physics – the same physics that lets Wiley Coyote hang in mid-air until he pulls out a sign which says “Yikes!” before falling several hundred feet.

42!

Or is that 48 this time around?

Oldpine;Lars does not look Hispanic, so he’s legal. At least as far as Joe Arpaio is concerned and that’s the acid test!

I don’t have the Energy to go to Mass. I guess you could call me a relapsed Catholic.

Government motto: If it does not need fixing, keep breaking it until it does.

I remember in 1939 when they discovered that fissionable uranium could release huge amounts of energy. It only took 6 more years before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated. Physics is fun, ain’t it?

This is so true. If we took the time money and energy (no pun intended) to create something beneficial for people, instead of weapons, we would be far better off.

ramonesfan – and would you have preferred it if we had increased the Japanese civilian casualties by an order of magnitude by going with the original land invasion plan to end the war? Read the actual Japanese gov’t documents from the time – they were not ready to surrender. Not by a long shot.

Trolls and Toads are out in force ( pun intended ). I just don’t have the energy to put up with their self-righteous b.s. I’m gonna do something productive, now. Maybe I’ll repudiate a Republican ? Or maybe, disagree with a Democrat ? See y’all later.

That’d put an end to war.

Thorium

The concern was CERN would create not a “momentary” minute, black hole, but suck the universe in, not going to happen. Now, as to the Pentagon playing for “peace”, neutron bomb, Hiroshima on a grander scale, armed drones, “MAD”, cruise missiles, training dolphins to carry limpet mines, nerve agents (yes, they do still “consider them”), pre-emptive wars, and of course, contractors taking over the job, wonderful.

LIttle grey men are much brighter.

The Congress (Senate)-That’s another group scarier that the military. The military investigates the possibility of a weapon before someone does, hoping to have the advantage. Then, we investigate the peacefull uses. Defense first.

Same as “political intelligence”, or “governmental intelligence” (Senate investigations, CIA, DOJ, Homeland Security)

The sick part is that Lars is right about the oil companies. Since no one has the balls—or even interest—to stand up to them and forcing them to release patents for alternative fuels as public domain, they have us by the short and curlies as they s-l-o-w-l-y figure out how to turn a buck on said patents. The gas stations themselves have to raise prices to afford the diesel-based fuel in the first place. $4 bucks a gallon?! For regular?!?! When I live in a state where the refineries are and thus have lowest costs of transport?!?!?!

The Higgs Boson cannot possibly be used to provide unlimited renewable energy? Says who? Lars says “It can, but I’m not going to tell you how.” If we already KNEW how to do it, Lars wouldn’t have to keep it a secret.

And the Congressional kind runs it a close second!

Linguist’No politics today so please don’t inject them into the patient like doing so with cancer cells.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Heaven forfend ! As a political agnostic, do you think that I’d interject or inject sarcasm and sardonic humor into the veins of the self-righteous ?I am merely making, what I hope passes for wry observations, on the comments emanating from some of the Bullsh**t Mountain Trolls.

then why do lars and his friends keep giving humans knowledge if they know how it’s going to end? also, just to determine the mass of the Higgs requires miles of underground superconducting magnet- lined pipes, so I imagine it to be very impractical for building bombs…

Military guy: So, that’s the powerful bomb you’ve been going on about.Scientist: Yes.Military guy: What does it do?Scientist: In the wrong hands, it could destroy the earth’s entire biosphere.Military guy: Oh. Wanna set it off?…Yes, it ends there, but there could be a coda: …Scientist: Send me to Mars first?Military guy: With one or two girls?Scientist: Six.

Isn’t that called a PHD?

It would be nice if they could figure out how to “contain” the hot air generated while congress and senate are in session and give it to poor people to heat their homes during the winter. Would be better than waiting on Politcians to come up with something that is really useless.

Radish, Oh, man, I think you’re right!!! Beano is our secret weapon against outer space aliens… They can’t scoot if they can’t poot!!! I hear they went crazy when the discovered burritos…..

We do know how a bumblebee flies. There was a time when we didn’t (back in the 1920s) and the popular imagination grabbed onto that so hard the popular imagination still can’t let go of it. Them egghead scientists don’t know so much — they cain’t unnerstand how a bumblebee kin fly. HAH! Them scientist fellers ain’t as smart as they thinks they is…. That’s too appealing an idea to let go of.-Cougar :{)

The fallacy that bumble bees shouldn’t be able to fly was based on the 19th century’s poor understanding of aerodynamics.-The bumblebee can fly because its wings encounter dynamic stall in every oscillation cycle, creating vortexes above the wing which produce several times the lift of linear airflow. This has been know since the 1950’s.

Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

E=mc2

Since mass is energy, being able to manipulate the mass may produce enormous amounts of energy.

We won’t know until we try.

Tell you what, if the Universe implodes, I owe you a Coke!

Doesn’t mean it won’t happen again….