Pickens plan video -- a plan to use natural gas for transportation, wind power for electricity generation, and to reduce the U.S. expenditures for imported petroleum by hundreds of billions of dollars per year. HT: Geology News Grace and Peace
Granite tables and countertops
McDonalds restaurants in Romania are superior to McDonalds in the U.S.A. The food is better, the service is better, they ask which Happy Meal toy your child wants, and... the tables are made out of beautiful SOLID GRANITE! If it weren't for "Super Size Me," these tables would be enough to make any geologist eat …
Enceladus close up
A dramatic image of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn, taken by the Cassini probe last week: The description from Astronomy Picture of the Day, October 14, 2008: Explanation: What creates the unusual tiger stripes on Saturn's moon Enceladus? No one is sure. To help find out, scientists programmed the robotic Cassini spacecraft to dive …
Constipated astronauts?
LiveScience.com: Space Station Toilet Breaks Again.
More ridiculousness of Religulous
Stand to Reason Blog has another review of "Religulous." Here are a few excerpts from Religulous is Ridiculous: Watching Bill Maher's supposed expose of the irrationality of religion "Religulous" is like being hit over the head with a club for 90 minutes. Not even a baseball bat. A club. Because it's so atrociously dull, heavy-handed, …
More atheist drivel: Religulous
The title of the movie "Religulous," starring comedian Bill Maher, is a combination of "Religious" and "Ridiculous." Like most of the bitter propaganda coming out of the atheist camp in the past few years, this movie will reinforce the anti-Christian attitudes among the atheists and their allies, but the content of the film is intellectually indefensible. Here …
Montana snow!
We traveled to Billings, Montana for the weekend. It started snowing Thursday night as we were driving there, and didn't stop until some time Sunday, for a total of 22 inches (56 cm). We were able to build snow men, have a snow ball fight, make a snow maze in the park, and go cross-country …
Rays on Mercury
The NASA MESSENGER probe flew by Mercury for the second time on October 6th. It flew by Mercury earlier this year, will fly by one more time in 2009, and will enter orbit around the planet in 2011. Here's an image taken yesterday: Some parts of Mercury's surface revealed in this have never been photographed …
Following more wrong footprints
The speaker at the young-Earth creationist seminar I'm attending also referred to the Robledos Mountains human footprint, allegedly found in Permian rocks of New Mexico. Again, I'm highly skeptical. Here it is: If this were genuine, it would be the most precious fossil in the entire world. It would be in a glass case in …
Following the wrong footprints
I've been attending a seminar presented by a smaller young-Earth creationist organization. I respect the speakers for their commitment to the inerrancy of Scriptures, and their proclamation of the gospel. I share their trust in the Bible, and my heart is lifted any time I hear Christ proclaimed as God's sacrifice to take away our …
Corn maze 2
We went to the eight acre Denver Botanic Gardens corn maze today (as I mentioned yesterday). It was fun; not only to do the maze, but to be out in a field. Any escape from the city is good. The corn was not planted as densely as in the one other corn maze I've been to, …
Solar prominence
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: a solar prominence. Watch the movie here. Explanation: On September 29, this magnificent eruptive solar prominence lifted away from the Sun's surface, unfurling into space over the course of several hours. Suspended in twisted magnetic fields, the hot plasma structure is many times the size of planet Earth and …
Green elephants
In my previous post, I explained that I was born a Republican. If you know me at all, you know that I am also a strong advocate for the environment. I like clean air, clean water, biodiversity, sustainability, alternative energy sources, simple life styles, and wild places. Is "environmentalist Republican" an oxymoron? By no means! …
I was born a Republican
I very rarely venture into politics on this blog. This, in fact, might be the first time. My father, Keith Nelstead, was a Republican, a one-term member of the Montana House of Representatives (1971), and twice an unsuccessful candidate for Yellowstone County assessor. A great childhood memory of mine is sitting with my dad at his …
Corn maze
Here's what we're planning on doing tomorrow: Denver Botanic Gardens Corn Maze We've done this once before, in Iowa (who ever heard of corn in Iowa?). To make a good corn maze, the farmer plants a high density of seeds in two different directions to make it difficult to take shortcuts. I believe the design …
Good oak
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the second, …
Science and faith in the UK
From USA Today: Science and faith, the British way, an opinion piece by Mark I. Pinsky. Some of the most prominent researchers in England enjoy a vibrant religious life that coexists with their immersion in the scientific world. Indeed, these evangelicals might give American believers, and scientists, something to think about. Pinsky, a Jewish journalist …
Visualizing Bible cross-references
Chris Harrison, of Carnegie Mellon University, and Christopher Romhild, of Nordelbische Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Germany, have created a graphic that shows 63,779 cross-references between different portions of the Bible. The colored lines are the cross-references. The white bars at the bottom represent the number of verses in each individual chapter of the Bible; the long white …
Natural gas-powered cars
Geology News recently pointed to two articles about using natural gas (CNG -- compressed natural gas) to power cars: Toyota Looks to Embrace Natural-Gas Hybrid Cars Chesapeake Energy Corporation Unveils National Campaign to Encourage Switch From Foreign Oil to American Natural Gas in U.S. Transportation Sector -- From Chesapeake Energy, includes a video Some advantages …
Steak vs. hamburger
I don't watch many movies, and couldn't tell you a movie that Paul Newman starred in. But here's a great quote from him (the part in bold) in the Yahoo news story of his death: Newman sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. …
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