6/22 "Study: The U.S. could be powered by 80% green energy in 2050"
http://www.csua.org/u/wtz (news.yahoo.com)
\_ How many Republicans does it take to make green energy?
-150,000,000! Ding ding ding!
\_ Because having control of the White House and both houses of
Congress wasn't enough (ie, the do nothing and blame the
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6/26 WW2 brought us antibiotics, syringe, production capacity,
excessive petroleum, radar, television, atomic energy,
rocketry (HEIL VON BRAUN), synthetic rubber, microwave,
computers (GAY TURING), jets.
What did the Iraq war bring us?
\_ HMMWV -> Hummer H1 the gas guzzler.
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2/1 10 Industries in Which the U.S. Is No Longer No.1"
http://www.csua.org/u/sgw (finance.yahoo.com)
China betas us in 7 out of 10 categories, including high-tech exports
category.
\_ So, only 3 more to go until we declare war?
\_ Some of those positions are simply determined by
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12/2 'Starry, starry, starry night: Star count may triple'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101202/ap_on_sc/us_sci_starry_night
'So the number of stars in the universe "is equal to all the cells in
the humans on Earth, a kind of funny coincidence," Conroy said'
Another coincidence is that 1 mole = 6.02 * 10^23. So the number of
stars = # of molecules in 1 gram of H2 gas.
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