After I explained my idea to him he told me he wanted to know what happened in Roswell. Here’s my take (jokingly or course). The aliens wanted a vacation to earth, so they send a weather balloon. They miscalculated something so the balloon popped and fell to earth and landed in Roswell, NM. They decided to cancel the vacation here because of insufficient data. That’s why we haven’t made contact with aliens.

Joking aside, I do have an idea to make a realistic UFO. It’s just an idea I toyed with for an hour.

Pay attention. About 46 seconds in, the copter makes a sideways slide, then flies straight up.

That got me thinking about UFO movement that people have reported, so I thought of an idea on how to play a joke on UFO enthusiasts.

You take some perforated material and make a UFO shaped shell. Preferably something light. The perforations would be to cut down on wind resistance that the shell will cause. You have to leave spots open for each propeller. You then put a bright omnidirectional light inside so the light shows through the holes in the perforated material.

All that is left now is to fly it at night. From a distance the propeller sound shouldn’t be heard. All they should see is a strange light that is doing unnatural flying in the sky.

EDIT: This video has less propellers, but you can see more of the maneuverability.

A geomagnetic reversal is a change in the orientation of Earth’s magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south become interchanged. These events often involve an extended decline in field strength followed by a rapid recovery after the new orientation has been established. These events occur on a scale of tens of thousands of years or longer.

I recently came across an article saying the North pole is moving towards Siberia at 37 miles per year. If Wikipedia is correct, it should be moving much slower than that.

I was watching TV the other day and they compared the recent earthquake in Haiti with the earthquake that caused the big tsunami in 2004.

My mind being overactive, got me thinking. What if, the north pole moving is causing stress in some of the fault lines and causing these earthquakes. I know I’m not a scientist and I don’t know much about geology, but it’s something to think about. I mean, some rocks are attracted to magnetic fields because of the iron in them.

I wonder if we wont start seeing many more of these huge earthquakes in the coming years.

When I first posted my post about the full moon affecting peoples behavior, I never expected it to be the most popular post on the blog. It seems that once a month around the full moon I see a HUGE spike in traffic.

Reading the comments that are posted on the post I see lots of people that have trouble sleeping around the full moon. That is something that happens to me when it’s full. I know it has nothing to do with the extra light that comes in the windows around the time. I have blinds that block out most of the light when it’s full.

Other Things I’ve noticed range from mundane to plain odd. Lots of people are or know someone who is irritable around the full moon. Some comments said that they are more aggressive in bed. (I had to delete them because they contained some graphic sexual content. I gotta keep this blog PG ya know.) One woman also said her period follows the full moon.

My mom even told me that she talked to someone that worked in a mental hospital and asked him if more “loonies” come in on a full moon. He told her it’s like any other night. The next full moon they had more admitted than on a normal week.

There’s something to think about here.

Obey gravity, it’s the law!

Since the gravitational effect from the moon controls the tides in the oceans and humans are mostly water (70% or so), is it safe to think that the moon could actually have some effect on us? I know during a full moon I don’t sleep as well as I do when it’s not a full moon.

Just something to think about.

I’ll let you think about that for a while. I’ll be here when you get back.

Can’t you just imagine them sitting in the butchery (is that a word?) and attaching wierd pieces of meat together and then plugging them in to see if they come to life. Sadly they only start smoking and smelling like burnt meat. Then they try to attach a fish head to a chicken body then they plug that in. When the head pops because the current is too much, they just turn down the current and try again with a different fish species. When nothing works, they get back to work with sad looks on their faces. Sorry, not today, maybe tomarrow.

Using a simple laser pointer, a few misc parts, and about 15 minutes, you can make a simple laser communicator that converts a sound source into light that travels across a room, and back into sound with very little quality loss.

This is something I want to do. I just don’t have the skills. Imagine using something like this to send data from once source to another. Just convert the 1s and 0s to sound and transmit them, then convert them back to 1s and 0s. Could work.

On a semi-related note, scientists seem to have discovered dark matter.

Apparently with physics as we currently underatand it, its possible to escape this universe and enter a universe next to our own. It involves wormholes (sometimes called Einstein-Rosen bridges) to travel from one to the other. The article also goes into detail about making artificial wormholes in case we cant find one to use.

If light has mass, wouldn’t light go right through an “intangible” person. That would effectively render them invisible and blind. Wouldn’t it? I mean light wouldn’t bounce off them to be reflected back to our eyes. And they would be blind because reflected light would pass right through their eyes.

One could go one step further and ask if they would still exist at this point. Unless they did have a way to become solid again, light wouldn’t touch them. So would they exist anymore?