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• Real or Fake? The Unlikely Post-Okla. Tornado Photo Making the Rounds

  May 23, 2013 at 1:30pm

  This could very easily be real. Tornadoes have always done weird things like this. Every tornado that hits a town leaves behind things like a single wall of a building with pictures still hung up on nails while everything else was completely removed. Could it be that somebody set it up? Sure, it’s possible. But it’s just as likely that this was the way it was after the tornado.

• Cheerleaders Score Major Free-Speech Victory Against Atheist Activists in Bible Banner Feud (But Is the Fight Really Over?)

  May 9, 2013 at 9:01am

  In reply to Eastinfection.

  You haven’t read from many translations of the Bible, have you? It’s not written in modern English, and it is correct. If you learn some German, you’ll actually find that many of the Yoda-like phrasing of older translations of the Bible come from the heavier influence of German in older versions of the English grammar structure. Just sayin’. Also, before you criticize grammar, don’t put a question mark in the wrong place and don’t use a dash when a simple comma will do.

• Bad Sportsmanship? Indiana Girls Basketball Team Blows Out Opponent 107-2

  December 12, 2012 at 10:16pm

  Also note that the losing team had more fouls, haha. It’s not as if the victors were cheating or being vicious.

• Bad Sportsmanship? Indiana Girls Basketball Team Blows Out Opponent 107-2

  December 12, 2012 at 10:13pm

  What? Are we to teach kids to not try in the name of fairness now?

  It’s like the hypocrisy at the Olympics. Badminton players were thrown out for not trying their hardest in games (even though the tournament was set up so that it was advantageous to lose early round matches to get the gold), but the US basketball team was criticized for blowing out another team. So what are we now left to do? Do we try our hardest and get punished for it or deliberately keep ourselves from excelling? This is disgusting. The Arlington coach needs to re-evaluate her coaching methods, not get mad at the other coach and team.

• Here Are the Top Pictures, Video ‘Curiosity’ Has Beamed Back From Mars This Week

  August 25, 2012 at 3:10pm

  In reply to idaho_caveman.

  Spend less time in the sci-fi and more time marveling at what has been accomplished by Curiosity and the team that designed it. This isn’t the wing of NASA that is an arm of the global warming alarmists, this is the good stuff. This is the stuff we should be proud of.

  If you study out just how the images get to Earth and the transmission rates and memory capacity of Curiosity, you’ll see why most of the pictures are black and white. With limited time to run the mission, limiting lag time in controlling Curiosity is essential. As a geologist working on EARTH this can still be a big factor! The big panoramas and such will still be color, of course, but it is difficult to send the many pictures required for such images to Earth in any reasonable amount of time. The purpose of this mission is much more than pretty pictures, and Curiosity has very limited life. For the actual scientific endeavors, they are doing it the right way. They’re not just exploring with pictures, they’re exploring the geochemistry of the rocks.

  Be proud of the amazing feat the private companies that put Curiosity together have accomplished! And enjoy Idaho. There are a lot of things I miss about living there.

• Here Are the Top Pictures, Video ‘Curiosity’ Has Beamed Back From Mars This Week

  August 25, 2012 at 3:05pm

  In reply to idaho_caveman.

  PLEASE do research before commenting. I’m all about avoiding government waste, but remember the work on the actual equipment used was by private companies, not actual federal workers. You need to realize WHICH pictures are black and white and which are color. With the limited memory on Curiosity and limited windows in which to transmit to the orbiting satellite, the amount of memory taken up by pictures is important to consider in limiting time delay in controlling the rover. Big panoramas and such will usually be in color.

  I’m a geologist on EARTH and we STILL use black and white for many applications. Gray scale can actually be more helpful at times in distinguishing certain features with certain kinds of visual data. Some kinds of magnified shots are ALWAYS black and which, such as with certain microscopes. You have spent too much time expecting sci-fi movie results from the real world. What they have done here is truly a technological marvel. Be proud that at least this part of NASA has not been devoted to becoming an arm of the global warming alarmists. The Mars missions are what we should be proud of, and we should be proud of the companies and people that worked to create Curiosity.

• Sold! Catholic Church to Purchase Crystal Cathedral for $57.5 Million

  November 19, 2011 at 11:38am

  I think the best part of the video is where the Catholic representative at the end pointed out that during the Reformation, nobody gets mad that large amounts of Catholic property were taken by the Protestants. I think it’s a valid point, especially as this wasn’t stolen, but purchased as the building couldn’t be paid for. What do people want, a government bail-out just to keep the Catholics out? Seriously? And no, I’m not a Catholic. I do think it’s nice that it will stay a place of worship, though. One without drums.

• Sold! Catholic Church to Purchase Crystal Cathedral for $57.5 Million

  November 19, 2011 at 11:35am

  In reply to Smokey_Bojangles.

  Haha, it wasn’t the Vatican bank… some people get goofy views of how the Catholic church funds things. It was the diocese that purchased it with independent funds. And no, I’m not Catholic, but I find it silly that so many people are mad at the Catholic church for buying a building that couldn’t be paid for… what did you want, another government bail-out to keep it going?

• ‘No Pressure’: New Environmental Campaign Glorifies Eco-Fascism

  October 5, 2010 at 6:40pm

  In reply to Psychosis.

  @ STAY THE COURSE

  Yes, you can measure gasses in tons. It’s a basic operation done all the time in chemistry. You take the mass of a CO2 molecule, and multiply it by the number of particles in a certain amount of gas, which can be measured based on the volume, temperature, and pressure. It might seem strange, but “tons” can come from either a metric ton, based on mass, or by finding the actual weight of the mass and gravity.