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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Tweet o' the Day: Flag You
Via Moe Lane by way of the invaluable BadBlue News.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Looking Back In Time
They pointed the Hubble space telescope into a part of the sky that seemed utterly empty. A patch to avoid planets, stars, and galaxies. This area was close to the Big Dipper, a very familiar constellation. And the patch of sky was no bigger than a grain of sand...
This was a somewhat risky move by the scientists. After all, observation time on this telescope is in very high demand, and some questioned whether it should be wasted trying to look at nothing. There was a real risk that the images returned would be as black as the space at which it was being pointed. Nevertheless, they pointed the telescope and slowly hovered the course of ten full days.
Photons that had been traveling for over 13 billion years finally ended their journey on the detector of humanity's most powerful telescope. Their feeble signals collected almost one by one. When the telescope was finally closed, and the images were processed, the light from over three thousand galaxies had covered the detectors, producing one of the most profound and humbling images in all of human history. Every single spot, smear and dot...
...was an entire galaxy. And each one containing hundreds of billions of stars. Later in 2004 they did it again. This time pointing the telescope towards an area near the constellation Orion. They opened the shutter for over 11 days and 400 complete orbits around the Earth. Using detectors with increased sensitivity, and filters that allowed more light through than ever before, over 10 thousand galaxies appeared and what became known as the Ultra Deep Field. An image that represented the farthest we've ever seen into the universe.
The photons from these galaxies left when the universe was only five hundred million years old, and 13 billion years later they end their long journey as a small blip on a telescope CCD. These galaxies, while standing absolutely still, are racing away from us, in some cases, faster than the speed of light.
The space time between us and everything else grows larger by the minute, pushing the galaxies in this image to a distance of over 47 billion light years. And because of universal expansion, the farther something is away from us, the more its light is shifted toward the red and the faster it appears to be moving. Edwin Hubble himself discovered this by measuring the red shift of many galaxies. And it's a measure of not only speed but distance as well.
Recently, Hubble scientists put the icing on a cake; using the measured red shifts of all the galaxies inside the image, they made a 3-D model of Ultra Deep Field. This is how it looks when we apply the distances of the galaxies in the most important image ever taken. There are over one hundred billion galaxies in the universe. Simply saying that number doesn't really mean much to it because it doesn't provide any context. Our brains have no way to accurately put that in any meaningful perspective.
When we look at this image however, and think about the context of how it was made, and really understand what it means, we instantly gain the perspective and cannot help but be forever changed by it. We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing for no other reason than because we were curious and discovered that we occupy a very tiny place in the heavens.
Hat tips: DeepAstronomy.com and Papa B*.
* Who, astoundingly, didn't email us about guns, women or liquor. We surmise his email account may have been compromised by progressives. Or the Chinese. But I repeat myself.
This was a somewhat risky move by the scientists. After all, observation time on this telescope is in very high demand, and some questioned whether it should be wasted trying to look at nothing. There was a real risk that the images returned would be as black as the space at which it was being pointed. Nevertheless, they pointed the telescope and slowly hovered the course of ten full days.
Photons that had been traveling for over 13 billion years finally ended their journey on the detector of humanity's most powerful telescope. Their feeble signals collected almost one by one. When the telescope was finally closed, and the images were processed, the light from over three thousand galaxies had covered the detectors, producing one of the most profound and humbling images in all of human history. Every single spot, smear and dot...
...was an entire galaxy. And each one containing hundreds of billions of stars. Later in 2004 they did it again. This time pointing the telescope towards an area near the constellation Orion. They opened the shutter for over 11 days and 400 complete orbits around the Earth. Using detectors with increased sensitivity, and filters that allowed more light through than ever before, over 10 thousand galaxies appeared and what became known as the Ultra Deep Field. An image that represented the farthest we've ever seen into the universe.
The photons from these galaxies left when the universe was only five hundred million years old, and 13 billion years later they end their long journey as a small blip on a telescope CCD. These galaxies, while standing absolutely still, are racing away from us, in some cases, faster than the speed of light.
The space time between us and everything else grows larger by the minute, pushing the galaxies in this image to a distance of over 47 billion light years. And because of universal expansion, the farther something is away from us, the more its light is shifted toward the red and the faster it appears to be moving. Edwin Hubble himself discovered this by measuring the red shift of many galaxies. And it's a measure of not only speed but distance as well.
Recently, Hubble scientists put the icing on a cake; using the measured red shifts of all the galaxies inside the image, they made a 3-D model of Ultra Deep Field. This is how it looks when we apply the distances of the galaxies in the most important image ever taken. There are over one hundred billion galaxies in the universe. Simply saying that number doesn't really mean much to it because it doesn't provide any context. Our brains have no way to accurately put that in any meaningful perspective.
When we look at this image however, and think about the context of how it was made, and really understand what it means, we instantly gain the perspective and cannot help but be forever changed by it. We pointed the most powerful telescope ever built by human beings at absolutely nothing for no other reason than because we were curious and discovered that we occupy a very tiny place in the heavens.
Hat tips: DeepAstronomy.com and Papa B*.
* Who, astoundingly, didn't email us about guns, women or liquor. We surmise his email account may have been compromised by progressives. Or the Chinese. But I repeat myself.
STUDY: Men like me more likely to have right wing political views*
The science is settled.
Researchers also released a series of photos from their study:
*Eh, headline concept "borrowed" from Dan Foster and Ace.
Men who are strong are more likely to take a right-wing stance, while weaker men support the welfare state, researchers claim.
Their study discovered a link between a man’s upper-body strength and their political views. Scientists from Aarhus University in Denmark collected data on bicep size, socio-economic status and support for economic redistribution from hundreds in America, Argentina and Denmark.
The figures revealed that men with higher upper-body strength were less likely to support left-wing policies on the redistribution of wealth. Men with less upper body strength are more likely to support the welfare state... But men with low upper-body strength were more likely to put their own self-interest aside and support a welfare state.
Researchers also released a series of photos from their study:
*Eh, headline concept "borrowed" from Dan Foster and Ace.
NEW AND IMPROVED FOR 2013: American Agitprop Playing Cards
From The People's Cube:
This is a perfect Father's Day gift.
Hurry - Sunday, June 16 is getting close!
If you didn't buy our famous Obama "Hope" poster parody playing cards because you wanted to wait for the deck to be updated and improved, your wait has been rewarded!
Redesigned by popular demand, this deck contains new characters, revised captions, improved images, and - keeping pace with the government expansion - now contains 56 cards instead of the usual 52.
The back design has also changed: "To each according to his hyphen" has been replaced with a more proper name for this project: "American Agitprop in the Age of Obama: Heroes and Villains."
This is a perfect Father's Day gift.
Hurry - Sunday, June 16 is getting close!
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
PHOTOS: The Dirty Little Secrets of #BlogCon2013
I can't disclose sources or methods, but our enterprising cub reporter Biff Spackle apparently infiltrated the right-wing extremist conference known as BlogCon2013. Before being discovered and kicked out of the confab (and then audited by the IRS), Spackle was able to snap the following photos*. And he discovered some of the dirty little secrets of BlogCon.
A Panel on real-time reporting 
The view from the panel 
Nice Deb and Liberty Speaks 
Heading to Gilley's for an, uhm, important, serious, eh, meeting 
Dirty little secret of BlogCon #1: Third-tier bloggers get surprise wedgies 
Lady Liberty, Liberty Speaks, Sarah Rumpf, and Nice Deb pose with the Dallas Skyline 
The talented Andrew Lawton with his stunning accompanist 
Dirty little secret of BlogCon #2: Nice Deb ain't always nice 
Lady Liberty critically injures an innocent blogger 
As does Sarah Rumpf 
Passion 
The All-American Blogger and Friend 
On the set with Glenn Beck 
Secret Service 
Nice Deb takes out Secret Service 
"It's a bit creepy how much @DerekBrigham looks like a president" 
Zanotti, Loesch, Brodigan, Rumpf discuss... something 
Photobomb! 
Filming begins for the Hangover 7 with Brodigan 
News Ninja with Glenn Beck 
The amazing Andrew Malcolm (center) of Investors Business Daily is in the audience 
Beck discusses the IRS scandal with two Tea Party executives 
Wish you were hear, homies 
Hats off to Kristina Ribali and the entire FreedomWorks team for an outstanding, timely and impeccably organized conference.
*Note: We have discovered that Spackle may have ripped off some photos from one or more of the following Twitter feeds: @JonSeidl, @ChadKentSpeaks, @MissRuth1021, @Loud_Talker, @GOPrincess, and @DeeInHouston. Please file any trademark or copyright violation notices with the management.
Update: @AndrewLawton sends over the following:
Straight out of Benihana
Salivary glands kicking in...
For the love of...
She looks a hell of a lot better than Lawton in that hat...
Veranda
Andrew and Kristina
Sarah and Andrew
Warming up
Stacy on the Right with @AndrewLawton
No evening complete without the obligatory wedgie from Stacy on the Right.
Related: This is BlogCon and Random Photos from BlogCon.
Hats off to Kristina Ribali and the entire FreedomWorks team for an outstanding, timely and impeccably organized conference.
*Note: We have discovered that Spackle may have ripped off some photos from one or more of the following Twitter feeds: @JonSeidl, @ChadKentSpeaks, @MissRuth1021, @Loud_Talker, @GOPrincess, and @DeeInHouston. Please file any trademark or copyright violation notices with the management.
Update: @AndrewLawton sends over the following:
Related: This is BlogCon and Random Photos from BlogCon.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
PHOTO: The Incestuous Love-Child of the Democrat-Media Complex
So this is why they play from the same sheet music.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
I'M CONFUSED: Some outfit ranked this podunk, loser blog the 79th most influential in the entire freaking U.S.?
I want some of what these guys are drinking.
Off the top of my head, Ace, Driscoll, Hoft, Jacobson, Malkin, McCain, Reynolds and a bevy of other, truly influential blogs have been skipped. You know, the major leaguers (I consider this blog double-A ball, at best).
But for the moment I'll revel in their error and try not to let it go to my head. So have a Bud. This round's on me.
Off the top of my head, Ace, Driscoll, Hoft, Jacobson, Malkin, McCain, Reynolds and a bevy of other, truly influential blogs have been skipped. You know, the major leaguers (I consider this blog double-A ball, at best).
But for the moment I'll revel in their error and try not to let it go to my head. So have a Bud. This round's on me.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
The 10 Least Known Facts About Obamacare
A recent article in Yahoo! Finance ("Business Owners Confused as Ever by Obamacare") inspired our enterprising cub reporter Biff Spackle to assemble the following little-known Obamacare facts.
All of these are 100 percent verified accurate, as far as you know.
Hat tip: BadBlue Money News.
10. In New York City, you lose your right to health care by consuming a Chili Dog
9. All insurance plans come with a free weekly newsletter from Dr. Kevorkian
8. In low tier plan, anasthesia administered orally via shots of Jim Beam
7. Employers with 50 or more workers required to offer health insurance or face waterboarding
6. Overflow E.R. patients in Florida automatically airlifted to Cuba for treatment
5. All of your personal health records available to you via Dropbox.com
4. Sex changes are free of charge, but reversing sex changes requires a $20 co-pay
3. Over-the-counter drugs must be purchased from a company owned by Nancy Pelosi's husband
2. Couples earning more than $250,000 are prohibited from having more than one child
1. Any elective surgery requires a suppository
All of these are 100 percent verified accurate, as far as you know.
Hat tip: BadBlue Money News.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
"This is the most horrifying thing I've ever seen"
Oh, my.
"The Realistic Baby Mask":
No additional commentary is required.
Thanks a lot, Twitter. What is seen cannot be unseen.
RT @exjon: This is the most horrifying thing I've ever seen: bit.ly/13sAIee
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 23, 2013
"The Realistic Baby Mask":
No additional commentary is required.
Thanks a lot, Twitter. What is seen cannot be unseen.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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