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Dog Gets Ball in Pool

I guess some, if not many of you may have seen this footage, for those who haven’t, or are dog lovers such as myself, enjoy… oh by the way, to you cat lovers, suck eggs!

Everest Summit Panorama

Video: YouTube

It’s totally freezing with almost no air, being just a couple of thousand feet below the hight that international jets fly at. As for the danger aspect, it’s relatively overrated, since only 150 people have been killed climbing Everest… whilst countless millions die every year from tobacco. Needless to say the vast majority wont see this view first hand, but the view is worth the look.

What ancients did for us - The INDIANS 4/6

Video: YouTube

Well I guess India’s colorful cotton, particularly with the Paisley design, made a lot of hippies happy… yes I admit it, I had Paisley shirts, and as much as it embarrasses me… I wore flared pants too, but it gets much worse still, I had flared cords. My only relief comes from the fact that Flares are making a come back… and just to get back a little more esteem, I’ll tell Gen Y don’t do it! Knowing they’ll take no notice of me.

Gandhi supported the Indian cotton industry, in fact from memory such as it is (injury related), I believe he used that support to start his peaceful revolution against the British Empire, or to be more correct, the British Royal families East India Company business interests, which included Opium.

As far as the cotton industry is concerned, personally I find it offensive that foreign (American I believe) owned companies are growing cotton and Rice in Australia, and are I believe largely responsible for polluting what is arguably Australia’s most important river… the upside I guess is that their water uses is sooo excessive, that luckily the once Mighty Murry has almost run dry, saving us from being poisoned by the chemicals and pesticides used in the production of the cotton and rice crops. For those amongst you that don’t get Irony (most Americans) that was not just sarcasm but ironic sarcasm.

The cure of course is that we should swap Cotton for Hemp, which is a stronger and I believe better cloth, can be used to make high quality paper (no more cutting down trees for paper), insulation and building materials etc. and it will grow almost anywhere, requires less water, no chemicals, it actually improves the soil, and the seeds are a far better food source than Rice.

But they (the Americans) wont like that, it’s apparently OK to sell cigarettes which kill millions, but not Hemp (Pot) that has never in recorded history killed a single person… again for those that don’t get Irony, that’s yet another example. And what has all that to do with India… bugger all, I just thought I’d get it off my chest.

Amazing Ferrofluid

Video: Metacafe

I guess most of us were fascinated by magnets as kids… some of us never grow up, and why should we?

What ancients did for us - The INDIANS 3/6

Video: YouTube

Yet another important thing to come out of early India, and contra to accepted thoughts… it was India not the Arab world that came up with our current numbering system, but more importantly, the Indians it seems were the first to also come up with the number ‘0′.

Dancing Goop

Video: YouTube

A bit of flour and water, a speaker, some music and the flour comes to life in an alien way.

Recharge Non-rechargeable Batteries in Seconds

Video: Metacafe

I spent a relative fortune on ‘Rechargeable’ batteries, which are worse than useless because not only do they not fully charge, but when charged, they discharged themselves within a couple of weeks… I should have used the ‘bunny’ batteries instead. Anyway, here’s another alternative I’ll experiment with.

What ancients did for us - The INDIANS 2/6

Video: YouTube

Archeology has always intrigued me. About 4,500 years ago in present day Pakistan, the Harappan civilization (3,000–1,500 BCE) built what’s thought to be a remarkably advanced, extensive city built on a grid system, of some 30,000 people, totally unheard of before the Roman Empire 2,500 years later.

In this ancient planned city, homes had their own wells, drains and toilets, complete with an underground sewer system comprising of earthenware pipes, a first it seems on our planet. They also had developed an advanced method of casting intricate Bronze statues.

Ingesting Magic Mushrooms has Long Lasting Positive Effects…

Video: YouTube

No wonder they’re illegal… “spiritual significants and sustained positive changes in behavior”.

But the presenter talks about Timothy Leary allegedly claiming, that Timothy used the phrase, with regards to his own experiences, as a “mushroom induced psychotic trip”… somehow I don’t see Leary expressing his experience as a “mushroom induced psychotic trip”.

As for her “Hippie dippie 60s” jibe… a presenter who can’t get her facts straight and was not even alive in the 60s or 70s, and who’s probably basing her evaluation, on a series of presenters before her, who have gone sooo far from reporting the news, to rather producing the ‘news’ (ala Bill O’reilly’s FOX ‘news’)… that they, like Bill, have absolutely no creditability as far as I, and many others are concerned.

See two can play that game, actually she is just a presenter… she’s not responsible for the script, she probably doesn’t even know any better, but those behind the scenes probably know which side their bread’s buttered, and most likely have little or no conscience, which allows them to willingly, not only sell out themselves, but everyone else for their 30 pieces of silver… it’s amazing what Murdoch can buy for small change eh?

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