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Radical ‘new’ tire design by Michelin

I know they've been out a while but I hadn't seen them till my niece Kelly sent me an e-mail with these photos. Anyway, I figured if I hadn't seen them maybe others hadn't either.

The accompanying blurb says:-

Radical new tire design by Michelin. The next generation of tires

These tires are airless and are scheduled to be out on the market very soon.

The bad news for law enforcement is that spike strips will not work on these tires.

This is what great R&D will do, and just think of the impact on existing technology:
A.) no more air valves...
B.) no more air compressors at gas stations....
C.) no more repair kits...
D.) no more flats...

I was surprised to see the new Michelin tires though on an Audi in a Philadelphia Car show, but I guess the Germans do make the world's best cars... they just cant win wars. So now I've both offended and pleased some Americans & Germans. Oh well, you can please some of the people etc. etc. Take the blue pill not the red one if it's a problem.

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Hell explained by a chemistry student

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, ‘It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,’ and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct……leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my God.’

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

National Anthems & Charecters

No need to panic folks, this ain’t going to be a flag waving exercise… well maybe I’ll do a little bit.

Initially I Stumbled upon the French National Anthem La Marseillaise. True to the spirit of the French, I find it a moving and beautiful national anthem. For me the French personify style, class, fine food and I guess Amor… they are lovers not fighters.

In general they are good people, they stayed out of Iraq and they are very socially minded. However, recently and inexplicably, they voted in Nicolas Sarkozy… duuh! But then, we did vote in John Winston Howard and the Americans voted in George W Bush, and look where that got us both. Just out of curiosity, do the Americans still call their French Fries Patriot Fries?

Casablanca - French National Anthem

Video: YouTube

Since the Germans get a mention in the above clip, I’ll declare there is some German blood flowing in my veins. The Germans are good people, they are great organizers and engineers, they build great cars and roads, however they are not noted for their cuisine… and they can’t win wars.

Aussies on the other hand, are up for helping the underdogs, we are very inventive, still have a sense of fairness, despite the fact that John Winston Howard did his best to kill off most of our good traits. We still for the most part are disrespectful of authority and pretentiousness, we are great organizers and engineers, we’re fans of the ironic, we’re good mates but really dangerous enemies, in WWI, WWII & Vietnam, Aussies, largely due to our self-reliant nature, were the first amongst the allies to win battles, and in fact in sooo many other areas we excel in proportion to our GDP and population… not unlike like our sheep loving cousins across ‘The Ditch’, the Kiwis (New Zealanders).

In those aforementioned wars the Aussie National Anthem of choice was Waltzing Matilda.

Waltzing Matilda

Video: YouTube

Sorry about Rolf Harris… like Rupert Murdoch he’s an expat, but the clip explains our alternative National Anthem.

The pretentious amongst us, you know politicians and the social elite, hate the idea of Waltzing Matilda being our National Anthem, they say a National Anthem about stealing etc. is unbecoming… most Rijidij Aussies would see the irony in that.

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Brilliant moon shot

Photo: ziza.ru

I found this brilliant image on a Russian website, not sure how much of it is real or photoshoped, either way it’s a nice shot.

Website: Nice moon shot

Best Secret Places In Google Earth

Video: Metacafe

This is a collection of awesome places around the world as seen from Google Earth. I like the fact that the coordinates are shown so we can go and see for ourselves. As Google’s images improve the pictures will also get easier for us to see.

Man barricaded in No mans land

Photo: Flickr Set by durotriges

We previously stated in an earlier post that the Island of No Mans Land Fort was for sale for 20 Million Dollars. We have now learnt that this is not the asking price.

The story as related by BBC news is that the Island is up for sale by creditors KPMG, due to the fact that the company who owns the island is in receivership.

The asking price for the island is a mere 4 Million Pounds or approximately 7.85 Million US Dollars.

In an even more amazing twist for the historical island, the previous owner, property developer Harmesh Pooni has recently barricaded himself on the island and refused to allow anyone to land by boat or helicopter.

“In a statement, a KPMG spokeswoman, said: “Mr Pooni has never been the freeholder of No Man’s Land Fort but was a director of Bob’s Leisure Limited a company, which was the registered freeholder of the fort, having purchased it using monies borrowed from Lexi Holdings Plc.”

“Bob’s Leisure Limited went into administration on 26 October 2004 and Mr Pooni was made bankrupt on 23 January 2006.

“Lexi Holdings Plc were left as a creditor of Bob’s Leisure Limited as the loan had not been repaid.

“It is our view that Mr Pooni is trespassing on the fort.”

“Mr Pooni said he came out of bankruptcy in November 2006 and Bob’s Leisure Limited was “reconstituted” in December 2007.

He claims he has a legal right to benefit from the proceeds of the sale of the fort

The battle is now set to move from the high seas to the High Court as it is the subject of possession proceedings, which were transferred there on 5 March.”

Website: Man barricaded in No mans land

20 Million dollars and you can have this island

Photo: Funis2cool.com

20 Million? Is that all, I’m on my way to the bank right now and see if they’ll lend me nineteen million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand five hundred. I’ll contribute the five hundred dollars of savings I put away for a rainy day, or any islands that may come up for sale.

The island is called No mans land fort and it is in a body of water called the Solent, which is located between Portsmouth and the Ilse of Wight in the South of England. The fort was built between 1867 and 1880 as a means of defense against potential attack from France.

Photo: Funis2cool.com

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That’s a load of Bull :) aka Chilli, the Largest bullock in the world

Photo: Funis2cool

Photo: Funis2cool

As Homer Simpson would say…. “Mmmm Monsanto Growth hormones.”

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I hope for your sake they’re practicing safe sex

For those who been with us a while I must confess that I’m prone to the occasional act, of what I guess could be call Anarchy. Well it all started when I was dragged out of the Kenyan Bush and at the not so tender age of about 7 or 8; we all know what absolute terrors come from that age. Anyway, I was taken to church by the school I’d just started in England.

Actually, now that I think about it there had been an earlier incident. A teacher had dragged me out of the class by my ear for saying bloody, and she’d threatened to wash my mouth out with soap. I had no idea what I’d done, I didn’t know what was the problem, I had after all only been in this, my first British school, for a couple of hours… it made no sense. Where I grew up bloody wasn’t a big deal, but then I didn’t realize I was a heathen. What I did know was I’d never been woman handled like that before and I did not like it one little bit, and I realized this race of people and me weren’t going to get on at all.

So getting back to the church thing. As far as I was concerned it was bullshit, so I told my mum, a Norwegian heathen; my father was a British heathen who went back to Africa after flying Spitfires there during WWII. Anyway, I did not want to go to church again, so I got my mum to write me a note. She also wrote me a note because I did not want to wear a school tie… nor a uniform for that matter, but I consented to wear similar colors; though later much nicer styling, and still later when they tried to give me spelling detention; I’m dyslectic though at the time we did not know that, I got my mum to write a note saying not to put me on detention.

OK so you have the picture I guess, I’m a hard ass, I’m in your face if you screw with me or mine… but I love my mum and I still ring her just about every week, and I like animals, even cats, though I will occasionally torment them as I did to my mother’s bossy horse, who tried to put me in her pecking order. So I drove her nuts to the point she would go to the furtherest end of the paddock to try, unsuccessfully, to stop me from patting her.

About now your wondering what is Beam on about? Well I’m about to use another dirty word…

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American robbery