A 2,400 ft. tunnel was recently discovered along the U.S./Mexican border:

The tunnel begins near the Mexican city of Tijuana, travels under a heavily fortified stretch of frontier, and is equipped with lights and ventilation ( Read more... )

The smallest known planet orbiting a normal star(i.e. a main sequence star and not something like a neutron star) has been discovered:

"The team has discovered the most Earth-like planet yet,” said Michael Turner, assistant director for the mathematical and physical sciences directorate at the National Science Foundation, which supported the work.
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Major hurdle cleared:


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The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Denver Broncos 34-17 yesterday while the Seattle Seahawks won over the Carolina Panthers 34-14. So, it's going to be Seattle vs. Pittsburgh for the Superbowl Championship. A few years ago, I'd have laughed at you if you told me the Seahawks would make it this far ( Read more... )

...but I did it anyway. I now have a MySpace. I'm mostly going to use it to track down a few old friends who left LiveJournal entirely. Feel free to add me if you have an account there.

Here's what I'd like to say to my grandchildren:

"In my day we we didn't have those fancy fuel cells. No, we had to fill our cars up with something called gasoline. We used to buy the stuff to make it with from the Arabs, who liked to price gouge us for because we're infidels. Gah, you kids like to whine a lot but you just don't realize how easy ( Read more... )

A lot of people have always hated Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. In the past, I'd always chalked their hatred up to jealousy over his vast wealth.

Boy, was I ever wrong about that. Bill Gates is actually an evil, conniving bastard who helps authoritarian regimes crush the free exchange of ideas:

Microsoft's action raises a key question: ( Read more... )

Remember the two Mars rovers we sent to the Red Planet nearly two years ago? They were only supposed to last about three months. Well, guess what? They're still going:

NASA's robot rovers are still trundling across the surface of Mars, about 21 months after scientists expected them to sputter to a halt ( Read more... )

Remember my entry about the hyperspace drive? I have an update:

Hey, just wanted to mention that Newscientist ran this as their cover story this week. The theory its based on has been used to predict the mass of subatomic particles, and the results they get match experimental data from colliders to within the margin of error (the currently ( Read more... )