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Every black hole may hold a hidden universe - How would we know if we are living inside a black hole? Well, a spinning black hole would have imparted some spin to the space-time inside it, and this should show up as a "preferred direction" in our universe, says Poplawski. Such a preferred direction would result in the violation of a property of space-time called Lorentz symmetry, which links space and time. It has been suggested that such a violation could be responsible for the observed oscillations of neutrinos from one type to another From cw
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Arizona: Plane Crash Tragedy Still Hurts After 20 Years - Twenty years ago today, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 from Detroit to Phoenix crashed moments after taking off.
There were 155 people on board, 110 from Arizona.
Even with time, however, the numbers do not tell the story. The true scope of the tragedy is revealed in the flight manifest.
The entire Best family from Mesa, a mother and father and their three small children, died.
The Byelich family from Chandler was wiped out. Two branches of the Geiger family, one from Phoenix and one from Gilbert, died on the plane.
Justin Keener, a 12-year-old boy, was flying on his own for the first time.
His mother and stepfather did not hear news of the crash until they arrived at the airport and wondered who would be paging them.
Despite all that, the crash of Flight 255 may be best remembered for the one passenger who made it.
The survival of the passenger in Seat 8C, Cecelia Cichan, continues to astound because the crash was remarkable for its ferocity even in the physics of air disasters. From NeoCon
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Left-Wing Media Can't Find the Oil - So where did the oil go? "Some of the oil evaporates," explains Edward Bouwer, professor of environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University. That’s especially true for the more toxic components of oil, which tend to be very volatile, he says. Jeffrey W. Short, a scientist with the environmental group Oceana, told the New York Times that as much as 40 percent of the oil might have evaporated when it reached the surface. High winds from two recent storms may have speeded the evaporation process. From NeoCon
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Democrats Run and Hide from Arizona's Jan Brewer - Brewer’s star is on the rise. Her primary challengers have dropped out, she leads comfortably in the polls and her endorsement is highly sought after outside Arizona’s borders, where her stature is growing among conservatives. From NeoCon
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Jack Devine: The CIA Solution for Afghanistan - It's time to face this reality. We should start by developing a new covert action plan to be implemented by the Central Intelligence Agency. The strategy should focus on forging the kinds of relationships necessary to keep Afghanistan from re-emerging as al Qaeda's staging ground once our forces depart, and also on continuing the hunt for Osama bin Laden. From NeoCon
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American Soldiers Will Die Because of WikiLeaks - American service members will die because of the WikiLeaks "service to humanity." And nobody in Washington seems to have noticed.
Afghans will die, too. A lot of them. In just a few hours of data-mining, Britain's The Times unearthed the names of hundreds of Afghans who've helped us. Information about their families and home villages is in there, too. From NeoCon
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White Teenager Assaulted for Listening to Rap Music - The suspect told the man to turn off his music, adding that he was "white and he shouldn't be listening to rap music." When the victim replied that he "could listen to whatever he wants," the suspect "repeatedly" punched him in the face. From NeoCon
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Swedish policeman dancing - Swedish Police, Party Unit ! This cop in Malmo may not have the threads but he certainly has the moves.
From alex
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Bush Memoir Release Has Republicans Concerned - With the 2010 election season underway, Republicans are reportedly concerned about how the impending release of former President George W. Bush's memoir, Decision Points, may affect the party's success at the polls come November.
While the widely-anticipated book from Bush isn't set to be released until November 9 -- one week after votes are cast across the country -- details from the text have already begun to leak out. From popper
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Baby drowns after baptism - Police are investigating Father Valentin for accidential homicide after witnesses at the ceremony said the priest did not cover the baby's mouth during the ritual, The Sun newspaper reports. From Nony
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Tennessee Official Says Islam May Be a 'Cult' - Tennessee's lieutenant governor, Ron Ramsey, has been asked to explain recent comments captured on video in which he suggested that Muslim Americans might not have a constitutionally protected right to worship in the United States. What a fucking ass ... Same can be said of Christians. From Nony
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Pentagon can't account for $8.7 billion in Iraqi funds - Reporting from Baghdad — The Defense Department is unable to properly account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil revenue entrusted to it between 2004 and 2007, according to a newly released audit that underscores a pattern of poor record-keeping during the war. From Nony
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SUITCASE STICKERS - ake a stand against monotonous travel with Suitcase Stickers. Designed to stick to anything, they will draw attention to your bag making it easily identifiable and sure to make you some new friends. From Nony
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BP Photoshops Another Official Image Terribly - This week it came to light that BP had photoshopped—poorly—an official image of their crisis command center. Apparently, that wasn't an isolated incident. Let's take a closer look at this view from a helicopter, shall we? From Nony
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Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 - WikiLeaks - 25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers, and mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related details. From Nony
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Alabama bingo losers sue to get their money back based - Getting lost wagers back might seem futile. But it's actually addressed in state law, albeit in a 158-year-old state law. Red State Idiots are sore losers! So if they had won, would they have given back the money? From Nony
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BBC News - Canadian priest sorry for giving dog Holy Communion - A priest in Canada has apologised after giving Holy Communion to a dog.Reverend Marguerite Rea of St Peter's Anglican Church, in Toronto, received complaints from Christians all over Canada after she fed communion bread to a German Shepherd cross named Trapper. From Nony
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Fermilab homes in on Higgs mass - Experiments at Fermilab have narrowed the range of possible masses for the Higgs Boson – the elusive particle that physicists hope to see for the first time at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The results rule out about one quarter of the previous mass range for the Higgs and boost the chances that it will be rather lightweight – and therefore more difficult to detect. From cw
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Obama Breaks Up America Into Tribes - Barack Obama promised a new era of post-partisanship. In office, he's played racial politics and further split the country along class and party lines. From NeoCon
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Prairie Wlarus - A marine walrus finds itslef in a dugout on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. For those who don't know, Sask. is as similar to a marine environment as Nebraska. From Tommy Canuck
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Americans Love the Military, Hate the Media - The military continues its long-standing run as the highest-rated U.S. institution. Small business and the police occupy second and third places, respectively. These three top-tier institutions all earn high confidence from a majority of Americans, something no other institution achieves this year. From NeoCon
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FOX NEWS Dominates - Fox News continued its domination of cable news ratings in July. The network averaged 1.85 million viewers in primetime for the month--more than CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined. Fox News also drew 461,000 viewers in the coveted A25-54 demo. From NeoCon
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Hundreds of Afghans Could Be Killed Because of WikiLeaks - What will this mean for the war effort? The US will probably have to move all of the people named in the documents and their families, which means they won’t be able to continue in their current efforts. After this exposure, we’ll have a lot of trouble finding anyone else who wants to work with us on the ground in Afghanistan, which makes our efforts there a hell of a lot more complicated, and will probably result in more dead Americans as well as Afghans. From NeoCon
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Chevy's Volt Is Only for Rich Liberals - The long-anticipated Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' electric car, will cost $41,000, the company announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above that of similarly sized conventional autos. From NeoCon
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