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Pigkey or Monklet?

 

There is not much I can say about this. The people who own this pig have no idea how it got so… strange.

Story here.

 

-R-

http://www.geekabout.com/2008-01-03-440/top-17-most-bizarre-sights-on-google-earth.html

My personal favorites are the wildlife and product placing. It is so crazy how far the companies will go to get you to buy their terrible products.

 

-R-

Just finished the upgrade to wordpress 2.6.  It was very simple and well explained.  Hats off to the wordress.org crew.

Jason

A video from a model rocket I just bought.  As you can see I didn’t time out the launch right and all you see is the very end of the coast phase and the parachute deployment.

I was reading some articles at WFAA.com and read one about a child left unattended, bloody dog fight broke out in child’s bedroom, and then rescued by police. 

The actual title reads “Parents charged after baby trapped by dogfight.”  The very first sentence is “A couple was charged Monday with child endangerment after their unattended baby was found trapped by a bloody dogfight at their Friendswood home.”  The first thing I thought was that the parents should be punished severely and thank goodness the child was rescued.  But when I got half way through the story I find out that there were two older siblings in the house with the baby, 13 and 11 years old.

Now this is different.  Now it does not sound so bad.  The baby was not left alone or unattended. 

The world around us is bad enough that the media doesn’t need to hype every news story.

Full article text here.

That post about the Techno Chicken reminded me of the infamous Techno Viking.  Enjoy.

 

Here is a video of techno chicken used to make a commercial for Domino’s in Australia.

 

Warning!! This is most likely going to be one of my larger posts. That means I will have many more grammatical and spelling errors. I am a lousy writer and barely passed English and Literature all through high school and college. I am trying my best so please hang with me. That said, I hope my posts are still some what informative and entertaining.

I was listening to Skeptoid, one of my new favoritest podcasts, and he had an episode about microwave ovens. He cited some misleading facts stated on various sites on the net saying that microwave ovens cause cancer and such and how they are wrong. So taking the advise given by the author of Skeptoid, I decided to look into this myself. I did a search in Google for “microwave hazard” and found a link to “The Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking.” This page had the same hazards described in the Skeptoid episode. One of the sections of the page stood out to me and was not covered in the Skeptoid episode, “Microwaved blood kills patient.”

Microwaved blood kills patient

In 1991, there was a lawsuit in Oklahoma concerning the hospital use of a microwave oven to warm blood needed in a transfusion. The case involved a hip surgery patient, Norma Levitt, who died from a simple blood transfusion.

It seems the nurse had warmed the blood in a microwave oven. This tragedy makes it very apparent that there’s much more to “heating” with microwaves than we’ve been led to believe. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. In the case of Mrs. Levitt, the microwaving altered the blood and it killed her.

It’s very obvious that this form of microwave radiation “heating” does something to the substances it heats. It’s also becoming quite apparent that people who process food in a microwave oven are also ingesting these “unknowns”.

In the instance above, the microwave oven that warmed the blood did not kill the patient, the nurse did. The outcome would have been the same if the blood was cooked in a similar manner such as being put in a pot of boiling water.

With the way microwave ovens work, there is no true low setting or high setting. They work in the same manner that most conventional ovens work, being gas or electric. The burner in the oven will stay on until the desired temperature is reached and then shut off. When the temperature drops below a specified threshold the burner will turn back on until the desired temperature is reached again and will continue the process over and over again. Same goes for your home heat and air conditioner. This same principle works in microwave ovens. It’s just that the microwaves are much more efficient in heating the water molecules. Thus the stuff being heated is actually being cooked almost instantly. If your microwave oven does have settings for various power levels, you will notice by the sound it makes that the microwaves are being turned on and off in the same manner as described above.

But since it is hard to get an equal distribution of waves through the entire substance being cooked, it is often cooked unevenly. From my anecdotal observations it is usually hot on the outside and cold on the inside. So when the nurse heated the blood in the microwave she essentially cooked some of the blood cells and did not affect the others. Since some were heated and other still cold the net effect, once mixed, would be warm blood. The same would happen if the blood pouch was placed in pot of boiling water. The blood on the outside of the pouch would have been cooked and the inside would have stayed cool.

According to the American Association of Blood Banks Standards of 2000 hemolysis (bursting of red blood cells) will occur if blood is heated above 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit.) So the blood that was transfused back into the patient was damaged. It was not the radiation of the microwaves that turned the blood into radioactive goo or changing the electrical forces of the blood or whatever else the anti microwave oven people are saying. It was human error that caused the death. Which unfortunately is the same reason most deaths happen in and outside hospitals.

If you don’t agree with any or part of this, look up the info yourself and let me know what you find by adding comments to this post. I will be more than happy to change my mind, provided the proper evidence.

Jason