We have no idea when or how scientists will create an alternate universe, but we have all kinds of opinions on what they should do with it once it is created. We propose giving it to the Jews of Israel. That way the Jews can occupy the same space as they do now, but in an alternate universe where they don’t have to face the hostiles daily.

Surprisingly, the nothingness outside our universe is not a static boring place. Quantum activity creates random space-time bubbles that may expand to become universes, just like ours. Visualize it as flatulence in the bathtub. Small bubbles tend to collapse before they grow up to become universes, as the pressure inside the bubble is always less than the pressure outside.

Scientists have been working to create universes in the lab. Eduardo Guendelman and his colleague Jacov Portnoy, both from Ben Gurion University, figured out how to factor in fields of energy known as “gauge fields” to the bubble’s surface, holding it at a constant radius. “With that in place, all you need to do is sit there, watch the small bubble and wait for the large bubble to appear,” says Guendelman. Only one problem remained, you could sit there forever waiting. Unlike God, we do not have eternity. Read more >

Americans on average consume 15 lbs of watermelon in a year. Expect this to increase now that scientists discovered that watermelon contains a substance with Viagra like effects. As its name implies, the fruit is composed of 92% water, sugar and some red dye. However, it also contains lots of vitamins and lycopene, a disease fighting antioxidant. Bottom line, if you eat lots of watermelon you’ll be healthy, horny and run to the bathroom frequently. Read more >

Mixing the scientific work of satellite TV channel Bravo with a bit of amateur Photoshop magic enabled us to uncover the final stages of human evolution, as our race deteriorates back to its primitive origins.

The last three figures on the right look a lot like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich and Daily KOS lunatic Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Things are not going to end well. In 100,000 years or so, the human race will split into two groups. One group will look like a seven foot tall George Clooney, the other like Danny DeVito.

According to evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000 and it will be all downhill from there.

The future for our descendants isn’t all long life, perfect bodies and chiseled features, however.

While humans will reach their peak in 1000 years’ time, 10,000 years later our reliance on technology will have begun to dramatically change our appearance.

Medicine will weaken our immune system and we will begin to appear more child-like.

Dr Curry said: “The report suggests that the future of man will be a story of the good, the bad and the ugly.

“While science and technology have the potential to create an ideal habitat for humanity over the next millennium, there is the possibility of a monumental genetic hangover over the subsequent millennium due to an over-reliance on technology reducing our natural capacity to resist disease, or our evolved ability to get along with each other.

“After that, things could get ugly, with the possible emergence of genetic ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’.”

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German researchers have demonstrated that chimpanzees make better survival choices than Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister of Israel.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig studied the chimp’s choices by using an economic game with two players. In the game, a human or chimpanzee who receives something of value can offer to share it with another.

If the proposed share is rejected, neither player gets anything.

Humans typically make offers close to 50 percent of the reward. They also reject as unfair offers of significantly less than half of the reward, even though this choice means they get nothing.

The study, however, showed chimpanzees reliably made offers of substantially less than 50 percent, and accepted offers of any size, no matter how small.

The researchers concluded chimpanzees do not show a willingness to make fair offers and reject unfair ones. In this way, they protect their self interest and are unwilling to pay a cost to punish someone they perceive as unfair.

The study appeared in the Oct. 5 issue of the journal Science.

Mahmoud Abbas, “President” of the PLO, is demanding that Olmert, make a generous offer. Read more >

He is not mentally retarded; he is a civil servant. You can work as a civil servant with an IQ of 75?

Man with tiny brain shocks doctors

A man with an unusually tiny brain manages to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, which was caused by a fluid build-up in his skull. Scans of the 44-year-old man’s brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue (see image, right).

“It is hard for me [to say] exactly the percentage of reduction of the brain, since we did not use software to measure its volume. But visually, it is more than a 50% to 75% reduction,” says Lionel Feuillet, a neurologist at the Mediterranean University in Marseille, France.

Feuillet and his colleagues describe the case of this patient in The Lancet. He is a married father of two children, and works as a civil servant.
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Here are two stories that illustrate how two peoples living side by side can still be poles apart.

Farfour, the Hamas mouse, is dead. Long live Nahool, the Hamas bee. Nahool wants you to know that Jew killing is still in vogue despite the brutal killing of his cousin Farfour by an Israeli agent.

Meantime back in Israel scientists are treating cancer using viruses.

Researchers from the Hebrew University have succeeded in isolating a variant of the Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV-HUJ), which usually affects birds, in order to specifically target cancer cells. The research, which has already cleared the first phase of clinical trials, is already patented and if all goes well it might receive an approval for clinical use, changing the way we think about viruses forever. Read more >

Cal Thomas’ analogy equating Islam to a slow spreading cancer whipped up a storm amongst the Islamists and their appeasers. We have frequently equated those appeasers to HIV. Like the virus, they weaken our immune system so the Islamists can move in for the kill. Analogies are used to provide insight and clarity. The cancer analogy is useful but imprecise, so we borrowed a better one from Mother Nature, the source of all good analogies.

We are talking, of course, about the relationship between the ichneumonid wasp Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga and the orb-weaving spider Plesiometa argyra. Dr. William G. Eberhard’s paper explaining the parasitic relationship in the Journal of Arachnology is here. Damn Interesting has an excellent summary in Mind-Controlling Wasps and Zombie Spiders.

In the forests of Costa Rica, there lurks a sinister variety of wasp, bent on hijacking the minds of hapless spiders for its own ends. Left unmolested, a variety of orb spider known as “Plesiometa argyra” spends every day of its life carefully reconstructing its perfectly round web, and feasting on the insects unfortunate enough to become snagged upon it. But should one of these spiders fall victim to this as-yet-unnamed species of wasp, the spider is stripped of its free will, and made to spend the last evening of its existence building a protective shelter for the larvae that infect it.

It is a true example of mind control in nature, and though scientists are well aware of the method of infection, they are uncertain exactly how the mind control is accomplished. When a wasp successfully attacks a host spider, the spider is temporarily paralyzed as the wasp lays eggs on the tip of the spider’s abdomen. Once the wasp departs, the spider regains its ability to move, and it continues its daily web construction for the next two weeks as though nothing has changed. Meanwhile, the wasp’s growing larvae cling to the spider’s belly and feed on its juices through a number of small punctures.
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