Tag Archives: geology

Deep Political Time

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Lee

When James Hutton, the father of modern geology, took his friend John Playfair to look at some stratified sedimentary rock, and Playfair realized that he was gazing into a chemical abyss recording the passage of hundreds of millions of years, … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, History | Tagged 1932, antiquity, deep time, democratic, geology, HP Lovecraft, James Hutton, John Playfair, November, popular vote, Presidential elections, presidential politics, Republican, sedimentary rock, strata, Time, timescale, votes | Leave a comment

Armies of the Obsolete

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Lee

Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling | website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner … Continue reading →

Posted in Lee's Page, Military Matters, Technology | Tagged 1990s, al Qaeda, cartridge games, CDR, compact discs, Culture, Earth, electronics, energy, engineering, engines, environmental, extraterrestrial civilizations, games, geology, Greeks, human civilization, infrared targeting, laser guided munitions, light guns, media storage, military technology, modernity, oil, petroleum, physics, post-vietnam, resources, Rob Stradling, science, security threats, SEGA, slave labor, Stephen Hawking, Technology, technology transfer, Terrorism, Transportation, West, Yemen | Leave a comment

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