Cynic Root

Nasa has gone as far as Titan (Saturn’s moon) to find oil.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20080730.html
I’m opening the inter-planetary commodities business: we’re going to import oil from Titan and make a stop-over in mars to pick up water as well.
I’m now analyzing the business plan for this. What is the price of oil that makes this worth while?

Water has been found on Mars http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080731.html, http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4275923.html
It is believed that these water could be soon bottled and sent back to earth, creating the most exclusive brand of mineral water yet.
It is now hoped that no local life form is found to claim this new source.

What happens when the ice caps melt? Sit back and enjoy the ride.
Run for the hills, the icecaps are melting.
Humanity makes another giant step into the realms which were once reserved only for science fiction. Technology has just enabled us to see what happens when the ice caps melt.
Experts say that the northern pole’s ice [...]

I’m not that much of a Twitter user, but it seems that recently no blog is complete without saying something about twitter.
Twitter had a lot of downtime over 1-2Q08. It made all blogs talk about twitter even more, a lot more:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/20/twitter-something-is-technically-wrong/, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/31/hey-twitter-i-have-a-few-questions-too/
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/23/201251
http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/15/twitter-down/
(Simply search “twitter AND down”. Actually, just search “twitter”).
It even makes me talk about [...]

Do you know those life vest demos you get every time you go on a plane? Why do they have life vests on large planes in the first place?
Yes, theoretically your 747 can ditch on water and you can calmly exit the plane following the lighting on the floor and inflate your life vest. But [...]

Revshare with US operators.
In the US, operators get up to 15c per text RECEIVED by mobile users.
Suppose twitter got just 1c per text Twitter sent.
Every time Robert Scoble goes to sleep Twitter would make about 200$
Admittedly, that’s assuming Scoble is followed to people’s mobile, which most people probably don’t. Unless they really like their mobiles [...]

Question in statistics- What is there more of?
Blogging about blogs?
Twitting about twitter?
Friendfeeding about friend feed?
Blog bashing twitter?
Friendfeed bashing twitter?
probably not twitter bashing twitter because most twitterbashing happens when twitter is down.
The irony in discussing this…

cientists are now activating the LHC in CERN near Geneva. Physicists believe that tiny black holes might appear and disappear in the process.
(http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=quantum-black-holes)
Some people (including some scientists) claim that the black holes might not disappear, and the entire earth might collapse into one of those black holes. There has actually been a law suit demanding [...]