Also, I never knew ita shared her birthday with this:
Edison electrocuted an elephant 105 years ago today
Today's the anniversary of Thomas Edison's vicious electrocution of a live elephant in order to prove the dangers of Nikola Tesla's alternating current and the safety of his competing direct current.
When the day came, Topsy was restrained using a ship's hawser fastened on one end to a donkey engine and on the other to a post. Wooden sandals with copper electrodes were attached to her feet and a copper wire run to Edison's electric light plant, where his technicians awaited the go-ahead.
In order to make sure that Topsy emerged from this spectacle more than just singed and angry, she was fed cyanide-laced carrots moments before a 6,600-volt AC charge slammed through her body. Officials needn't have worried. Topsy was killed instantly and Edison, in his mind anyway, had proved his point.
A crowd put at 1,500 witnessed Topsy's execution, which was filmed by Edison and released later that year as Electrocuting an Elephant.
Poor Topsy - just a pawn in the titanic struggle between Edison and Tesla....
Happy Birthday ita! Kick this year's ass.
Love matress.
Has a series of slots for feet, elbows, etc.
Kinda' cool, but must be a bitch to keep clean....
Scientists to Make Cows Fart Like Kangaroos to Cool the Planet
Cow farts are a source of greenhouse gases, while kangaroo farts are methane free thanks to a particular bacteria in their stomachs. Now, in a bizarre twist of science-reality, scientists from Australia are trying to neutralize cow-produced methane by transferring that kangaroo bacteria to cattle and sheep’s guts. According to the government of Queensland, almost 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions from Australia come from cow farts, so this seemingly silly idea could actually make a big difference.
You know, the reason we don't allow students to listen to music in school may have less to do with their paying attention and more to do with it driving everyone else CRRRAZY. Man, this kid is really getting up my nose.
I think it's cow burps that produce most of the methane, not the farts, but still.
If people just stopped eating so much red meat they wouldn't have to go messing with their digestive systems anyway.
ION, it doesn't feel like Friday until I see the Friday Cephalopod.
Where is it???
ION, it doesn't feel like Friday until I see the Friday Cephalopod. Where is it???
Maybe it's there but you can't see it. Cephalopods are the masters of camouflage after all.
