Ramblings

I thought I would start off with a couple of quotations that I came across that caught my attention. The second quotation certainly applies to where I live.



" Don't try saving yourself without trying to save the rest of society, because you may end up having everything where nothing is worth having." (Socrates )



" It may be dangerous to be right when the government is wrong " ( Voltaire )



Um. Food for thought, don't you think?



Moving on. I some how found myself, this morning, thinking about the magnetic polarity of the earth. I'm sure it's something that has been on the minds of almost everyone, right? Well be that as it may, that is what I was thinking about. More specifically, I was wondering if the poles have always been where they are or have they at some point in the history of the planet been, for example, where the current equator is or where Miami is. You understand my dilemma. So, as always, I asked Google to check it out. As I was scanning the summaries of the multitude of options that Google presented, I came across several that made reference to the fact that the magnetic poles were actually in constant motion; that is, they are moving from one place to another in a relatively small area. Another option noted that the polarity of the earth flips every five hundred thousand to a million years. That looked interesting and I was about to open it when I was distracted by a link to another page upon which I clicked and I immediately lost all interest in the magnetic poles of the earth.



I found myself at http://www.physorg.com/ an absolutely wonderful place. If you like reading about whats going on at the cutting edge of science and technology, I highly recommend this web page.Here they have the latest news from, it appears to me, every science and technology known to mankind. It's just amazing. For me it was like a child that just stumbled into a room filled with the greatest toys in the world and he can't decide which toy to play with first. I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to read about first. Finally I choose on and when I looked up three hours had gone by. This is great stuff. To be sure, much of it was beyond my grasp but generally I understood enough to stay interested. This page is definitely in my list of favorites. You might want to check it for yourselves.

I hope these ramblings haven't been to boring. I'll get back to some heavier stuff soon I promise. I want take a crack at investment bankers. I'm sure they had as much or more to do with this financial and economic crisis than the commercial banks; but right now I only know enough about investment banks to be dangerous. Not to worry. Google will get me to where I want to be. Plenty of people a lot smarter than me have already taken them to task. That¡s okay. I still want to take my shot. Stay tuned.

So there you have it. Sense or nonsense?