Links posted on October 27, 2004
For those of you who frequent a certain burrito place, you might want to go there this Sunday. (It involves free food.)
I got an invitation to an open house at my alma mater, The University of Maryland, for a new experiment getting ready to run in their complex systems group.
The experiment is going to try to test the idea, put forward 80 years ago by Joseph Larmor, that planetary magnetic fields are the result of dynamo action in the liquid metal in the outer core of the planet.
So what does the group at maryland do? They build an experiment. Sound difficult? I mean, what do you build, how do you do it? and where do you get molten iron? well, how about starting with a 3 meter diameter spherical shell, and instead of iron, because thats too dangerous, how about filling the shell with liquid sodium, and then spin the whole thing up to 12 Hz.
So, who wants to road trip to maryland to see 13 tons of molten sodium spinning faster than you ever did on a merry-go-round?
Arafat
Who want's to take bets on Arafat living through the next couple of days? My money's on the one way ticket to hell...
Maybe Sharon can get with the program and keel over soon too.
Another reason for natedogg (and probably most of the people who view this site) to root for the Green Bay Packers this Sunday.
Aaaacchhhoooo... Now if they could genetically engineer them without teeth and claws...