All my friends have earned some of these…

I stumbled upon a bunch of merit badges at “Science Creative Quarterly“

Most dorks I end up hanging around with are ~Level III “I’ve set fire to stuff” the level III means “…fully aware of all the thermodynamic principles at play”.

Adam Parkison is surely worthy of the “I may look like a scientist but I’m actually also a ninja”

we may all end up with the “I work with way too much radioactivity, and yet still no discernable superpowers yet” badge.

A cool badge/warning would be good for guys like Aaron and myself who have the ability to sap the fun out of a movie by pointing out why that was impossible- of course while simultaneously being cool with it if happens to be in movie we like.

Here is the link:
ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUTE AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE

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Even OPEC is talking about peak oil now…

This is out of the OPEC Bulletin (Nov-Dec, 06)

If you want to see the whole document you can get it directly here (PDF). Bottom line, what everyone already knows is coming from all sources- the end of cheap oil is here.

Lesson for today: Sloooow dooownn..

This sunday I tried to run another experiment, it ended with a “POOF”. I was ramping up the temperature and was somewhere in the neighborhood of 850 degrees F when it happened. My reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Mother Night’ was rudely interrupted- so it goes.