Another Saturday after another week of strange doings from our man in DC….
Local–Tall ships arrive at NOLA for the 250th celebration….
New Orleans hosts a flotilla of international tall ships next week for the kickoff of Sail 250, which is part of the country’s 250th birthday celebrations.
Why it matters: The 12 ships will be open for free public tours along the Mississippi Riverfront.
The big picture: The vessels start arriving May 27. They’ll be open to the public Thursday, May 28, through Sunday, May 31.
Personal–Chemo yesterday has once again kicked my ass….so please forgive me if I go off the rails here or there.
My first beer was with my grandfather and it was a Schlitz and now it is going away….
A former American beer aisle mainstay is about to vanish. Pabst Brewing has shut down Schlitz after a 177-year run, ending the brand once known as the country’s biggest brewer and “the beer that made Milwaukee famous,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. To mark the exit, Wisconsin Brewing Co.’s Kirby Nelson will cook up one last 80-barrel batch on May 23 in Verona, using Schlitz’s 1948 recipe, which he calls a return to its “glory days,” when it was the nation’s top-selling beer.
Nelson tells Milwaukee magazine that he decided to give the beer a fitting send-off after a distributor told him that it had been quietly discontinued. “Things change, but Schlitz deserves better than just to be swept under the rug,” Nelson says. “It really needs to go out with dignity and respect.” Preorders for the final run open May 27 on the brewery’s website, with pickup starting June 27 at a public celebration; the beer will also pour at Old World Wisconsin’s July 4 anniversary event.
Schlitz’s story stretches from its 1849 founding as a Milwaukee tavern brewery, through decades as a corporate powerhouse and civic sponsor, to a fall triggered by cost-cutting recipe changes, labor strife, and plant closures. Sold off in the 1980s and relaunched by Pabst in 2008, Schlitz never fully reclaimed its former footprint. Stroh Brewing shifted Schlitz brewing operations out of Milwaukee after it bought the brand in 1982 and Nelson says it’s “flattering” to be able to brew the final batch of Schlitz in the city where it began. The brew, he says, “is Wisconsin Brewing Company’s love letter to our state.”
Bye to an old friend.
Let’s move on while I am upright….
Remember the film “The Matrix”?….well scientist think there may be something to it….
Physicist Melvin Vopson is trying to prove that information has a physical presence. If he can do that, it could lead to a fundamental shift in how we think about the universe and could even explain the presence of dark matter and dark energy.
Vopson, PhD, studies information theory at University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom and wants to conduct an experiment to confirm that elementary particles have measurable mass. If it turns out the way he expects, the results would prove that information has mass and is the fifth state of matter in the universe, along with gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states.
“More profoundly, it will show that our universe is mathematical and it would bridge a link between mathematics, computing, and the material [or] physical world,” Vopson said in an email. “This can radically transform the way we look at everything in physics and other sciences. This new component of matter in the universe could be the missing link in explaining so many unexplained phenomena including dark matter and dark energy.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71321055/dark-matter-universe-simulation/
I am not a big fan of Popular Mechanics but I thought it deserved a posting.
As long as we are into weird science…..not the movie but the ‘research’…..
What if you aren’t actually in control of your own destiny? What if another version of you from some parallel universe is steering the wheel of your life? Or, what if an infinite number of alternate “yous” are all tugging at the controls simultaneously?
That’s essentially the argument physicist Vlatko Vedral laid out recently in Popular Mechanics, using quantum physics to dismantle the idea that human consciousness magically creates reality.
First, let’s start by defining the “observer effect,” because it’s the widely accepted idea that Vedral is smashing apart. The observer effect is the idea that simply observing or measuring something inevitably alters it. One classic example is a tire pressure gauge. By checking tire pressure, you’re allowing a small amount of air to escape; thus, by merely observing/measuring, you have altered the subject.
New Theory Suggests That Alternate Universe Versions Of You Are Determining Your Fate
Does that explain anything for you?
When you are born you enter into a world with a blank slate of a brain, right?
Not so fast!
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
- For a long time, people have debated whether our brains are blank at birth or are already processing large amounts of information.
- By studying mice throughout their lives, scientists revealed that a network of neurons in the hippocampus starts out dense and chaotic, but later thins out and becomes more ordered.
- More research needs to be done on human brains, but it’s clear that even though most of us don’t remember ourselves as babies, our brains were working furiously.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71271507/brain-not-empty-at-birth/
Again it is Popular Mechanics….not a source that I rely on…..
Interested in acquiring and ‘ray gun”?
As the world’s de facto portal to the Chinese industrial machine, Alibaba probably doesn’t get as much credit as it should. With hundreds of thousands of sellers looking to supply their dirt-cheap wares directly to businesses, your typical entrepreneur is spoiled for choice. In the market for a military-grade diesel supply truck? They’ve got your back. Interested in an industrial gold trommel? Say no more!
But where the commoditized absurdity of Alibaba really shines, in our opinion, is in its cornucopia of bizarre laser products, a massive number of which are configured to look like handguns or even flashy, space-age rifles.
Although there are legitimate industrial-grade laser systems available on the conventional market, a motivated chaos enthusiast could easily get their hands on a pallet of handheld alternatives, like the pastel-colored “400W-500W handheld laser obstacle removal machine” sold on Alibaba by Shenzhen Liyang Welding Equipment Co Ltd for $885 to $1,150, depending on the model number and order size.
If you’re willing to shell out a little more, you could get your hands on the 1kW, 58V “remote-controlled igniter.” Sold by Gonglian International Trade (Nanjing) Co Ltd for just $1,600, a laser of this power can theoretically cut through 6mm of stainless or carbon steel, and is more than enough to cause blindness.
https://futurism.com/science-energy/alibaba-laser-weapons
You too can get a mini-death ray.
That does it for me……I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and as always…..B e Well and Be Safe….
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