The Times They Are A Changing

Is shooting wolves and bears okay? Sarah Palin may be trying to follow in the path of the Regan administration, tell them enough times and they’ll believe it. Palin says she’s and environmentalist, but we are all wondering what that means to her. She seems to have her own definition. In order to save caribou and moose, she’s sanctioned aerial shooting of wolves and bear in her state of Alaska. Perhaps she hasn’t heard, but nature generally knows how to take care of itself. In fact, she went one step further, $150 was offered for every killed wolf, by her administration. Without any scientific justification, Sarah Palin has set an antiquated law in place to garner votes from her sport hunter citizens.

Her further abysmal record in environmental issues deserves closer examination. Palin’s belief in a non-human source of global warming has, apparently kept her from making any changes in the state of the last frontier, Alaska. With nothing more than meetings on the subject, she watched as the Arctic ice shrunk to its lowest levels during the last two years.

Sarah Palin argued and filed suit with the Bush administration over her vision that Polar bears are no longer endangered. She said she was in possession of a scientific review that proved the point. However, she could not or would not produce the document. Further, Alaskan marine mammal scientists continue to agree with the fact that Polar bears are in serious trouble as their habitat of sea ice is in great reduction.

This time the American public won’t be fooled by the Regan approach of just saying it makes it so. We have brains and we aren’t as dumb as McCain and Palin would like to think we are.

Large Hedron Collider - Particle Collider Success

Geneva, September 10, 2008 - Two beams of protons were fired around and underground ring in opposite directions using the Large Hedron Collider in a science experiment. Scientists believe it will be the next important step in understanding what makes the universe tick. It’s like a giant science fair project.

Scientists around the country were glued to their computer screens when at 10:26 am two white points flashed on the computer using the large Hedron Collider. The beams had journeyed clockwise to meet the ring and met. The physics or science experiment was a success. All scientists, both competitors and those who worked on the project (CERN) rejoiced together.

Five hours elapsed and they fired two more beams, using the large Hedron Collider, heading in counter clockwise direction for another success. So we now can smash components of atoms together. The eventual purpose is to fire beams that will recreate a time just post big bang which is still just a theory believed to have created our universe.

Another theory, that Atlantis once existed and blew itself up in an attempt similar to these experiments might cause some concern not only to the general population of earth, but especially those who have studied the believed history of the continent, Atlantis. Have we now just learned the science necessary to sink parts of the world as Atlantis once was (using the Large Hedron Collider)?

Would such a cataclysm be possible again, in our own time? Will we relive history? The scientists certainly were holding their breaths, waiting for either success or failure. A failure of unknown consequences. Will it be a giant science fair project gone wrong.

“My first thought was relief,” said Evans, a scientist involved in the project since 1984. “This is a machine of enormous complexity. Things can go wrong at any time. But this morning has been a great start.” A science fair project idea?