The Professor’s Notes

A while back I wrote about the abiogenic theory of petroleum production. According to Wikipedia:
The theory of abiogenic petroleum origin holds that natural petroleum was formed from deep carbon deposits, perhaps dating to theformation of the Earth. The ubiquity of hydrocarbons in the solar system is taken as evidence that there may be a [...]

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A brief respite from the Jesus Floor…
Faithful readers may remember my post about the Russian News Agency incorrectly referring to the “Dark Side of the Moon.” (No, not the music…)  Well, here is another apparently common mis-perception.  I say common because I have been told the local TV media made the same mistake.
So, dear readers… [...]

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Several people have asked some very good questions. I figured I would answer a few now!

“Did it suddenly appear?” A very good question. Actually I have been staring at it for a while, and wasn’t sure I wanted to say anything about it. Hey, you see a religious figure in your bathroom [...]

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I came across this quote today, and wanted to share it with you all:

“When you make the finding yourself - even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light - you’ll never forget it.” Carl Sagan

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Did you want to know what we talked about before we recorded part two? Well here it is!
Quoted from my Brother’s site:
Two Bradys, Two Brothers, Two Doctorates, and at least Two Views.
We discuss our different set ups, Windows for Steve (XP) and Mac OSX for Chris. I followed the directions found here.
More topics covered:

Honda [...]

 

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“Spinal Tap reunites to fight Climate Change”
In MY mind it’s not too bizarre that a “fictional band” is “reuniting” to fight a fictional problem.
All kidding aside, I am not a “disbeliever” in climate change. I do remain unconvinced that mankind is responsible for it. More to follow later, when I put [...]

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Many blogs and websites these days, including one of my favorites, Supply Chain Innovations Today, are using rss newsfeeds to provide news and information services right next to their (our?) insightful comments and commentary.
I couldn’t help but chuckle when I saw these two news stories, as the top two stories on the “I, Ramble” site.

Now, [...]

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It’s not every day that I get to write a blog that essentially “corrects” a story from the Russian News and Information Agency, but today, I thought I would quickly write a note about what is perhaps a simple, yet significant, error.
In a story, titled “Russia to join U.S. lunar exploration program if funded” [...]

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My brother has chosen to poke the hornet’s nest, by writing about Richard Dawkins, and his apparent attack on no lesser figure than God Himself. Prior to his posting, he and I had several conversations about this topic, and the broader view that there is a strong “anti-religion” movement amongst the scientific world as [...]

 

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As many of you know, one of my research areas of interest is “Space Logistics” and “Interplanetary Supply Chain Management.” We presented three papers a conference in April, and one of them (lead-author by Mke M) looked at Submarines as an analogy to long duration space missions.
NASA has another on-going mission—NEEMO. This mission titled [...]

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