Daily Archives: 08/17/2006
Cloning Neanderthals Is A Bad Idea
A time traveler from the year 2116 has startled scientists with dire warnings about the future of Mankind a little more than a century into the future. Arriving in a ball of blue plasma outside the White House, the naked man was taken into custody by secret service agents. Some members of the press were present for an unrelated event and managed to take a few pictures, which were promptly confiscated. However, witnesses report hearing the man screaming, “Cloning Neanderthals is not cool, man!”
—Time Traveler From Year 2116 Warns Scientists
This Is Just to Say
- I have eaten
the lime ‘n chili almonds
that were in
the tin can - and which
you were probably
saving
for a snack - Forgive me
they were delicious
so salty
and so tart
With apologies to Alex and William Carlos Williams
Planemos And Plutos
Will all the talk about what constitutes a planet last week, let’s pay a visit to some newly discovered objects out there in the universe that are quite unusual. Dubbed ‘planemos’ – or planetary mass objects, these twins orbit each other in the depths of space, with no parent star holding them in gravitational thrall. Is it still a planet with a sun?