Soooo much crap going on in the world.

Recommended reading. It's short and informative. Now I'm not any expert on economics this or that, and I don't feel qualified to make predictions about our fiscal future. However I don't have to be qualified in those areas to tell you that giving Goldman Sachs' CEO a $700 billion line of credit, supplied by taxpayers' money, and giving him the power to do whatever he so chooses to do with that money with no oversight and without any legal limitations on what he does with it is, um, FUCKING SCARY AND REALLY BAD IDEA, guys! I don't even know why there's a "debate" at all. And people are like, "Ohhh we have to act. We can't just do nothing." Okay, so our choices are either do nothing OR give Paulson $700 billion of our money ($2300 for every single man woman and child in this country)? Are you kidding? Do you think I'm in kindergarten or something? Are most people in this country so braindead? And this is when we're trying: we're experiencing a record high (less than half of us! WAY TO GO!) interest in "political" news.

Of all the crazy things, Sarah Palin would support a war with Russia. She's not even in office yet and she's already admitting to having her eye on our old Cold War "buddy." Nice.

To live up to the title of my blog and write about various interesting things, instead of just depressing interesting things, here is some information on sonoluminescence--a bubble turning sound into light guys!!:

"One other area of research may lead to a dynamic foam that of sonoluminescence, in which a very small gas bubble, floating in water, converts sound waves into a burst of light. The sound in generated at a frequency inaudible to humans, but it is as intense as that from a shrieking smoke alarm. In the water, the sound waves create alternating pulses of high and low pressure that make the bubble contract and expand in the same rhythm. At the bubble's maximum size of about fifty micrometers, the gas it contains exerts hardly any outward pressure. The surrounding water pressure then drives the bubble violently inward, shrinking it fifty times or more. At that point, the bubble emits a flash of light that comes and goes in mere trillionths of a second, as determined by physicist Seth Putterman at the University of California, Los Angeles. The flash repeats once every cycle of the sound waves, with such faultless regularity that sonoluminescing bubbles are used to time the motion of elementary particles moving near the speed of light.

The startling feature is that the light lies mostly in the invisible ultraviolet part of the spectrum. According to the laws of radiation, that means this tiny collapsing bubble, buried deep within a liquid, somehow reaches temperatures up to 100,000 degrees Celsius (180,000 degrees Fahrenheit), far hotter than the surface of the Sun.

The leading theory to explain sonoluminescence is that the rapid implosion creates a shock wave, a moving zone of high pressure where the gas in the bubble is greatly compressed, enormously raising its temperature. In support of this view, measurements in Putterman's laboratory show that the bubble contracts at greater than Mach 4, that is, four times the spaced of sound or thousands of miles per hour. Even more impressive is the acceleration of the bubble as it expands after compression, which is several billion times that of gravity. That would bring the bubble wall to the speed of light in a fraction of a millisecond, except it is not sustained for nearly that long a time. " [From Universal Foam by Sidney Perkowitz, which is book you can buy or check out of your library.]

Well, I don't know if you guys all knew about that or not, but if you did...shame on you for not telling me.