Godwin's law

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

Also see Poe's Law:

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

OK Go - Rube Goldberg Machine Music Video

The song is "This Too Shall Pass". The video was shot in a single take and is synced to the music. This clip was made to go viral and it did, the official video is here, and is also quite good.

OK Go is best known for their treadmill music video.

Hints of life found on Saturn moon

Two potential signatures of life on Saturn's moon Titan have been found by the Cassini spacecraft. But scientists are quick to point out that non-biological chemical reactions could also be behind the observations.

Titan is much too cold to support liquid water on its surface, but some scientists have suggested that exotic life-forms could live in the lakes of liquid methane or ethane that dot the moon's surface.

In 2005, Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field and Heather R Smith of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, calculated that such microbes could eke out an existence by breathing in hydrogen gas and eating the organic molecule acetylene, creating methane in the process.

This would result in a lack of acetylene on Titan and a depletion of hydrogen close to the moon's surface, where the microbes would live, they said.

Now, measurements from the Cassini spacecraft have borne out these predictions, hinting that life may be present.

More @ NewScientist

Golf Ball Slow Motion

Meanwhile at Saturn...

The Big Picture has a nice collection of recent images taken by Cassini around Saturn.

Saturn in natural color

The moon Titan in front of Tethys

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Politieke Economie van de Verkiezingen 2010 – Bas Jacobs

Bas Jacobs is hoogleraar economie en overheidsfinanciën aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Op dit blog staat zijn commentaar op de politieke economie van de verkiezingen 2010. Hij beschrijft geduldig de economische en financiële aspecten van de verkiezingsvoorstellen.

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Eerste lijsttrekkersdebat: waarom?

Breekpunt hypotheekrente: CDA buiten spel en einde loopbaan Balkenende?

Roemer (SP) en de economische werkelijkheid

Hoe kan op een economisch zinnige manier meer dan 50 miljard structureel worden vrijgespeeld?

Politieke partijen willen in 2011 tien keer meer bezuinigen dan in 2006

Economen kraken zichzelf

CPB: zegen voor de democratie

Deze blog verhuist naar Z24.nl

PVV: geen hoop en optimisme maar agressieve ontevredenheid

Griekenland, Odysseus en de Sirenen

Investeringen in HBO: gratis lunches bestaan niet

Verdere vergroening belastingen?

History repeats, failures and all

You may have missed it, but recently there was actually also a spill in Alaska.