Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Feline Freakiness


Cats


Staring at nothing. Freaking you out.

Sleeping. Always.

Stretching. Claws like knives slicing the air.

Running. Like elephants. Loud. Like bugs. Silent.

Attacking your legs. Without warning. Scaring you to death.

Chasing anything that moves. Shredding. Attacking. Killing. Sleeping.

Climbing to the highest point. Watching the world below.

Condescending.

Better than all others.

Obedient, when they want. Rarely.

Controlling their surroundings.

Revenge as needed.

Strange, lovable creatures. Trouble-makers of fuzz.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Magnetic Minds?


Consider this tidbit. Your mind uses electro-chemical means to store memories. Synapses, dendrites, axions and other scientific labels describe parts of the brain.


But imagine if your brain stored information like a computer or other electro-mechanical device. A computer hard drive can be erased or severely damaged if exposed to a strong magnetic field. Imagine if your brain were as sensitive? What a mess the human race would be! Walk past a substation or near an MRI machine and poof! Your memory is scrambled or gone. Life would be short-lived at best if extreme safety measures weren't employed.


Aren't you glad you don't have a magnetic, digitized, randomly accessed memory controlled by ones and zeroes?


Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Color Blind


Is the color you see really the color your eyes and brain tell you it is? No. What!? Consider. If you look at a red car, the car is not really red. In actuality it is green. (The combination of blue and yellow.) What you are seeing are the light waves that have been reflected off of the surface. The other colors (blue and yellow) have been absorbed by the material. You are seeing cast off light rays of red light.


The same principle applies to all objects. A tree doesn't really have green leaves. They are red. But only in the spring and summer. In the autumn when you see the variety of colors such as red, yellow, orange and so on, you are seeing reflected light. In actuality, the tree leaves are absorbing such colors as green, purple, blue and more.


An isn't it interesting that when all colors of light waves are combined they make white light, but if you combine all colors of say paint, they make black?


Think. Ponder. See the light.