Mostly about my amusement

Day: August 27, 2008 (page 1 of 1)

Cleaned up the bedroom of dead yellow jackets

A picture tells the story.

64 dead yellow jackets

There were 65 dead ones, mostly around the windows. Yellow jackets die off quickly and try to get out via the windows.

Friday we will open up the closet.  I’m betting there will be well over 200 hundred dead ones.

Holy Larry Niven! Lasers could be used to communicate in space!

Scientists at an Italian observatory this year succeeded in firing lasers at the mirror-covered Ajisai Japanese satellite, proving that a sequence of photons can travel great distances through space.

Quantum Key Encryption Information Security – Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Quantum Mechanics – Popular Mechanics.

It’s an article about quantum key encryption but the title made me laugh.  Larry Niven has been writing about communication lasers almost as long as he’s been writing.