Admit One / mental gymnasium
(like sit-ups for your brain)

Whoopie! Admit one is six years old this month.

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Fourty one years ago, man took his first steps on the moon.
When you think of the incredible odds against that monumental
task and then think about leaving the moon and returning home
unharmed with a story to tell and a box of rocks to show for it
becomes a little mind numbing. To think that against all odds it
was done, and not once but six times in total. Now with the
exception of the launchpad fire that took the lives of astronauts
Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee during the attempted
launch of Apollo 1 and the near death of astronauts James A. Lovell,
John L. “Jack” Swigert, and Fred W. Haise in Apollo 13 due to an
oxygen tank rupture, you have to admit that we were pretty
lucky to pull them off at all. Now just think what it would have been
like if the first moon landing had failed and the mission only returned
with one astronaut instead of three. Take fifteen minutes to listen
to a fictional story made by Johnathan Mitchell and Hillary Frank
based on contingency speech written by William Safire for Richard
Nixon titled “In the Event of Moon Disaster” just in case Buzz Aldrin
and Neil Armstrong never made it back from the moon.
I think you’ll like it.

prx.org

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Sit back and enjoy a little real time real life
reality disaster show care of BP and our lame
duck president and administration. I can’t
believe this leak hasn’t been plugged yet, I
know what needs to be done… Why don’t
they?

If you want to see a bigger feed or even a
full screen view then click this link.

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When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

– Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from
those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

– Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as
it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half
the wars of the world.

– Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them.

– Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.

– Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

– Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect
themselves against tyranny in government.

– Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

– Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the
propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is
sinful and tyrannical.

– Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies. If the American people
ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks
and corporations that will grow up around the banks will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up
homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

These were received in an e-mail or two, I thought they
bared repeating.

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Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

In the wake of a massive volcanic eruption, drifting smoke
and ash caused airline traffic to slow to a complete stop
over Europe recently. You can see the missing airline traffic
begin to slowly pick back up over Europe in this interesting
timelaps video of radar tracking over the EU. Enjoy.

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Have you ever heard of a lector? No? Well read on. Some of
the obsolete jobs of yesteryear. Too bad they didn’t include
buggy whip maker.

npr.org

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Well, Amerika you got it. I hope you all like it.

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I wish I had reported this a week earlier but here it is now.
Be sure to try and participate in this yearly event. It only
takes a few minutes of your time. Globe at Night runs from
March 3rd to March 16th. Have fun and participate!

GLOBE at Night is an annual 2-week campaign in March. People all over the
world record the brightness of their night sky by matching its appearance
toward the constellation Orion with star maps of progressively fainter stars.
They submit their measurements on-line and a few weeks later, organizers
release a map of light-pollution levels worldwide. Over the last four GLOBE at
Night campaigns, volunteers from over 100 nations have contributed 35,000
measurements. A record number of nearly 45% of these measurements came
from last year’s campaign as part of the celebration of the International Year
of Astronomy. You can see this data on the Map page.

Thanks to everyone who participates! Through GLOBE at Night, students —
alongside teachers, parents and community members — are amassing a data
set from which they can explore the nature of light pollution locally and across
the globe.

globeatnight.org

An audio podcast (10 minutes) can be heard on light pollution and how to
participate in GLOBE at Night here, 365daysofastronomy.org

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In 1960, the world record for highest freefall was set by a
Frenchman named Michel Fournier as he stepped out of a
high altitude balloon from 102,800 feet and made history.
That is over 40,000 feet or over 7.5 miles above the
Armstrong line which is the point at which the atmospheric
pressure is so low that liquids begin to boil. For humans,
that spells death within minutes as your body fluids boil
off if your pressure suit tears or your face mask opens.
Fournier’s free fall lasted 4 minutes and 32 seconds and is
still the world record to this day. Fournier tried to break
his own record back in 1980 but to everyone’s amazement
his specialized gondola attached to the high altitude helium
balloon accidentally took off without him. How do you
explain that one?

Enter Felix Baumgartner. Austrian-born skydiving daredevil
who glided 22 miles across the English Channel with a 6-foot
wing strapped to his back after jumping from 33,000 feet
back in 2003. That must have been fun. Felix plans to shatter
the record by jumping from 120,000 feet up and well into the
stratosphere. The freefall should last for just over 5 minutes.
Fournier set the record for the USAF as part of testing for
flight crews that needed to bail out at high altitudes.
Baumgartner is doing it for the record.

Oh, and one last thing. Baumgartner plans to do this
sometime in 2010. He’d better hurry because Fournier
also plans to break the record this year too. This time
however he won’t be working for the USAF.

jetlib.com

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Okay, okay, OKAY!, I concede!

Amazingly enough, I don’t even think the polls had closed when
Coakley the joke from Massachusetts conceded to Scott Brown
in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s senate seat
today. I’m sure Senator elect Brown will buy a brand new chair
for his new office after all, who wants to smell like, er uh, 50 year
old Chivas.

Another amazing and interesting fact about Coakley the joke’s
instant concession is that she now holds the world record for
conceding to an opponent after taking it away from the brief
possession of Senator John Kerry. Too bad Jack. I understand
John Kerry actually called Martha (Marsha, who cares?) and
congratulated and thanked her for taking the record.

I hear it was a landslide victory for Scott Brown, maybe it was better
to not actually count the votes after all… The Democrats in power
might really look bad. One thing I know is that Obama really looks bad
for stumping for her.

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A very interesting page showing a collection of
different letterheads from various people and
businesses. Definetly worth a look.

letterheady.com

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Wonderful old time future toys.

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Are you ready to ditch your e-life for good? Are you sick of
tweeting and getting tweeted all the time? Does your face feel
like it’s been pressed in a book for too long now? Do you want
your life back? Well it’s time to commit web suicide 2.0.

Interestingly enough, Facebook doesn’t want you to commit
web suicide. Facebook has banned the following web site from
giving you back a life. follow the suicidemachine link to read
more about it.

suicidemachine.org

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Happy New Year from the admit-one team.

This will definetly be one for the history books.

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