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104,000ft

9:25 am, July 29, 2008 by jason in Rumblings

A group of students from Oklahoma State University sent a Pentax DSLR to 104,000 ft via a sounding balloon and took pictures along the way. This pic is from the peak of the flight - look at their entire project’s pictures - it’s amazing.

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9:52 pm, July 28, 2008 by jason in Our Crazy Life, The next one

By the way, since everyone is waiting with baited breath,

No we don’t have a new baby yet, and yes we’ll make sure to let everyone know when we do.

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Texas to Tel Aviv

9:50 pm, July 28, 2008 by jason in Politics, Rumblings

The below article from the New Yort Times was posted on JimBurkee.com (running for 5th District of the US House) this evening and all I can say in response is ‘Hell yeah.’

I agree with everything written in this article.  There is no debate about global warming but as there is a realization that our problem is bigger.  Our dependence on foreign oil is a national security issue, a financial issue and our current sources of energy have great negative impact beyond global warming (pollution, cancer, etc.).  At this point anyone who thinks we don’t need to green-up our act not looking at the whole picture in my opinion.

“What would happen if you cross-bred J. R. Ewing of “Dallas” and Carl Pope, the head of the Sierra Club? You’d get T. Boone Pickens. What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You’d get Shai Agassi. And what would happen if you put together T. Boone Pickens, the green billionaire Texas oilman now obsessed with wind power, and Shai Agassi, the Jewish Henry Ford now obsessed with making Israel the world’s leader in electric cars?

“You’d have the start of an energy revolution.”

Read More — “Texas to Tel Aviv” New York Times

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