New Scientist video round-up - June 20, 2008

See the first ever footage of human ovulation: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn14155?DCMP=NLC-youtube

Watch how prototypes of lunar vehicles, spacesuits and robots are being tested and look at the first video of a metal-eating pest: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14175?DCMP=NLC-youtube

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• ovulation
• ovary
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[wongsmokesbong]

........no i think its scottish lol.

[puretroubleman]

Its a very light scottish accent,

[CareeLamberte4]

so looking for some fun if you know what i mean just msg meh

[Mr8081970]

lol!!!!

[Eschatus2]

Not quite, but a great comeback just the same. :-)

It was from the opening of Shiley Jackson's 1959 novel, "THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE" with artistic license by me (she's most noted for her prior novel "THE LOTTERY".)

[korgri]

Isn't that like that line from that country music song:

There are two kinds of women in the world,

those that drive trucks and those that don't

There are two kinds of truck drivin' women;

those that do, and those that don't

It may seem on the surface to be a bit of a lark, but if Katy did it I guess we can do it too. Katy who? And what did she do? Existed realistically in a condition of absolute sanity.

Or just claimed to have dreamt it up.

[Eschatus2]

No living organism can continue for long to exist sanely in under conditions of absolute reality, even larks and katydids are supposed by some to dream. Presumptuous at is may seem, those who do, do; and those who dont, dont.

[korgri]

I would run the risk of having too many believe it.... normally it might not be a problem, but here we have this one particular issue of a population majority that doesn't know the crucial difference between belief and knowledge. The sad but handy upshot is that it makes personality ID very easy, people are themselves what they so willingly and quickly illustrate as the traits of others.

[Eschatus2]

Sure, if you believe that fairytale perhaps you should be writing science fiction.

[korgri]

Right,, by the same gov't conspiracy people who faked the atom bomb, got a whole bunch of Japanese to commit suicide on cue when they saw the big flash in the sky over their cities. Now the same gov't people, seeing how much success they had convincing you that it was fake, are now faking the internet, which is just an elaborate spiderweb-like network of strings and tin cans. We have all been duped so deeply we cannot tell that we are really all on a giant NASA sound stage in Arizona.

[korgri]

The Russians don't tell you about how tiny bits of that lead pencil flake off and you breathe them in and 5 years later your kidneys are profoundly poisoned with lead. NASA flagrantly spends that precious money to keep the even more precious economy moving. That's a gazillion dollars making it's way into salaries of the company employees whose R&D depts built the rover and $1M pen; then into their homes and neighborhood supermarkets. It doesn't fall into holes in the ground.

[Eschatus2]

Yuck! I could have done without the ovary video.