Sunday, May 16, 2010
Laziness
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Simala Scandal
Dodong, a novice monk, said that he spent his time counting loose change that was donated by the devotees. He added that he himself was not spared from homosexual deeds. He alleged that one of the senior monks had him sit on the other’s lap.
Cabillon denied that he was expelled from the congregation but he formally resigned with the permission of Fr. Fray Martin and Archbishop. Ricardo Cardinal Vidal. He pointed that the report that was published in “Ang Bag-ong Lungsoranon,” an Archdiocese’s publication was a lie.
Cardinal Vidal said that he does not allow any pageant inside any holy place. He laughed when he heard that Frater Martin supposedly asked for his permission to hold the pageant.
“That’s the problem; they say something without asking me. I hope that he was just name-dropping, because they have not come to me (for permission),” said Cardinal Vidal.
“Who in his right sense would do that? It’s not proper,” said the archbishop.
This issue is not new to us. It happened years ago already, as you can remember Jose Rizal wrote about this already in his novels. It’s just simply a repeat of history. It’s up to the people which side they should believe in. Let us not make this issue over rated. There are a lot of issues that are more important to deal with. For Cabillon, for more than 17 years of being a monk, why did he reveal it now? Is it really because he was humiliated? Or there’s another reason for this. If he had experienced the deviant deeds before, why didn’t he come out in the open right away? He waited for 17 years to reveal it, what’s his purpose? As what I observed both camps are trying to outdo each other in an attempt to squeal. Like other issues, this will just die to its natural death.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Supersonic Jets
The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual.
This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22 Raptoraircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 as it executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.
The visual phenomenon, which sometimes but not always accompanies the breaking of the sound barrier, has also been seen with nuclear blasts and just after space shuttles launches, too. A vapor cone was photographed as the Apollo 11 moon-landing missionrocketed skyward in 1969.
The phenomenon is not well studied. Scientists refer to it as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg, and it's thought to be created by what's called a Prandtl-Glauert singularity.
Here's what scientists think happens:
A layer of water droplets gets trapped between two high-pressure surfaces of air. In humid conditions, condensation can gather in the trough between two crests of the sound waves produced by the jet. This effect does not necessarily coincide with the breaking of the sound barrier, although it can. To learn more, click here.
The aircraft carrier was participating in Northern Edge 2009, an exercise focused on detecting and tracking things at sea, in the air and on land.
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- Original Story: What Supersonic Looks Like