Last night I was watching the discovery channel again and I was fascinated by a show about a trans-Atlantic tunnel concept the engineers had come up with. Yes I know there are tunnels under bodies of water like the English channel but the one they would like to build is from either Newfoundland or New York too London. How is that for an idea hunh? Indeed there are lots of problems involved in building the thing for example. The pressure for one and the seismic activity involved in those areas as well, the cost seems to be the biggest hurdle they figure such a project would cost in the hundred of trillions of dollars, holy shit I would not want to foot that bill. Another problem they would have is making the train go about 5000 mph so the trip would be feasible for example. Interesting show to say the least, even if they did build it I would never go on the ride. Bad enough when a train de-rails now but a derailment under water going at those speeds? No thanks.

I am a little disappointed with the state of affairs today; when I was young I watched star trek for example and had wild visions of the twentieth century of space ships to strange and exotic planets and seeing strange space beings. What a shame we will not get too see any of this happen in out life time. Hopefully in our children’s lifetime they will get to see some serious space exploration getting done. They made a big deal of getting a man on the moon so they could race the Russians and then slacked off and a big period of launching satellites. Of course a big step was the new space station but so far space exploration is pretty stagnant. Time to get back to work I guess talk to you all later.



A farmer in the country noticed that a gentleman would fish at the lake (close to the farmer's house) and would always leave with a stringer full of fish. The fellow had a boat but a fishing pole was not to be seen.

The farmer mentioned the situation to the lake ranger. The ranger then started watching this man and all that the farmer said was true! The man would arrive at the lake in the morning and by early afternoon, he had a stringer full of fish. The ranger dressed like a fisherman one day and approached the man. They exchanged pleasantries and the stranger asked the ranger in disguise to come fish with him. They boated for 45 minutes and arrived at a secluded spot. The stranger then pulled out a stick of dynamite.

Ranger: "I'm going to have to place you under arrest - I am a Ranger and you are fishing illegally!"

The stranger calmly lit the stick of dynamite and handed it to the ranger. Stranger: "Are you gonna talk or fish?"