Red Ice Radio - Jeremy Narby - Pt 1 - The Cosmic Serpent. New DNA Test On 900 Old Starchild Skull Reveals, Extraterrestrial Are Real |UFO News|2010 UFO Sightings|Alien Pictures|2010 Solar Flares|Disclosure Project|Web Bot. The Kilogram Isn't What It Used to Be—It's Lighter | Materials Science. Sèvres*, France—What I love best about the kilogram is its tangibility, its solid, sculpted form of shiny platinum and iridium.
I’m referring to not just any kilogram but the quintessential one that resides here—the actual International Prototype Kilogram, or IPK, created in 1879 as the official standard of mass. It’s a smooth cylinder of alloy, only an inch and a half high and an inch and a half in diameter. Though petite, the IPK is necessarily dense; it weighs 2.2046 pounds. If you went to pick it up, you might think someone had cemented it to the tabletop for a prank. Even if you knew what to expect, its compact heft would still boggle your senses. Of course, they won’t let you pick it up. They won’t even let you anywhere near it. The IPK is, in and of itself, the International System of Units’ definition of mass.
Although I have come to pay my re-spects to the IPK, I am denied even a glimpse of the thing. . * The dateline incorrectly read, "Sèvres Cedex, France. "
Ex-top soldier: Iraq war ‘fiasco’ due to Rumsfeld’s ‘lies’ | Raw Story. By Daniel TencerWednesday, October 13, 2010 23:26 EDT Rumsfeld had ‘worst style of leadership I witnessed in 38 years of service’ The US had no reason to invade Iraq in 2003, and only did so because of “a series of lies” told to the American people by the Bush administration, says Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served for four years as the US’s top military officer. Shelton, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, makes the comment in Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, a soon-to-be-published memoir reviewed at Foreign Policy by Thomas E. Ricks.
“President Bush and his team got us enmeshed in Iraq based on extraordinarily poor intelligence and a series of lies purporting that we had to protect Americans from Saddam’s evil empire because it posed such a threat to our national security,” Shelton writes in his memoir. According to Ricks, Shelton states that, in order to get the war going, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “elbowed aside Gen. Michael Schratt - Aviation Black Ops (2 of 6)