Rik's Ramblings

Friday, February 13, 2009

Neil deGrasse Tyson

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/profile

Props to Neil for promoting science. Only thing I have against him is his part in demoting Pluto.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Dive a Nuclear Missile Silo

For the past 10 years, divers have been getting advanced training in this flooded former missile silo…

http://www.dtmag.com/dive-usa/locations/TexasMissileSiloTX.html

Thursday, February 05, 2009

How's your 401(k) doing?

Incase you can't read it the bottom axis is years from 2004 to 2008 (end).

The vertical is a little misleading in scale, but 'worth 75% of it's 2004 value' just about sums it up.

Geeze, I hope the fund 'manager' doesn't get his pay slashed to a meagre $500000 by Pres. Obama!