…just buzzed by at San Diego airport. Would have liked to catch that one.
En route now from Venter-ville to the desert for a couple supersonic rocket launches at XPRS.
I just learned some amazing things about the various sources of the DNA in the air we breathe. Can’t wait to share when it gets published.
Like DNA on dust? As in we can see where dust is coming from by locating the region where a particular species lives that matches the DNA on the dust we collect?
Maybe can help with allergies.. a lot of people have those in our days:)
I am a strange person at times, when i hear "god bless america" i instantly feel like an atheist,
when i hear "atheist, atheist" – i start balancing on the other side and signing spiritual tunes of sorts about enigmas.… this taxi is funny, it is probably a joke:) In real life in both cases, i’d rather to be diplomatic though, not to hurt somebody’s religious or atheistic or any other feelings.
Wonder… if a God Blessed cab can make you (more) blessed yourself, like it can get you dirty if it has dust or dirt inside… I mean: Is blessedness something contagious? If so, how? By contact, air… is it transfered by thought, by touch, by talking with the driver, or just by the situation of being inside the cab?
Or it simply doesn’t modify any of your blessedness level to travel inside one, and it’s just… Cool?
TheAlieness wrote:
> Is blessedness something contagious? If so, how? By contact, air… is it
> transfered by thought, by touch, by talking with the driver, or just by the
> situation of being inside the cab?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/science/09guitar.html
[..] belief in contagious magic may sound illogical, but it makes a certain evolutionary sense, Dr. Lastovicka said.
“Beliefs about contagion, and especially biological contagion, by our ancestors are one of the reasons why we are here today,” he said. “Those who did not stay away from those who died from the plague in the Dark Ages also died of the plague; those who died of the plague in the Dark Ages likely have few, if any, descendants today. So in our modern and scientific world, these manners of magical thinking still persist.”
Exploiting the foibles of natural evolution. That cab driver is one cunning marketer, I say. 
P.S. back at the airport, this one trusted in a different lucky charm….
a reminder of our next rocket launch event, BALLS
P.S.S. found some wifi on the playa. After 6 hours of prep, the 10.5 ft tall Mongoose had a glorious flight, streaming GPS down for an easy recovery 3.6 miles down range. Woot! Time to celebrate. Photos later… =)
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhr] Oh, yes, he surely is a good marketer! Good pointer about the evolutionary importance of belief in contagion. ]
I imagine the inside with stickers such as "Jesus showed me the way" "The path of rightousness is a lonely road…" and so on…
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/24270806@N06] so if it’s for being inside the car is a kind of… osmosis, right?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] related to this last pic you posted… having such thin hanging from your car can be disgusting, but thinking further, who on earth manufactured those silver hanging balls on the first place! wtf…
Actually, i thought about something else – if this picture means – we got the balls to do something…. it makes sense and i can live with it, even being very proper and being mom and all that:)
still i would not want any little girl to see it., not sure it is a good idea for people to drive like this.
Somebody might find it offensive for their kids’ sake and especially Indian or any other traditional culture. I knew Indian women who had to wear long sleeves around their relatives-in-law and they would find this very rude. I would not blame them.
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