edgar, you can play Brook Benton anytime. We love the soul man, buddy.
Ah, Mr. Wizard. I don't recall the movie in detail. I only played it because it followed Freud's idea of the id. Thanks for the explanation.
You know, folks, today is the anniversary of the burning of the Hindenburg. I don't think anyone really knows what happened, but I found this.
Today, we ask, "Why did the Hindenburg burn?" The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
What child of the 1930s doesn't remember the Hindenburg! That great silver whale, the length of three football fields, its tail emblazoned with swastikas, black on red, that hydrogen conflagration waiting to happen. Since 1936, it'd carried passengers across the Atlantic. Then, 60 years ago this May 6, 1997, it caught fire and was consumed within 32 seconds. The radio announcer wept, "Oh, the humanity," as it went down. Yet, miraculously, two out of every three passengers survived.
It seemed so obvious in retrospect. Hydrogen is unstable in air's oxygen. All you need is a spark. Conspiracy theories followed the disaster, but they fared poorly against so much hydrogen.
There was a catch, but with all that hydrogen who would notice it? It is that materials don't burn in hydrogen. It's only hydrogen itself that burns, once it's mixed with oxygen. Then it creates a near-colorless blue flame -- nothing like the great fireball we remember each May 6th. Hydrogen-filled airships have been brought down by anti-aircraft guns without catching fire.
This is the perfect time for Led Zepplin, methinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aiInQEir0&feature=related
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