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Some interesting sites

One interesting site I found out about lately was www.whatreallyhappened.com, which finds unusual viewpoints in the news and presents them in a list of links. The site has an enormous number of links to sites that most of us are not even aware of. Among the things that this site presents is an argument as to why the big chemical plant in Iraq that was recently discovered is probably not a factory of weapons of mass destruction, and the discovery of British weapons in Iraqi inventories.

Another one is that of the Iraqi who has been blogging to the world, http://www.dear_raed.blogspot.com/. He does not have any sympathy for the Hussein regime but he does not like the bombing in Baghdad either, saying that one of his favorite buildings collapsed before his eyes.

And here's a real scary one: http://www.rea-alp.com/~dragnfly/index.html. It is about the upcoming ultimate oil shortage, the time in the future when the demand for oil will exceed the supply, even with all oil suppliers pumping full tilt. One interesting passage is where he calls to task a friend who understands that this oil shortage is coming, but that he still plans a rich retirement full of travel all over the place. The two thoughts contradict. Or you can go to K.S. Deffeyes' site at http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/ and read that not only is the peak of oil production very soon, but that perhaps it may have already happened! Oil production has declined since 2000 November.

Also look at the Interactive Sky Chart of Sky and Telescope's site. When you step through it, it shows you the constellations that are up at each hour on a sky circle representing the dome of the sky. When the Sun rises, you see the background lighten, and when it is daytime, no stars show at all in the chart, only the Sun (and planets) which is what we would actually see.