Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Sex, oil, bikes, booze, and plasma
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., June 17, 2005
Princeton University geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes predicts "a permanent state of oil shortage." By the end of the decade – if not sooner – the world's oil production, having grown exuberantly for more than a century, will peak and begin to decline.
According to a Johns Hopkins study, two-thirds of fatally injured bicyclists are tested for alcohol; 32% of those tested have been drinking.The U.S. military is developing a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to two kilometers away. It concerns so-called Pulsed Energy Projectiles, which fire a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid, like a person.
It is believed Frank Sinatra was buried with one bottle of Jack Daniels, one pack of unfiltered Camel cigarettes, one Zippo lighter, and 10 dimes (in case he needs to make a phone call).
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