For years and years our township has been liberally salting the roads during the winter. It’s routine.
They got their salt from somewhere in New York. But no more.
Recently, a couple of high school chemistry students were experimenting using road salt. What they discovered is astonishing. It turns out that this New York road salt was 25% lithium carbonate, and we all know how important lithium has become.
The students tried to keep their discovery secret to cash in on it. They did their research and learned how to extract the lithium for use in batteries. They found an abandoned paper mill with everything they needed, ordered several tons of salt and proceeded to extract the lithium. Things went well for the first few months, but then the kids started raising suspicions when they each bought high end Teslas and a small private jet. It was obvious that their cover jobs at Walmart certainly did not pay enough to afford the jet.
What they were doing wasn’t illegal, but when the salt quarry found out it stopped selling to them or anyone and went into the lithium business. Unfortunately, it was just a small vein of Li2CO3 and quickly ran out. The quarry had over invested in equipment and loans and as a result went bankrupt.
The kids had gotten lucky. They still have the jet.…
The latest craze on TV cooking shows is a unique, delicious and somewhat surprising appetizer. Chef Azull Nico is the creator of hordevours derived from cigarette butts.
“For years I would throw my butts just about anywhere. One day when grinding out one with my shoe I wondered if there was something better I could do with it.”
After a few months of experimenting he came up with Butts Cakes, tasty treats with a little nicotine kick.
“They aren’t hard to make,” explains Nico, “and everyone catches a little buzz before dinner.”
So if you have a Christmas party coming up start gather cigarette butts. They are easy to find, especially on the sidewalk outside coffee shops and office buildings.
Chef Nico’s cooking show can be found on the FX network.…
It’s not actually a house. It’s more of a corn crib, so I guess I should call it a Corn Crib Truck, but that sounds weird and you wouldn’t believe it.
Seeing is believing.
Local farmers have been building big fat silos for their corn harvest, but this small farmer had a better idea and converted his existing corn crib into a portable one. He put in a platform with wheels just inside the stone foundation and added a hitch for the truck.
Unfortunately it hasn’t quite worked out. The crib takes up two lanes and can’t fit over most bridges. He probably should have looked into this before building it.…
We all know Jesus rose from the dead and took an express to Heaven. He said he’d come back, and apparently he did. He’s been living in Petucko, Pennsylvania for almost 120 year now.
Who knew? It’s not like he kept it a secret.
I was curious and stopped in at the town’s planning department to look at the file. Back in 1899 Jesus applied for a permit for a 12,000 sq ft house plus several outbuildings and a large artificial pond. He needed a variance for the water tower and a sign permit for the message. It must have taken a few years to build everything.
I’m not sure why the chain link fence. I guess when you are really well known you need some security. Either that or Jesus has dogs.…
I don’t know many people who like climbing ladders to clean their gutters. I’ve never taken a poll so I can’t be certain but I am guessing not too many. As can be noted, there are alternatives. Just use your leaf blower.…
It’s been a while since he’s been a fearsome terrapin teenage crime fighter. I don’t know i this is Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello or Michelangelo, but he looks content and comfortable chilling out on a park bench these days. Looks a bit stuffed, too.…
The Hubble telescope continues to surprise us with images of mysterious things out there in the vast universe. One of the most recent findings is a high resolution image of an extinct volcano on the moon Oris which orbits Jupiter. Oris is nearly the size of Earth and is tectonically active.
This image shows extinct volcano HN397 found near the equator. Scientists have determined the white coating is ice which may have originated as snow. Oris has a thin atmosphere which may have been thicker and may have supported snow in the ancient past.
What is fascinating about this image are the channels inside the volcano which appear to have been intentionally constructed rather than formed naturally. Numerous computer models were run and every one of them indicate that these could not have been formed any other way.
Both NASA and the Chinese are racing to build a robotic probe that can withstand Jupiter’s atmosphere and gravity and investigate this apparent evidence of extraterrestrial life. Either that or it’s a hoax.…
I’m not quite sure how these go with a cell phone. They look more like baking accessories to me.
I suppose it depends on who you are calling, texting, messaging, tweeting, tictoc-ing or twerping. Perhaps being nice and baked is just what is needed. …
As the tractor trailer barrelled past us on the Interstate a drama was playing out on it’s sideboard. Woody and Buzz had gotten caught in a dangerous situation. Traffic was heavy and the truck was moving fast so we did not have time to intervene. I considered calling 911 but then reconsidered, considering what I would be telling them.
I later learned that the truck had been intercepted at shipping docks and it was filled with captured My Little Ponies. They were being smuggled to Iduntooderstan to be used as forced labor harvesting poppies. Apparently Buzz and Woody were successful.…