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September 5, 2010

Laser Beam mounted Cargoplane of Doom

Filed under: Innovation — Tyler @ 9:51 pm
C130 with a laser beam

Imagine this plane with a laser beam attached to it

In 2009 Boeing created a cargoplane that had a laser beam mounted on it. The type of plane is a C-130H. This thing is nuts. It is supposed to be able to pick a target from literally miles away and melt or make it explode with a huge laser beam. I couldn’t believe it when I read this cool article on popsci.com. This is the kind of thing that I would expect to see in a science fiction movie. But I guess this airplane/laserbeam combo is real. It is supposed to be able to melt tanks! Now that’s impressive. This is a more precise weapon than a big bomb because it uses a computer to target specific things. There is less collateral damage. I personally think this is a great idea. WE DEFINITELY NEED MORE LASER BEAMS. When I read that American companies are mounting giant chemical based laser beams on cargo planes I felt both proud and at-ease. Proud because lasers are the future, in both medicine and warfare. And I felt at-ease because I’m glad

we got the laser beams first.

The whole idea of putting a laser on a airplane that is combat effective does several positive things. First and foremost it pushes the envelope on multiple technologies at the same time. For starters mounting a huge laser is a tricky endeavor because big lasers are generally pretty heavy. Also making a laser that is powerful enough to do serious damage is an excellent feat of engineering. This type of technology could easily be adapted for other non-military purposes. These could include space based lasers or advanced laser communication and energy transmission. It is forward thinking like the Advanced Tactical Laser that is paving the way for more advanced and powerful technology.

Another interesting thing about the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) is that it is supposed to be able to fire both lethal and non-lethal attacks. So if you needed air support in a situation you might be able call in an ATL and stun your enemies. What if your commander had more than one ATL under his command and was able to corral a large force of enemies into a confined space using non-lethal laser fire and then dispatch them with a critical strike? There’s a lot you could do with an ATL.

Since the space program hasn’t been getting a whole ton of attention lately since the funding got pulled back, it is really good to see that there are advanced technological innovations happening in the military. I wonder if the ATL could be adapted to having different modes of beam-fire-focus so it could penetrate hardened targets like bunkers.

Here are the multiple sources used in making this article:

C-130H Laser Gunship Program begins, by Mike Hanlon-Gizmag.com : http://www.gizmag.com/go/5118/

Advanced Tactical Laser, on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Tactical_Laser

How It Works: The Flying Laser Cannon, on POPSCI.com, by Eric Adams: http://www.popsci.com/node/19965

-Tyler

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Sunday Shout Out to Los Angeles

Filed under: Overidon News — Tyler @ 7:39 pm
Los Angeles Shout Out

Shout out to all the visitors from the Los Angeles Area

Big Shout Out to the people of Los Angeles! It’s Sunday and this is a SUNDAY SHOUT OUT! Every week overidon.com is going to celebrate a major urban area that sends large groups of visitors our way.

Git Ready….

Yo Sunday Shout-Out what’ll it be?

Got fans in LA over one-hundred-fifty!

Hotties on the beach -baskin’ in the sun.

Sippin’ Pina Coladas in Venice – show us how it’s done.

Spider Man got arrested for being a loiter.

He should have asked Bat Man for some pointers.

For the 18th largest economy in the world.

LA has got talent in it’s vice-grip-hold.

Whoa, I know it’s bold, to be told, it ain’t old tell meĀ  about the Hollywood Bowl.

There’s enough vice cops to arrest your soul.

I’ve never heard of a city that’s more Rock ‘n’ Roll.

If Overidon had more fans like this.

We’d have to open up shop and blog on Christ-mas.

They got more theaters and clubs, -than San Francisco’s got pubs.

There’s Bro. J. Simpson and Electric Bills.

This is the town if you need cheap thrills.

Looking for love? Searching for affection or help?

Go ahead and scan Los Angeles on Yelp.

It don’t matter if you have your Movie-Set-Laser filled with Radium.

You can always catch Pantera at the Palladium.

If you want an example of a cool place to drink.

Check out Tokyo Delves and click on THIS LINK!

-Tyler

Happy Sunday!

September 4, 2010

Regenerate Your Tea

Filed under: Overidon News — Tyler @ 10:18 pm
Regenerate Your Tea

Regenerate Your Tea

OK. Everybody knows about how you can re-use a teabag. But I don’t really like doing that. Tea Regeneration is a simple technique that WILL AMAZE YOU! This is how it works. You know how when you go to Starbucks and order let’s say, a Venti China Green Tips tea and it comes with 2 tea bags? Well what you can do is let the tea steep for about a minute or so. Steeping your tea means letting the tea bag sit submerged under the warm or hot water without being disturbed. This lets the flavor enter the water. Then when the tea gets to the desired flavor potency, I say, “Throw the tea bags out.” Don’t save them. Then when you drink about two-thirds of your tea and you have your paper cup. Take a look at the water. You should notice that the tea is actually a little bit darker than you first noticed it was originally. Well that’s actually the key. When you drink your tea, over time a lot of the particles fall down to the bottom. So the final gulps or sips of tea can become very strong and sometimes bitter. So in order to Regenerate Your Tea I suggest that you add clean safe water to your cup of tea after you drink most of it. If you add hot water to your tea it will be hot tea. If you add cool water it will be more like a refreshing chilled tea. This is a great technique to make your tea drinking experience last longer. And I’ve noticed that sometimes a cup of tea that I’ve been slowly sipping all day kind of gets, “lucky.” It is lucky in the sense that the tea has been charged by the energy from your hand and your body.

I feel that human beings have an aura and whenever we interact with objects or entities in our world our aura connects with those elements of reality. So when you hold your tea for hours and carry it with you on your adventures and have it chilling with you in your car, it absorbs some of your essence. Many spiritual people including some Buddhists bless their food and beverages before ingesting them. I think that is a smart idea. Why not send some good energy into whatever you are about to eat or drink? But the thing about tea is that it is a process more than just a beverage. Tea doesn’t have a tremendous amount of flavor or caffeine like coffee. It is a more subtle drink. So by adding water to it and savoring the energy in it, it can be tremendously refreshing. Be careful not to drink dirty tea, and only use clean healthy water also when doing this. I’d hate for anyone to get sick. Also double check the lid of your cup to make sure it isn’t nasty.

I’d recommend that you Regenerate Your Tea only by using Green tea. This technique doesn’t really work very well with herbal teas or black tea. It just doesn’t steep the same way or taste as good. If you are drinking black tea or herbal teas then you just might as well drink the whole thing.

I recently switched from drinking Lattes to drinking Green tea. The reasoning behind it is because I got sick recently and I think the dairy overload was a big part of it. Also the amount of caffeine I was ingesting was getting too much. 1 or 2 lattes per day is pretty nuts. So now I’m doing the green tea thing again and I’m feeling lighter on my feet and a little healthier.

-Tyler

I love how my brother cares more about my thinning hair than I do

Filed under: Tyler's Mind — Tyler @ 3:46 pm
Tyler Balding

Tyler Balding

Family members are really great. They remind you of things you might never have thought of. But for some reason my brother cares more about my thinning hair than I do! He makes a really big deal about it. He says that I no longer have a fore-head, and now I have a “Five-head.” The reason for this is because he said that I can take all of my fingers in my hand and put them on my head and not touch any hair because my hairline is receding. Do I really want to be reminded of this stuff? I got bigger fish to fry than loosing a few hairs! It would be OK if he reminded me about me loosing my hair every few months or so. But it seems like every other time I see my brother he mentions how I need to invest in Rogaine or some other form of hair loss prevention treatment. This is such a total scam. I am not going to spend money to try and coax my follicles into making more hair. And I surely don’t want to do that hair transplant stuff. If I start loosing my hair on a massive scale then guess what I’m going to do? -Buy LESS shampoo! Why? Because I won’t need as much that’s why.

A lot of men get scammed into doing ridiculous things with their scalps because they think they are less attractive to women if they have less hair. If you are in that camp let me break this down for you real quick. Instead of spending your money on hair regeneration products and treatments, spend more money on women and earn more money and make it very clear that you are interested in spending your money on women. TRUST ME. You will have no problem meeting a girl.

Just the other day people called me, “Salt ‘n’ Pepper” and I asked the guy why and he said it was because I had so much gray hair. I thought to myself, “You have about as much charisma as a rock!” This is how you’re going to solidify our friendship, by dissing my hair. I personally think I look rad.

-Tyler

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