Naked bike ride
HUNDREDS of naked cyclists rode through the streets of Mexico City the other day to mark what they call the World Naked Bike Ride. Traffic came to a standstill as onlookers stared and took photographs.
Not all the cyclists were entirely naked – some had top hats and other fancy headgear.
World Naked Bike Ride seeks to raise awareness of the importance of cycling for exercise and as an alternative to burning fossil fuels. It also seeks to highlight the fragility of the human body and the need for drivers to be more careful on busy city streets.
The movement began nine years ago in Canada and has been held every year in various cities around the world.
When will it be Durban's turn? The Naked Bike Ride could be a great follow-up to Top Gear.
Curiosity Rover
ON MONDAY we speculated that the Curiosity Rover, supposedly on Mars, might in fact, due a to a navigational error, be photographing and analysing the arid, rock-strewn surface of the Griquas rugby field at Kimberley.
However it seems this is quite wrong. According to George Hutchison, of the Kwambonambi Club, it has been travelling – heavily camouflaged – for some time now at the bottom of a pothole in Kwambonambi High Street.
"Well camouflaged as it has not yet disappeared and been sold for scrap."
Mad, madder …
READER Perry Webb responds to last week's degrees of comparison/trappe van vergelyking.
Mal – maller – Malema.
Nkandla particles
ROB NICOLAI, Howick's resident astrophysicist, quantum mechanic and towering intellect, has been grappling with particle physics as applied to Nkandla.
'Tis somewhat esoteric, but here goes: "Physicists have long struggled with how the most basic and ever present atomic force – gravity - is transferred from every particle with mass to attract every other particle with mass at an exponentially decreasing strength over greater distances without emitting a detectable force-carrying particle.
"Another greater mystery has developed here in South Africa. If every atom did emit a force particle or graviton constantly, why does the atom not lose any mass as it exerts this attraction energy? This is against a fundamental law of thermodynamics, known as the conservation of energy principle, and it's lucky it's there or every atom would just sommer disintegrate into nothing.
"The South African mystery is similar to how every huge scandal can emerge without JZ or any of his senior officials ever being present to account for it? Or how have the gravitons of justice and accountability been deflected from Nkandla? The only tons of anything of interest attracted to Nkandla seems to be the presence of Khulubuse Zuma."
Er, yes. Quite.
See ya later …
IT'S ASTONISHING what people keep in their basement. Anti-cruelty activists in Greater Dayton, Ohio, in the US, found a man was keeping a two-metre alligator at his suburban home.
The Humane Society of Greater Dayton removed it after a tip-off and the authorities are now investigating animal cruelty charges.
The alligator is to be moved to a refuge in Florida.
That householder sounds a shifty character. I bet he's also got a mad old aunt up in the attic.
Look, teacher
SMALL kids often get asked to bring to school something from home that is unusual and will be interesting to discuss. But when a five-year-old at St Margaret's Church of England School at Bowers Gifford, in Essex, England, produced from her satchel a 20cm artillery shell, the discussion became hectic.
The 250 pupils were evacuated a safe distance. An army bomb disposal unit was called in and the shell was taken to a nearby field for examination.
It turned out to be harmless – but the "show and tell" exercises will in future have a few preconditions.
Sea lion pup
MOTORISTS on a slip road from a busy highway in California were astonished to find themselves sharing it with a sea lion pup.
The California Highway Patrol animal control officers caught the pup and took it to an aquarium in San Diego, where they are trying to figure out what it was doing on the highway.
The slip road was to a place called Mission Bay. Clearly this was a sea lion pup on a mission.
Tailpiece
HOW DO WE know Moses wore a wig?
Sometimes he was seen with Aaron and sometimes not.
Last word
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
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