台北縣一家科技公司的 2 名職員，月初到法國出差，因為分別拿新版和舊版的 "Taiwan" 護照，(新版加註 TAIWAN 字樣，舊版沒有)，讓法國航警懷疑護照是偽造，被以「恐怖份子」待遇伺候，強行要求脫光衣服搜身，甚至還將 2 人拘留了 3 天 2 夜，再遣返回台。
導致這誇張待遇的是 2 本「中華民國護照」。賴先生拿的新版護照，國徽下方加註 TAIWAN 英文字樣，彭先生持的舊版則沒有；來自同一個國家的 2 人卻有 2 種護照。
彭先生說：「同行也有遇到大陸人，他們跟我開玩笑說，你們台灣人怎麼那麼倒楣，碰到同樣的事情，我們只是被摸摸衣服，為什麼台灣人就要脫光。唉！還被人家取笑啊。」
莫名其妙被拘留，最難堪的回憶，是求助無門。
彭先生說：「癥結點在於法國航警搞不清楚，這 2 本護照有什麼不同。到底外交部有沒有告知不管有沒有邦交的國家，知道有新舊版的問題?」
拿著加註 TAIWAN 字樣的護照，竟被當成恐怖分子扒光衣服搜身還拘留，外交部趕緊出面滅火，解釋事發當時外交部完全不知道，才會來不及伸出援手，況且，新版護照加註英文字後，就已發函通知各國航警。 這起「脫衣搜身」的意外，還是護照改版以來的第一例，正在和法國航警接觸，了解狀況。只是平白受辱，彭先生兩人對外交部幾乎信心全無。
Source: PCHome
Ecological Homeostasis
Are We Short of Water and Food ??
- Meteorite Asteroid Impact On Earth Doomsday 2012
- Nasa Climate Report
- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chief of UN IPCC on a Win-Win Situation for the Planet: Go Vegetarian!
- 20 Questions About Vegetarianism
...Excess protein consumption can cause a variety of problems including bone mineral loss, kidney damage, and dehydration. Your body can only use so much protein, the excess is either broken down through oxidization, placing an enormous strain on the kidneys, or it is stored as body fat. Neither option is particularly desirable...
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Since the vegetarian diet is the most effective solution to global warming, under Supreme Master Ching Hai's guidance, members of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association recently opened a chain of Loving Hut vegetarian restaurants around the world, in the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Au Lac and Formosa. These places provide affordable and high-quality vegetarian delicacies to the public, bringing a positive impact on the food and beverage industry...
Meat or vegetables? Independent online (SA)
A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
Vegetarian Shoes And Bags
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From All Corners of the Galaxy
Which Stars Are You From?
- Galactic Highway - The Wormhole
- Stream of Time
Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).
Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.
Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.
Source:http://www.universetoday.com/
Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.
Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.
Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.
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