It's time for science with Jose Canseco

Yesterday, Jose Canseco tweeted the following:

This of course led to great excitement among those of us who wonder what the concept of Science looks like in Jose Canseco's head (just me? yeah, probably just me).  Luckily for us, he did in fact follow through on his promise, and it is fantastic.  Observe:

This is actually something that scientists do debate, since the total mass of the Earth does change a bit over time, thus affecting its gravitational force.  Jose, however, has other reasons for believing this:

Probably something to do with evolution?  You're the expert, Jose, you tell me.

After sharing this intriguing theory about gravity, Jose went on to discuss the planetary physics that caused this gravitational change:

Basically, the Triassic was the Earth's steroid era.

It's thought-provoking, that's for sure.  This concludes today's edition of Thoughts about Gravity, featuring Jose Canseco.

Test status: Successful!

Two Republican voters have been arrested for voter fraud, allegedly because they wanted to test how easy it was to get away with.  As they discovered, it's not that easy.  Incidentally, searching google news for "voter fraud 2012" yields seven results about cases where Republican individuals or groups committed voter fraud, two results where Republican candidates who lost are claiming they lost due to voter fraud, one result of John McCain saying voter fraud doesn't actually happen much, and one result of a spider causing voting machine issues.  Based on my findings, concerns about voter fraud can be ranked like so:

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(Actually, it wasn't Jose Canseco.  It was someone else named Canseco who claimed he lost because of voter fraud.  This picture only came up because google thinks it's relevant to any story about a Canseco)

    

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Seriously you guys, fucking spiders are in voting machines.  I'm not voting again until I can vote from a plastic bubble inside my house, with the caveat that someone must personally check the bubble for spiders first.