Google Uses a Bomb for a Logo or is it a Warehouse 13 Reference

Posted • August 14, 2009 • Comments Off

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When I visited Google this morning they had a new logo, was it a bomb or a reference to Warehouse 13?

It was actually nether. The new logo was a reference to the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted.

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Hans Christian Ørsted (often rendered Oersted in English; b. 14 August 1777 in Rudkøbing, Denmark, d. 9 March 1851 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a physicist and chemist who is most widely known for observing that electric currents can induce magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century.

In 1824 Ørsted founded Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse (SNU), a society to disseminate knowledge of the natural sciences. He was also the founder of predecessor organizations which eventually became the Danish Meteorological Institute and the Danish Patent and Trademark Office. Ørsted was the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment.

A leader of the so-called Danish Golden Age, Ørsted was a close friend of Hans Christian Andersen and the brother of politician and jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted, who eventually served as Danish prime minister (1853-54).

The Oersted (Oe), the cgs unit of magnetic induction, is named after him.

This could still be a reference to Warehouse 13.
If you haven’t seen Warehouse 13 yet it is a new Syfy Channel series, which premiered on July 7, 2009, that centers around a secret government warehouse in South Dakota located at K-39-ZZZ.

Warehouse 13 was built in 1898 and designed by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and MC Escher. There have been twelve incarnations of the warehouse prior to the one in South Dakota. One of the oldest warehouses was at the Library of Alexandria. Throughout history, the warehouse has moved to whatever country has the most power at the time. (Warehouses have been established in Mesopotamia, Rome, Russia, England, etc.)

Sounds like there might be a Hans Christian Ørsted artifact located somewhere in Warehouse 13.

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