The competition heats up: The race between Lady Gaga and Sarah Brightman to be first professional singer to perform in space.
Fifty-one fascinating historical pictures.
I especially like the contrast between #26 and #41. And #18 is pretty wild also.
Building a scale model of the International Space Station — using matchsticks!
Recently completed by Acton, the wooden ISS is as impressive in size as it is in detail. Comprised of 282,000 matchsticks, the 1/26 scale model required 8 gal (30 L) of glue and took roughly 1,950 hours to complete. Whereas the actual ISS measures out at 108.5 m (356 ft) wide and 72.8 m (239 ft) long, Acton’s scaled down version measures out at an impressive 4.1 m (13.5 ft) and 2.8 m (9.2 ft) wide. Solar arrays, trusses, communication components, and even the Space Shuttle Atlantis, are all there in intricate detail.
With pictures.
Cool! A man doing a 16-mile charity swim was surrounded and protected from a shark by dolphins. With video.
More evidence that dolphins are much smarter than we think.
Crying wolf! A history of global warming “Tipping Points” where it was declared that doomsday was certain in only a few years if we didn’t act now.
The article is quite hilarious. Again and again and again and again the climate fear-mongers have announced with absolute certainty that, unless we pass draconian government regulations, the climate was going to go crazy and we were all going to die. Sometimes they declared we only had hours, sometimes months, sometimes years, sometimes even decades, but every time they were certain they knew what was going to happen and thus we had better obey them. And anyone who dared question their certainty was worse than a fool and should be imprisoned!
Of course, none of these predictions have proven true. The climate might yet warm and even go wild, but none of these doom-sayers have done any of us any good. If things do start going bad in future years, it is now going to be very difficult to convince anyone of this fact.
Posted from Tucson International Airport. I am on the way to Denver to tape two television interviews with George Noory of Coast to Coast for his television show, Beyond Belief. Should be fun.
Want to watch today’s SpaceX launch and tonight’s lunar eclipse? Here’s how?
A different look at 25 famous places that gives you a better idea of what it is really like to visit them.
I thought the images of the Mona Lisa and the Alamo were the most revealing.
Fake but accurate: A retired NASA manager is suing the Discovery Channel for its false portrayal of him in a movie about the Challenger shuttle accident.
The suit says that in the movie’s crucial scene Lovingood is shown testifying falsely that the odds of a shuttle failure were much higher than other NASA engineers calculated. … “The clear statement and depiction was that Lovingood lied about the probability of total failure being 1 in 100,000 when NASA’s own engineers said it was 1 in 200,” the lawsuit says. “This movie scene never took place in real life at any hearing. (Lovingood) was never asked to give any testimony as depicted and he did not give testimony to the question shown in the movie in this made up scene.”
“It makes it look like (NASA leadership) ignored a highly risky situation” in deciding to launch Challenger that day, Lovingood’s attorney Steven Heninger of Birmingham said Friday. Heninger said the movie was the network’s “first attempt at a scripted program … and they took shortcuts because they were writing for drama.” The testimony in the movie was not in the investigation commission’s records or Feynman’s book “What Do You Care What Other People Think?,” both of which were sources for the film, the suit claims.
Though NASA management did consistently claim the shuttle was safer than it actually was, to falsely portray this specific individual as the person who said those lies when he did not is without doubt slander. I hope he wins big.
This is, by the way, a nice example of typical media arrogance. If you are going to fictionalize real events for dramatic purposes, you don’t use the names of real people and put words in their mouth when you do so. It leaves you very vulnerable legally to exactly this kind of lawsuit. That the Discovery Channel did so is good evidence they think they are above the law and do not have to care if they destroy people’s lives.
We should all be so lucky: A California couple finds a hoard of gold coins buried on a nearby trail estimated to be worth $10 million.
No wonder they all vote Democrat: New Yorkers react to Obama’s State of the Union speech, before it happens.
The best question: “So, what did you think about Obama’s faking a heart attack at the end?” And the answer? Watch.
And yes, it is almost certain that every single one of the individuals in that video voted Democrat, as about 80 percent of Manhattan’s population voted for Obama in 2012.
Twenty places that are difficult to believe really exist.
Jimmy Kimmel savages Obamacare and ignorant young who support it.
Read and watch it all. Quite entertaining, in a painful sort of way.
The article also notes that while young people should surely be criticized for their blind faith in Obama and the Democrats, the media is as much to blame.
Without question, if America’s media had behaved responsibly in 2009 and 2010, the calls and emails to Congress opposing this legislation would have been so voluminous it never would have passed.
But instead, with the exception of the conservative outlets, America’s media were 100 percent behind this legislation, aiding and abetting the President and his Party to enact something that virtually all late night comics agree is a total joke.
An evening pause: Comedians have told me that you will always get a laugh if you play “opposites.”
Hat tip Frank Kelly.
The eerie, alien, and abstract World War II monuments of Yugoslavia.
Very strange. They all look like something out of the weird Yugoslavian science fiction animated film community of the 1960s. Somewhere I’ve seen the one listed as #1 (though it isn’t the first in the story), though I can’t remember where.
Twenty-seven genius inventions you can buy now.
The competition heats up? Beyonce might beat Lada Gaga into space.
And in related news, TV actor Ashton Kutcher had some serious stomach issues during a zero-G practice flight on the vomit comet.
Works of art: Thirty-six incredible landscapes from video games.
I’ve played none of these games and probably never will, but I can agree without hesitation that the artists who created these visions created something beautiful and epic.
These are very cool Easter eggs. If you use “Find as you type” in Firefox or Seamonkey, disable it to do this. I am also sure there are more of them, as yet unknown.
