Some of Ginger Zee's Pics. One looks at these pics and then priorities are reestablished. Does it really matter who won yesterday's game? Or, if the price of gas went up 11 cents? hopefully the politicians will get to work and do something instead of playing politics. And that is my oped for today!!!
Good morning. Bad news out of Oklahoma but that is life in the world. No matter how powerful you are, there is nothing to do against nature. I don't remember damage like that from tornadoes. Several years ago, in Wisconsin we had a whole town leveled. But not the loss of life as seen in Oklahoma. What amazes me is Oklahoma is part of tornado alley as it is known. Yet, they do not build basements on the houses down there.
Church bus in Moore with windows blown out but they're on the road
couple of good looking pics of a place I like to call, PARIS.
Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old. Galaxies formation follows the gravitational wells produced by dark matter, where hydrogen gas coalesces, and the first stars ignite. CIBER studies the total sky brightness, to probe the component from first stars and galaxies using spectral signatures, and searches for the distinctive spatial pattern seen in this image, produced by large-scale structures from dark matter. My camera caught it just right.
Blanched, boiled, or candied, cicadas are a healthy snack, experts say. Once every 17 years, only on the east coast of the colonies.
Supersonic Noise. The Twin Rectangular Jet model at NASA's Glenn Research Center
This shot was taken in Villa Luisita, a 19th-century house on the outskirts of Cortegana near Huelva in southern Spain. Spain is a country in Iberia most known for tomatoes in winter.
Well, a lot of storms in the colonies yesterday and some to continue today. Iowa had their record streak end yesterday with the spotting of two tornadoes. They had gone something like 390 days without a tornado. We had one a couple of years ago. That was the first one in any city I was living. Of course for quite some time I lived on the Great Lakes and that is a deterrent for tornadoes. Monday is here so we got the weekend out of the way. Have a good start.
And now, the big moment of the day. Mike and Mike starts now, with a special host Steven A Smith.
at the prom. Dan Harris wows crowd; Ginger Zee flees paparazzi!
chad kagy's flair tailwhip view
The moment Denmark's Emmelie de Forest realised she won Eurovision - and her song. I am confused by this. Watched the video and it sounds as if they are from the colonies.
This is either in my yard or the Tukad Unda Dam, Bali
This is a river I call the Thames. It runs from Wisconsin to England
Tackling TB - England prepares a pilot badger cull while Wales vaccinates. I must protest against England. This is my state's mascot
One winning Powerball ticket sold in Zephyrhills, Florida. Jackpot is record $590.5 million. This is not the ticket.
Boys Killed Pets to Become Warriors in Early Russia In Russia, dismembered dogs point to ancient initiation rite.
Conditions tricky at Giro d'Italia
A good response to that last Giro d'Italia photo so here's another one - this time of the final bend
Tiger Woods, Lindsey Vonn and Kid Rock at charity poker match
Good Sunday. Expecting some storms this afternoon. I shall be hiding. Was planning on going to a parade in a small town to celebrate some Norwegian holiday, but does not matter. Have not been to a parade since BC. So, instead of being out and about on the bike, I shall be in my Fortress of Solitude.
13 years ago today Space Shuttle Atlantis launched into the dawn on mission STS-101 to the International Space Station.
Four years before STS-101, Shuttle Endeavour also made a morning launch on this day from Kennedy Space Center. STS-77 launched 19 minutes later, but it was still a spectacular pre-dawn sight.
On this day in 2009 Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel complete a 7 hour, 2 minute spacewalk - the 5th and final one on STS-125. This makes them the last humans to touch (through gloved hands) the Hubble Space Telescope. Here Grunsfeld catches a picture of his own reflection on the shiny exterior of Hubble.
At 12:49 eastern time on this day in 1969 Apollo 10 launched to the Moon. Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan and John Young would do a full dress rehearsal of the landing to come in July. They flew the lunar module down to within 50,000 feet of the lunar surface.
Happy Birthday to Nancy Grace Roman! NASA's first Chief of Astronomy. That was on May 15th of course.
At 6:24 pm (colonial eastern time) on this day in 1963 Astronaut Gordo Cooper splashed down in the Pacific Ocean just 7,000 yards from the USS Kearsarge ending the last flight in Project Mercury (Mercury Atlas 9). Cooper was the last NASA astronaut to fly solo in space.
On May 14, 2009, the European Space Agency launched Herschel and Planck aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. Herschel carried a powerful infrared telescope and is a pioneering mission to study the origin and evolution of stars and galaxies that will help understand how the universe came to be what it is today. In April 2013, the liquid helium coolant that enabled instruments on board the Herschel space observatory.
These are just some of my fetes from yesterday year. For more, stay tuned for my comments.
Good morning or Saturday, whatever is applicable to you. Went to the movie yesterday, STAR TREK, and because I watched it so well, I was given a ticket for a free movie in the future. No big plans for today, though currently watching the IMF force. Some of the pics from yesterday.
Ron, going to the prom with Ginger Zee and the gang tonight
Stat Boy, Tony Reali
Ancient Maya Pyramid Destroyed in Belize An archaeological group says it plans to take legal action
this writer...Friday
Masters of disguise. The Eastern Screech Owl is seen here doing what they do best. You better have a sharp eye to spot these little birds of prey.
April 8, 1933: For those who have visited London and wondered how they know their double-decker buses won’t fall over, this is apparently how they find out. Per police regulation, employees of the London General Omnibus Company put their 60-person bus to a “tilt test,” putting it on a 28-degree angle.
Bill Gates Regains Title of World’s Richest Person Wow! Got nervous that he was broke
