NASA hair brain ideas to save the environment

I am coming at the environment hard these last two weeks. And it continues. If you think ideas from Al Gore on how to improve the environment are nuts how bout some from NASA's top scientists.

NASA would like to move the earth.

Nasa aims to move Earth

Scientists' answer to global warming: nudge the planet farther from Sun

The Guardian---Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet overheating: move it to a cooler spot.

All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.

This startling idea of improving our interplanetary neighbourhood is the brainchild of a group of Nasa engineers and American astronomers who say their plan could add another six billion years to the useful lifetime of our planet - effectively doubling its working life.

'The technology is not at all far-fetched,' said Dr Greg Laughlin, of the Nasa Ames Research Center in California. 'It involves the same techniques that people now suggest could be used to deflect asteroids or comets heading towards Earth. We don't need raw power to move Earth, we just require delicacy of planning and manoeuvring.'

The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams, involves carefully directing a comet or asteroid so that it sweeps close past our planet and transfers some of its gravitational energy to Earth.

'Earth's orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun,' Laughlin said.

Engineers would then direct their comet so that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn, where the reverse process would occur. It would pick up energy from one of these giant planets. Later its orbit would bring it back to Earth, and the process would be repeated.

Yes, moving the earth seems like a logical way to combat global climate change. This sounds like something Cartman from South Park would think of.

If that is not crazy enough, how about blowing up the moon?

Stabilizing our Weather by Destroying the Moon

Unexplainable---A University professor has a moonstruck solution to the Earth's weather problems. He wants to blow up the moon - or at least send it somewhere else. "It's the only way to rid the world of scorching deserts and artic winters," says Professor Alexander Abian, a mathematician at the University of Iowa. He claims that by getting rid of the moon, the Earth will then be able to shift into a "more desirable orbit." The suggestion which has been greeted with hoots and hollers from the world's scientific community, has been presented by the 65-year old Armenian-born expert to the American government. Abian suggests strategically placed hydrogen bombs on the Earth's satellite can either blow it apart, or send it careening into outer space, maybe even into the sun. It all depends where you put the charges, he says. "We've been held hostage by the moon for 5 million years, and we've been subjected to violent extremes in weather, not to mention that the planet is slowly becoming a desert. "It's time for a change." The change would make our weather less extreme, turn our deserts into fertile farm land, and make the north and south polar regions livable. But other scientists disagree, suggesting the professor might be moonstruck. "If you lose the moon, you LOSE THE TIDES. And if you melt the polar caps, you're going to flood the seacosts of every continent," one scientist explains.

This article was from 2005, is blowing up the moon about to happen in the next few days?

NASA is planning spectacular mission to bomb the Moon

The Mirror---There are no aliens up there, as far as we know, but the Americans are preparing to bomb the moon.

A space mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral today carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface.

But this is no gung-ho display of firepower – it is actually a serious quest for water.

Nasa scientists expect the blast to send out a plume of debris visible from Earth.

They want to see if any water or vapour is revealed in the huge space cloud.

If so, it could provide vital supplies for a moonbase.

The moon is mostly dry desert but ice may be trapped in craters which never see sunlight.

The unmanned LCROSS mission – it stands for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite – will fire a Centaur rocket into the surface at twice the speed of a bullet.

An accompanying spacecraft will orbit the moon for a year looking for possible landing sites for astronauts.

So next time you here a crazy idea on to save the environment, it probably not as crazy as NASA's ideas.

This is just a rock

'Alien skull' spotted on Mars

Telegraph---One alien-spotter speculated: "The skull is 15 cm with binocular eyes 5 cm apart. The cranial capacity is approximately 1400 cc.

At first glance it looks like a rocky desert - but this image of the Mars landscape has got space-gazers talking.

An oddly shaped space boulder appears to show eye sockets and a nose leading to speculation it might be a Martian skull.

Internet forums are full of chatter about the picture, taken by a panoramic NASA camera known as Spirit.

"There appears to be a narrow pointed small mouth, so this creature most likely is a carnivore."

Another joked: "The coronal ridge shows ample structure to support the musculature of antennae, although none are visible in this view.

"The nose area is broad and blunted as you would expect to see in a cold and windy landscape. Is he decapitated or is he buried up to his neck?"

Previous images of a skull spotted on Mars in 2006 were believed to have been the result of tampering.

The famous Face on Mars, snapped by the Viking 1 spacecraft in 1976, which showed the shadowy likeness of a human face was late, was found to be a trick of the light when the area was re-photographed in 1998.

I am all for trying to find skulls on other planets. As seen in my previous moon skull picture and thread. But this is ridiculous. People are trying way too hard to turn straw into gold. This is a rock. I personally think it looks closer to a blowing ball than a skull.

There is plenty of stranger stuff on the surface of Mars that get no attention. Such as:

The coin.Wood beams

Faces

Better skulls than the one above.

Trees?
The Egyptian like structures.

And some strange objects

This is just a small snapshot of weird stuff on the surface of Mars, but the rock in the story above is the only thing that gets any press in the newspaper? Could it be that the media is covering this story because it is so ridiculous that future stories about Mars landscape will just get swept underneath the carpet? I don't know?



All pics come from the Pegasus Research Corsortium, and special thanks to Mike Singh.

Jesus is obviously from outer space

Pravda---Russian scientists noticed the image of Jesus Christ on the meteorite which fell down on the Earth about 100 years ago. The image is identical to the one that appears on the Shroud of Turin. The meteorite cracked into two as it rammed into the planet in the Far East of Russia. The image of Jesus Christ’s face can be seen on the split. The meteorite was dubbed Boguslavka, after the village where it had been found. The face of Jesus Christ on the meteorite is just the same as on the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion. It is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. It is believed by many to be the cloth placed on Jesus of Nazareth at the time of his burial.

The best thing about nut jobs seeing Jesus in guitars, french toast, windows, or pretty much any where else is that nobody has any idea what Jesus ever looked like! Jesus could have been metrosexual for all we know. But now its the Russians turn to look like idiots. They were probably drunk when they concluded that this rock looked like Jesus, because when is it that a Russian person isn't drunk? Doesn't happen.

Boy is preforming miracles, ya right!

A BOY of nine is being hailed as a “Messiah” after allegedly performing miracle healings.

The Sun---Villagers claim Mohammad Ponari has cured raging fevers and debilitating illnesses — and even made a mute boy talk again.

At least 5,000 pilgrims a day now flock to be treated with Mohammad’s tonic — made by dipping a “magic stone” in water.

But Muslim leaders in Indonesia want to shut his “clinic” after four people died in a stampede.

The lad is said to have discovered his gift after he was hit by lightning.

He became convinced that an egg-shaped stone he found next to him had healing powers.

Police chief Sutikno told how he saw Mohammad cure the mute boy in Balongsari, East Java, saying: “Ponari shook him and they started fighting, then he began to talk.”

I love stories like this. This just proves that people are fucking nuts. Especially Muslims. Even if I was dying of AIDS I would not let this kid's sticky fingers touch me. Look at the kid, I betcha he still eats his own boogers.

The only thing that would make this story better was if the kid was an albino. Just so it can be even more like the movie Powder.

But hey, I do think its a good thing that people still believe in miracles. Because it gives people hope. I believe in miracles. Like me winning tonight's $212 million MegaMillions jackpot. But I have a theory about large jackpot winners. Once it gets over 200 mil, only old people win it. I can't explain this. Its like a twisted form of karma. Here is buckets over money, but you only have 7-10 years to spend it. Karma blows.

More Insane People see Jesus, this time on a guitar

There should be a law that if you see Jesus or the Virgin Mary in a window, wood work, food, or just anything you should be forced to see a psychologist. Nobody even knew what he looked like! He possibly had a beard, wore a potato sack, and probably wore sandals. That's it! That's all we know. But the person in this article should really see a eye doctor first, because I don't see anything.

Jesus found on a Washburn guitar

The silhouette of a bearded face has been discovered on a Washburn Dreadnought D46SP acoustic guitar in the Instrumental Music And Sound shop in Ludington, Michigan, USA. The face appears in the body's maple grain just below the bridge and, being bearded, the comparisons to Jesus were inevitable.

Musicradar.com--"I've been here for 27 years and I've never seen anything close to that… the face is so clear," shop employee Jeff Hoyer told the Ludington News. It reminded me, and a couple of other people, of the Shroud of Turin and we know who that was."

"It also reminds me of my brother, he's a biker."

Jesus spotting again, this time on french toast

Only in America can we continuously find wackos that always find religions figures in random stuff. This is not as bad as the Virgin Mary on the dirty glasses, but its up there.

This image looks nothing like Jesus. But a South Florida man does.

POMPANO BEACH, FL -- A south Florida man believes he's found Jesus at the breakfast table.

Troy Eckonen was eating breakfast at Mack's Cafe in Pompano Beach last Tuesday when he spotted Jesus' face on his last piece of French toast.

After studying the toast Eckonen says he and friends also see Christ's left arm raised and holding a cross, as well as two birds over the left shoulder.

If anything I think it looks a little like Fred Flintsone. This just proves that anyone that lives in Pompano Beach is a idiot.

Headline of the day

Man Accidentally Walks Into Wrong House During Blackout, Shot Twice

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A man who mistakenly walked into the wrong house during a power outage at his duplex was shot and critically injured by his neighbor.Orange County sheriff's deputies said Jeff Conway, 24, mistakenly walked into the home of Berky Deguzman, 62, near Huntsman and Gray Fox lanes near the University of Central Florida campus late Wednesday.Deguzman apparently thought Conway was a burglar and opened fire, officers said.

I have to say when I first read this I thought they meant blackout, as in drunk blackout. Because I had a friend once who on his way home from a bar thought he was going into his friends apartment, but he didn't even come close. He barged into the wrong house, and there was two gay guys living in there, and they beat the hell out of him. He ended up getting arrested, and having everyone know that he got his ass kicked by gay guys.

I am not really sure how he ended up in that house, I could have sweared he was right behind me leaving the bar.

Irony is a bitch

This story is great. So a guy with the last name Fox is driving along and runs over a red fox. This Redneck decides he wants to keep the dead animal, so he throws it in the back seat of his SUV. But not so fast. The fox was not dead, it wakes up while this guy was driving along and attacks him. The guy fending off the fox attack ends up rolling his car. It was the second accident that eventually killed the fox.

Man picks up 'dead' fox, wrecks after it revives

The Leaf Chronicle--Tommy Fox was driving home from his job in Dover Wednesday at about 11 p.m. when a beautiful red fox dashed in front of his SUV. After he ran over the fox, he stopped his GMC Jimmy to get the fox to cut off its tail for a souvenir, and he put it in the back seat, said Dale Grandstaff, a Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wildlife officer.

"The tails are real bushy and pretty and thick this time of year," Grandstaff said.

Things took an odd turn when Fox heard a noise coming from his back seat and realized the fox was alive — and not happy.

The driver desperately searched for something to hold the fox back and prevent him from climbing into the front seat and biting him, he told Grandstaff.

As he looked in the back seat to get a blanket to block the fox, he took his attention from the road.

The SUV crossed the center line and wrecked in a ditch, flipping once and landing upside down in the 3900 block of Lylewood Road, Grandstaff said.

Fox suffered minor injuries and bruises and was treated at the scene by Montgomery County Emergency Medical Service.

The fox was found dead in the SUV. Grandstaff said it was not clear whether the fox died of injuries caused by being hit by the SUV or if it died in the wreck. It was also not known if Tommy Fox got to keep the tail.

Fox could not be located for comment, and the complete Tennessee Highway Patrol report was not available Thursday. His vehicle is registered in Beaumont, Miss., said Laura McPherson, Tennessee Highway Patrol spokeswoman.

More silliness

Yesterday it was the virgin Mary on a window now she is on someones glasses.

Nut jobs hullcinating again

This was in the Boston Herald this morning.

Faithful see Virgin Mary’s image

The light-infused image that appeared in a Springfield hospital window was an unmistakable apparition of the Virgin Mary, say several dumbfounded Catholics who believe they witnessed a “message from God.”

“I was amazed that she was there, but she was,” said Kevin Leeman, a maintenance worker at Sacred Heart Catholic Church who joined hundreds over the past two days to pray outside Mercy Medical Center. “I have never seen anything like it. It was a spiritual experience.”

“You couldn’t get a better image of the picture of Mary,” said Patrick Renaud, 40, of Springfield, who prayed that Mary would heal his mother’s ailing back. “I think it’s some kind of message from God.”

Now I like to keep a open mind about things, but this ain't no Virgin Mary. And for the record, Mary was no virgin either. These people that flock to see this image are clearly nuts and have poor vision. If they would take a closer look at the window they would see that it is obviously bigfoot.

Calling someone's bluff

I hate making fun of dead people, but if your stupid or deserved it then I really have no choice. This kid falls into both categories.

A teenager has plunged more than 15m to his death as others below urged him to jump and then took photos of his dead body.

Nine msn-Shaun Dykes, 17, committed suicide from the top level of a shopping centre carpark in the English regional centre of Derby yesterday after police tried to coax him away from the edge, the Daily Mail has reported.

But a group of onlookers below shouted encouragement at him over the three hour ordeal, according to police and witnesses.

"How far can you bounce?" one allegedly shouted as others told him to "Jump" and "Get on with it".

Police slammed the youths' behaviour as "a shocking reflection on society".

"People were at the police cordon shouting for the man to jump," Superintendent Andy Hough, from Derbyshire police was quoted as saying.

"We really need the public to work with us, not against us. It was a very disappointing situation."

But one witness said while most people were screaming and crying, further disturbing behaviour followed.

"There were several groups of youths who ran from behind the cordon and looked like they were taking pictures with their mobile phones," she was quoted as saying.

Mr Dykes allegedly suffered from depression and had recently been struggling with a relationship break-up.

Ironically, his MySpace page said he wanted to die "quietly" when the time came.

His best friend, Lindsey Reid, said he was joker who "smiled all the time and everyone knew him because he was so popular".

Now I really see nothing wrong with these kids tauting him. Can you imagine how hard it is to jump off a building? I could never do it. Probably can't even bungee jump or anything. These kids were just trying to give the kid support. If they weren't there he probably won't have jumped. Peer pressure is a powerful thing.

I could never understand why someone would want to kill themselves. The story states that this kid suffered through a rough breakup. So its obviously the girl's fault, not the kids yelling at him to jump. The best cure for a breakup is internet porn, lots of it.

To bad for this kid, a girl is no reason to kill yourself.

Proof the blonde twins are idiots.

I'm pissed I can't embed this, stupid BBC. Here is the link.

This may be the the 2008 award winner for the Darwin Award. The video is a must see. How stupid can you be?

Here is the story.

Swedish twin sisters in UK motorway madness

The Local--Shocking images were released on Thursday night of two Swedish sisters throwing themselves into oncoming motorway traffic in the UK.

The incredible events were aired on the BBC documentary series, Motorway Cops.

The video shows the twin sisters walking along the central reservation of the M6 motorway, just outside Birmingham in central England. The duo then take a sudden plunge into oncoming traffic and the first woman is hit by a car.

Police were called to the scene and astonishingly, while being interviewed, one of the women again tears herself away from officers throws herself into the carriageway. The woman is struck by a truck and seriously injured.

Soon after, the second sister repeats her twin’s actions and hurtles into traffic to be hit by a car. Despite her head-on collision with a vehicle, the sister shortly tried to escape custody once more by again running onto the motorway.

In a highly aggressive state, the woman attacks an officer before finally being restrained by six members of the police.

The sister seriously injured by her collision with a truck was taken from the scene by air ambulance and treated in hospital for seven weeks. The second woman was also treated in hospital for minor injuries and spent a day in jail charged with assaulting an officer.

Dude with Jet Pack plans on flying over the English Channel

I saw this on the morning news this morning. They said it was suppose to happen in 90 minutes from the time I was watching it, but I guess it got postponed. I give it 2:1 odds that he crashes.

LONDON, England (AP) -- Swiss pilot Yves Rossy has been forced to postpone his attempt to cross the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing.

Yves Rossy is shown in flight last May over the Swiss Alps.

Poor weather conditions Thursday means he will try again Friday.

Rossy will leap from a plane more than 2,500 meters (2,700 yards) off the ground, fire up his jets and try to make the 35-kilometer (22-mile) from Calais in France to Dover in England in about 12 minutes, according to a statement put out by his organizers.

In his first public demonstration of the device in May, Rossy turned figure-eights high above the Alps, performing fluid loops from one side of the Rhone valley to the other.

At least this guy flying over the channel will let me post some flying humanoid videos. These are great pieces of evidence.





Could these be man made human flying devices like this one that was created in the 60's?

Guy purposes to his girlfriend she responds by throwing knives at him

Police: Knives Thrown During Marriage Proposal Fight

HOLIDAY - A Pasco County woman was in jail Sunday charged with aggravated domestic battery.

Her live-in boyfriend called police to the couple's Castile Lane home during an argument Saturday evening. The victim, Bruce Montle, told sheriff's deputies the argument with Celeste Irene Lagrant, 39, started over a marriage proposal.

Montle told investigators that Lagrant slapped, punched and scratched at him. She also threw several knives at him, he said.

I would probably take that as a no. I would still rather get a knife thrown at me than rejected at mid court during a basketball game.

This one is even better.

Redneck hurricane insurance

When in doubt tie your crappy car to a tree.
Autoblog-It's not funny. Okay, maybe it's worth a chortle. It's also likely not effective, but if you don't want your early '90s vintage Buick Century to be washed or blown away by nature's fury, you try stuff. Besides, if you're in the midst of an evacuation frenzy, what do you really have time to do? It looks like this owner had the opportunity to toss a carpet on the roof and use what looks like a garden hose to hopefully keep the Buick from washing into the next county. Perhaps the carpet is indicative that the car might make a gnarly floating platform once the flood hits, and what better way to show off than by sipping Pepper Eaters on the only carpeted raft in town as the eye passes overhead? Turning a tree into an impromptu mooring will keep the potential party barge in the harbor, too. Since the Century won't float for too long without some aftermarket modifications, and hurricanes are no fun, especially when they're the size of Texas, we'll just hope that this person's car and carpet weathered the storm unscathed.

Picture of the day: Hurricane Ike

Signs says caution man, use it.

Dumb ass of the day

Burglary suspect dies in Telegraph Hill fall

(09-11) 17:15 PDT SAN FRANCISCO

A car-burglary suspect fell to his death early Thursday after he climbed over a wall on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill while trying to flee from police, apparently unaware that on the other side of the wall was a 200-foot cliff, authorities said.

The man was identified by the San Francisco medical examiner's office as James Ronald Cockrum Jr., 38, of Daly City. His grandmother said Cockrum was the married father of a 2-year-old girl. He was an Army veteran who had spent time in prison for drugs.

The incident began at 12:30 a.m. when police received re

ports of someone breaking into a car on Alta Street near Montgomery Street, east of Coit Tower.

Plainclothes officers set up surveillance in the area and spotted Cockrum getting out of an Audi, said police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens. Police tried to stop him, but he took off running. At one point, he stumbled and a screwdriver fell o

ut of his pocket, police said.

Cockrum jumped over a 3-foot wall at the end of Alta Street and plunged the equivalent of 20 stories. He was pronounced dead at the scene, west of Sansome Street.

I was so happy when I saw this is article. Not that the dumb ass died, but that it happened on Telegraph Hill. My sister use to live right there and there is a statue of Christopher Columbus on top of it. If you take a side angle picture of this statue, Columbus's thumb looks like a boner. And I am PISSED I can't find my picture of it. It must be on my sister's camera.

So I searched the web hoping someone else realized the obvious funniness of the statue, but no. All you have to do is look at the statue from the side, and it looks like a dick, and I can't find a picture.
See here is a picture of the statue, move to the side and its a protruding penis.

And here is a giant penis statue just to make up for me not finding my picture.

I guess you can't fight Kangaroos anymore

The big story out of Australia today is a video of a kid KOing a Kangaroo.



ITN-Australian animal welfare authorities have launched a nationwide hunt for a man filmed punching and kicking a kangaroo unconscious.

The video, which shows the man using kickboxing-style attacks on the kangaroo as his friend laughs while filming, was sent to the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) in Western Australia state.

In one scene the man pulls the kangaroo towards him and uses his knee to hit the animal's chest and the man punches the kangaroo's face as it struggles to remain standing.

A final punch knocks the kangaroo to the ground where it appears to lay unconscious. It is unclear whether the attack resulted in the death of the animal, which authorities believe was injured, possibly in a car accident.

The RSPCA said it has launched a nationwide appeal to catch the men responsible for the attack and video.

RSPCA spokesman Richard Barry said: "We are appealing to every media outlet in Australia to help us track down the cowards behind the vicious attack on this kangaroo.

"Thankfully this sickening footage has now been removed from the website where it was first seen. The next stage is to ensure that those responsible for this film are brought to justice."

It looks like a fair fight. There was no sucker punching, the kangaroo landed some blows of its own. Its tough to tell who instigated the fight. It very well could have been the kangaroo. They have been know to attack for no apparent reason.





Kangaroo kickboxing has been around for a long time.


It seems like people are just upset that the kangaroo lost.

Diddy says oil price is to high to fly

Screw Burger King is open late, Diddy is taking on Big Oil. When Diddy talks shit happens.

Dumb ass of the day

I never understood why someone would try and rob a gun store. There are just guns everywhere, and sometimes even dogs.