The famous last ten seconds of a Cape Canaveral launch countdown will once again ring out at Space Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral FL, but the announcer will be singing a slightly different tune.  The legendary complex that saw many NASA “firsts,” including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, will open once again.  This time, the facility [...]

Many of you who are following Planet X are also interested in the activities at the CERN complex in Lucerne, Switzerland and the Large Hadron Collider, whose 17-mile circumference is buried deep beneath it.
Scientists are using this LHC to try to answer questions about the creation of the universe, but the rest of us worry [...]

Sometimes, during my free time, I just wander around the Web and look for juicy bits of news to read or post here.  Sunday was one such time.  And I hit pay dirt.
Clicking around the Web, I happened upon one of my favorite sites, Crop Circle Connector.  When I did, I found that a crop circle image [...]

The outer winds from hurricane Gustav have been crashing into the southern Louisiana coast since about 3:30 A.M.  - the wee hours of September first 2008 -  but two million residents of Coastal Louisiana and New Orleans did not stick around to experience this dangerous event. In what appears to be a successful [...]

Gustav is making a slow exit, about to become a Tropical Storm,  as Hannah strengthens. September 1st, 2008 ·
Hurricane Gustav is now a Category 1 Hurricane, weakening rapidly but he has wind gusts of  75 mph, intermittent winds and torrential rain when the the bands come around.
There is still considerable hazard in the area [...]

The fires in northern California may be over soon if the weather cooperates - but the region is due to have mostly “dry” storms with “virga” -a type of rain that doesn’t hit the ground.
“..Dry thunderstorms are those that produce virga.) A cloud that produces thunder, lightning, and rain are common in the western [...]

Both Russia and Canada have sent their powerful Northern Fleets to the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen.  Why are both powerful navies interested in a small, unremarkably featured island in the Arctic Ocean?  And are they turning their big guns and missiles outward or towards each other?  Perhaps an old favorite US television show suggests an answer.  [...]

An interesting article from the Canadian National News cites several reasons why an incoming Planet X could cause Global (interplanetary, really) Warming and the War on Terror.  It also suggests that another of Gene Roddenberry’s television series, Earth: the Final Conflict, might have been a warning through visionary science fiction narrative about another, sometimes overlooked, consequence [...]

A “rain wrapped tornado” stuck suddenly at the Little Sioux Boy Scout Camp in Iowa.  At least four boys have been killed and forty injured as search and rescue and medical teams continue to work tonight, along with people helping the parents of the Scouts, some of whom were missing, injured or killed by the [...]

How many of us have gone to the movies, seen a real sweetheart of a guy on the film and found out later that some evil entity or other has killed him?  You grieve for the loss of this person, but then you get up and leave the theater at the end of the movie [...]