Near Miss

This Monday, we have an asteroid that will pass the Earth at 268,624 miles, just past the Moon's orbit.

I just might set up my telescope for this one...

More Fed Fund Bungling

Season Football tickets, tropical vacations, divorce lawyers and a sex change; all dire needs of victims of Katrina and Rita.

Who filed for the aid?

Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used a New Orleans cemetery for a home address, and a person who spent 70 days at a Hawaiian hotel.

Yup.

And, Hillary wants the feds to control our healthcare?

Space, The Final Frontier...

Hawking is right; we need to expand to space. This little planet can't hold all of us and the idea of a large-scale war to cull the herd isn't all that appealing.

How Do They Know?

Looks like a new species of hammerhead shark was discovered off the South Carolina coast.

Marine scientists find an individual example of this new species and have declared it "rare" and "at risk of extinction."

How do they know?

A photo with the article is captioned, "The shark prefers to breed in South Carolina waters."

How do they know?

They just found the silly thing and they think they know where it prefers to breed? How do they know the INDIVIDUAL they found wasn't a stray from a school of tens of thousands making a trek from Nova Scotia to Bermuda? Or, Argentina?

They find A SINGLE animal and immediately assume that it is endangered and that they know enough about the ENTIRE species to pronounce its breeding habits and preferences.

What sort of idiotic science its this?

My analysis is that this discovery shows that a bunch of researchers are clutching at straws to justify their budgets and to grab a bigger slice of pie. Maybe one of them has his eye on a new Porsche...