The majestically beautiful apex of a total solar eclipse



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We Had To Borrow The Costume, So Go Easy On It

It's called The Worst Fight Scene ever. And yes, that may be so. But consider this, it's a clip from a 40 year old, very low budget TV series, that has been watched almost 7 million times in just over 700 days at YouTube, let alone the hundreds of other places it can be seen online. I wonder if they ever contemplated how much simple pleasure, and laughter, this would bring to so many people in the 21st century?



It should be called The Best Worst Fight Scene Ever. I love how Shatner has to be so careful 'fighting' the alien so that the costume doesn't fall apart. You just don't get that kind of realism with CGI.

An appallingly sad murder-suicide, announced via Facebook



What a tragedy.

Whoops, Iraqolypse!

Here's how BushCo. hoped, and prayed, the War On Iraq would unfold back in 2001 :

Just a few years ago, an overconfident George W Bush administration expected to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, pacify the country, install a compliant client government, privatize the economy, and establish Iraq as the political and military headquarters for a dominating US presence in the Middle East.

These successes were, in turn, expected to pave the way for ambitious goals, enshrined in the 2001 report of vice president Dick Cheney's secretive task force on energy. That report focused on exploiting Iraq's monstrous, largely untapped energy reserves - more than any country other than Saudi Arabia and Iran - including the quadrupling of Iraq's capacity to pump oil and the privatization of the production process.

The dream in those distant days was to strip the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - the cartel consisting of the main petroleum exporters - of the power to control the oil supply and its price on the world market. As a reward for vastly expanding Iraqi production and freeing its distribution from OPEC's control, key figures in the Bush administration imagined that the US could skim off a small proportion of that increased oil production to offset the projected $40 billion cost of the invasion and occupation of the country.

All in a year or two.

Michael Schwarz at Asia Times goes on to compare the reality, to the dream.

NASA : "What The Fuck Is That?!"

Okay, Hubble scientists have no idea what they've caught on camera here, only guesses for now.



Primarily, it''s not behaving like a comet. So it's open slather for theories.

I'm sticking with a Klingon 'Bird of Prey' until I see a better explanation.

You think that's a bit nutty? Well, compare :





Chilling, isn't it?

On safari in Kenya, photographer Michel Denis-Huot snapped a series of incredible images which reveal when the pressure of hunger is sated, the hunter and the hunted can just hang out for a while.

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If only there was a 24 hour news channel made up of stories like this :