Final piece of Bell artwork depicting a ground attack variant of the X-22. Similar in most respects to the previously shown design, it does feature a different weapons load… instead of bombs, it has a deployable pack of folding-fin rockets.
It has been Damned Hot here lately, and without AC (hey, electrons cost money), it’s been Damned Hot inside the house. This has had a dampening effect on the boisterousness of the cats, especially Buttons. Unlikely as it may seem, he’s been sleeping even *more* than before, but now he throws himself down in previously unusual locations.
And just for giggles, I tinkered with the colors a bit on one of those photos, bringing out the eyes a bit. Snazzy? Artistic? Creepy? I dunno.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently took this shot of sunrise at the Tycho crater. Shown is the central impact mound, which is about 2 km tall.
Go HERE for the full rez.
Oooohhh…
Billion-pixel camera set to snap Milky Way shots
ESA says that Gaia’s measurements will be so accurate that, if it were on Earth, it could measure the thumbnails of a person on the Moon.
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake northeast of New Zealand, at 12:03 PM local time, June 6. The USGS is not warning of a tsunami along the US coast, but you never know. As for the rest of the Pacific rim… dunno. Keep an eye out, I suppose.
… in one three-minute video:
http://gawker.com/5818366/nancy-grace-on-the-casey-anthony-verdict-the-devil-is-dancing-tonight
Oy.
And they called Glenn Beck nuts? Yeesh. He’s the voice of dull sanity compared to the shrieking harpies in this clip.
This one aughtta get the UFO-nuts in a tizzy:
On June 19, maritime treasure hunters — who were looking for priceless submerged hooch in shipwrecks — discovered a 60-meter-diameter circle 87 meters under the Baltic Sea. … Next to the circle is a 300 meter long slide track – as if the circle has traveled across the seabed before it has settled
The Witch King of Angmar on a speederbike
One does not simply walk into Mordor. Unless one is Boba Fett collecting on Sauron’s bounty on Frodo Baggins…
Pass you shall not: what’s better, a lightsaber or a magical fire whip?
… the dude knows how to powernap.
