Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Holy crap! Its a 40(!) DVD boxed set of all seven seasons of the series. You get some extra documentries for your $200US, but you have got to be a serious Buffy fan if your going to buy this.
BTW, if you are a serious fan, get the boxed set, it should save you a lot of shelf space
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Buffy-licious Box Art for Complete Collection
New hearts, new livers, kidneys, paws, tails… Just about everything except brain. Whatever this is that the scientists have isolated and adapted for use on mammals I can only hope that it can be used on higher primates, namely us.
I don’t know… Looks like a ducks arse to me, but then again I’m not an expert in such things.
Eh, not the cryptid that they were looking for I’m afraid. Still, it is a good thing that they went a head and ran the DNA and made sure. I personaly don’t think that there are such things as bigfoot or sasquatch or even a yeti. I think that people will see what they want to see and that will never change. But you know, I’ve been wrong before but this time I think I’m right.
Up until now I used to worry about if I had been around anything with gun powder in it when I was going to board a flight, I have read reports of people tripping the security devices by having powder residue on themselves because of things like target practice, hunting or reloading shells. Now you have to be careful that your last medical procedure doesn’t come back to give you a hard time.
Certain medical scans can render people radioactive enough to trigger false security alarms at airports for up to a month, a Lancet article warns…
The Lancet piece highlights the case of a 55-year-old commercial pilot referred for cardiac investigation. Doctors carried out a scan using a radioisotope of the element thallium. Two days after the scan the patient travelled to Moscow as a crew member.
While passing through customs, the radiation detector alarms were triggered, and the patient was detained for questioning. After extensive interrogation, he was released, but experienced the same problem at the same airport four days later.
Eventually the airport security officials gave him a card to carry while travelling that explained his scan was to blame.
Medical Scans Can Trip Airport Radiation Detectors
I don’t know what these might have been, could be ice, could be just tricks of light. I do know that one of the images I captured this morning of the main tank separation had a bright white piece of something zipping away from both the tank and the orbiter. You can see it in the photo that there is a tiny white speck above the tank strut on the right hand side of the image. (Click on the photo for a larger image) I doubt that it is anything to be worried about but the boys at NASA are going to conduct some imaging runs on the tiles in the next day or so
Video showed what appeared to be a large piece of debris flying off the external fuel tank two minutes into the flight. The object did not seem to hit the orbiter. Footage also showed what might have been at least two light-colored objects flying off Discovery as the shuttle cleared the launch pad.
Shuttle Discovery Blasts Into Orbit