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  • 'Sky Worm' Drone Readies for US Military Flight Tests (airship drone)

    11/18/2011 9:50:49 AM PST · by LibWhacker · 9 replies
    Argus One airship, U.S. military drone Drones and satellites dominate the U.S. military's surveillance arsenal, but fleets of unmanned airships could soon join in keeping an eye on battlefields. One robotic airship contender, the modular Argus One, has upcoming flight demonstrations scheduled at a U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Test Site that hosted nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War. The Argus One's design resembles a segmented sky worm made of connecting modules, and has the flexibility to quickly change its flight path as it slinks through the sky. It can also carry 30 pounds of surveillance sensors or...
  • Libyan rebels closing in on Qaddafi’s compound? Update: BBC says rebels have taken control

    08/23/2011 1:14:02 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 7 replies · 1+ views
    Hot Air ^ | August 23, 2011 | Ed Morrissey
    Take this with the customary grain of salt that accompanies most breaking reports from urban-warfare theaters, and perhaps especially in Tripoli, where Moammar Qaddafi’s sons are either in custody or acting as tour guides for the capital of Libya.  Rebels now report having reached Qaddafi’s compound, which means that either the regime will fall shortly, or … not:  Libyan rebels battled on Tuesday around Muammar Gaddafi’s headquarters, where a son of the veteran leader had emerged overnight to confound reports of his capture and to rally cheering loyalists for a rearguard fightback.NATO jets flew in support of the rebels, who...
  • Sky News’ Mark Stone Questions Rioters In London: ‘Are You Proud Of What You Are Doing?’

    08/09/2011 9:05:34 AM PDT · by Nachum · 39 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 8/9/11 | Jon Bershad
    As violence and riots sweep through sections London, the rest of the western world can only watch stunned. Earlier, we showed you some of the terrifying pictures taken by British photojournalists, but there’s also tons of video, recorded by Londoners on their cell phones and Flip cameras from rooftops and windows. A journalist however, Sky News’ Mark Stone, was brave (foolish?) enough to go right down on the street and record a pretty stunning video as he forces his camera right in the face of a group of looters. Fortunately for Stone the area he was in (Clapham Junction) doesn’t...
  • Is it a Bird, a Bug, or a Plane???[New Air Force UAV]

    07/13/2011 3:28:25 PM PDT · by SandRat · 16 replies
    No wonder everybody knows what we are up to....... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New Air Force - Next time you "think" you see a "bird" on a telephone line, better look closely! http://video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html
  • The Dark-Sky Movement

    01/31/2011 9:15:12 PM PST · by americanophile · 121 replies · 6+ views
    Buzz Log ^ | January 31, 2011 | Mike Krumboltz
    Stargazers now have their Graceland. The Channel Island of Sark, located 80 miles south of England, has been designated as the world's first dark-sky island. Dark-sky communities are places with very little to no light pollution. As a result, the stars are far easier to see and more fun to look at. According to a buzzy article from SPACE.com, Sark is just 4.5 square miles and has "no public street lighting, no paved roads, and no cars." In other words, save for the occasional flashlight or matchstick, there aren't a lot of things to interfere with the nighttime display, which...
  • Mass La. bird deaths puzzle investigators

    01/04/2011 7:21:18 AM PST · by PghBaldy · 94 replies
    The (Baton Rouge) Advocate ^ | Decemeber 4 | KORAN ADDO
    LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them. State biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths of the estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings on La. 1 just down the road from Pointe Coupee Central High School. The discovery of the dead birds — some of which were lying face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward — comes just three days after more than 3,000 blackbirds...
  • 100,000 dead fish in Arkansas near where 5,000 blackbirds dropped from sky

    01/02/2011 7:48:31 PM PST · by Sprite518 · 256 replies
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | 1/03/2011 | AAP
    The AP said more than 1000 birds fell from the sky, but CNN put the number at up to 5000.
  • Mitt Romney’s Alleged Attacker was Los Angeles Rapper Sky Blu

    02/19/2010 11:34:20 AM PST · by Nachum · 32 replies · 1,473+ views
    FOX ^ | 2/19/10 | staff
    NewsCore) - Los Angeles rapper Sky Blu was named by TMZ website on Friday as the mystery man who attacked Republican politician and former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on an airplane. Blu, of electro-hop group LMFAO - known for hits such as I'm in Miami Bitch - allegedly physically threatened Mr Romney on an Air Canada flight leaving Vancouver on Monday morning (local time).
  • METEOR UPDATE:......

    08/06/2009 1:05:39 PM PDT · by TaraP · 46 replies · 1,782+ views
    Spaceweather ^ | August 6th,2009
    METEOR UPDATE: Perseid meteors are now hitting Earth's upper atmosphere with a speed of 58 to 60 km/s, about 130,000 mph. That's the result of triangulation by a dual-station meteor monitoring system operated by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. Last night the system detected five fireballs that provided the data for this speed estimate... EARLY PERSEIDS: The Perseid meteor shower is slowly intensifying as Earth plunges deeper in Comet Swift-Tuttle's debris stream. On August 4th, amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft caught an early arrival using an all-sky camera at his observatory near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Click on the image to play...
  • Real 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' gravely ill

    06/12/2009 12:34:36 PM PDT · by john in springfield · 10 replies · 1,117+ views
    MSN/AP ^ | June 12, 2009 | AP
    Real 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' gravely ill June 12, 2009, 9:22 AM EST LONDON (AP) -- They were childhood chums. Then they drifted apart, lost touch completely, and only renewed their friendship decades later, when illness struck. Not so unusual, really. Except she is Lucy Vodden — the girl who was the inspiration for the Beatles' 1967 psychedelic classic "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" — and he is Julian Lennon, the musician son of John Lennon. They are linked together by something that happened more than 40 years ago when Julian brought home a drawing from school...
  • Earth's Clearest Skies Revealed [Ideal Telescope Site In Antarctica - Graphic On Comments Page]

    06/08/2009 11:59:30 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 10 replies · 961+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 06 June 2009 | Anil Ananthaswamy
    POSSIBLY the clearest skies on Earth have been found - but to exploit them, astronomers will have to set up a telescope in one of the planet's harshest climates...[Scientists] evaluated different factors that affect telescope vision, such as the amount of water vapour, wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence...The team found that the Antarctic plateau offers world-beating atmospheric conditions - as long as telescopes are raised 20 meters above its frozen surface...[The Antarctic air is] drier than the Atacama desert in Chile [where some of the best telescopes in the world are currently located].
  • Fire ball in the sky 4/7/09

    04/08/2009 9:59:50 AM PDT · by gemmeg · 105 replies · 2,979+ views
    Self | 4/8/09 | Meg
    I saw a huge fireball? in the sky last night practically sailing through our backyard, VERY CLOSE! It was at 9:47pm on Tuesday 4/7/09. I reported it to the news, I am curious if it is these galaxies colliding I have heard about? or possibly something with the talk of missiles being fired? Just curious~
  • Wheel in the sky wows local residents[Weather]

    12/17/2008 7:42:08 AM PST · by BGHater · 21 replies · 1,484+ views
    Daily Comet ^ | 16 Dec 2008 | Nikki Buskey
    HOUMA — Some people saw Jesus. Others blamed UFOs. Harkening to the popular Journey song, a wheel in the sky appeared over Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes early Saturday morning, a seemingly perfect hole punched though the sheet of clouds blanketing the sky. Locals who phoned and e-mailed the Daily Comet and The Courier this weekend about the strange cloud formation did agree on one thing: “It was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen,” said Raceland resident Sandra Ledet, who shared some spectacular photos with the Daily Comet. Shawn O’Neil, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Slidell, identified the...
  • Hole in sky spotted over Tampa Bay[Weather]

    11/26/2008 6:28:12 PM PST · by BGHater · 34 replies · 2,405+ views
    ABC Action News ^ | 25 Nov 2008 | John Thomas
    TAMPA BAY, FL -- It was an odd, but not oddly shaped, cloud formation and it caught the eye of many in the Bay area Monday morning. ABC Action News viewer Jerry Kessie grabbed his camera and snapped shots of the cumulus ringous and sent them to ABC Action News where we have posted them on our website. In fact our own photo journalist Scott Eason and Captain Al spotted the unidentified hole in the sky saying, "We had just landed the chopper after doing morning traffic. So we got out of the helicopter and looked up and it was...
  • Cavalry Unit Rules the Sky: Hits 20,000 Flight Hours in Iraq

    01/09/2008 3:49:01 PM PST · by SandRat · 12 replies · 230+ views
    Multi-National Force - Iraq ^ | 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs
    CAMP STRIKER — An air cavalry unit in Iraq has found itself ringing in the New Year by flying to a remarkable milestone. The 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment’s Kiowa Warrior helicopters have collectively flown over 20,000 flight hours since arriving here in May, 2007. The squadron is on pace to fly nearly 40,000 hours during their 15-month deployment and have managed to maintain a readiness rate of nearly 92 percent fully mission capable, said Chief Warrant Officer Mike Cavaco, production control officer, 3-17th Cav. Regt. The Kiowa Warrior, a two-seat scout helicopter based on an airframe that dates to...
  • Full moon near Mars on December 23

    12/23/2007 8:24:07 PM PST · by girlangler · 61 replies · 608+ views
    Earth & Sky Radio Series ^ | December 23, 2007 | Deborah Byrd, Joel Block,
    Full moon near Mars on December 23 Earth & Sky Radio Series with hosts Deborah Byrd, Joel Block, Lindsay Patterson and Jorge Salazar. Sunday, December 23, 2007 For us in the U.S., the full moon is tonight. And if you look outside you’ll see this full moon near a blazing reddish light in our sky. It’s the planet Mars. Flying through space at 18 miles per second, Earth is about to go between the sun and Mars. Earth will pass between Mars and the sun tomorrow. So the distance between us and Mars is now about at its least for...
  • Harvest Moon to Grace Evening Sky

    09/21/2007 9:05:14 AM PDT · by anymouse · 21 replies · 94+ views
    Space.com ^ | 9/21/07 | Joe Rao
    The moon of Wednesday, Sept. 26 also carries the title of the Harvest Moon for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. The moon officially turns full when it reaches that spot in the sky diametrically opposite (180 degrees) to the sun in the sky. This moment will occur on Wednesday at 19:45 Greenwich Time (3:45 p.m. EDT or 12:45 p.m. PDT). Wednesday's full moon is the one that comes the closest to the September equinox so this year it falls in September, although in one out of three years this title can be bestowed upon the October full moon (as...
  • Lyrid Meteors To Grace The Weekend Sky

    04/20/2007 4:17:39 PM PDT · by blam · 19 replies · 980+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 4-20-2007 | David Shiga
    Lyrid meteors to grace the weekend sky 07:11 20 April 2007 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga A meteor streaks across the sky against a background of star trails in this long-exposure image taken in 1985 during the Geminid shower (Image: Jimmy Westlake) The Lyrid meteors will appear to radiate from the constellation Lyra, which includes Vega, one of the brightest stars in the sky (Illustration: NASA) The oldest known meteor shower is expected to return for its regularly scheduled performance this weekend. Although it is outshone by the December Geminids and the August Perseids, the Lyrids may provide the best...
  • 'Catastrophic': Now thousands of birds fall from sky

    01/10/2007 10:56:23 AM PST · by Fawn · 141 replies · 3,118+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | 1-9-07 | 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
    The mysterious catastrophe has taken place over a period of three weeks in Esperance, about 450 miles southeast of Perth. The area was declared a disaster zone by government officials. So far, authorities are clueless as to the cause. Autopsies on the birds have shed no light. The main casualties, according to Australian news sources, are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters. Some dead crows, hawks and pigeons have also been found. Some birds were seen convulsing when they died. Wildlife officers are baffled by what they characterize as a "catastrophic" event. It does not appear...
  • Blue Sky Tinkering (Wacky Ways To Control Global Warming)

    09/16/2006 7:46:02 PM PDT · by blam · 7 replies · 359+ views
    Blue sky tinkering (Filed: 17/09/2006)Page 1 of 5 Scientists fighting global warming are now considering wacky ways of deliberately manipulating the environment to control the world's climate. Philip Sherwell in New York reports on the schemes that were once dismissed as the work of crackpots Trillions of tiny sunshades orbiting in space; a mirror 150 miles high stationed between Earth and the sun; clouds sprayed with seawater; planes pumping sulphates into the stratosphere. They may sound to a layman like the weird and wacky fantasies of an eccentric bunch of boffins, but such ambitious plans for cooling the planet are...