XIAM007 - Making Unique Observations in a Very Cluttered World: 04/10/10

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Tiger Woods sucks - on the 6th hole at the Masters today, says to himself out loud, "Tiger Woods, you suck! Goddammit." -

Tiger Woods sucks - on the 6th hole at the Masters today, says to himself out loud, "Tiger Woods, you suck! Goddammit." -

He went on to bogey the hole.

Footage of two fighter jets chasing what appears to be a UFO has emerged - chased down the M5 by RAF fighter jets? -

Footage of two fighter jets chasing what appears to be a UFO has emerged.

The 30-second clip, thought to be shot from a West Midlands service station park, reveals the saucer-shaped craft zipping over the M5, with the two jets in its wake.

Former Ministry of Defence UFO expert Nick Pope told The Sun: ‘This is one of the best videos I’ve seen.
‘It could be a new drone – that might explain the military jets.

‘But you don’t normally test-fly secret projects in daylight. Alternatively, this could be the real thing – a UFO in our airspace and military aircraft scrambled to intercept, probably due to it being tracked on radar.’
The MOD confirmed it would dispatch fighter jets to combat any air threat but would not comment on the footage, which was shot by an unidentified cameraman.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264965/Is-REALLY-UFO-chased-M5-RAF-fighter-jets-Video-footage-captured-service-station.html#ixzz0kib6uOoN

Congressman Paul was on MSNBC to discuss the vacancy in the Supreme Court, the SRLC, and Federal Reserve transparency.

This morning, the sun had a comet for breakfast - The icy visitor from the outer solar system appeared with little warning -

Today, the sun had a comet for breakfast. The icy visitor from the outer solar system appeared with no warning on April 9th and plunged into the sun during the early hours of April 10th. One comet went in, none came out. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) had a good view of the encounter.

The comet was probably a member of the Kreutz sungrazer family. Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at least 2000 years ago. Several of these fragments pass by the sun and disintegrate every day. Most are too small to see but occasionally a big fragment like today's attracts attention.

This has been an active year for big, bright sungrazers. There was one on Jan. 4th, one on March 12th, and now one today. Normally we see no more than 3 or 4 bright ones in a whole year; now we're seeing them almost once a month. It could be a statistical fluctuation or, maybe, a swarm of Kreutz fragments is nearing perihelion (closest approach to the sun). Stay tuned for doomed comets!

iPranged a submarine - US nuclear sub rammed another ship causing nearly £60M damage - while navigator was listening to his iPod -

A US nuclear sub rammed another ship causing nearly £60MILLION damage - while its navigator was listening to his iPod.

Sailors aboard the USS Hartford had also rigged up loudspeakers so they could play MUSIC on duty, an official report found last night

Sonar operators and radio men were missing from their posts. Others drove the attack sub while "with one hand on the controls and their shoes off", it said.

The report slammed the navigator, who was listening to his iPod in his cabin while revising for an exam at the time.

The captain, Commander Ryan Brookhart, was relieved of his duties after the Navy found that more than 30 errors, - including "an informal atmosphere" and "a weak command" - led to the "avoidable accident".

Fifteen sailors on the Hartford were injured when it hit the transport ship USS New Orleans in the Persian Gulf in March 2009.

Navy chiefs approved a whopping £57million repair bill for the Hartford and another £1.5million for the New Orleans.