The advent of Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew—Dewitos, if you will (I won't)—has created a snack-beverage singularity akin to a spiritual experience, and Stephen Colbert is totally on board. Bring it on! Drinkify everything! Sure, it's gross, but it's better than the old, outdated method of experiencing every flavor at once: Eating them all and then throwing up a little bit. Even Colbert can't talk about that one with a straight face. By the way, if you've been thinking Mountain ... [more]
Watch For Falling ROCKS!
Asteroid 2004 BL86 to 'narrowly' miss Earth Monday Amateur stargazers will have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to see an asteroid 550 metres wide “narrowly” miss Earth on Jan 26. The space rock, code-named 2004 BL86, is expected to reach a point about 1.2 million kilometres from our planet, or three times the distance to the Moon. Although easily far enough away to be safe, the flyby – at an estimated 56,000 kilometres per hour – counts as a close shave in astronomical terms. It will be ... [more]
Oil & Water Don’t Mix… Is This Really the Best Way to Fuel Our Future?
The Price of Oil is Always Killing Us... REALLY >WHY? We hear so many conflicting stories about what's happening with oil these days it makes you want to take drugs! Last year the price of gas was killing us because it was too high, now it's the low price of oil killing us - just one year later? (WTF!) This is the difference in the USA having an oil shortage, then a surplus. The shale oil from Fracking has made the USA one of the world's top oil producers. So as a results of ... [more]
What’s With this Wet Stuff Called Rain?
What is happening to us? Is our wonderful summer really coming to an end? Please, NOooo... This has been a glorious run of good summer for the Pacific Northwest, but this weekend it will be Thanksgiving! Recently, (last week) in October it was about 30 degrees on the deck in the sun... Ah, the memories are grand! So now the wet, grey and darkness will soon close in and make change happen as Mother Nature shews us the new plans for Autumn and Winter. Times of seasonal change ... [more]
Sending Your Dead Pets Ashes Into Space… Is That a Good Idea?
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas company is offering a unique send off for beloved pets by placing a portion of their cremated remains in a capsule and blasting them off into space. Celestis Inc, which has provided memorial space flights for human remains since 1997, will launch its first commercial pet memorial spaceflight in October 2014 with the remains of a blue merle Australian shepherd, named Apollo, the company said. The pet services, such as one dubbed Earth Rise, start at $995 and ... [more]
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