A Kinetic Military Action By Any Other Name

Oh look, they put lipstick on the Operation Odyssey Dawn Pig, like no one will notice. NATO in Libya: ‘Unified Protector’ hides divisions The codename for NATO’s operations in Libya, “Unified Protector”, hides internal divisions that the alliance battled hard to overcome before taking on the mission. The 28-nation military organisation is finally fulfilling Washington’s [...]

World Record Cat Noise

How’d you like to have to listen to this all day? I shudder to think what it might sound like if you accidentally stepped on its tail. Smokey the loud purring cat aims for Guinness World Record Smokey’s owner Ruth Adams hopes the moggy can be entered into the record books as the loudest purring [...]

End Times, Iranian Style

It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not, what matters is that the leadership of the Iranian regime believes it and believes they are presently involved in playing an integral part in bringing about the end of the world. Iran’s End Times Documentary The Iranian government has produced a bone-chilling documentary that claims that Ayatollah [...]

Who Wants To Fly The Space Shuttle?

Apparently, all you need are some computer hacking skills. Unreal, how many years now has computer network cybersecurity been a known issue? NASA Computer Servers Insecure, Open to ‘Catastrophic’ Attack Computer servers on NASA’s mission network are at high risk for Internet-based attacks that could have “catastrophic” effects on the space agency, according to a [...]

Weekly Watch List

ARUN BIDU FOSL NFLX AGP SINA HS CXO BTU INFA CTSH CVLT ILMN EW ORCL Additions: CVLT ILMN ORCL Subtractions: PRGO Last week, all the major indices moved higher. The Nasdaq vaulted 3.8%, the Dow jumped 3.1%, the S&P 500 added 2.7% and the NYSE composite rose 2.5%. Even though these gains were encouraging, they [...]

Stardust Memories

A mission well played and an efficient use of taxpayer money too. They wrung every last bit of scientific data out of every last dollar. Lights go out on NASA’s Stardust comet mission Fresh off a bonus flyby of comet Tempel 1 in February, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft fired its four main engines for more than [...]

A Paradigm Shift?

It looks like we’re going to get to see how a real world missile defense system performs under hostile fire. Iron Dome to Become Operational Following the recent escalation on the Gaza strip border, the IDF will deploy for the first time the Iron Dome missile defense system in strategic locations in the south of [...]

Syria Circling The Drain

So far, we’ve seen varying degrees of serious Muslim unrest in Pakistan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain, Libya, and Oman. Now, it appears that Syria is also on the verge of descending into chaos. Thousands continue protests in Syria Thousands of people took to the streets in the southern city of Dara, chanting “Syria, [...]

Peek A Boo, We See You

This could come in handy. You know, if Obama actually lets us develop those “unproven missile defense systems“. U.S. achieves the ‘Holy Grail’ of missile defense A pair of low Earth-orbiting demonstration satellites built by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems for the first time on March 16 detected and tracked a ballistic missile launch through all [...]

A New Space Capsule For Not Going To The Moon

The original reason for developing Orion was to return to the moon as part of the Constellation Program, but Obama canceled that idea. NASA’s Orion capsule, testing center unveiled The first version of NASA’s new manned Orion space capsule is ready to begin a series of rigorous trials, in preparation for the vehicle’s first test [...]