Geothermal Virii and Cylinders?

Two new revelations for you today, folks:
1: Scientists studying Mt. Ranier say that the object that clipped the mountain released pockets of pressurized air or something. Anyways, inside this air, they found evidence of an ancient strain of... I think it was Influenza. Anyways, it's close enough to modern flu that everyone with a flu shot's gonna be safe and healthy. It might hurt the ecosystem, they said, but if the mountain blows it'll far outweigh any impact the flu might have.

2: In China, construction workers dug up the object in a crater near the border with India. It was a giant cylinder.
For real.
Physicists at... was it harvard? Somewhere, some college, they said it might be caused by gravitational something or other, but the Chinese say it's a perfect cylinder. Apparently, it's about two thirds of a kilometer long (or tall, I guess, 'cause it's stuck in crooked), and about a quater of a km wide. Huge. Wonder if that's what's buried under the Supermall.

Mood: Shocked and curious
Listening: "War of the Worlds (radio broadcast)" by Orson Welles
Yearn For: Carrots

Supermall Explosion

Thursday, September 29th, 2005, at 10:30 AM, in Auburn Washington, 657 people lost their lives in a massive explosion at the Auburn Supermall.
Words cannot express how this makes me feel. I knew a few of the people (skipping school apparently does not pay).
According to the police statement released a few hours ago, an object of some kind fell from the sky and slammed into the ground in the Carousel Court of the Supermall, killing men and women and teenagers and children where they stood. The blast knocked out power to downtown Auburn. The object, whatever it is, has become buried deeply in the earth in the ruins of the Supermall. The fires spread quickly, destroying the rest of the Supermall, the Wal*Mart, the Denny's, YMCA, and School District bus station. It's terrible. The air still smells of smoke, even in the heavy rain.

What's more, this is apparently not an isolated incident. Other objects landed in the harbor at Seattle, Central Park in New York, the Commons and Woking in London, Rangoon, Paris, Red Square, Machu Pichu, Alaska, Somalia, Baghdad, etc. One hit a golf course in england, another sank Kansai Airport in Japan. One imbedded itself in Mexico City, and another crushed an oil field in Texas. Most distressingly, one clipped Mt. Ranier, causing geo-thermal instabilities. The entire state is on the alert.
What's going on around here?
Mood: Shocked and Depressed
Listening: "I'm Casting My Lasso Towards Sky" by Slim Whitman
Yearn For: Peace for the families of the lost.

Cable outtages and other goodies

Well, perhaps you noticed a sudden spat of cable and satellite tv outtages in the US and Europe this morning. Apparently, there were some weird meteor-like objects in the upper atmosphere that knocked out a BUNCH of satellites. Now they can't find the objects, they assume they either burnt up in the atmosphere or they're in orbit. Either way, whew. Scary.
Going to a movie on saturday. That new one with the guy who was in that one movie about that guy who won that one sports competition. Yeah. Should be good.
Mood: Contemplating reformatting
Listening: "The Martian Fleet (Mars Attacks!)" by Danny Elfman
Yearn For: Popcorn

Freaky stuff on Mars

Blackout last night, as yall know.
Freaky.
Well, as it was, like, midnight and a half, and it was jet black out, I figured, hey, why not break out the old telescope? No light pollution, and they say Mars is really close this time of year, might catch a glimps of the Angry Red Planet.
I zoomed my little lens in on the Arean star.
I almost passed out in horror.
I could SEE the CANALS.
You know how in the olden days there were the maps and everything of canals on Mars? http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/images/marscanals.jpg
I saw them! Seriously!
I was looking around the southern hemisphere, because I've heard that Olympus Mons is really cool looking, and I was hoping maybe to see some of these wierd volcanoes everybody's been talking about. And, as I was looking around, I saw... well, it was like a crack opening up int he martian surface, and there were all these weird lights and shadows inside, and I sorta looked further up, and there were flashes of light all over the surface, at the intersections of the canals, then it closed back up and that was it.
So weird.
Anyways, I went to sleep after that. I was probably just seeing things. Oh well.
Mood: Exhausted
Listening: "The Planets Suite: Mars, Bringer of War", by Gustav Holst
Yearn For: The sweet release of sleep.

Volcanoes on Mars?

Whoo hoo! Guitar Class rocks!
Where was I...
Oh yeah, these weird lights or whatever on Mars. Weirdest thing. I mean, these things are like, coming out of the ground? What happened to our satellites? Scary stuff. Perhaps ALIENS ARE INVADING? lol
Mood: Bored, yet elated
Listening: "It's the end of the world as we know it" - REM
Yearn for: World Peace