Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Worst TV Shows EverI forgot about some of these. Some of these I never even heard of.
I remember Quark as being a bad attempt at Sci-Fi humor. It came out after Star Wars, trying to cash in on the SF craze at the time. The Brits did a much better job with Red Dwarf a few years later.
Path of the Rover
Click the image after the jump to see where the Mars Rover has been.
Outrage of the Day
No knock warrants and rampant destruction of a home, all to arrest a guy with some unpaid traffic tickets. The reason for the warrant? They thought he had lots of guns. Nope. And so what? Guns are legal. The government goes out o its way to punish people for owning something legal, even if they never used a gun in a commission of a crime.
I hope these people get millions over this.
Old Whale
A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt — more than a century ago.
Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale’s age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.
“No other finding has been this precise,” said John Bockstoce, an adjunct curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Calculating a whale’s age can be difficult, and is usually gauged by amino acids in the eye lenses. It’s rare to find one that has lived more than a century, but experts say the oldest were close to 200 years old.
I didn’t know whales got that old. It’s a shame someone killed it.
