Sailor’s photo mailed to mother shows up 59 years later
"HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — Richard Ebling, a 19-year-old proud to be photographed with his fellow graduating sailors from a Navy boot camp, wanted the picture mailed home to his mother in Pennsylvania. It never reached her, but the package did make it to his family — 59 years later."
This was allegedly posted, (very briefly), on the McDonnell Douglas Website by an employee there who obviously has a sense of humor. The company, of course, does not have a sense of humor, and made the web department take it down immediately (for once, the IMPORTANT’ note at the end is worth a read too…).
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Here’s another case of science fiction making cool predictions and being right.
This time, Doctor Who gets credit for suggesting black holes as power sources.
Black
Hole Dynamos Spawn Monster Energy Fields
Cosmic dynamos in black holes could be the most efficient power plants in the universe, spawning magnetic energy fields so big they push past galaxy borders and into intergalactic space, scientists said Monday.
These monster magnetic fields have been known to astronomers for decades, and the link between them and black holes has also been theorized, but now researchers have created a picture of the energy fields and measured just how huge they are.
This is a funny case of coincidental naming. My father told me of intentionally bad naming. A family by the name of Trees named their son and daughter Douglas Fir and Merry Christmas. I kid you not.
War of words fought on toilet walls
THE AFGHAN mountains may well go down in history as the place where Britain’s military wags met their Portaloo …
With American soldiers claiming they might have done better had they, rather than the Royal Marines, been allowed to carry out recent sweep operations and the marines already facing criticism from Whitehall, reporters at Bagram air base are kept carefully screened from most of the acrimony.
There is, however, one place where it very visibly spills over – in the Portaloos.