Cobra Meets His Financial Advisor

It does not go well. Watch the last few seconds closely, I missed it the first time through. Very Funny.

Looper: Trailer

Oh wow, Bruce Willis in a time travel movie! How absolutely unique idea! Ok, I will stop and in truth "Looper" sound interesting as in a few newt twits kind of thing.

Here is the blurb that youtube had on it.

• In Looper, time travel will be invented -- but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" -- a hired gun, like Joe (Gordon-Levitt) -- is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Willis) for assassination.

The B612 Sentinel project

Former astronaut "Rusty" Schweickart and other scientific professionals that make up the B612 Foundation who's goal it is to map the roughly one million Earth crossing asteroids that exist in the inner Solar System and possibly pose a threat to Earth. At present we only know of 10 thousand objects. The Sentinal Project, with the aid of the infrared space telescope call Sentinel, hopes to put the telescope into operation in five year time.

Oldest Impact Crater Discovered

Unlike the airless bodies in the Solar System, The Earth as a general example shows evidence of the massive and violent bombardment several billion years ago. Finding any evidence of ancient bombardment is more a scientific version of poke and hope. Continental drift plus the effects of rain, wind, plus the effects of the seasonal weather erase many of the structures that identify an impact crater.
From the article:

• Now, an international team of scientists say they have found a massive impact crater in Greenland a billion years older than other known asteroid impact on Earth.

The crater is located in the Maniitsoq region of West Greenland and is roughly one billion years older that the next oldest crater. What is truly amazing though is the huge diameter of the Greenland impact which measures a stunning 62 miles across!

Craters of the age of the Greenland impact have been all but obliterated, however the crust around Greenland:

• has been eroded over the eons to expose crust that originally was 16 miles below the surface. Effects of the immense shock-wave produced on impact penetrated deep into the crust and remain visible.

read the complete article here

Antipodean Issue 169 Now Online

Here is a list of this month's flash fiction stories in Antipodean. As you can see, some of the authors are even know to us here on BMU. Looks to be a good month issue 169 for July 2012!

And The Stars Fall Into Charon-3, With You And Me By Ray O'Brien

The Ex Book By Jorge Werbin

Alice's Land By Rachel Towns

The Origin Of Species By Kate Krake

The Car Full Of Clowns By Tony Owens

The Thirteenth Dome By Maggie Mundy

How Not To Treat The Tooth Fairy By Wes Parish

In The Service Of The Public By Mark Webb

Safety Features By Jake Wickenhofer