The Force was with this Waitress

A hilarious story or cruel joke - In 2002 Jodee Berry, a Hooters waitress in Panama City FL, thought that she had won a Toyota in a beer sales contest, not a toy Yoda. She ended up suing Hooters, who settled by giving her an actual Toyota. 

According to the manager of the Hooters, the contest was an April Fool’s Day joke.

Lesson that should have been learned - be careful

of whom you play a joke on.  They may not find

it funny in the least................

Some Possible Darwin Award Nomination

A friend knows just how much I like the Darwins so here are some folks that should be nominated.

 For those who are not familiar with the Darwins, the awards are tongue in cheek lists of people that have strengthened the gene-pool by removing their own genes in a most spectacularly stupid fashion.

Like she texted:

Some of these people are probably not with us anymore...

    

Possible New Ninth Planet

Well outside the orbit of Pluto lies the possibly of a new new ninth planet several times the
size of Earth.

Eccentricities in the orbits of several far flung ice planets indicated something very large well outside Pluto's orbit.

According to a recent National Geographic, the 

gravitational signature of a large planet is written into the peculiar orbits of the ice worlds called extreme Kuiper Belt Objects.  these worlds are tracing odd orbits around the sun that have puzzled scientists for years.

This evidence points towards seems to point to a planet even though one has yet to be seen.

Greg Laughlin of the University of California, Santa Cruz, If there is another world in the Solar
System, than this one is it.

For more information click on the national geographic link.

Gravity Waves Discovered

One of the most significant discoveries may have taken place in the field of physics.

In 1915 Albert Einstein theorized that massive objects could cause ripples in local space/time.  These "ripples" are better known as gravity Waves.

One of the devices that has the best chance of discovering gravitational waves is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory which was upgraded in 2015.

Gravity waves are the product of two massive objects colliding or the rapid collapse of a massive star. The more massive the collapse or collision, the greater and more numerous the ripples.

For more information click the Gizmodo.com link        

Wikipedia link to gravity waves

Space 1999 Behind the Scenes

Hey, were you a fan (like someone that will remain nameless) of the 1970s British TV science
fiction series Space 1999?  if you were then you will flip over this behind the scenes short that
shows the model building in action.

Behind the scenes film

Behind the scenes web page

"Space1999 Year1 Title". Via Wikipedia.