'tis quite a beautiful planet we inhabit…if only we could all get along 
High winds + tall tree = "Where the fuck is the fire department?"
Just some videos of the launch 
I was just informed (I had forgotten) that the STS-134 Space Shuttle launch is supposed to happen today. If you manage to catch this in the next 2 hours or so you can tune in and watch 
I will probably follow up with videos of the launch later on today
I was looking at the weather today and these interesting swirling weather patterns over Kansas/Nebraska stood out…freak hurricane over the midwest?. The formation persisted for several hours, and here are some full size radar loops:
(Right click on them and you should be able to view the full size)
I do not claim ownership of these images and they are likely property of the national weather service
An informative video that shows what happened (and is probably happening at the time of this post) to the fuel rods inside of the Fukushima reactor:
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates how Fukushima's fuel rods melted and shattered from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
In case anyone missed yesterday's successful launch of Space Shuttle Discovery:
There are only 2 more shuttle launches planned, one in April, and one in June, but they will likely be delayed as seems to be the routine. If I can find a good quality HD video of this launch in at least 1080p I will provide a link.
Don't try this at home 
…Probably not a good idea…
I Found this cool physics simulation on Digg. From what I can tell it's rings of 20 barrels stacked 1250 high. It kind of puts the gulf oil spill into perspective….if as much as this is possibly being dumped into the ocean every day
