Yeah. Sorry China. It’s on youtube. Thankfully the great firewall is protecting you from this.
Edit: damn. maybe Witopia is protecting you from this too. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Link is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
The Ministry of Weather, after being snubbed by its request that the moon not eclipse the sun, had ordered a rainstorm over Shanghai for the morning of July 22nd. At around 5am this morning, the storm clouds moved in as requested, blocking out the view Shanghai would’ve had of the historic Astronomical event.
Anonymous sources inside the Ministry has stated that the “harmonious, stable and strong China cannot allow such an event to occur, lest it show that China is under the influence of extra-terrestrial powers.” The ministry also stated emphatically that “There shall be no eclipse as long as Kirk lives!” It is currently unknown as to who “Kirk” is.
When asked why the storm didn’t affect other parts of the country, the Li TianQi, the Ministor of Weather, issued the following statement:
We are baffled as to why the moon hasn’t withdrawn from the sky, and have since sent notice for the moon to justify its actions. The Ministry of Weather is righteous in its request. Its non-compliance can only be seen as a slap to the face of all Chinese. We’ll be looking into taking further actions against the moon.
Other sources state that reasoning behind this decision is not fully known, but it’s speculated that the Vice-Minister, Li TianQi had contacted the moon to “stay clear of the sun” as he and the Minister had boating and fishing plans that day.
When interviewed about whether or not the moon can be swayed to stay clear, the sun simply said, “BOOM! CRACK! SSSSSSSSS!“. The moon had no comment.
In other news, the Ministry of Time may had indeed discovered time zones, but the related documents had been misplaced somewhere on Lower Tongren Road.
Caught by a police dashboard cam, the light in the background is a meteor entering the earth’s atmosphere and disintegrating before landing.
Here’s another view, a bit more close up.
Look for more when the clips finish
We now finally see who actually took the photos. Good job, Google News & Starfleet!
Starfleet Sends images of Fomalhaut B
After all this time of talk about finding other planets, artists’ renditions and all that, we finally got a clear picture of a planet! Yep, it’s a dot. Well, 2 in that picture. Click it for a bigger picture.
This is only one picture of one planet out of hundreds of planets we’ve discovered in the last several years. Some are close and some are far. But the question is, how many planets remain undiscovered?
Here’s a small look (only 32 megs) at one section of the universe and by all means, you tell me how many planets there may be.
An interesting picture taken from one of the Mars Explorers named “Spirit” shows a formation on Mars resembling a person relaxing on the rocky surface. When the Viking Landers went to Mars in the ’60’s, they’d snapshotted another now famous person on Mars, the “Face”. Nasa of course has since disproven these images as merely shadows across the Martian surface. Click on the face for NASA’s explanation.
So what will happen now? For a bit of good fiction have a look at http://www.mt.net/~watcher/mars.html. Here’s a taste:
Unless humanity is motivated to change by forces beyond themselves, it never easily recognizes the truth. But then the truth of Cydonia will not avail itself even with the keenest scientific scrutiny. This is because of the essence of the message itself.
The answers to the mystery that confronts us on the surface of Mars, underline the same conclusions that the narrative of the Zodiac, the sphinx and the Bible declare- the revelation of the Lord of the whole universe, Jesus Christ. As Satan has corrupted and confused these testimonials to the truth, so he will confound the message of the monuments of Mars.
