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Starcraft II Unveiled

We're pleased to announce our latest project: StarCraft II! The epic interplanetary battle between the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg will take on new dimensions in this sequel to the classic real-time strategy original. With new units and functionality for each race, upgrades to several familiar units, and a powerful 3D engine that supports explosive fast-paced combat between massive armies, StarCraft II will be the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game.

Highlights of StarCraft II include:

• Tightly balanced competitive real-time strategy gameplay that recaptures and improves on the magic of the original game
• New units and gameplay mechanics that further distinguish the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races
• An all-new 3D engine that supports fast-paced play with realistic physics, massive units, and massive army sizes
• A groundbreaking single-player campaign that continues the epic StarCraft story
• A powerful map editor that puts the tools used by the game's designers into the hands of players

We gotta get it!

So what do our Soldiers in Afghanistan do when they have "too much time on their hands"

This could be one of the reasons that the Army forbid using "YouTube: to post Videos last week.....mag

Bruce Willis is The Man

"BRUCE WILLIS is fed up with listening to outspoken actors - and believes their opinion shouldn't mean "jack s**t" to the general public. The Die Hard star understands some of his colleagues want to do good for various causes, but wishes others would keep their thoughts to themselves. He says, "I don't think my opinion means jack s**t, because I'm an actor. "Why do actors think their opinions mean more because you act? You just caught a break as an actor. There are hundreds - thousands - of actors who are just as good as I am, and probably better. "Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?" He adds, "Although I liked George Clooney's documentary on Darfur.""

How to Fail a True/False Test: Choose C

Click for the teacher's hilarious comments.

How to Not Smuggle Heroin: Through DHL in Tajikistan

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajik police have arrested a woman for trying to smuggle heroin in a refrigerator through express delivery firm DHL, the interior ministry said Friday.c

The DHL office in the Tajik capital Dushanbe grew suspicious after noticing that its transportation cost to Moscow exceeded the actual cost of the fridge by several times. It then called the police, said the interior ministry.

"We have arrested a 26-year-old woman who tried to send via DHL a refrigerator with a total of 17.4 kg of heroin hidden in its inner cover plate," said Interior Ministry spokesman Khudoinazar Asozoda.

DHL in Dushanbe said it could not comment on the matter.

Tajikistan, an impoverished ex-Soviet state, lies on a main drugs trafficking route out of neighboring Afghanistan, the world's top producer of opium and its refined form, heroin.

I thought I'd seen it all.....But yesterday was a new adventure

On the way to work commuting to a project site about 100 miles away, I saw a Woman w/New York plates driving her Mercedes with a baby in the back and a plug-in Breast Pump on her Boobs.....boy was it shocking (maybe mildly erotic but more scary).....anyway I thought it was a weird thing, but is it De Rigeur......?...check the article.....I HAD NO IDEA......mag

Breast pumping on speed
By Lisa Moricoli Latham

If a baby is the fashion accessory of 2001, the breast pump is bound to be the personal electronic device of 2002. Even the best-dressed mommies (perhaps especially the best-dressed mommies) have got to work.

But where, oh where, to pump? Private offices are a thing of the past and few businesses offer even a cubicle where a woman can pump in peace. It is this dilemma that has forced many of us into the only semi-private sphere where a working woman can have some control: the car.

It is not uncommon for nursing working mothers to make a mad lunchtime dash for a car, plug into the cigarette lighter and pump away in the parking lot.

But not me. I pump on the road.

But, I must confess, the real reason I pump on the road is because it is deliciously subversive. When I power pump, as I've taken to calling it, I feel like I'm getting away with something. Responsible mothering offers few rebellious pleasures, and if I have to drive home standing on the accelerator with a funnel-shaped pumping flange hoovering my boob in order to experience this rebel joy, just call me "cc" Rider.

Are these Women Depraved......or am I just a little Lost on this one........For the rest of the article click the Title.....mag

Ouch........It's gotta hurt.......(someone please tell me,...what's with the Fourth one...???)

Dog Nurses Tiger Triplets at China Zoo

BEIJING (AP) - It's a dog's life for three newborn tiger triplets in eastern China. The cubs, whom officials at the Jinan Paomaling Wild Animal World in Shandong province are so far just calling "One," "Two" and "Three," have been nursed by a dog since they were rejected by their tiger mother shortly after birth, said Paomaling manager Chen Yucai.

The trio's adoptive mother, a mixed breed farm dog called "Huani," is expected to nurse them for about a month or until their appetites outpace her supply, Chen said.

Chen said it is common for Chinese zoos to use surrogate dog mothers to nurse rejected tiger cubs and that Huani has nursed tigers before.

In the past, Paomaling put dog urine on their rejected cub's fur to make the surrogate think she was nursing one of her own puppies but the zoo didn't bother with Huani because she seemed not to mind nursing the tigers, he said.

"The family is getting along well and seems to enjoy each other," Chen said.

Time to take another Cultural Literacy Test and post your scores

Let's see how you score in the Myth and Religions Sections of the Cultural Literacy

Test #1

http://www.readfaster.com/culturalliteracy_test.asp?tid=32

Test #2

http://www.readfaster.com/culturalliteracy_test.asp?tid=622

Great Radio Station (for Internet play)

Live from Centenary College (Go ahead and tell me that you've heard of it before and you're a LIAR) in Hacketstown NJ, this college radio station is as good (dare I say maybe better) than WXPN in UPenn.

Radio Staion WNTI is definitely worth a listen......click on the Title for the link or click below for Live Streaming Play:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wnti/ppr/index.shtml

For you education more info on Centenary College in case you're interested.....

Founded in 1867 by the Newark Conference of the United Methodist Church, Centenary College has evolved from a coeducational preparatory school into a modern, independent, four-year baccalaureate and master-level institution of higher learning.

No stranger to change, Centenary evolved from its origin as a coeducational preparatory school to a girls’ preparatory school (1910), a junior college for women (1940), a four-year women’s college (1976), a coeducational baccalaureate-degree-granting institution (1988), and a master-degree-granting institution (1995).

Centenary plays a significant role in providing educational programs to the adult population of northwest New Jersey. In 1976, Centenary began to offer coeducational degree programs for evening students.

Article fro Chicago Newspaper on Disc Golf....GREAT DISC GOLF PIC

Frisbee at 50 Flying high and hitting the links

The Frisbee is still flying high at 50. And like many a baby boomer the same age, it's big into golf .

That's not bad for something that came about after inventor Walter Morrison and his friends and family were tossing around a metal popcorn lid at a picnic prior to Thanksgiving dinner in 1937. From that game sprang the idea for the flying disc, which underwent various incarnations before Morrison sold the rights to WHAM-O to manufacture his Pluto Platter, which first came out on Jan. 23, 1957.

According to company lore, the name comes from seeing Yale students throwing pie tins from the Frisbie Baking Company while on a promotional tour for the platter that year. By 1959, Emeryville, Calif.-based WHAM-O had a trademark for the name Frisbee.

In 1968, a group of high-school students in New Jersey put together the rules for what would become Ultimate Frisbee. By 1974, there was an Invitational World Frisbee Championship in California, Frisbee playing with dogs was catching on, Headrick built the first Frisbee-golf course in Pasadena and started the Professional Disc Golf Association.

for the rest of the article click the Title or the link below....

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/388152,3_5_EL17_FRISBEE_S1.article

For those of you who missed it ....great picture from Wednesday's storm.....

The Empire Strike Building

A Joke for BokieMole'

There was a mamma mole, a papa mole, and a baby mole. They lived in a hole outside of a farm house out in the country.

The papa mole reached his head out of the hole and said, "Mmmmm, I smell sausage."

The mama mole reached her head outside of the hole and said "Mmmmmm, I smell pancakes."

The baby mole tried to reach his head outside the hole but couldn't because of the two bigger moles. The baby mole said, "The only thing I can smell is molasses."

JOKE.......The Blonde and the Butt Deodorant

The blonde walks into a drugstore and asks the pharmacist for some bottom deodorant. The pharmacist, a little bemused, explains to the woman that they don''t sell anything called bottom deodorant, and never have. Unfazed, the blonde assures him that she has been buying the stuff from this store on a regular basis, and would like some more. "I''m sorry," says the pharmacist, "we don''t have any."

"But I always get it here," says the blonde.

"Do you have the container it comes in?"

"Yes!" says the blonde, "I will go and get it."

She returns with the container and hands it to the pharmacist, who looks at it and says to her, "This is just a normal stick of underarm deodorant."

The annoyed blonde snatches the container back and reads out loud from the container: "To apply, push up bottom."

Anyone out there (way out there) looking for work..???

S&M dungeon recruits through job centre

The owner of an S&M dungeon has turned to his job centre to find a 'trampling dominatrix'.

Garry James has so far not found anyone to fill the vacancy at his Girl Power dungeon in Newton Flotman, Norfolk, where clients will pay up to £100 an hour to satisfy their fetish of being trodden on.

'There are no sexual services involved as walkers stay fully clothed,' the 32-year-old said.

The advert tells potential applicants it is a 'fun job' and previous experience of trampling 'is not essential as training will be given'.

Global Warming.....Hey make the best of it........

You gotta look at the bright side....hey where's the Disc Golf Basket....??????

Operational Significant Event Image of the Day

OK Everyone.....you know you've used it, we all have....Well It's Time to give him the Credit he so well deserves........

Kudos to Newman.................


Newman Honored For Achievements in Salad Dressing

Gee what a Cute T-Shirt on that Little Girl....I'd love to meet her MOM

Buy it on Ebay.........(if you're depraved enough....)

http://cgi.ebay.com/If-You-Think-Im-A-Bitch-Meet-My-Mom-XL-T-shirt_W0QQitemZ170039064403QQcmdZViewItem

Yikes.....Do you have the Cojones to try these......Think they taste like Meatballs...?

Wisconsin festival sells deep-fried testicles

ELDERON, Wis. --Around here, it may be tough to pass up anything deep-fried.

Wisconsinites have deep-fried cheese curds, candy bars and Twinkies. They now have deep-fried livestock testicles, too.

More than 300 people paid $5 for all-you-can-eat goat, lamb and bull testicles Saturday at the ninth annual Testicle Festival at Mama's Place Bar and Grill in Elderon in central Wisconsin.

"Once you get over the mental (aspect) of what you're eating, it's just like eating any other food, and it tastes good," Buster Hoffman said.

Festival founder Nancy Fenske said the festival grew out of her late husband Roger's birthday party 12 years ago. They decided to have "a nut fry" at Mama's Place after bringing back lamb fries from a trip to Montana.

The event grew every year and now they fry up to 100 pounds of testicles, she said.

"What else can you do in a small town?" Fenske said.

Butch Joubert, 58, likes the parts sandwiched between bread with tartar sauce. They're not so different from regular meatballs also served at the festival, he said.

"After a few beers, you can't really tell the difference," Joubert said.

Thanks to BokieMole' for helping with Abiogenesis Research.....

HAPPY FRIGGIN' MOTHER'S DAY..........

Nothing Like Having a White Trash Mom (kinda Hot) w/ the Childrun....wishing U the Best to you and your family....Nuff Said....mag

Trent Reznor: "No Wonder People Steal Music"

Trent Reznor, the only official member of Nine Inch Nails, seems to be the only artist around wondering why the price of CDs is so high. In Australia, his new album, Year Zero, is running for $29.10. "No wonder people steal music," Reznor questions. Nine Inch Nails also leaked several tracks of their album by leaving music-loaded USB keys in restrooms during tour. Of course the RIAA still sent cease-and-desist letters to blogs who had been posting MP3s, leaked by the band itself.

Time Magazine named Trent Reznor one of the 25 Most Influential Americans in 1997. He deserves some credit.

Man Fakes Retardation, Goes to Prison

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A Vancouver man was sentenced Friday to 13 months in prison for pretending to be mentally retarded in order to claim disability benefits.

Pete J. Costello, 28, pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to defraud the government and to Social Security fraud. He began receiving disability benefits when he was 8. He was ordered to repay the $59,226 he has received since turning 18.

Costello, who cannot read or write, dictated a letter to his public defender that was submitted to the judge before sentencing and filed in court.

"I know that it was wrong to 'act like a child' in the Social Security office when that is not how I really am," the letter said. "I feel very bad about this and want to do everything I can to pay this money back."

Costello's mother, Rosie Costello, 46, who also pleaded guilty, is to be sentenced Thursday for coaching her son and daughter to feign mental retardation. Authorities have not found the daughter.

Pete Costello continued to fake retardation into his mid-20s - picking at his face, slouching and appearing uncommunicative in meetings with Social Security officials.

The scheme came to light last year after he got a traffic ticket in Vancouver, then was videotaped acting normally when he contested the ticket in court.


Maybe going to prison for faking retardation is proof enough.

Step back a minute....It's Cubby and GW....!!!!!!

Cubby, being an Avid BlogMeister....posts a picture of The Prez and himself after a few DG rounds at the White House.....(check out GW's custom disc.....pretty cool huh?)......Hey Cubby why don't we get GW to build a nice 36 hole course in Crawford Texas so we can teach him how to play.........!!!!

For the Original Post and more great Disc Golf stories check out Cubby's Blog at

http://www.cubbysdiscgolfworld.blogspot.com/

Woman Driving Through a Harmless Puddle

Apparently, she only thought it was a few inches deep. Check out the rest of the pictures.

A Tale of Two Houses......Interesting and True (check snopes.com) (Click Here to verify)

LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.

HOUSE # 1: (on Top)

A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2, 400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South.

HOUSE # 2: (on Bottom)

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."

Don't like the photo? Steal the paper!

Nearly 1,000 copies of the Framingham State College student newspaper were stolen by students embarrassed by the journal's front-page photo of them as bare-bellied FSC lacrosse fans attending a recent home game.

Man chops off head with chainsaw

A man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after stabbing his 70-year-old father to death in their apartment in the German city of Cologne, police said.

The body of the offender, 24, was found headless when police raced to the apartment after an emergency call, apparently from the dying father, had been broken off in mid-sentence.

Alf Willwacher, a senior prosecutor, said an electric chainsaw was next to the son's body.

"We do not believe any third party was involved,'' he said.

Neighbours said the father and son had been reclusive since the death of the mother, allegedly by suicide, several years ago.

I guess our family isn't that dysfunctional...

Apple's New iWallet?

Yes, this is a friend of mine. No comment.

A Bit of Perspective

We are so, so small...

Great to be back playing some Disc Golf

On a beautiful May day I was finally able to go play some rounds of Disc Golf w/ the crew at Bunker Hill.....Cubby, Don, Ken Eric & Rob......did OK after the shoulder operation and was actually able to play competitively....look forward to more DG all summer long....

photo by Cubby

Guy catches glasses with face

Holy Crap....Is This Real...what do you think.....

Squirrel Catapult

The one and only Bokiemole' brought this up to the Blog's attention......he said he wishes he had thought of it....HMMMMM....It kinda looks like his backyard in Massachusetts.....anyway enjoy

6 LOSERS Arrested in a Terror Plot Against Fort Dix

The Keystone Terrorists

In a comedic plot; 4 semi-retarded Albanians, 1 Jordanian and 1 Turk plotted to attack a US Military Base. You can't even make this stuff up. Theses guys should not be locked up, they should be put away in Insane asylums for the rest of their lives.

To say this plot was "unsophisticated" is an understatement. The FBI makes out like they uncovered this huge plot, when in effect it was dropped on their Lap by a video store clerk who saw their "Jihadist Video". THEY WERE USING A FRIGGIN PIZZA DELIVERY MAP to plan out their attack. They were to be the delivery guys from "Super Mario's Pizza.."

The FBI said they were performing "Tactical Training" when in effect they were practicing Paintball...!!!!!

The real article from the New York Times is even funnier.....

FLASH......10,000 People Dead in Kansas (according to Barak Obama)

First Gore invents the Internet and now Obama says 10,000 dead (actually it was 12) in Greensburg Kansas.....some people love to exaggerate....



Obama Overstates Kansas Tornado Deaths

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died.

The death toll was 12.

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died—an entire town destroyed," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a speech to 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser.

Say what you want about the Taliban, but they sure aren't violating the Americans With Disabilities Act

Why the disabled do Taliban's deadly work

KABUL -- The suicide bombing at a Kabul Internet café drew attention for a number of reasons: It was one of the first in the Afghan capital after the fall of the Taliban; it struck a spot popular with foreigners; and a UN worker was among those who died along with the attacker, Qari Samiullah.

But a little-known fact about that 2005 blast offers a clue into the workings of the insurgents who recruit suicide bombers, and what, apart from religious propaganda, has motivated about 200 men to blow themselves up: In addition to being a deeply religious man, Mr. Samiullah was disabled.

His disability didn't come as a surprise. As the insurgency in Afghanistan gathers urgency, the Taliban and other forces are recruiting marginalized and vulnerable groups to carry out suicide attacks while men from their own ranks keep up the ground offensive.

The pool of the disenchanted and hopeless is large in Afghanistan -- people left on the fringes by their economic, physical or mental circumstances -- and there are few services to rehabilitate them after three decades of war.

"Almost 90 per cent of [suicide bombers] are people with some form of disability," forensic expert Yusuf Yadgari said.

Every bomber's body in Kabul-based attacks passes through Dr. Yadgari's morgue. He has so far detected such disabilities as muscular dystrophy, amputated toes, blindness, skin diseases and signs of mental illness in the bodies of suicide bombers.

Disabled people are a significant portion of Afghanistan's population, but they live on the margins of its society.

Make sure you don't watch this movie....the reviews are ....well sounds like a winner to me...!!!

Warning: Actual Rewiews (Rated 0% on Rotten Tomatoes)

• You could watch it with the sound off and the plot wouldn't make any less sense than it does with it on.

• Redline is the kind of movie where they spent so much on the fast cars they forgot to save any for acting lessons or screenplay rewrites.

• The movie would play almost as a postmodern parody of 1960s drive-in fare if it weren't put forward with such a silly straight face.

• Looks like a music-video without the music

• Redline mostly feels like one long stunt intercut with the boring parts of a porn movie.

• The cars in the film are treated with more respect than the women.

• Do yourself a favor and stay home. Griffin's 21-second wrecking-the-Enzo video on YouTube is more exciting (and better directed, and better acted ...) than anything in Redline.

• Redline isn't exactly a car wreck, mainly because it's far less exciting and you can, in fact, look away.

HEY....Did you "HEAR" about this one...?????

Doctor finds spiders in ear of boy with earache

ALBANY, Oregon (AP) -- These guys were not exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop.

What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.(Watch how an earache led to the creepy discovery )

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear -- "like Rice Krispies."

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.

When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.

Jesse was given the spiders -- now both dead -- as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.

Damn......Where do you start.....may the Gods and/or Godesses Bless those in Greensburg, Kansas, The whole Town is Gone.....

1/2 Mile Wide..........OMG...........!!!!!!!!



Say prayers for those lost...................mag

Once again, not an Onion gift.

For the Young Kids....Who remembers Rat Finks...!!!

Rat Fink is one of the several hot-rod characters created by one of the originators of Kustom Kulture, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Roth's hatred for Mickey Mouse led him to draw the original Rat Fink. After he placed Rat Fink on an airbrushed monster shirt, the character soon came to symbolize the entire hot-rod/Kustom Kulture scene of the 1950s and 1960s.

The Rat Fink is a green, depraved-looking mouse with bulging, bloodshot eyes, yellowed, narrow teeth, and a T-shirt with "R.F." on it.

Other artists associated with Roth also drew the character, including Rat Fink Comix artist R.K. Sloane and Steve Fiorilla, who illustrated Roth's catalogs. Rat Fink and Roth are featured in Ron Mann's documentary film Tales of the Rat Fink (2006).

For those of you who want to play in a Band but can't afford instruments....

Is this Puppy Love or just Horsing Around...???

How much of the praise you get is Sarcastic....????

Report: 70 Percent Of All Praise Sarcastic

Talk about stinking up the Course....

Cubby while playing Disc Golf after 15 hours at work..!!!..has the opportunity to snap up this Pic...who knows, maybe when too old to play DG he could become a Naturalist.....

picure by Cubby

Up for a Snake Massage...????

People Paying For Massages From A Snake - The best home videos are here

Oh No...!!!!! First Imus......Btu Now Santa...?????

Thanks to Sal (jose) for the tip......mag

USB Turntable

No, this is not an Onion gift. It's a real turntable that rips your vinyl albums directly to MP3. Finally, you don't need an expensive company to do it for you.

Fun Pranks To-Do While Your Co-Workera are on Vacation

Ufo following Car

well....what do you readers think...It's pretty convincing and a little frightening....Could it be real.....maggotx says ....YES....

Addicting Game of the Year

Today is Helium 3 Day at Abiogenesis....Read On and Learn....

Helium-3 is a light, non-radioactive isotope of helium. The helion, the nucleus of a helium-3 atom, consists of two protons but only one neutron, in contrast to two neutrons in ordinary helium. Helium-3 is rare on Earth and sought-after for use in nuclear fusion research.

Future prospectors on the Moon may be assisted by an intriguing new lunar map developed by scientists in Arizona and Hawaii.

It shows places where the element helium-3 can be found in the lunar dirt. Helium-3 is rare on Earth, but more common on the Moon. Today's design of fusion reactor uses tritium as a fuel, an isotope of hydrogen extracted from sea water. But Helium-3 would be even more efficient and produce even less radioactive waste.

The helium-3 found in the lunar soil comes originally from the Sun. A stream of particles from the Sun, called the solar wind, contains helium-3 which is deposited on the Moon's surface. Many scientists believe that energy is the key to the exploration of the Moon and the development of its resources.

To extract one tonne of helium-3, it is estimated that 200 million tonnes of lunar soil would have to be processed. That is equivalent to mining the top 2 metres of a region 10 kms square. Some scientists believe that in the future it could be worth it. It would only require 25 tonnes of helium-3 to provide all the power that the United States needs in a year. Energy calculations suggest that the energy gained from Helium-3 mined on the Moon and shipped back to Earth would be 250 times that used to obtain it.

When the first lunar colony is established, perhaps in 20 years time, it is likely to be positioned near the Moon's south pole, near the so-called 'Peak of Eternal Light.' This mountain is in perpetual sunlight so solar panels on its slopes would provide constant energy.

Later colonies may move down onto the older lunar plains and set up strip-mining factories to extract helium-3 as well as hydrogen which can be used as a rocket fuel.

China goes to the Moon for Helium 3 by 2024

China's moon project leader Long Lehao told reporters that the PRC will put a man on the moon by 2024, with an unmanned lunar probe set to launch next year. Unlike the USA in the 1960s, the Chinese are not going moonside just to wind up conspiracy theorists and inspire rock bands: there is a serious economic purpose: Helium-3...

There is supposed to be a lot of the element Helium-3 on the Moon. I don't know if it makes your voice go higher if you breathe it in, but it does - theoretically - drive a nuclear fusion reaction, when combined with deuterium at high temperatures.

According to its supporters, it is 3x more efficient than today's nuclear power generation. Also it gives off less waste and radiation.

One visionary website has calculated that 4x space shuttle loads of 3He a year could meet the earth's energy supply for 10,000 years. The Russians are already thinking aloud about joining the "3He-rush".

The element could also prove popular because it is great for cryogenic freezing, being able to zap the cadaver of rich people's dead pets to the required temperature for future resurrection in seconds.

Russia suspects US plans to monopolise fuel from moon

A new Favorite Conspiracy Theory....one with a Sci-Fi Theme...

MANKIND'S second race for the moon has taken on a distinctly Cold War feel, with the Russian space agency accusing its old rival NASA of rejecting a proposal for joint lunar exploration.

The charge comes amid suspicion in Moscow that the US is seeking to deny Russia access to an isotope in abundance under the moon's surface that many believe could replace fossil fuels and even end the threat of global warming.

A new era of international co-operation in space supposedly dawned after the US, Russia and other powers declared their intention to send humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.

While the Americans have been either coy or dismissive on the subject, Russia openly says the main purpose of its lunar program is the industrial extraction of helium-3.

While critics dismiss it a 21st-century equivalent of the medieval alchemist's fruitless quest to turn lead into gold, some scientists say helium-3 could be the answer to the world's energy woes.

As helium-3 is non-polluting and effective in tiny quantities, many countries are taking it very seriously. Germany, India and China, which will launch a lunar probe to research extraction techniques in September, are all studying ways to mine the isotope.

"Whoever conquers the moon first will be the first to benefit," said Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of China's lunar program.

Energia says it will start "industrial scale delivery" of helium-3, transported by cargo space ships no later than 2020. Gazprom, the state-owned energy giant , is said to be strongly supportive of the project.

And you thought nobody else could look like this A-Hole...!!!!

Look-alike Arrested Twice; Close But No Bin Laden

Some comments posted at the site where this article was:

• Look at him - you can tell he is guilty of something. Send him down to Gitmo anyway.

• How did he prove he wasn't OBL?

• We should hire this guy to star in propaganda films we can leak to the middle east with him saying "the jihad is over, let peace reign". It would probably work!

• I saw Bin Laden coming out of the Public Eye rib joint in Memphis with Elvis. He went down to Chickasaw County in Mississippi and is hiding out with the big E down there.

• Really? what are the odds that someone who looks that much like OBL would live in the same area that OBL is reported to be hiding out?

• That guy hets mistaken for bin laden and this gets mstaken for news