Did You See That

Space, the final frontier.

Look real close at the window.

They walk among us and they like to look in the window see what you are eating.

The picture looks a lot like a friend I had when I was a kid.

I had to sneak food to him and he slept in my closet.

I couldn't tell anyone I had an alien for a friend or they would have wanted to examine him.

Plus he told me he didn't have a green card.

Then one day he told me he had to leave and I watched as this real cool dish-like object landed and picked him up.

Losing my friend like that brought tears to my eyes.


Do New Images Show Ice on Mars?

Scientists hope to find and test ice to see whether it contains the organic compounds that are the raw ingredients of life.

Phoenix landed on Mars on May 25 and has been giving scientists their first look at the planet's northern latitudes.

This image taken by the spacecraft shows the landscape around Mars' north pole.


I knew there was ice on Mars as my friend loved iced tea.

Now that the craft has landed I hope they scan the area with the camera as I want to know if my friend is hanging out there.




You gotta love the French:

A French skydiver's hope to set a new free-fall record might have come to an end on Tuesday when his ride to the sky left without him.

The helium balloon that was to carry French skydiver Michel Fournier into the stratosphere drifts away over Saskatchewan on Tuesday without him.

The Frenchman had hoped to set four new records with a 130,000-foot plunge to earth, but the balloon took off before he was ready.

It happened when he pulled out his white handkerchief to blow his nose.

His ground crew said that with the white handkerchief and being French, they figured he surrendered so they raised their hands and poof off the balloon flew.

D' plane boss, D' plane, welcome to Fantasy Island.


Pilot reports seeing a rocket in mid-air

Some weird things can happen in the skies. At least if you are the Continental Airlines pilot who reported seeing a rocket fly past his cockpit window while he was about eight miles away from Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, as reported by the Houston Chronicle.

"We don't know for sure what the object was. But we think it might be somebody doing model rocketing," said Roland Herwig, an FAA spokesman. "The pilot saw the rocket and some people saw the rocket's trail (of smoke)."

The incident has turned into a full-blown federal investigation, with both the FAA and the FBI looking into the matter. Fortunately no one was harmed or scathed. Just a little weirded out that a rocket may have flown past the cockpit window.

Model rocketing, OK how big and how far can model rockets fly? Better yet, how low was the aircraft?

Maybe he saw the Frenchman's balloon fly by.