ISS/STS-128 visibility

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The space shuttle Discovery is presently docked at the International Space Station, and the combined facility will be visible from most of North America over the coming days. The duo circles the planet every 91.4 minutes at an altitude of 216 miles (347 km), and if it happens to pass over your location around morning or evening twilight, it will look like a brilliant star crossing the sky in the course of a few minutes. Here’s a photo from my backyard on Thursday morning (4:25 am) showing the duo brightening while emerging from the Earth’s shadow:


Sunrise in Auriga

So far, the visible passes from Boston during this mission have been in the early morning sky. We’re forecast to have evening passes on Sunday and Monday, then the shuttle undocks on Tuesday afternoon, and we have good visiblity of the pair flying separately on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings before the shuttle lands in Florida on Thursday. Others in the mid-northern latitudes will probably have similar opportunities … for predictions visit heavens-above.com and enter your location.

Pick ’em contest & Liveblog bleg

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First of all, one final (?) reminder. To join the 1st annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest, click here, then enter Group ID number 16830 and password irishtrojan. Deadline is 11:55 AM EDT tomorrow (Saturday).

Secondly, is there anyone who’s going to a game tomorrow — particularly the USC or Notre Dame games — and who would like to contribute to my Live Blog with mobile updates (and perhaps photos) direct from the stadium? We’ve already got Jeff Freeze on board (he’ll be at Notre Dame Stadium for the opener vs. Nevada, with his iPhone), and I’d love to have a few others. If you’re interested, e-mail me at irishtrojan [at] gmail.com.

Beelzebub crashes car into CT hospital

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Yes & it just confirms what I always suspected: Lucifer is in league with Obama to wreck our Health-care system. ;>

SOUTHINGTON — – Saying he’s the devil, a man who had just bailed out of a car he had driven into a hospital lobby early this morning attacked a local officer, police said.

…The bizarre chain of events started at about 2:30 a.m., when a security guard at The Hospital of Central Connecticut at Bradley Memorial on Meriden Avenue saw a car driving erratically through the parking lot, Sgt. Lowell DePalma said. The car, carrying Dufresne, another man and a dog, crashed through the hospital’s main entrance, he said. The lobby was closed at the time, and no one was injured.

…The occupants got out of the car and left the scene, ignoring the security guard’s orders to stop, he said. Police arrived and an officer encountered Dufresne and the dog nearby on Columbus Avenue. He started hitting the officer and the dog bit him, DePalma said.

Dufresne ranted that he’s the devil during the attack, he said…

Gol-lee. / What ever happened to the Dog? (Presumably one of those Hounds of Hades like in The Omen. 🙂

Read the whole thing. As to Healthcare, we all knew the Devil is in the details but this takes it Down to a whole new Level. ;]