Cow sinks boat

In 1997, the crew of a Japanese fishing boat was pulled from the Sea of Japan after clinging to the boat's wreckage for several hours.  They were immediately arrested, however, after authorities interrogated them about the boat's fate.  To a man, they claimed a cow had fallen from the sky, apparently coming from nowhere, and struck the boat amidships, resulting in a huge hole and its rapid sinking.

The crew remained in prison for several weeks until Japanese authorities were contacted by several highly embarrassed Russian air force officials.  It turned out that the crew of a Russian cargo plane had stolen a cow that wandered near their Siberian airfield and forced it onto their plane before they took off for a flight home.  Once airborne, the cow apparently panicked and starting rampaging through the cargo hold, causing the crew also to panic because it was affecting the plane's stability.  They solved the problem by shoving the cow out of the hold while crossing the Sea of Japan at 30,000 feet.

Unfortunately, following Rules 5 (Look-out), and 7 (Risk of collision) won't keep you out of trouble when the danger is airborne! 

Can you say oops!

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Double standard? You be the judge.. Way to go Southwest!

This isn’t exactly related to politics, but I had to chuckle when I saw Southwest Airlines’ new Sports Illustrated swimsuit-themed plane featuring Bar Rafaeli in a bikini.

This seems a bit hypocritical given that Southwest kicked a woman off one of their planes for being dressed like this:

Southwest is a private company, and can enforce the dress codes on their planes that they want, but giving a woman in a miniskirt the boot and then painting a woman in a bikini on the length of one of your jets seems a bit…hypocritical.

Just sayin’.

What happens when we pollute the ocean...

 People just don't think sometimes. The following is a series of pictures showing our effect on marine wildlife. Is it really so hard to police your own trash? Seriously people, you take it with you out there, camping, hiking, boating, fishing, how hard is it to bring it back home with you and see that it is properly disposed of?

Midway Message from the Gyre These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. ~cj, Seattle, October 2009