Sugarland Collapse

Warning, you are going to see the stage, the entire damn structure, collapse onto the crowd. It is not for the weak of heart. 70-77mph winds in advance of a storm cell absolutely leveled the stage structure. Warning of inclimate weather was given and fans were being instructed to start exiting the are, but the warning just didn't come anywhere near soon enough. Thunderstorms then hindered rescue efforts about 30-60 minutes later.

My friend and her young daughter were there tonight. They are well. I've been covering this all evening on twitter. My last count is 4 dead, 41 red and yellow casualties taken to area hospitals. I don't have numbers on green casualties. Operations have ended as 3 rescue dogs gave an all clear around 1130-1140pm EST.

Dunkaroos

Cowboys and Aliens

 

Wasn't my idea, got the idea from an instructable (this one http://www.instructables.com/id/Quick-and-Easy-Cowboy-Aliens-gauntlet/ ). I have to find a hinge and clasp or hasp I like for it, I probably won't ever wear it though as it's snug at my abductor pollicis longus, and UMCOMFORTABLY snug at my flexor carpi ulnaris, if I flex my arm, or move my wrist at all it just plain digs in.

I am deeply honored

It's finally raining!

Ahhh it's finally raining... even though it didn't last but a few minutes.

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

Dead babies in pill form

Dead Baby Pills of the Day: A Korean documentary team has reportedly discovered that a hospital in China is selling dead babies to a medical company that dries them out, grinds them up, and sells them as stamina-increasing pills.

The dead babies are “mostly abortions or stillbirths” (which has some scary implications about what the rest might be) and are being used with the mothers’ consent. Reporters had the pills tested and discovered they contained 99.7% human material, including hair and nail remnants.

SBS TV South Korea will air the report on August 6th.

Read more about it HERE

Graphene and Girl Scout Cookies

Delicious Science of the Day: Everyone loves Girl Scout cookies: they are delicious, sugary sweet, and, apparently, can store $15 billion worth of graphene in a single box.

After a team of Graduate students in the Rice University lab of James Tour was able to convert table sugar to graphene, they began to consider the possibilities – what else could yield similar results? At a board meeting following the initial experiment, Tour suggested that he and his team could grow it from any carbon source, and inspiration struck when Girl Scout Cookies were served.

The lab invited Girl Scout Troup 25080 to witness the procedure. The goal was to demonstrate the possibility of producing graphene from anywhere. Although doing so is currently difficult and expensive, the chemists assert that the amount of graphene stored in a box of cookies could span three football fields.

Read more about it HERE

Red Sun of Krypton