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I have a very bad feeling about the BP oil disaster onthe Gulf Coast of the United States. It’s already a terrible tragedy, but will the flow of oil it ever be fixed? Is this just a step towards the end of the world as we know it?

Is it really just a gigantic ball of burning gas? Does the gas replenish itself from some source as it burns?

Of course, they say it’s going to cost $4.4 million for a 3-night stay in outer space at the “Galactic” resort.  This price including an eight-week training course on a tropical island.

The Barcelona-based company (www.galacticsuite.com) plans to open The Galactic Suite Space Resort, the first hotel in space, says it is on target to accept its first paying guests by the year 2012, regardless of what critics are saying about the investment and time frame for the project.

Guests at the space hotel will be able to see the sun rise 15 times every day, travel around the world every 80 minutes, and can wear Velcro suits that allow them to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.

Read more of the story at MSNBC

I don’t know exactly what this guy is talking about, but ok.

From UPI.com

LONDON, Oct. 3 (UPI) — The British government said in a recorded announcement prepared in the 1970s that in case of a nuclear apocalypse that people should “stay in their homes.”

 

The Daily Telegraph said Friday that the unearthed emergency script had been created to inform the general public how best to react in the event of incoming nuclear missiles and was based around calm and patience.

“This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service,” the newly released recording said. “This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons.”

“Meanwhile, stay tuned to this wavelength, stay calm and stay in your own homes,” the message adds.

A letter written by former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications official Harold Greenwood in 1974 accompanied the apocalypse warning that detailed who should record the announcement, the Telegraph reported.

“Indeed, if an unfamiliar voice repeats the same announcement hour after hour for 12 hours listeners may begin to suspect that they are listening to a machine set to switch on every hour (or even that it has got stuck) and that perhaps after all the BBC has been obliterated,” Greenwood recommended.