Amazing New Nessie Video
When Andrew Whyley visited the underwater webcam at Lochness Live, he glimpsed the Loch Ness Monster and recorded images of it. “I was browsing the internet, and the site is always good for a five-minute look on the off-chance,” he says. “When the image came on the screen I thought ‘What the hell is THAT?’ and snapped away.”
He captured five good images during the time Nessie was in front of the camera. “It moved all over the screen and seemed to have a purpose in its movement,? he says. ?The web cam refreshes every three seconds and I was able to get five shots over a minute or so.?
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Earth May Be Saved by an Airbag
Scientists got jittery when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in July 1994, since they realized it could have hit us. Now that asteroid NT7 is scheduled to hit the Earth on February 1st, 2060, they’re telling us the odds against being hit are billions to one. This doesn’t reassure the teenager in the U.K. who had a meteorite land on her foot.
Siobhan Cowton, age 14, was getting into the family car outside when a stone she describes as “quite hot” fell from the sky and landed on her foot. “I saw it fall from above roof height,” she says. “It looked very unusual, with a bubbled surface and tiny indentations like volcanic lava. It was shiny on one side and looked rusty as if it contained iron.”
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‘N Sync Won’t Fly
‘N Sync singer Lance Bass will not be the 3rd space tourist in October, since he’s been asked to leave Russia’s cosmonaut training program. Sergei Gorbunov, of the Russian Space Agency, says there have been “crude violations” of his contract. “It’s over,” he says. The U.S. rock star was granted several deadline extensions after failing to come up with the $20 million cost. Bass has already undergone extensive training at NASA?s Star City astronaut training center.
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