It looks like an O'Neill colony (or A.C.Clarke's Rama), but on Erik Wernquist's web page, it says this is a large asteroid hollowed out (7 km internal diameter) and spun up to provide artificial gravity. It would need to be a strong asteroid to hold together - but that would also make it hard to hollow out. Interesting concept. Who knows what wonders may be possible in the future?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder

http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/gallery_terrarium.html

The well-funded campaign to cast doubt on climate change science has very little imagination. They simply accuse scientists of what they do - distorting data for financial gain to please some powerful interests. The fossil fuel industry does this every day. The expanding global community of scientists, in many disciplines, with ~100,000 research projects, does not. The effects of climate change are already being felt. For example, tens of thousands are dying in Bangladesh from increased flooding and storms. The difference now is that leaders in Bangladesh, and people around the world, are blaming this on the history of greenhouse gas emissions - dominated by the US. (China is a new contributor, most of the historical emissions have come from the US.) Bangladesh is now expecting numbers of climate refugees in the 10s of millions in coming decades. Around the world, the refugee crisis could easily exceed that of the 50M during WWII. And they will know who to blame.

So *that* explains the mid-term elections!

Oh, there's where I left my car!
..uh ..wait a minute.

Interesting. I just reread info about the 1989 explosion in turret 2 of the battleship Iowa that killed 47 sailors. Looks like it was due to over-ramming unstable powder as part of an unauthorized 'experiment' using 5 bags of the wrong powder instead of the standard 6. Of course, the Navy covered all this up and blamed a sailor for killing everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion

They are in the middle of their tour of the USA :-)
Hope they have fun!
@ColburnIdiots
https://twitter.com/ColburnIdiots/media

And, it goes into action..

Greatest Tank Battles- M2 Bradley vs T-72 | Gulf War (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sum91rgJXkI

An empty tank, of course.

It can be different. Look at the prison system in scandinavian countries.

http://theconversation.com/nordic-prisons-less-crowded-less-punitive-better-staffed-12885

They wanted to add excitement. (In the DVD extras for this clip, you get to see she was headed for a cliff, with a flaming gasoline truck chasing her.)

"..makes no logical sense!"

Yep. Send it to the schools!

..proves that all goats are wild.

In Japan - super service, plus no tipping.
You can see how Japanese are confused when they come to the US. :-)

Especially with zor on the loose!

Great coincidence of different objects going overhead! (If I tried that, it would just be a bunch of aircraft going to the 4 international airports nearby.)