Wolverine

I watched that new X-Men movie about Wolverine's origins the other day. I didn't think it was nearly as bad as many people said it was. In fact, I rather liked it. Of course, I'm not as into comics as a lot of people, I just want to be entertained, and I was.
Funny thing was, when the group gets together and heads off to Lagos in search of adamantium (which, to me, sounds like something Adam Ant should be made of...) the fly off in this funky looking jet, which I thought was some Hollywood creation (ala the jet from IronMan) but then I saw this photo today:
and I thought; "Hey, that's the same plane! Apparently it made it's debut last year at an English airshow, even though it was used in the movie back in the 70s sometime...

STS 127 continued

Looks like someone read this. The shuttle launched was (thankfully) delayed due to a hydrogen leak.
But I still think they're planning on having 13 people up there...

STS 127

I don't want to wish any bad vibes on anybody, but something seems wrong with this upcoming shuttle mission.
The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy within the next 24 hours. It will be launching on June 13. The main gig this time around is to finish building the Japanese science module 'Kibo', but the merry crew will also board the International Space Station, joining the party animals already there. This will mark the first time that 13 people will be on the ISS.
Apollo 13 launched on April 11 at 13:13, and 2 days (April 13) later suffered a near fatal accident. Don't these good rocket scientists at NASA think about these things before they plan them? Seems like they're just tempting fate if you ask me, and you haven't...

Latest Swine Flu Madness

This just in from Reuters:
"GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization has told its member nations it is declaring a swine flu pandemic — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.
The move came Thursday as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere.
In a statement sent to member countries, WHO says it decided to raise the pandemic alert level from phase 5 to 6, meaning that a global outbreak of swine flu has begun. The decision was made after the U.N. health agency held an emergency meeting on swine flu with its experts."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTkkEKE5LtPih_5Jcc-3MpD0gOYQD98OH0U00
As of this writing the official toll is 27,737 cases in 74 (75 if you include Taiwan) with 141 deaths worldwide. According to th WHO "Increasing the alert to Level 6 does not mean that the disease is deadlier or more dangerous than before, just that it has spread to more countries."