Ouch! Toyota tells US auto plants to be ready for shutdowns if parts from Japan cannot be sent.

Sounds to me like an opportunity for a US manufacturer of parts to step up.

The aurora borealis as pictured from space.

First, we learned that St. Louis' population had dropped 8% over the last decade. Now we learn that the ultimate progressive/liberal/democratic sewer hole, Detroit, has lost a full 25% of it's population over the last ten years!

Is there anything that can really be done with a city this far gone, except plow it under and start again? What lessons can be learned from this amazing transformation from world industrial capital to dying slum?

Holy human teepee, Batman! Who let her go out in that??

A sunken ship off the coast of Florida makes for an inviting home for all manner of sea life, and even for a visit from one of it's former owners! Magical! Click twice to go full size.

NASA's solar dynamics observatory has photographed a very active sunspot emerging from behind the sun on it's left lower quadrant. An extreme surge of ultraviolet radiation was detected by the observatory on March 21st.

This appears to be the second coming of sunspot 1165, which was last seen in early March, and while on the other side of the sun has been growing in activity. If it spews it's energy toward the Earth in the next few days, we may see some interesting effects here on the home planet.

Stay alert, Earthlings! The solar furnace is angry.

Mondays are like that.....

Baja California Timelapses from Mike Flores on Vimeo.

I love these time lapse videos. Be sure to full screen this to experience the real deal.

Awesome perigee moon pictures.

From Holland
From England

From Poland

Paco Bellido of Cordova, Spain, caught this picture of the super moon.

Scandinavian parade helmet from about a thousand years ago.

Parthenon and the perigee moon

Saturday porch picture.