I wonder how you add the VTA logo?

( Riding that train... )

The invasion has begun!

All units report to start point TANGO, OPLAN "ZHUKOV" is in effect.

Penguins corralled on Texas highway after accident

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Twenty-one penguins were rescued on a hot east Texas highway on Tuesday after a truck carrying the wildlife to a temporary home south of Houston overturned, said a state trooper.

Four penguins and some exotic fish were killed in the accident, including three penguins that were hit by passing motorists, said Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Buchanan. "The rest of the penguins kind of stayed together in the ditch."

The truck, also carrying an octopus that was uninjured, was bound for Moody Gardens, a tourist destination in Galveston, an hour south of Houston, a resort spokeswoman said.

The wildlife was being transported to Texas from the Indianapolis Zoo while the zoo's ocean exhibit is being remodeled, said Jerri Hamacheck of Moody Gardens.

The trooper said it was the oddest traffic accident he had ever handled.

"We've worked several wrecks involving cows, horses, pigs, even fish, but this is the first where the live animals were penguins."

He said he was glad the accident was not worse.

"There was another truck full of snakes and alligators that was an hour ahead of them, so luckily we didn't have to deal with the alligators," Buchanan said.

The first truck arrived safely in Galveston by late afternoon, Hamacheck said.

While Strike Team 176 failed to take advantage of the prearranged accident, we can take heart that the octopus, the oh-so-vital octopus, was not harmed. Team 176 will be reinforced and go to their fallback plan. Hopefully, this will not involve the nuke or summoning Chuck Norris.

Investigations continue into why the snakes and alligators were shipped by truck, instead of on the motherf%@king plane.

Now, to arms! Rise up and claim this world for the penguins!

Lower.. no raise the flags. Raise them in orbit, raise them on the Moon, raise them to the stars

Dr. James Van Allen has died

Renowned space scientist Dr. James A. Van Allen died this morning at the age of 91. Although he had a lifetime’s worth of contributions to astronomy, space science and space exploration, Dr. Allen was best known for his discovery of the radiation belts that surround the Earth. An experiment he designed for the spacecraft Explorer 1 gauged the Van Allen belts using tiny Geiger counters to measure radiation. He retired from full time teaching at the University of Iowa in 1985, but continued to write, oversee research, and monitor data sent back by spacecraft he was involved with.