Ooops Moments

OOOPPS

2011-11-29T01:43:00.000-08:00

OH THESE HUMANS...

2011-07-04T15:38:00.000-07:00

WOW

2011-07-02T23:51:00.000-07:00

VIENTO

2011-07-01T18:31:00.000-07:00

OMG

2011-05-31T23:30:00.000-07:00

WOW

2011-05-31T23:28:00.000-07:00

OH OH

2011-05-31T13:48:00.002-07:00

BRRRRRR

2011-05-31T13:48:00.001-07:00

JUST FOR FUN

2010-09-20T22:20:00.001-07:00

OH OH

2010-09-12T21:23:00.000-07:00

NEW MEXICO FIREBALL

2010-08-01T20:14:00.001-07:00

NEW MEXICO FIREBALL: Dawn came early to New Mexico on Saturday around 4:54 am local time when a brilliant meteor exploded near Santa Fe. "It turned night into day," says amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft who recorded the fireball using an all-sky video camera: must-see movie. The movie's soundtrack is the signal from a 61 MHz forward-scatter meteor radar also operated by Ashcraft. Ghostly echoes from the meteor's debris continue long after the meteor itself explodes. Listen again.

HUGE SUN ERUPTION

2010-08-01T20:01:00.000-07:00

COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN: This morning around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action:
Click to launch a 304 Å movie
The timing of these events suggest they are connected, and a review of SDO movies strengthens that conclusion. Despite the ~400,000 km distance between them, the sunspot and filament seem to erupt together; they are probably connected by long-range magnetic fields. In this movie (171 Å), a shadowy shock wave (a "solar tsunami") can be seen emerging from the flare site and rippling across the northern hemisphere into the filament's eruption zone. That may have helped propel the filament into space.
In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun.
A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth: SOHO movie. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd.
more images: from Francois Rouviere of Mougins, France; from Rogerio Marcon of Campinas SP Brasil; from Didier Favre of Brétigny-sur-Orge, France; from Cai-Uso Wohler of Bispingen, Germany; from Wouter Verhesen of Sittard, The Netherlands; from Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, California

WEIRD CLOCK

2010-07-18T16:18:00.001-07:00

OH OH

2010-07-18T16:10:00.000-07:00

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SEATBELT ADD EVER

2010-07-16T07:05:00.000-07:00

A BIT OF FUN

2010-06-16T00:57:00.000-07:00

IT HAPPENS...

2010-04-08T20:52:00.001-07:00

IT HAPPENS....

2010-03-17T17:01:00.000-07:00

WOW

2010-01-29T17:31:00.000-08:00

HIGH AND WET

2010-01-13T19:58:00.000-08:00

WHAT WE DO SOMETIMES...

2010-01-08T23:39:00.001-08:00

WEIRD ANIMALS

2009-12-28T09:45:00.000-08:00

Three heads

Half horse, half zebra

Just a head

Four legs

Two heads

Two faces

Extra feet

Cat/Bird

Cat/Bunny

FUN

2009-12-20T22:30:00.000-08:00

HARD WORKING HUMANS

2009-12-20T20:09:00.001-08:00

WOW

2009-12-20T19:33:00.000-08:00

VERY FAT CAT

2009-12-16T20:03:00.001-08:00

ракета неспособность

2009-12-10T15:47:00.001-08:00

STRANGE LIGHTS OVER NORWAY: Wednesday morning, Dec. 9th, people in arctic Norway were stunned when a gigantic luminous spiral formed in the northern sky. "We are used to seeing lots of auroras here in Norway, but this was different," says Nick Banbury of Harstad who witnessed the phenomenon on his way to work "between 7:50 and 8:00 a.m. local time." Jan Petter Jorgensen took this photo:

The first reaction of many readers when they see this picture is Photoshop! Surely this must be a fake. But no, many independent observers witnessed and phtotographed the apparition. It is real.
Banbury continues: "It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in color to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end. This spiral then got bigger and bigger until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to Earth. According to press reports, this could be seen all over northern Norway and must therefore have been very high up in the atmosphere to be seen hundreds of km apart."
HYPOTHESIS: Evidence is mounting that the phenomenon was caused by a malfunctioning suborbital rocket, possibly a Bulava ICBM launched from a Russian submarine in the White Sea. A Navtex no-fly alert was issued for the White Sea on Dec. 9th, and photographers have recorded what appears to be the initial boost phase of a launch beneath the spiral (see inset). A rocket motor spinning out of control could indeed explain the spiral pattern, as shown in this video of a Trident II missile launched from a US submarine in 2007.
CONFIRMED: The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed the launch and subsequent failure of a submarine-based missile: BBC Report.

WATCH OUT!!

2009-12-09T08:18:00.001-08:00

A turkey named "Liberty" surprises U.S. President George W. Bush at the annual turkey pardoning event at the White House, three days ahead of Thanksgiving, November 19, 2001. The fortunate bird will spend the rest of his days on a farm in Virginia. With the president are turkey industry representatives Jeff Radford (L) and Stuart Proctor.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES)

OOOPS

2009-12-03T09:40:00.001-08:00

2004: Close call
A bystander, left, yells "stop" as a driver, identified by police as Mary Schopp, 31, nearly runs over Oscar Hadley, 88, on Aug. 3. Hadley suffered minor injuries from the accident in a Kalispell, Mont., grocery store parking lot. Schopp received a ticket.

2003: This could become a habit
Sister Rosa Elena, right, hits Sister Amanda de Jesus with a snowball after class Jan. 22 at Mount St. Michael's Seminary in Spokane, Wash. The two nuns, visiting from Mexico, said it was the first time they had ever seen snow.

2001: Up the down staircase
Mallard ducklings wait their turn May 14 as a sibling struggles to make it up a curb in South Bend, Ind. The mother, who had already cleared the obstacle, flirted with traffic for 20 minutes before leading her offspring safely across the busy road.

2001: The inside story
After being swallowed, a rainbow trout fingerling peers out from the gullet of a northern pike Jan. 22 in a lobby aquarium exhibit at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Anchorage, Alaska. The agency declared "open season" on the illegally transplanted trout-killing, salmon-slaying northern pike in local waterways.

A SPECK ON THE SUN

2009-11-28T21:58:00.000-08:00

One speck of a shuttle
This photo, taken by photographer Thierry Legault, shows the space shuttle Atlantis in silhouette as it crosses in front of the sun's disk on May 12. This image was made before the crew connected with Hubble and started repairs.

WOW

2009-11-28T21:37:00.000-08:00

Thar she blows!
Clouds of steam and ash rise from Sarychev Volcano in Russia's Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan, during an early stage of eruption on June 12. This rare view was captured in a photograph taken from the international space station.

RUN....!!

2009-11-23T09:43:00.000-08:00

OOOOPS AND OUCHH

2009-11-22T21:51:00.000-08:00

A house divided
Workers attempt to remove a 100,000-pound crane that fell onto the Santa Rosa, Calif., home of Michelle and Kevin McCarthy on Nov. 17. The couple had hired a contractor to remove a 150-year-old oak tree in the backyard for fear that it could fall. Instead, the crane fell and sliced through the house the McCarthys moved into just a few months earlier. No one was home at the time and there were no injuries.

North vs. South
Policemen try to wrestle away a North Korean flag from activists attempting to burn it during a rally to welcome U.S. President Barack Obama and to denounce the North, near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov.19. Obama was in South Korea for talks with President Lee Myung-bak on trade and the North's nulcear program.

WOW

2009-11-15T21:43:00.000-08:00

HOW IN THE WORLD?

2009-11-05T22:10:00.000-08:00

OLD ROCKERS

2009-10-29T18:09:00.000-07:00

SO, YOU THINK YOUR JOB STINKS?

2009-10-29T18:08:00.000-07:00

I DON'T FEEL MYSELF TODAY..

2009-10-29T18:07:00.000-07:00

NICE CLASSMATES

2009-10-29T18:06:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2009-10-29T18:05:00.000-07:00

IT WAS NOT CHICKEN...

2009-10-29T18:04:00.000-07:00

NO COMMENT...

2009-10-29T18:03:00.000-07:00

SLEEPY HUNTER

2009-10-29T18:02:00.000-07:00

HEY, MOM LOOK AT YOUR KID~~!!!

2009-09-19T20:44:00.001-07:00

BIG DOG

2009-09-08T22:11:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2009-08-23T22:20:00.000-07:00

PECULIAR

2009-08-23T22:19:00.000-07:00

WOW

2009-08-23T22:18:00.000-07:00

PTSSSSS

2009-08-16T01:00:00.000-07:00

NEAR- EARTH ASTEROIDS

2009-07-21T01:06:00.001-07:00

Near-Earth Asteroids
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.
On July 21, 2009 there were 1067 potentially hazardous asteroids.
July 2009 Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Mag.
Size
2009 MM8
July 13
11.4 LD
18
53 m
2008 NP3
July 18
11.8 LD
18
87 m
2006 TU7
July 20
14.2 LD
17
175 m
Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

OOOPS!!

2009-07-18T21:58:00.000-07:00

IRAQUI SPIDER

2009-06-08T16:22:00.000-07:00

DESERT LANDING

2009-06-08T16:21:00.000-07:00

FROG IN PEAS CAN

2009-06-08T16:20:00.000-07:00

ATTACKED BY PORCUPINE

2009-06-08T16:19:00.000-07:00

WORM IN HUMAN EYE

2009-06-08T16:18:00.002-07:00

SAND STORM

2009-06-08T16:18:00.001-07:00

THE SIZE OF EARTH COMPARED TO A SOLAR FLARE

2009-05-30T14:44:00.000-07:00

Oooops

2009-05-15T14:31:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2009-04-02T13:52:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2009-02-09T23:59:00.000-08:00

SKIER DID NOT LOCKED HIS CHAIR

2009-01-21T22:45:00.000-08:00

OSO POLAR - POLAR BEAR

2008-12-15T23:50:00.000-08:00

OOOPS

2008-12-03T10:34:00.001-08:00

NO COMMENT

2008-10-30T01:29:00.000-07:00

ARTIC FOX

2008-09-13T16:21:00.000-07:00

OOOPS!

2008-09-13T16:06:00.001-07:00

WEIRD FRUIT

2008-09-06T13:14:00.000-07:00

DRIED DONKEY IN THE CHILEAN DESERT

2008-08-24T16:31:00.000-07:00

BRILLIANT

2008-08-21T21:25:00.000-07:00

BAD BIRDIE

2008-08-21T21:22:00.000-07:00

WOW

2008-08-21T21:21:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-07-23T18:30:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-07-23T16:21:00.001-07:00

CINTURITA

2008-07-23T14:52:00.000-07:00

BOTELLA

2008-07-23T14:51:00.000-07:00

ORCA'S ATTACK

2008-07-23T14:44:00.000-07:00

OUCH

2008-05-20T19:37:00.000-07:00

OH MY GOD

2008-05-20T19:28:00.000-07:00

COLIMA EARTHQUAKE, MEXICO

2008-05-20T19:11:00.000-07:00

DUMB

2008-05-20T19:09:00.000-07:00

OH OH

2008-05-20T19:08:00.000-07:00

OOOPS!

2008-05-20T17:09:00.000-07:00

ALIEN TOUCHES TEEN

2008-05-20T16:58:00.000-07:00

MAGIC OR ILUSION?

2008-05-20T16:35:00.000-07:00

UFO'S ARE HERE!!

2008-05-20T16:07:00.001-07:00

VIDEO OF ALIEN ATTACK

2008-05-20T16:01:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:55:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:54:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:53:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:52:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:50:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:49:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:48:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:47:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:08:00.000-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:04:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:03:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:02:00.001-07:00

OOOPS

2008-04-03T11:01:00.000-07:00