The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the U.S.A. for 12 years! There are believed to be approximately 27 more of these houses in Mexico alone not to mention the ones in othercountries who are enriching themselves in the drug trade. These people have so much money, they make the Arab oil sheiks look like welfare recipients. (via MEXICAN DRUG LORD’S HOME AFTER BEING RAIDED)

The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS). The planet may only have another 10 million years left before it is completely devoured.

The planet, called WASP-12b, is so close to its sunlike star that it is superheated to nearly 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and stretched into a football shape by enormous tidal forces. The atmosphere has ballooned to nearly three times Jupiter’s radius and is spilling material onto the star. The planet is 40 percent more massive than Jupiter.

HubbleSite – NewsCenter – Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet (05/20/2010) – Release Images

Last week, a young bottlenose dolphin named Merlin became the first of his species to join the growing number of enthusiasts using the Apple iPad. (via Dolphin uses iPad as way to communicate with humans – Boing Boing)

An Atomic Bomb will stop the Gulf Oil Leak, LOOK! (via CineGraphic)

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Nothing else seems to be working, and the so-called “nuclear option” has a decent track record: the Soviets managed to seal off leaks in this fashion five times.

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Foster notes that Obama has already sent a team of nuclear physicists to the Gulf, and that it includes “82-year-old Richard Garwin, who designed the first hydrogen bomb.” Could nuking be a serious option?

Should We Nuke the Oil Leak? | The Atlantic Wire

A post-privacy world, increasingly operated by generations that traded privacy for connectivity and interactivity, naturally features the onerous spectre of surveillance. The future you move into, however, will be characterised by inverse surveillance: the open monitoring of authority objects. The flow of statistics into the street. The point of a “digital city” is a city that reports to you, not on you.

Extend that out of the cities. Build your 3G masts and your chains of Wi-Fi routers so that your fields and woodlands and towpaths can speak to you as clearly as your roads and squares. Yours may be the last generation where a child can get lost

Warren Ellis: Making the century weirder