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Could it happen in San Francisco? Not likely and here's why: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/could-sf-golden-gate-bridge-collapse-19370020.php

Don't really want to criticize countries I know little about, but that's gross negligence. Italy needs to get a handle on this.

I wish you all the best in this difficult time, Stormkhan.

She was quoting Lt. Richard Lipsky, witness to the autopsy. https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/history/eyewitness-to-history/ That's the one whose word you are not going to take for it. Her quote is a small part of the video, so I'll just stay on topic about this.

Here's an interesting video by a mortician over getting Kennedy's body from Parkland Hospital in Dallas to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland and ready for the viewing in the Rotunda.

The San Francisco Chronicle did a write-up on Bigfoot in Northhern California's Humboldt area: https://www.sfgate.com/california-news/article/Bigfoot-Humboldt-State-Norcal-California-Arcata-16038830.php

I think I'll more believe he made the trains run on time... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/

Here's a article by one of Edison's engineers. In 1896, samples of the emerging 220V lamps in Europe were considered. But it never happened. Here's why the US never went to 220:

Shaking my head. "Move out" or "backing off" was not an option?

Good observation, Escargot. Yes, since they were dishonorably discharged before execution, no VA benefits and consequently no Widow's pension. Since they belong to the veteran, loss of those benefits includes dependents. Even to this day. I have no words for dependents who had nothing to do with...

The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France contains the Dishonored Dead, WWII US Army soldiers convicted and executed for various crimes. The plots are numbered markers set in the grass. The ultimate cold shoulder. https://jonathanturley.org/2020/02/15/has-the-time-come-to-name-the-dishonored-dead/

Yes, the lights were tailgating him on a uphill grade, then when he slowed and stopped, he noticed in the rear view the lights retreated and suddenly blinked out as if the driver shut them off. Retreating as if going in reverse, not turning around. I just gave a short summary. The full story is...

The Mojave desert stretches from California to Nevada about 100 miles east of Los Angeles. The Mojave bears a close resemblance to the UK's barren Moorlands,mostly shrubs and grass instead of cacti. It's often called the "High Desert" for its' 2000-4000 foot elevations. A man driving a...

Ken Layne maintains a magazine and podcast called the Desert Oracle based out of Joshua Tree, California about 150 miles east of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert. He touches both on daily life, geography as well as the strange goings on in this region. I got introduced to his world when I saw a...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/30/national/stigmatized-properties-living-homes-ghastly-pasts/?hootPostID=1e21cb920b87fabe8742497e5fc0b6f3#.Xblcz-czai4 This is about Japanese comedian Tanishi Matsubara who lives in haunted houses because the rent is cheap. His referrals come from Teru...

Don't do that. The response time is horrendous.

That's a thought, Falling glass...I hope I'm not caught outside in the downtown area.

Anchorage 7.0 https://twitter.com/search?q=Anchorage earthquake Roads caved in, one newsroom trashed, but no deaths. While tsunamis are possible elsewhere, Anchorage is a very low risk area. https://www.muni.org/Departments/OEM/Prepared/Pages/TsunamiPrep.aspx

Great to be back. Nice work on the migration...seems all of the furniture arrived and is in place.:yay:

It's one of these things that I'll put on the shelf since Sir Aston didn't say that he designed that chapel with Admiral Nelson's death in mind. It is a stretch to say that he sneaked in what would be a touching tribute without saying a word as if that would be a bad thing. It is interesting...

I never knew of the Royal Naval Academy at Dartmouth, Maximus, but in 1769, William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth gave his name to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Anyway, on the 1616 mystery, I wonder. This source...

Mostly longitude determines the difference. 1 degree is 4 minutes. 15 min longitude is one minute time difference -6° 15' 19.22" Trafalgar DMS (Degrees Minutes Second notation) - 0° 4' 34.0752" London DMS converted from Decimal Degree notation here...

I remember someone saying, "If ghosts exist, then the most haunted places would be locker rooms."o_O

Update: Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg, whose office in Las Vegas handled the medical examination, said Bell had the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone, the sedative diazepam and the muscle-relaxant carisoprodol in his system. High blood pressure and the lung disease chronic...

There's an old trade school saying my instructor brought up when anyone suggested a unnecessary modification to some very expensive machinery: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Point taken that the video was swiped and renamed. But looking at the gent on the highway and slowing the clip down, he does have an odd translucent look to him. Of course, I don't know if a subpar dashcam and existing lighting would make it look that way.

Just got this story about a highway ghost in Japan caught on youtube: https://soranews24.com/2018/06/10/highway-ghost-spooks-youtube-viewers-in-japan%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/

I still get his Kindle books now and then, one of my favorites was the Blitz era story of "Sandbag Daley". Nothing paranormal about it...but hilarity when the deceased are late for their own funerals. "You got a lot of 'splaining to do" as the old TV line goes.

Well, the police did hold a press conference and gave out his name and the charges against him. So the press can report on that. They cover their legal bases with the term "alleged" until he is "convicted."

I lived halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco in the 1980s. I did hear of this guy and had the impression he was most active in the 1970s. If I paid any attention to the Vietnam connection, I guessed he was a rogue combat veteran, and the silence after 1986 probably meant he met his...

A new term for True Crime Fanatics is entering the vocabulary bolstered by this event: "murderino" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=murderino

Video and article here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article209779364.html

He did semi-retire in 2003 and then retired in 2007 from C2C. It was good while it lasted. I never followed him after he left, but as it goes...the show is never quite the same when the innovator leaves the stage. "West of the Rockies, turn your radio down" (Live call-in shows have a few...

No better hook than tying a book or tract in with current events to promote their take as the "answer". I saw a lot of that in the cult-ridden 70s.

A good video on this. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/testing-groceries-for-radiation-in-japan

Here's a handy radiation dosage chart courtesy of Randall Munroe (XKCD.com)

There are times I like to think they are just playing smart-alecky logic games, but now and then someone proves me wrong like the rapper who stared directly at a solar eclipse: https://nypost.com/2017/08/24/rapper-who-stared-at-eclipse-abruptly-cancels-concerts/ It has a tie-in with the...

I have yet to see the clips Ermintruder, but your EMT expertise puts the finisher in his video narrative. He broke any suspension of disbelief long ago. The question was whether he was a lovable eccentric or an outright grifter.

I think it would take 80,000 ft before the curvature is obvious. It's cool he did not die over his rocket experiment, but perhaps he should let SpaceX or NASA handle these matters. Self-taught rocketry is a bad course to "learn from your mistakes". :)

He might have been better off climbing that mountain in the background.

Again, you are right on the mark. Even given an honest investigation, we can only hope for excellence, not perfection. Personally I have experienced when a police officer put down the wrong street in a report during an accident in my town. I can imagine the problems they face with limited time...

All I can add is "bullseye!" or right on target. Bad things happen to hikers who go off the trail... but does any of their next of kin want to accept that? That's why the story is more "five able-bodied men met a mysterious end." Their memory lives on in click-bait sensationalism.

This case just made a mention in "Mental Floss". http://mentalfloss.com/article/532063/bizarre-hell-disappearance-yuba-county-five

I did mention the rain, but we are getting a lot of snow in the Sierra Nevadas as temps plunge below freezing there. It reminded me of the discussion about the five men who took a side trip above the snow level in those mountains. Hypothermia is more treacherous than I gave it credit for. I...

I'm watching a Sky News vid on how the "Beast from the East" is affecting the UK. I hope everyone is staying inside as much as possible. Looks bad. 51F/10C here and raining in Northern California.

I used to watch the Lost in Space TV series and there were always these old school computers that must have shown up in every '60s Movie and TV show that needed a "sci-fi" computer. Turns out they existed. They were surplus 1956 Burroughs B205 computers. I was really jazzed at the consoles with...

I sometimes wonder if a real psychic would ever need customers. They could simply pick the winning lotto numbers. :D

In a way, Elon has put a fun edge to rocket science just as Steve Jobs did for the personal computer and mobile phone. I never expected to witness a car being shot into space, NASA wouldn't even dignify that idea with an answer. It just makes me think good things are somewhere on the horizon.

Best line of the day: "I parked my red Tesla at Cape Canaveral...has anyone seen it?"