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Goats sacrificed to get airplane aloft: "Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its [two] Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday, " reports Reuters. A senior Nepal Airlines official told the news service the unspecified problem had been resolved, proving that people will do just about anything to get an earlier flight.
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Dude, where's my warhead?: In a more serious blooper, last week a U.S. Air Force crew accidentally flew a B-52 bomber across the country bearing six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, instead of removing the warheads from the missiles before flight, according to press reports. Although the nukes were not activated, the fact that the mistake went undiscovered for the 3.5-hour trip between Air Force bases in North Dakota and Louisiana prompted an immediate investigation and led to a munitions commander being relieved of his duties. Rep. Edward Markey (D–Mass.) told the Washington Post that the breakdown had "frightening implications" for the security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
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BBC pulls the plug on climate show: In a different kind of self-analysis, the British Broadcasting Company reported that it canceled a TV special set to air next January called Planet Relief that would have encouraged viewers to briefly switch off their TVs en masse to save energy. Instead, the network switched off the show, despite spending more than a year negotiating the mass turn-off with the country's electric grid. Environmental activists accused the BBC of bowing to climate change skeptics, but network officials said they canned the special because they believed their audience did not want to be "lectured to."
Sometimes you just gotta look at the world and just like after sipping a freshly opened soda go Ahhh.
