Last Shadow Puppets

This guy’s OTHER band, at the same time as young Arctic Monkeys. Seems like they’re still teens.

They switch guitars and positions between these two videos, I think, and they look kinda the same, so it threw me.

From Dundee Tae Ye

The top ten Scottish bands, in order, are these:

1. The Fratellis
2. The Jesus and Mary Chain
3. The View
4. Teenage Fanclub
5. The Vaselines
6. Belle & Sebastian
7. Camera Obscura
8. Nazareth
9. Franz Ferdinand
10. Aztec Camera

Big Country is disqualified because their best song has their own name in it.

Honorable mention to Bay City Rollers because I grew up in the 70’s, and Jethro Tull because Ian Anderson is a Scot.

I will now listen to your complaints about this stupid list.

So You’re Saying There’s A Chance

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered several weeks ago.

Between 100 to 300 feet across, it has something like a 1.5% chance of striking earth in 2032. Anything larger than 150 feet with a 1% chance of impact gets put on the watch list of the International Asteroid Warning Network.

An asteroid that size could easily cause something as significant as the Tunguska Event in Siberia in 1908, estimated at 1000X the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb.

And still not remotely close to the Chicxulub impactor at the end of the Cretaceous. When it struck the Yucatan, the 10 – 15 kilometer meteor caused a rim of mountains higher than the Himalayas to form around the impact zone, blasted debris that achieved escape velocity and left the atmosphere, and brought instantaneous extinction as far away as what is now North Dakota and New Jersey.

NASA (funding pending) and Jet Propulsion Labs, among others, will follow YR4’s progress. If they upgrade this current threat, presumably some half-baked plan ensues to mitigate damage. I have personally volunteered Makerbot – the youngest, spryest, least whiny bastard – to lead Space Force on that dangerous mission.