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The Universe Courtesy of the Twitterverse: Aurora Borealis From Space [PHOTO]
By J. Richard - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock was in perfect position to navigate the Twitterverse today as he and fellow members of Expedition 25 -- a mission to the International Space Station for experimental research -- passed over Europe on the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19, giving the crew a stunning view of the aurora borealis. Wheelock (@Astro_Wheels) tweeted: Aurora Borealis in the distance on this beautiful night over Europe. The Strait of Dover is pretty clear as is Paris, the City of Lights. A little fog over the western part of England and London. It is incredible to see the lights ...
Man Battles Jellyfish, Eels to Cross English Channel
By David Moye - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- You'd think that if a person went to all the trouble of swimming the 27 or so miles of ocean separating England from France, the least the French could do is let a guy stay, right? But that's not the case according to Charlie Wittmack, who has just completed the swimming portion of the World Tri, an 11-month, 10,000-mile triathlon that, if all goes well, will end in June at the top of Mount Everest. Wittmack started the swimming portion last month in London and swam 275 miles up the River Thames before swimming the Channel on Aug. 8. Andy Stoll Charlie Wittmack is attempting an ...
Johnson Serves Title Notice at Dover
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsIt took just 3 hours, 24 minutes and 20 seconds of racing action Sunday at Dover International Speedway to allow "Superman" to reassert his dominance over NASCAR Sprint Cup racing. Jimmie Johnson pounded the field around the concrete one-mile oval for his fifth career win at Dover and fourth of the season to take home the AAA 400 trophy. Johnson led some 271 laps and never looked back despite late cautions that brought the competition back to his bumper three times in final 100 laps. In doing so, Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus served notice that they don't expect a change from recent years ...
Airlift to Afghanistan: An Invisible Bridge
By David Wood - Politics DailyABOARD FLIGHT REACH 4060 – At a cost of $44,351 an hour, this venerable leviathan of a C-5 cargo plane has struggled off a South Carolina runway bound for Afghanistan, some 17 hours away, carrying a cargo of two. The payload consists of two very heavy armored trucks, known as MRAPs (Mine Resistant, Armor Protected vehicles). They are built specifically to resist the blast of roadside bombs, the main killers of American troops in Afghanistan. The huge trucks, each weighing 60,000 pounds, are lashed with webs of 25,000-pound test chain to the steel-plate deck of the C-5's enormous cargo ...
Sprint Cup N's & Q's: Autism Speaks 400
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsSince we're a little late on this week's edition of Sprint Cup Notes & Quotes, we're gonna do both a rewind of last weekend's festivities at Dover and a bit on Wednesday night's Prelude to the Dream. Capisce? Capisce.Prelude to the Twitter - Can't be in or around the booming metropolis that is Rossburg, Oh., (Pop: 224) for Wednesday night's Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway? No problem, FH has you covered with live twittering from the fourth row up behind the start/finish line just for you! Follow us here: www.twitter.com/FanHouseRacingRain, for the love of Pete, go away - What happens ...
Dover a Monster Success for Dale Jr.
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsSure, he didn't get the race win and he certainly didn't challenge for it. The No. 88 didn't finish in the Top-10 and it never led a lap.But was Sunday's Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway a rousing improvement for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s, uh, lackluster season? Can we really say a 12th-place finish is a good thing for a Hendrick Motorsports driver?Well, in this situation, your darn right we can -- even though driver No. 88 may not exactly agree."There was eleven other guys out there that deserve an interview better than I do," said Earnhardt Jr. immediately after the race when ...
Reutimann Continues MWR Rise at Dover
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsA five-day span of NASCAR Sprint Cup racing couldn't have any better for David Reutimann and his suddenly surging Michael Waltrip Racing.Friday afternoon, the driver of the No. 00 Toyota scored the pole for Sunday's Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Raceway, just days after his Monday win in the rain-delayed and then shortened Coca-Cola 600.And to hear Reutimann tell the story earlier this week, there was a time when this type of success for MWR was not only unexpected, but the whole operation of MWR appeared to on the brink of closure."I think a lot of people forget just how bad our ...
Round 2: Chase Winners, Chase Losers
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsThe second race of the 2008 Chase for the Sprint Cup is now finished and that means it's time for just one thing: checking out the progress of the Chase field, FanHouse style.Last week, I put Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, and Kevin Harvick into the "Winners" list while Clint Bowyer, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, and Kyle Busch made the "Losers" list.Well, another week in means it's time to update those rankings, and this time around we're throwing in another category because some of these guys improved their positions ...
Scenes From the Sprint Cup: Dover
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsNote: Thanks to FanHouse's alliance with Getty Images, yours truly gets to gaze through many fantastic photos taken by the Getty team each weekend at the race track. "Scenes From" is a new (hopefully regular) feature that will recap some of the best shots and best stories from each Sprint Cup weekend. Enjoy! Racing Towards the Sun I'm always a big fan of this type of photo that helps the viewer really get a feel for the setting of the race. Dover seems to have quite a few cloudy races, but Sunday's event was far from that with that beautiful sky above the cars and crowd all ...
Kyle Busch is Not BFF With Sprint Cup Chase
By Geoffrey Miller - AOL NewsNote: BFF = Best Friends Forever. Use it and you'll impress your kids.Kyle Busch is doing his best impersonation of the New England Patriots from last February's Super Bowl XLII.In other words, he's falling over his own feet when it really matters most.Busch, who's season-leading eight wins in 2008's regular season Sprint Cup action earned him a significant anti-Kyle fan base, has simply plummeted to the bottom of the Chase for the Sprint Cup standings when he was supposed to be cementing his status at the top.And that drop -- as Sunday's race at Dover proved -- isn't just a one-time thing. ...
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