Another gem picked up on Youtube.

It’s the Wallace & Gromit versus Saw remix.

You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

Oh, the Piccadilly fireball would have blown the car’s windows out, and popped its doors open, and sent various bits like mirrors and so forth into the air at velocities possibly fatal to people nearby. It would have looked really cool, that’s for sure. But an explosive event…a detonation? Not in a million years. Sorry lads: you failed car bombing 101; you did not attend a single lecture; you did not even open the textbook.

Read all about the miserable quality of Britain’s latest terrorerrorist ’scare’ over at The Register

For the car freaks, you may or may not be interested to know that at least one of the cars involved was reported to be a Mercedes Benz 280E on the W124 platform.

65′ Custom Built Motor yacht, staterooms, gps navigation, twin
supercharged diesels, etc. = $ 2.5 million

Crane and Rigging complete with faulty turnbuckle = $2,500 per hour

Champagne and Strawberries, dockside, for the excited “soon to be
owners” =$250.00

Watching your dreamboat nose dive into the harbor, accompanied by two
corporate representatives just prior to “inking” the final
paperwork……..

Priceless……………………………….

Spot the guy at the back

Space Shuttle Atlantis eventually made it in on Friday 22nd when I was out so I was unable to watch the landing live.

Atlantis landed on runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California due to continued bad weather at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

This, of course, means that Atlantis will need to be airlifted by the specially converted Boeing 747 SCA across the country so it can be delivered to the Space Shuttle Processing facility.

In passing I found a picture of one of the mount points on the SCA for the shuttle with a little note to the technicians:

Surely you can expect better than this for £30,000?

It appears that this Hummer’s own weight is too much to allow it to traverse some arguably small rocks without mechanical failure.

Perhaps they should just leave it to the professionals.

NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis is due to land today after a successful mission to the ISS.

Atlantis flew mission STS-117 to install the new S3/S4 Truss Segment.

An earlier minor rip in Atlantis’ thermal blanket which protects the orbiter during re-entry has been fixed during a space-walk.

Update: Due to bad weather at KSC the landing has been postponed. Atlantis is now projected to land on Friday 19:14BST(18:14 ZULU) at the preferred landing site of Kennedy Space Centre (Edwards AFB is the weather option)

You can watch the landing live on-line at NASA TV