Richard’s Ramblings

It has long been said that people are smart, but crowds are stupid. That definitely applies to football (as in soccer) fans.
Today, after the Japanese scored a goal against the Russians in the World Cup finals, riots involving as many as 8,000 people broke out in central Moscow near the Kremlin. One man died of [...]

This is my meager effort to get the truth about ferrets out there, because, frankly, I want a pet ferret.

On June 4, 1996, the maiden flight of the European Space Agency Ariane 501 rocket engaged its self-destruct mechanism 39 seconds after takeoff, disintegrating itself and its four-satellite payload.