Showing posts with label nuclear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nuclear. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2009

Just a Simple Bomb

So what can a mere single one-megaton nuclear bomb do to a country? Well, it's indeed spine-chilling to think that an area of 10-miles radius would be devastated. In other words, from Piasau to our Miri City Centre-aye, that round-about with some plants and hornbill statures- and all the way to our airport, surrounding Senadin and outwards offshore will be hit.

Here are the other effects of such a device... Let me tell you the results are really ugly as hell.

* People can be killed by blast, heat or intense nuclear radiation from the initial explosion, by fires, or by radiation dose accumulated from radio-active fall-out dust over the next few weeks;

* The spread of radioactive fall-out is unpredicable but it is likely to kill more people than the combined effects of blast and fire;

* Radiation damages cells in the body, reduces the ability to fight infection and may lead to a lingering death. It also causes genetic damage and cancers which become apparent only in the long term;

* Many people will die of thirst due to the disruption of the water distribution and supply network;

* The food supply will be inadequate and worsen as time goes on. Those surviving the blast, fire and radiation may starve to death;

* Medical care will be hopelessly inadequate, leaving people to die a painfully lingering death from blast injuries, burns or radiation sickness;

* Owing to the breakdown of public hygiene, epidemics may spread through the surviving population;

* Cold will kill many people as they spend cold or winter days without adequate shelter;

* There would be a loss in civil liberties as some form of law and order has to be maintained;

* Delayed fall-out can be carried round the globe far from the war zone and

* The ozone layer in the atmosphere could be destroyed by a large-scale nuclear conflict so that ultr-violet radiation from the sun could kill many forms of life.

By the way, the above is a summary of what the experts believe will happen in a nuclear strike. There may be more info on the consequences on the net of playing with a toy like the nuclear bomb!

Friday, November 23, 2007

The Case for Action


Recently, I posted one of the views of an Israeli dove who felt Iran should be pressured by diplomatic means to stop its nuclear activities.

Here is one case for military action against Iran.

It's a very interesting analysis of the situation and so I feel it deserves to be aired in my blog as well.

The commentator wrote this entry in the Jerusalem Post.

Nov 20, 2007 20:47 | Updated Nov 21, 2007 9:44
Fundamentally Freund: Five reasons to bomb Iran now
By MICHAEL FREUND

Have America and Israel suddenly gone soft on Iran's nefarious nuclear-weapons program? Despite sanctions and UN Security Council resolutions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is gleefully pressing forward with his efforts to build a bomb, which Israeli military intelligence now believes he will succeed in doing by 2009.

Indeed, just last Friday, the would-be Hitler of Persia boasted about how Teheran had "defied" Western opposition, and was now "moving toward the peaks of success step by step."

Yet even as Iran continues to progress down the dangerous road to an atomic arsenal, the tough talk emanating from Washington and Jerusalem in recent months has suddenly and inexplicably melted away.

And this should have us all very, very worried.

It was just last month that US President George W. Bush declared at an October 17 press conference that, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

Bush's statement was followed four days later by an equally emphatic Vice President Dick Cheney, who told the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, "We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions."

Now, though, something appears to have changed. Various reports in recent days seem to indicate that US policy may have taken a sharp and terribly treacherous U-turn in the direction of acquiescence.

According to the Britain's Sunday Telegraph, the US Defense Department has begun updating its deterrence policy based on the assumption that Iran will obtain nuclear weapons.

The paper quoted a Pentagon adviser as saying that while "military strikes [against Iran's nuclear facilities] might set the program back a couple of years… current thinking is that it is just not worth the risks."

Similarly, Admiral William Fallon, head of US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, told the Financial Times last week (Nov. 12) that a preemptive attack against Iranian nuclear installations is not "in the offing."

And, as Reuters reported, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is said to have instructed cabinet officials to draft proposals for how to deal with "the day after" Iran obtains the bomb.

WHAT IS going on here? Are we really prepared to allow the tyrant of Teheran to threaten our very existence? It is possible, of course, that these reports are merely part of the overall game-plan, and that they are aimed at lulling the Iranians into a false sense of security prior to a surprise attack on their nuclear installations.

Alternatively, it might reflect the shifting political realities in the US, where public opinion, goaded on by the mainstream liberal media, has turned against the war in neighboring Iraq.

But whatever the reality of the situation is, one thing should be clear: Iran can not and must not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.

This is not an issue with shades of grey - it is about as black and white as they come.

And here are five good reasons why:

1. An Iranian nuclear arsenal would transform the strategic dynamic of the entire Middle East, shifting the balance of power squarely in the direction of radical Shi'ite fundamentalism.

An atomic Iran will be able to threaten the region and the world with nuclear blackmail and destruction, and they will use that leverage to further their fanatical and revolutionary aims.

2. A nuclear-armed Iran will pose an existential threat to Israel, and ultimately to the West too. Iranian leaders have repeatedly and explicitly promised to wipe Israel off the map and to strike at the United States.

Teheran has been backing up its words with actions by steadily improving its ballistic missile capability. The Shihab-3 missile, with a range of 1,200 km, can hit all of Israel as well as US military targets in the Middle East. Iran is busy developing the Shihab-4, with a range of 2,000 km, that will put parts of Europe within striking distance. Teheran is also striving to build even longer-range intercontinental missiles that can hit the US as well. All of these weapons have the ability to deliver atomic warheads.

3. If Iran goes nuclear, it will inevitably tilt the neighboring Arab states further in the direction of extremism, as they seek to mollify the nuclear-armed ayatollahs. Whatever limited chances there might be of drawing at least some Arab states into the moderate camp are likely to be stymied rather quickly.

4. Failure to take action against Teheran will trigger a region-wide nuclear arms race, as countries throughout the Middle East will seek to achieve strategic and military parity.

A number of states, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, have already announced plans to build their own nuclear power plants, and others will undoubtedly do so as well out of fear of being left behind. Permitting Iran to go nuclear essentially paves the way to a Middle East that will be brimming with atomic weapons.

5. If Iran were to develop "the bomb," what is to stop them from putting it into the hands of one of the myriad anti-Israel and anti-American terrorist groups that they support, such as Hizbullah or Islamic Jihad? Do we really want to take a chance that terrorists might at last be able to get their hands on nuclear weapons? This is not some "neocon nightmare scenario" or "warmonger wishful-thinking."

It is the cold, hard reality staring us all squarely in the face, unless Washington or Jerusalem takes military action, and soon.

CRITICS ARGUE that an attack on Iran would be logistically difficult, politically dangerous, and would result in some very serious consequences.

But as former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the New York Times (November 9), "The choice is not between the world as it is today and the use of force. The choice is between the use of force and Iran with nuclear weapons." And when looked at in those terms, it becomes quite obvious that there really is no choice at all: the US and/or Israel must bomb Iran. They must act to remove the nuclear sword from the hand of the Persian executioner.

And they should do so now - before it is too late.


Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Death Wish 5

<--Jewish defense Force female sniper Back in the good old days, I always enjoyed watching one of my many favorite 'tough guy' actors, the late Charles Bronson in his famous 'Death Wish' movie and its many subsequent sequels. The simple storyline goes like this: some bad guys with a death wish do some bad things and then an avenging vigilante, played by Charles Bronson, courageously gets rid of them all once and for all. The sequels had the avenging angel getting rid of more and more bad dudes....

It looks like we have a new sequel called "Death Wish 5" starring the Persians as the bad dudes with the death wish of course, in their self-suicidal confrontation with the free world. Their abominable evil deeds are aplenty: they have clandestinely aided those who sowed death and destruction in a free Afghanistan and Iraq. They have also been held accountable in an American court of law in the terrorist bombing of the legitimate UN-sanctioned peace-keeping American military base in Lebanon, resulting in numerous deaths.

If these Iranian fanatics are so bold as to set a deadline, does it mean they truly have a major surprise in store for everyone? What do they intend to do? Just a usual big rally with banners, hysterical screaming and shouting and the all too familiar flag-burning.... or will they perform an unlikely magical Houdini act (Perhaps, just perhaps, the evil diabolical hydra network has succeeded in smuggling the necessary nuclear components out of Pakistan or North Korea into their fanatic country) and unveil the mother of all bombs? Will the nation of Israel and its people which fears annihilation be expected to sit and wait ....

Well, my visiting blog buddies, the oil-rich Malaysian government has assured its citizens the price of petrol will not go up this year, even if the world market price shoots up to US100 a barrel.... I hope the promise will be kept.

Here is the latest news from Iran's official Iranian News Agency:

Zionist regime's allies to receive response on World Qods Day

Tehran, Sept 19, IRNA

Iran-US-Spokesman
Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the world Qods Day's rallies, government spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham, said Wednesday.

The spokesman made the remarks during his weekly press conference while commenting on the current visit to the occupied Palestine of the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Qods Day is held each year on the last Friday of Muslims fasting month of Ramadan after it was nominated by the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, as a day to voice the protest of the Islamic Ummah against the Zionists.

The day falls on October 12 this year.

"The US loses all opportunities to cooperate with regional and other world states by trying to support a regime (the Zionist regime) which is now at its weakest political and social position," Elham said.

He warned that Washington's insistence on its wrong policies and arrogant approaches would have no result "but further political disgrace" for itself.

Referring to the approaching World Qods Day, the spokesman stressed, "Supporters of the Zionist regime will definitely receive the final response for their support on that day."

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Memorable Voices



"We cannot depend on an alliance of angels to defend the free world."
-David Rockefeller, 1980.










"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
-Sir Winston Churchill
Former great British Prime Minister


Quand le deffaut du Soleil lors sera.
Sur le plain jour le monstre sera veu:
Tout autrement on l'interpretera,

Cherte n'y aura pourveu.
-Century III, Q 34.


"Look, I don't like to kill people, but I've killed Arabs. Maybe I'll tell you a story. A car came towards us, in the middle of the [Lebanese] war, without a white flag. Five minutes before another car had come, and there were four Palestinians with RPGs in it-killed three of my friends. So this new Peugeot comes towards us, and we shoot. And there was a family there-three children. And I cried, but I couldn't take the chance. It's a real problem... Children, father, mother. All the family was killed, but we couldn't take the chance."
-Gaby Bashan, Israeli reservist (severely wounded in Lebanon, 1982)

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Deja Vu!

Is crazy Iran prepared to take on a nuclear superpower like the US? Do they think President George Bush is war-weary and the congress and the ordinary Americans are in a similar state as well with the quagmire in Iraq? Is Bush leaving Washington with a gut-wrenching cowboy heroic Ronnie-like gun-blazing big bang or an unsolved dangerous problem ? Do the Iranians have the BOMB yet? Only the Ayatollah and his hard-line government and Bush and the Americans know the truth themselves....

Here's an old cartoon in Newsweek dated 21/1/91 before the war that was supported by a coalition of free world forces which eventually defeated Iraq. It shows President George Bush senior and Saddam Hussien...

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Ozone Depletion Talk Years Ago...

... & the world continues to talk at APEC about global warming.... May all the world's religions pray that we won't destroy ourselves gradually, even if we don't enter into nuclear self-destruction someday soon....


Please click to enlarge 2003 abstract of Sarawak Tribune article.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Is Teheran Smart?

Left: FLASHBACK: Deja vu...Sept. 20th, 2001 Borneo Post news before Afghanistan was attacked and liberated by the Americans. Click to enlarge it.

The Jihadist scumbags never learnt from the first hard-hitting lesson that the U.S. taught in 2001 after the cowardly attack on their peaceful innocent civilians, killing thousands in a single day on September 11, 2001.

This time the U.S. will be smarter and not allow itself to be victimised first with the loss of heavy lives from suicidal Iranian fanatics in power, right from the very top so-called spiritual ayatollah down to his running dog, cunning highly intelligent engineering president and his subservient followers.

True, the U.S. unfortunately got itself into this ugly mess following receipt of faulty intelligence on nuclear weapons, when they got rid of one of the world's most evil dictator, Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, with the iron-fisted ruler gone, Iraq has fallen apart. Then the Jihadist terrorists, al Quieda and other wanna-be jihadists united together to fight one hated foe through various means from suicide attacks to car and roadside bombings, aided in logistics-arms and mega bucks by oil-rich Jihadist Iran and other wanna-be Jihadist Islamic nations and individuals clandestinely in various devious ways.

Well, President Bush can be as good an actor as Reagan was. His critics scoff and laugh at the widely read and seen captured moments of his dumbness.

No one should be fooled. As someone who enjoyed acting myself in the past, I admire his skillful theatrical skills in expressions and actions which would fool many including Malaysia's national news agency, Bernama. The agency's recent pre-Malaysian Independence Day interview with Bush gave the impression to many Malaysians Bush has almost kosong (empty) knowledge about Malaysia and its Prime Minister.

Believe me, I think the guy is smart and of course he surely has the best intelligence available on everything and every political world leader in his hands. Man, I tell you, like Santa, an American president as the world's superpower leader would know who has been naughty, bad and who has been good!

So Iran has not only been naughty, it has been bad and still is bad! It craves for a new toy-the almighty nuclear bomb. Like bad old hard-line China, it aids terrorists against a foreign force and like the Nazis under Adolf Hitler, it seeks the destruction of the Jews, craves for dominion by military means of nearby territories (in the middle-east) and ultimately, the rest of the world. What a dream of Islamizing the whole world like in the ancient bloody days of using the Arab sword to covert others!

Well, the U.S. will be Hercules...mighty and strong in fighting and beating all forms of powerful monsters and armies...but the problem with al-quieda, the Taliban and a jihadist nation like Iran and other wanna-be deceptive jihadist nations is that it is like the ancient hydra, a mythical water snake that will keep growing heads after each one has been cut off and survive ... So the U.S. and the free world has to solve the persistant problem which is definitely and fortunately solvable as Hercules did ingeniously with his fire...Best of luck, Land of the Brave!

Sunday, September 2, 2007

It's No Joke, Iran!!!

You know, I know and everyone knows there's this tiny militant nation called Iran that is a copycat, wishing to accomplish what mighty China did during the Vietnam war, aiding the insurgents next door successfully even though the benefactor and its proxy have always been enemies.

It is standard textbook strategy to use proxies in winning wars. This is studied by those keen in military history, including yours truly.

Of course, the belligerent states utilizing such a clandestine method do so through cleverly disguised, sometimes orthodox ways such as providing logistics support and intelligence, infiltrating intelligence or fighting agents who blend into the proxy's military force; often times in unorthodox ways such as pleasant diplomats who represent its guilty country to bluff the enemy that it is an ally against another supposedly common foe and in this case, Al-Qaeda .

Obviously, having the mother of all bombs is even better and serves as a great bargaining tool... The dwarf would now be a towering giant and yes, sooner or later, it will be tempted to use it to do what it has been saying all along: annihilate a certain race in the Middle-east. Their misinterpretation of the militant version of the holy book says so.

Having the bomb or having caused the next holocaust, this giant would then be the new power to be reckoned with in the Middle-east. Behold, the new jihadist, Saladin! Behold, the new jihadist Reich! From Iran to the East, West and up North!

Well, the reality is that these mad folks have gone too far and it would be too late if they do not stop their saber-rattling (not keris-rattling, yet) ways at once ...

Here's an article in the London Times that will serve as a strong warning to Iran that the free world's patience is wearing thin... But then, maybe Debat's belief the Pentagon may not carry out this powerful option would be a comforting thought for the troublesome Iranians perhaps...

Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”. He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran “before it is too late”.

One Washington source said the “temperature was rising” inside the administration. Bush was “sending a message to a number of audiences”, he said � to the Iranians and to members of the United Nations security council who are trying to weaken a tough third resolution on sanctions against Iran for flouting a UN ban on uranium enrichment.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week reported “significant” cooperation with Iran over its nuclear programme and said that uranium enrichment had slowed. Tehran has promised to answer most questions from the agency by November, but Washington fears it is stalling to prevent further sanctions. Iran continues to maintain it is merely developing civilian nuclear power.

Bush is committed for now to the diplomatic route but thinks Iran is moving towards acquiring a nuclear weapon. According to one well placed source, Washington believes it would be prudent to use rapid, overwhelming force, should military action become necessary.

Israel, which has warned it will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, has made its own preparations for airstrikes and is said to be ready to attack if the Americans back down.

Alireza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which uncovered the existence of Iran’s uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, said the IAEA was being strung along. “A number of nuclear sites have not even been visited by the IAEA,” he said. “They’re giving a clean bill of health to a regime that is known to have practised deception.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, irritated the Bush administration last week by vowing to fill a “power vacuum” in Iraq. But Washington believes Iran is already fighting a proxy war with the Americans in Iraq.

The Institute for the Study of War last week released a report by Kimberly Kagan that explicitly uses the term “proxy war” and claims that with the Sunni insurgency and Al-Qaeda in Iraq “increasingly under control”, Iranian intervention is the “next major problem the coalition must tackle”.

Bush noted that the number of attacks on US bases and troops by Iranian-supplied munitions had increased in recent months “despite pledges by Iran to help stabilise the security situation in Iraq”.

It explains, in part, his lack of faith in diplomacy with the Iranians. But Debat believes the Pentagon’s plans for military action involve the use of so much force that they are unlikely to be used and would seriously stretch resources in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Iranian Countdown

Some 200 miles of Teheran, Vatariz Uranium enrichment facility buildings.

Pic courtesy of Jerusalem Post, 10/7/07.




Is Iran so desperate to have this awesome power, the mathematical brainchild of one of the greatest Jewish scientist in the world, Alberta Einstein? Is it prepared to face death and destruction from sensible, mentally sane external forces as it continues on a path to ignominy, spewing outright lies of its intentions along the way???

Monday, June 25, 2007

Israeli Official War Drills


It was unusually officially announced last Thursday 21/6/07 that Israel would be carrying out exercises in preparation for action against militant Iran should the nuclear-coveting country persist in its dangerous militaristic direction.

Here, an awesome fast lightning-speed IAF 25 F-151 is seen high over the Jewish nation.

Here's my grim prediction: July, which is the cardinal number '7' is very meaningful: we have the 7 deadly sins of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth; in the classical myth there were 7 heroes, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Eteoclus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polynices and Tydeus against Thebes to depose Eteocles in favour of the brother Polynices and last but not least, 7 is the complete number in the Bible... Another '7' figure will fulfill the equation for war and the beginning of the end... Alpha & Omega.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007


Here's a cartoon I found. I'm not sure when and who drew it.

What I've done is added in someone sitting on an Iranian missile, as it's obvious the country is determined to be a nuclear power in the world.

Friday, June 8, 2007

Green Blooded Canadian!

Now this is the kind of news I really like to read about: something unexpected and on the realm of Sci-fi...By coincidence, I was also having a big comic pic of the Star Trek crew in hell (Yeah-hell) for my blog before I decided to post the Superman wedding pics yesterday, congratulating our P.M.

It's not the first time this sort of Cosmic joke is cracked whenever I touch, see or hear certain things and the big headlines would be just what I had come across earlier. There was 9/11 (I wrote parts of an unusual poem by a famous poet about wings and tragedy to a Canadian buddy on the eve of the 9/11 incident), Reagan's demise (I mentioned to several buddies that a great man would die that year in the States) and even the London bombings (I suddenly queried about Luton, a place connected to the bombings when an old English buddy stayed at my place).

What's scary now? I also came across a long forgotten article about the respected scientist, Alexei Yablokov exposing the suitcase nukes that terrorists could have.

At the same time, I accidentally stumbled across a few sentences which can be used to describe Iran's nuclear program but it would not be fair to point an accusing finger at Iran as North Korea could be the culprit carrying out the final preparations.

It's not 5 minutes to midnight-it's 4... and that's 'sii', Mandarin for death, for untold millions...Mind you, I do not wish to be a harbinger of doom and gloom.


Now you know why you can see the pic on my heading.

By the way, Canadians will shrug their shoulders with bravado when doom-sayers appear, just as they did when the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania predicted that Canada would be the first target of a North Korea nuclear attack.

This story is from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website.

Vancouver patient oozes green blood

Last Updated: Friday, June 8, 2007 | 7:17 AM PT

Doctors at Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital came across something highly illogical when they tried to put an arterial line into a patient about to undergo surgery: his blood was dark green.

The green blood — reminiscent of the Vulcan blood found in Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame — came as a bit of a shock to Dr. Alana Flexman and her colleagues, who report on the unusual case in this week's issue of the journal The Lancet.

The 42-year-old man was already a bit of a medical departure. He had fallen asleep while kneeling, and developed compartment syndrome in both legs.

The potentially dangerous condition involves a buildup of pressure in deep muscle tissue — in this case in the legs — and unless the pressure was relieved, permanent nerve damage could have been sustained.

As surgical staff prepared the man for the middle-of-the-night emergency operation, Flexman and a colleague attempted to insert a line into a wrist artery.

Arterial lines are used to monitor blood pressure during an operation; any blood that flows when the line is inserted into the artery should be vivid red, the sign it has been oxygenated in the heart.

But in this case, which occurred in October 2005, it was not.

"During insertion, we normally see arterial blood come out. That's how we know we're in the right place. And normally that blood is bright red, as you would expect in an artery," Flexman said in an interview Thursday.

"But in his case, the blood kept coming back as dark green instead of bright red.

"It was sort of a green-black. … Like an avocado skin maybe."

The reaction in the room? "We were very concerned, obviously," said Flexman, who is training in anesthesia at the hospital.

Medication drug may be green cause

Samples were rushed off to the lab, which quickly ruled out a dangerous condition called methemoglobin, in which the hemoglobin in the blood can't bind to oxygen.

While the lab worked, so did the operating team. The man came through the surgery well.

The next day, the lab reported it had detected sulfhemoglobin, a condition thought to be triggered by some medications.

"It's so rare that we don't have a perfect understanding how it happens, but some drug donates a sulphur group that binds to the hemoglobin molecule and prevents it from binding to oxygen," Flexman explains. "And that gives it the green colour."

She and her colleagues believe the condition may have been brought on by the man's migraine medication, sumatriptan, which he was taking in higher-than-advised doses, though they can't prove it.

Green blood can be found in some forms of life such as some marine worms. But it is a condition normally associated with science fiction and not medical texts.

Mr. Spock, the Enterprise's science officer in the famous TV series, was said to have the green blood of his father, who belonged to the race of pointy-eared, logic-seeking Vulcans.

According to Star Trek lore, however, Vulcans have green blood because the oxidizing agent in their blood is copper, and not iron.

Friday, April 13, 2007

DAY 2: Home, Sweet Home...


"ALAMAK!!! Wait, fellow crew members! Is this really our beloved Mother Earth??? Why is there a ring around it, not unlike Jupiter???! A nuclear war has broken out??? Iran has lost its marbles??? Das ist eine Schweinerel!!! Bei der ist wohl eine Schraube los!!!"

"Captain, all bearings are accurate: we are on a direct course to planet Earth."

"Das ist unwahrscheinlich....Hmmmmmnnnn... What are we looking at?"

To be continued ...