A bright future
Published 1:59 pm Friday, July 23, 2010
A star called Bubba: Scientists have located a star that has the greatest mass of any star discovered before. R136a1 may have once weighed as much as 320 times the mass of our sun, but because it burns so brightly it has lost a considerable amount of its weight.
Upon hearing of the star’s successful weight loss, Jenny Craig immediately fired celebrity spokes-loser Valerie Bertinelli and began shooting a commercial with the giant ball of gas and plasma.
Going once: A retired embalmer is auctioning off tools he said were used to embalm and prepare the body of Elvis Presley in 1977 for a private viewing. The items for auction include rubber gloves, forceps and syringes.
You know, auctioning Roy Rogers’ stuffed and mounted horse and dog doesn’t sound quite as creepy as it did last week.
Pardon our mess: Big Oil, specifically ExxonMobil, Chevron, Conoco Phillips and Shell Oil, have agreed to pool $1 billion to form a new company that would be available to respond to offshore oil spills, such as the one that BP is responsible for in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Buzz, being its usually helpful self, would like to offer up a name for the new company: the Offshore Oil Protection System, or OOPS for short.
