That weird weatherman in Idaho — who attributed Hurricane Katrina to a Japanese weather machine — has resigned so he can spend more time unraveling the conspiracy. An MB reader who works for NASA checked out the guy’s Web site after I linked to it yesterday:

I checked out that Idaho weatherman’s website. Unbelievable. If you read his page about NASA spotting the aliens engineering the Sun’s magnetic field, it gets even better. He speculates that Dick Cheney’s “shadow government” is in cahoots with the little green men.
I’m an astronomer, and what he’s seeing in these photos of the sun are nothing more than image defects we get in every picture taken from space. We see these streaks in Hubble Space Telescope photos, too. Some are made by cosmic rays (high-speed protons moving through space) that hit the camera. The horizontal bars he sees are where an overexposed bright spot has leaked signal into the neighboring pixels.
They’re an annoyance, but this is the first time I’d ever seen anybody call them alien space ships! I ought to post some of my Hubble photos of quasars with them and “prove” that the aliens are messing around with quasars, too!