THE BIG ONE

Be alarmed, not alert ... internet rumour follows:

The nations of the world are sending their naval fleets out to deep water in order to protect them from damage when an asteroid strikes the earth next month!

A supposed intercept of a US military SSB radio transmission on 26 January of this year referred to a mysterious "countdown" to an unnamed event which (by the countdown) will occur around June 19 or 20 of this year. In the past few weeks, however, naval units worldwide have been putting to sea in unusual numbers, sufficient to cause us to revisit the original message to assess movements and adopt a watch mode going forward into the June 19-20 period.

Perhaps this has something to do with British military personnel getting stuck in a Mexican cave.

British cavers rescued in Mexico

Six British cavers rescued from caverns in Mexico after being trapped for over a week say they were never in danger. The cavers were reached by specialist divers from the UK who escorted each man through flood water using scuba diving equipment.
The group were waiting at a camp they had set up for such an emergency and said everything had gone as planned. The men, who were military staff spent the night in a military hospital.
The six men on the expedition were part of a 13-strong group from the Combined Services Caving Association and a row has broken out between the UK and Mexico about their visas.
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Wednesday asked the UK to explain what the soldiers had been doing in the Cuetzalan caves.
Mexico complained it had not been told the military officers, who entered the country on tourist visas, were there.