...and when that happens there's only one thing you can do...get beer and watch.
To all of you Chicken Littles out there, who like me are furious geeks and tremendous nerds and regard all things Astronomy with awe and wonder usually reserved for Star Trek and Star Wars and Star Search…okay maybe not Star Search…tomorrow there is an amazing meteor shower you should go out and see.
On Nov. 17, 2009, Earth will pass through the 1466 stream again, but this time closer to the center. This basically means that the skies will be alive with streaks of light for hours! Shooting stars and wonderful space oddities! (Not to be confused with a Space Odyssey which is another can of worms entirely.) It’s called the Leonid Meteor shower and the sky will be lit up with about 300-500 Leonids per hour.
That’s right, children…Mother Nature is putting on a laser light show just for you.
I am a STAR WHORE when it comes to Google Reader. If you don’t know what that is and have a google account, I highly recommend you read up on it. So, yeah. I have a TON of random blogs I follow and I LOVE “starring” post’s about random shit that people make. I’ve decided I would share some with you guys because I KNOW you will get a kick outta this.
Mario Bros USB
gizmodo.com ~ With 8GB flash drives available for under $20 and 32GB drives edging into the mainstream, nobody can blame you for shelving old USB sticks. But there are a surprising number of uses for those rickety, sub-gigabyte keychains.
There are nearly endless ways to bring a USB stick out of retirement, and they’re not just gimmicks: virtually all USB sticks, 32MB USB 1.1 dinosaurs included, can be repurposed into anything from a lifesaving troubleshooting tool to an entire portable OS.
Time lapse vid of Dalek hitting up a Hurley store.
NY Times ~ A while ago, reports of executions — one postponed in Ohio, one carried out in Texas — punctuated the news more frequently than usual. These reports prompted me to reflect on an archive of executed prisoners’ last words I found on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Web site while researching parole terms. The archive’s earliest entry dates from Dec. 7, 1982; the most recent was added after Stephen Moody was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection for murder. What follows are quotations taken from inmates’ last statements in Texas. The statements, delivered before family members, relatives of victims, friends and the press, are compiled out of chronological order. Read the article.
At long last, the Concords are free to fly! Download your very own paper Brett and Jemaine, along with Jemaine’s amp, and recreate your favourite scenes from the funniest acapella digi-bongo comedy out there! Get it HERE
Who loves Mr. Hanky??
World News~ ADOLF Hitler may not have died in a bunker after fresh research suggests the skull thought to be the tyrant’s was from a woman.
US archaeologist Nick Bellantoni found fragments from the skull believed to be Hitler’s were too thin to be from a male, and suspected it was the remains of a much younger woman. Read the article
Let me know if you guys appreciate these SUPER random things I post up here. I might do it more often.
Here’s something super interesting. Unfortunately, William Safire died September 27th at age 79. He was the speech writer for Nixon when he was in office. This speech was written, jut in case Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong found themselves stranded to die on the moon. Luckily the landing, and ride back home, was a success.
Posted by Lou On September - 24 - 2009ADD COMMENTS
Now you rich folk that get to see the moon before poor little Lou does, can cruise around in your yachts. ENJOY!
space.com:Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called “unambiguous evidence” of water across the surface of the moon.
The new findings, detailed in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Science, come in the wake of further evidence of lunar polar water ice by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and just weeks before the planned lunar impact of NASA’s LCROSS satellite, which will hit one of the permanently shadowed craters at the moon’s south pole in hope of churning up evidence of water ice deposits in the debris field.
The moon remains drier than any desert on Earth, but the water is said to exist on the moon in very small quantities. One ton of the top layer of the lunar surface would hold about 32 ounces of water, researchers said.
“If the water molecules are as mobile as we think they are — even a fraction of them — they provide a mechanism for getting water to those permanently shadowed craters,” said planetary geologist Carle Pieters of Brown University in Rhode Island, who led one of the three studies in Science on the lunar find, in a statement. “This opens a whole new avenue [of lunar research], but we have to understand the physics of it to utilize it.”
Finding water on the moon would be a boon to possible future lunar bases, acting as a potential source of drinking water and fuel.
Well this explains the recession problems. Of course, let’s all lose our jobs and be BROKE AS FUCK because we’re going to be the only country in the world to have a ‘much needed’ SPACEPORT ::cue applause::
This is FUCKING BULLSHIT. I did not take a pay cut for this SHIT!.
Construction begins this Friday, the 19th of June, a sad day for everyone it seems. Any further questions on this DUMB ASS (vagina looking) idea, visit : spaceportamerica.com
CHICAGO — The very first near-full human face transplant was detailed Friday by the surgeon who performed the procedure.
In December, plastic surgeon Maria Siemionow, after years of extensive research on mice and cadavers, transplanted almost 83 square inches of skin, with the muscles, bone, upper lip and nose still attached from an anonymous donor onto a young woman who the doctor said “did not have a midface” after she sustained traumatic injury.
An American living in Germany remains AIDS-free 20 months after receiving a targeted bone-marrow transplant, leading doctors to say the man appears to be cured.
