A lovely animation demonstrating how our world and the sky above would appear if Earth had a series of rings like Saturn. I especially love the image of the night sky over New York City. Enjoy:
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Interstellar Vandalism
So, it was bad enough when some smart-ass alien drew a smiley face on Mars, but in the last couple of weeks, space punks have stepped it up a notch.
First they went and left this big tire mark on Jupiter, and you just know that sucker isn’t coming off without some serious scrubbing, but now some hyperspace hoodie has thrown a great big rock right through one of Saturn’s rings and broken the damn thing. Look:
I suppose next week someone is going to TP Uranus!
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
Since you cannot click a [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
