So I watched Dune tonight. Surprise! It was terrible. Fortunately I've read the books so it was mostly comprehensible. Madeline had not read them, so she was also lucky that I'd had ( Read more... )

Ok, so reading the news during class, and they have discovered extrasolar planets (outside our solar system). This is cool for multiple reasons, the dorkiest of which is that they are orbiting a star in the Pegasus system. The ones we can see are huge gas giants, but there are plausibly other, smaller, potentially water having planets nearer the ( Read more... )