Yoda is in my astronomy book.

The chapter on the behavior of light uses an illustration of people in a movie theater, and lo and behold on the screen there is a little green dude with a stick and big ears. This makes studying astronomy all night a little bit better. Of course, so does the can of Vanilla Coke (two more before I have to start buying ( Read more... )

The New Horizons spacecraft went up at 2:01. Yes. That's right. ONE FUCKING MINUTE after I left Astronomy. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.

We talked about it for most of the class, and I was all excited, and the girl next to me was excited too, and there's no way anybody in our class could have seen it because--yeah--it launched about thirty seconds after ( Read more... )

( Mildly irrelevant LOST spoilers )

The New Horizon space probe is supposed to launch at 2:30. It's 2:15 now. The dilemma: can I make it to grab-n-go and come back with food in the next ten minutes or so? If I miss this launch I will be sad. But I will also be hungry if I stay. Ooooh, they just switched to a wide shot of Cape Canaveral, and I'm like "I've been there! Vehicle Assembly ( Read more... )