I woke up from two space/astronaut dreams. One I was alone in a rocket trying to reach Mars, struggling against time to plug in my laptop to stay in touch with my destination. The other I was alone on a space station and the Moon was calling me when nobody was supposed to be there. Both had more to do with a bank of machines in front of me, ( Read more... )

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Oh now see, that's cool. But also it's upsetting, because I will be long dead before it means anything real to anyone. Assuming it ever does.

Dammit.

So the bad news, even though the bailout hasn't gone through yet, 30% of all our money is in the hands of only three companies now. Yeah, that's something to give you pause.

But the good news is, commercial space flight is right around the corner, and soon we can just leave this whole mess of a planet behind and go live like sexy astronautsSpaceX ( Read more... )

Herzog's Woyzeck was even better than I expected, and I expected it to be good ( Read more... )

Good-bye, Pluto.

Eight planets now.