Glory to the Conquerors of the Universe!

The Big Dipper throughout the years.

Second .gif in the last year…sorry

If you haven’t heard, we bombed the moon today.

Where “we” = NASA and “bombed” = crashed a couple of lunar science satellites that were low on gas and beyond design life.

I like to imagine that some day each of these impact sites on the moon will be commemorated by a bland, brown “Point of Interest” sign along the side of a lunar highway at which nobody will bother to stop* (with the exception of spunky bloggers with too much time on their hands and an inexplicable desire to be passionate about obscure things).

PS.  That came off as snarky.  Sorry.  I like all you quirky, passionate people.  I snicker condescendingly at all you gif-loving punks that think you’re unique because you like the same crappy TV-shows as everybody else on Tumblr.  I hate you all and I’m going to die an old and lonely man.

*I feel like I’m the only person that ends up with clunky sentence structure like this to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition.  I wish i could write, but shit like this confounds me.

Is anybody else hugely disappointed by Monday’s Curiosity announcement?  ”We found some simple carbon-based molecules, but they could be contamination from the rover.”

I realize NASA had been trying to temper expectations since the NPR teaser interview claiming “one for the history books” got picked up by mainstream media and quoted out of context.  But still, I was hoping for something.

And now it looks like Voyager 1 hasn’t left our solar system after all.  Phooey.

I guess I should know better than to trust NASA hype after the arsenic-based DNA fiasco.