Moon dust and cereal...

Moon dust and its dangers.

Negotiating with terrorists.

An Iraq War Veteran says what he thinks about war and warmongers.

Why ignorance is being embraced as a virtue in the GOP.

Life in the most religious states.

Tom Tomorrow gets it right.

Plastics, even non-BPA, can affect your hormones.  And pesticides may give your child autism.

10 invasive species

Women listening to men in Western Art History.  And speaking in a sexist language.

Cereal killers...

Monday Monday....

El Nino incoming and what it will do to us.

We have to intervene!

Guns.  Guns will keep you safe... (just not the other guy.)

The world's 'poorest' president.

Everything you know about the Ukraine is wrong.

Makes me want to go out and plant more trees.

Music was her life blood and kept her alive.

What parents do to a baby's brain and what happens when they are not there in the development stage.

Oldest piece of rock in the world.

Daring to be a woman on the internet.

Thank you, Moon.

To the moon, Alice!

Humans can cause earthquakes?  Does it count when the entire country eats that second helping of pie after a Thanksgiving dinner?

Beautiful timed photos of a trip in the western US.

The coldest place on earth.

The ultimate Legoland:  Rivendell.

Facts about book lovers.

China's on the Moon and there's damp spots on Mars.

Cats, the Moon and everything in between

Reddit asks:  What is something your current or past employer would NOT want the world to know about their company?  The responses about banking, food service, recycling, chemical waste, crony drunks on the job... makes one want to dig a hole and hide in it....

Hell cat.

Mars had water.  But does that mean it had life?  And how about a super computer on the MoOOooon!?

Bees, birds and butterflies:



Reasons to vote Republican:



Who will stop the gun violence?

Stephen Barton survived the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. But 12 others didn’t. Watch his personal message asking President Obama and Governor Romney to offer their plans on how they will end gun violence, and join him by signing our petition.

Like... you know...



The worm from the CENTER OF THE EARRRRRRTH.....!1!!1!1!

Stop it!

Being clueless and rich is hard!

Burns?  Or Romney?

Darrell Issa hits the big time...

Dealing with a troll.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

In Arizona, where anti-abortion crusaders have passed some of the most restrictive women’s health laws in the country, abortion rates seemed to have increased. 

And by the way, good Christian women? Shut up.

High Fructose Corn Syrup must be called that, not the 'disguised' name of Corn Sugar.

Maybe the Earth had two moons at one time?

Lunar eclipse

Update: And a time lapse of the Milky Way.

I think the Mayans messed up

And it should be 2011 that the world ends. Or at least unravels. Or idiots take over....

Supermoon!

Radiation from Japan reaches California... just a little bit.

The 'small government' Republicans would like to make the IRS the uterus police.

The NRA goes off half-cocked.

The reason the neocons were begging Obama to attack Libya. Wait for it.....Surprise!! Oil.

Washington DC doesn't give a fuck about the jobless.

Ann Coulter declares that radiation is good for you... which explains everything about her.

Swear not by the moon...

the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb...



Click for fantastic detail.

“Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.” Les Brown

Water on the Moon.

Forget Mars! Forget the North Pole!

The moon is up for grabs! Let's take all our wars up there!:

Beijing, China (AHN) - China is looking forward to India's orbiter launch in April, just as it blasted into space on Wednesday night a lunar probe that will spend a year exploring and mapping the moon.

The launch paves the way for a Chinese astronaut landing on the moon in about 10 years.

Japan is not far behind, when it sent a moon orbiter into space in September. India will send its version next April just ahead of the United States that will launch a moon probe next year.

"Japan began its lunar exploration research much earlier than we did," said China's top mission official Zhang Jianqihe, pointing it out it's not a matter of who made it first.

Japan's lunar probe launch a month ago was "very well done," said Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist behind China's lunar probe, adding he was looking forward to India's orbiter launch.

The launch came four years after China became only the third country - after the US and Russia - to launch a man into space. Over the next two decades, Beijing aims to land an unmanned lunar rover on the moon, retrieve lunar samples, and eventually put a Chinese astronaut on the moon.

China doesn't participate in the International Space Station because the US is uneasy of having a crew from an authoritarian state onboard.

Authoritarian state? Didn't we let a Saudi go up a while back? So why are we allowed on the International Space Station then?

A Japanese satellite circles the moon

Tokyo, Japan (AHN) - The Japanese satellite launched last month finally reached orbit around the moon on Friday. The probe is eventually set to move into orbit closer to the moon's surface before starting an observational mission that should last a year.

The $279 million Selenological and Engineering Explorer or SELENE involves launching the main satellite in a circular orbit at an altitude of about 60 miles, as well as the two smaller satellites in elliptical orbits. The data collected will be used the study the moon's origin and evolution.

Could it be also to get up there before China does?:

The SELENE satellite mission -- four years behind JAXA's original schedule -- comes as China is planning to launch its own lunar probe. That country's minister of defense and technology told China Central Television in July all was ready for a launch "by the end of the year," AP reported.

China's Chang'e 1 orbiter will use stereo cameras and X-ray spectrometers to map three-dimensional images of the lunar surface and study its dust, AP reported.

Can you tell what this is?

The Moon, Stars, and the Aurora Borealis From the International Space Station 8/18/06

The moon and Bill Nye are a threat to those who believe in God

And not in much else:

Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.

But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."

The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.

At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.

An eclipse!

When the moon is in the Seventh House

and Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars...

Four Legs Good at Plush Life tells us when on Saturday.

(While you are there, admire a most bewhiskered kitty!)

The end of days

is about 5 billion years away. Keep your luggage by the door.

Forget Afghanistan and Iraq!

It's the moon we're after!
"NASA's planned moon base announced last week could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry.

Nestled among the agency's 200-point mission goals is a proposal to mine the moon for fuel used in fusion reactors -- futuristic power plants that have been demonstrated in proof-of-concept but are likely decades away from commercial deployment.

Helium-3 is considered a safe, environmentally friendly fuel candidate for these generators, and while it is scarce on Earth it is plentiful on the moon.

As a result, scientists have begun to consider the practicality of mining lunar Helium-3 as a replacement for fossil fuels."

[snip]

"NASA plans to have a permanent moon base by 2024, but America is not the only nation with plans for a moon base. China, India, the European Space Agency, and at least one Russian corporation, Energia, have visions of building manned lunar bases post-2020.

Mining the moon for helium-3 has been discussed widely in space circles and international space conferences. Both China and Russia have stated their nations' interest in helium-3."