in re:

two heavenly bodies bang each other really hard in front of young starlet

well, ask and ye shall recieve. yea, good readers?

i demanded to know why we were still fucking around in space, and what it could possibly be that we were looking for, and NASA comes back with a resounding, "ya know. whatever".

recently, using NASA's spitzer (really, spitzer?) telescope, researchers have found evidence that two planetary masses, one roughly the size of mercury, and one roughly the size of our moon, collided some time in the last few thousand years, in a system orbiting a young (12 million year old) star in the pavo constellation. ironically NASA claims that pavo means peacock, but in modern spanish, pavo real means peacock, simply pavo means turkey, which is what NASA seems to be making out of us regular citizens, by using our tax dollars to intimately explore a whole heaping pile of who gives a shit, like this late breaking news from three thousand years ago, that in no way affects our lives.

incidentally, some stars in the turkey constellation are less than 20 light years from the boundaries of our own solar system, meaning that if we left today, every one on the mission could die many times over before the shuttle ever even came anywhere remotely close to halfway there (i've done the math many times over, with many numbers, from many sources, and it all comes up different, but suffice it to say, it's longer than you've got to hang around and see what happens).

so what have we learned from this latest discovery? that a few thousand years ago, two planets that are relatively close to us when you consider that the universe may in fact be infinite, but fucking far away from us when you consider that we don't have the technology to send a manned shuttle much farther than our own moon, ran into each other real hard, and it was probably really hot, and catastrophic for both parties involved. we've also learned that the smaller of the two bodies may ultimately become a moon of the larger body in much the same fashion as our own moon became a satellite of earth, a process which we already presume to know, or how else could we presume the similarity, so ultimately who cares, since we apparently already know how our moon was formed and thus the only logical reaction to this discovery cannot be, "wow, now we'll finally know how it happened, you know, within the next couple million or billion years, give or take", but rather, "what a coincidence! who wants chinese? anyone? i'm gonna make a run."

give me back my money, rocket scientist sons of bitches!

on a lighter note, tomorrow night (wednesday 8/12) will be the peak of the perseid meteor shower, so please, find a nice dark place to fornicate with someone you love, or whatever, and enjoy the awesome beauty of the universe's random and unfathomably violent ballet, for free. why not? you already paid for it.