Whether it’s monkeying with our ocean levels or turning people into werewolves, I think we can all agree that the moon is a total douche. In fact, the moon was just awarded the Nobel Prize for Fuckfacery. So when a bunch of scientists got together this morning and fired a rocket up its ass, a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘space’
September 18, 2009
Friday Random 10: Astro-pee edition
Becoming an astronaut requires one to possess extraordinary physical and mental capacities. Not only must you be a brilliant and articulate person of science, but you must also endure severe physical challenges that would humble nearly all other humans.
The training program for astronauts is rigorous and largely thankless. Nearly all astronauts spend year after year [...]
January 9, 2009
OH HELL NO!
Pax Arcana
Despite the best efforts of our best minds over thousands of years, we still know almost nothing about outer space. I guess that’s why space is so captivating. It’s not just the mysteries of space — it’s the expansiveness of a realm so replete with puzzles that the act of constructing a foundation from [...]
October 31, 2008
Space Balls is going to rule
Pax Arcana
In many ways, professional sports is a collosal waste of brain power. Not only do us fans sit on our couches for hours at a time draining melted Velveeta directly into our esophagus, but the worlds of science and business miss out on the acumen of those who choose to play pro sports for [...]
October 17, 2008
Friday Random 10: Space smells edition
Pax Arcana
Despite its proximity to Uranus, space smells surprisingly good.
At least that’s the word from the Times (UK), which reports that astronauts say outer space smells distinctly like fried steak, as well as hot metal and other acrid smells. Even better, apparently NASA is paying one of those fancy smell labs to recreate the odor [...]
June 2, 2008
Space travel is shitty
Pax Arcana
You may have heard last week that the potty on the International Space Station had broken, and no amount of jiggling of the handle or kicking the bowl would fix it. (Not to worry, the Space Shuttle Discovery is on the way up with replacement parts as we speak).
Via Boing Boing, Scientific American has [...]
May 27, 2008
Mars is dirty
Pax Arcana
NASA’s $420 million Phoenix lander finally landed this weekend and found what it was looking for — Phoenix.
Of course, this photo isn’t actually from Phoenix. It’s from a top-secret computer-enhanced photo studio in central Florida, bankrolled by an international cabal of tax-plundering neo-aristocrats whose membership includes no less than the Queen of England and [...]
January 17, 2008
Raquel Welch’s ass was out of this world
OK, Lucy the Blog, we’ll see your William Shatner interpretive music rap — and raise you one Raquel Welch dancing in space pants in front of giant ugly statues (which we brazenly stole from Boing Boing):
Man, where’s Astronaut Jones when you need him?
