Rosetta Mission

I was inspired by today's success of the Philae lander on comet 67P, aka the first time mankind has landed on a moving comet, and made this image to share my feelings on the subject.  Lately, some of you may be like me and have felt frustration that many of the topics from current events or controversies that burrow into our conversations with friends and coworkers, or play on our screens at night, are not actually relevant in the grand scheme of things, though we get angered and worked up about them despite our otherwise happy and glowing souls.  By grand scheme of things, I'm referring to the universe and its cosmic age as compared to say, Victoria's Secret and it's recent Perfect Body controversy.  One of those things is important, and one of those things isn't.

So congrats to the ESA.  I'm incomprehensibly proud of humankind today, and so thrilled to be alive during this enchanting time in history.  I've been feeling bogged down lately around some people, to whom it's all gloom folding in upon itself out there in the world today.  But to me, events just pass on along the thread of time as they have for at least the last 13.5 billion years, and today was one little part of it that chanced to be beautiful and exciting.  So hats off to you ESA, for looking ever forward and keeping us believing!

Interstellar

I just heard that Christopher Nolan has a new movie called "Interstellar" about trying to save civilization by finding a new habitable planet because earth has become environmentally devastated and Matthew McConaughey will pioneer the wormhole.  It looks a little cheese ball to me but, maybe that's just because Anne Hathaway is trying to act in a serious role again.

The trailer looked like they were trying to be all emotional about the end of the world, which I found boring.  I think emotions in movies in general are boring.  I like raw facts, a series of events, and people reacting with simple expressions like laughter, anger, or shock.  So really, that Nova documentary about the Siberian meteor that I watched on Sunday was my perfect movie.

Scene A: everyone's like OH MY GOD

Scene B: scientists are like WHAT HAPPENED?

Scene C: people tell scientists that some things happened

Scene D: everyone's like BOY THAT WAS AMAZING

Perfection.

Although, I'm not entirely willing to write "Interstellar" off because it does involve space travel and wormholes and stuff, which I typically go bananas over.  But they better not have too many emotions, or I'll shake my fist in their direction.  

Nope.  No emotions.  Stop it.