The Outer Box

These days there’s no such thing as the term “a day off” in my vocabulary.  With working 2 jobs, doing commission work, painting, and trying to keep up with the incessant flow of information, my existence is that of some fancy clown.  But that won’t stop me from attempting to entertain you, the faithful Outer Box reader, with things you may or may not give a shit about!

5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE OCEANS

You know what I find the most amusing about us, the human race?  It’s that everyone thinks that everyone else is crazy.  So who’s sane?  That’s my question.  Definitely not the “genius” who engineered this plot:

LCROSS STRIKES MOON AS OTHER MOONS CONTINUE TO PUZZLE

From Scientific American

FAJARDO, Puerto Rico—”We could have just stayed in bed” was one comment I overheard this morning from planetary scientists who had woken up early to see NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) crash into the lunar surface. At 7:31 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time) the spacecraft’s Centaur-class rocket booster slammed (deliberately) into the moon, the idea being to set off a dramatic explosion and send up a plume of material that telescopes could analyze for signs of water in the lunar soil. The spacecraft flew through the plume and, four minutes later, itself crash-landed. To watch the event, planetary scientists at the annual Division for Planetary Sciences meeting here had crowded into an over-air-conditioned ballroom and poured themselves insipid hotel coffee. As the designated time approached, the moon’s surface loomed larger and larger as the spacecraft closed in [photograph at left].

At 7:30 the room went silent as everyone prepared to cheer wildly as the camera showed a bright flash. But the time came and went, and there was no flash, and no cheers. “It’s hard to know what we saw there,” admitted Mike Bicay, science director at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. Shortly before the spacecraft itself hit, word came through that the infrared camera had indeed seen a thermal signature of the booster’s crater. This comment was barely audible, though, over the bemused laughter as images of the mission control center showed one controller conspicuously failing to respond to another’s high five.

You can check the rest of the article here.  I wonder what the intent was behind this mission.  To rape a whole other celestial body of resources?  Who knows?  I do know I give this lady props for turning her back into a mural:

Crazy, son!  But, before I shut this down, I’ll leave you with one of the funniest things I’ve seen this year:

-Crusher