Spectacular
Even though going to Mars seems to be pretty old hat these days, I still get worked up about it, especially when you get images like this: 230838main_PSP_008579_9020_descent.jpg (JPEG Image, 1500x746 pixels).
Dang!
Dang!
Bwooop!
The trio vs. the pirate-ladyman Recently lis opined that no native Utard remembers Lighthouse 20, the kid show that was broadcast on UHF channel 20. Now I have a slight dispute with lis, in that I remember the pirate on the show was played by a woman, and she recalls someone very different (a man, I presume). Now Lighthouse 20 was not by any means my favorite show (hell I think it replaced Gillagan's Island!), but I do remember it--not really fondly but I remember it. The real purpose of my writing is that I made the comparison of Lighthouse 20 to Hotel Balderdash--a show that apparently ran for 10 years on channel four here in SLC. Now this show was the bomb; not only did it start at 6:00 am 6:45 am and show nothing but 30's-late 40's Warner Brothers cartoons (you know, Bugs and Daffy, but not Porky Pig and certainly not that crap WB churned out from the 50s onward.) These cartoons, of course, were made for adults and the humor was mostly sophisticated in a slapstick kind...
wow. wow!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. I was going to ignore that whole we sent another spaceship/probe thingy to Mars and look at the pictures we took, but I started delving into this thing and it's pretty damn interesting. I got in an argument with some people awhile ago about the importance of the space agency. It was the cliched argument about how NASA money could be better spent in other areas, like education. I asked them what students would learn about. Obviously not science or space. Space Rocks!
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