Take a second and imagine;

Me. Wearing a sombrero & a clown nose. Eating a donut. Naked. Riding a dragon. Singing 'I'm A Little Teapot'. Backwards.
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You're welcome.

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I bet the people of Nantucket, have fantastic senses of humor.

Robonaut ISS Checkout Overview

YES!!!! AWESOME!!!!! :-) yet another one of the billions of reasons to want to go to space, you get to work with Robonaut :-) . With ORION we're going back to deep space exploration, our goals are back to traveling through the solar system and beyond, and we are developing robotic crew members to help us along the way. Slowly but surely we're approaching what the future should be.

I remember reading a quote from an Astronaut a couple years ago, he talked about what NASA's problems have been when it comes to getting the public excited about space again. He said something to effect of; we need to be more like Star Trek. Well we may not reach Star Trek levels of wonder just yet, but we're making giant leaps forward :-) .

The Avengers are assembling...

If you watched the Super Bowl yesterday, or jumped on the internet later on during the game, than you got our best look yet at the Avengers movie. Things are looking good so far, although there is still some negativity surrounding the footage. With some comparing it to a TV movie, because of the seeming lack of scale being presented. But it's early, I'm posting this in early February and the movie doesn't hit until early May. So there is plenty of time for MARVEL and Joss Whedon to finish whatever they've still got to go.

The spot itself, even in its extended version, doesn't show much but at the same time shows quite a bit. Mostly comprised of money shots and fill-ins it did what it needed to do and that was to make the largest television audience in America aware of the movie if they weren't already. We see glimpses of the threat to Earth, the various heroes in action and a glory shot of the team together. We also get our first real look at the Hulk, finally.

Of all of the characters being presented I'm actually most looking forward towards the interaction between Bruce Banner and Tony Stark. Two characters who in their various incarnations in the books have always been incredibly similar yet very different at the same time. Any moment that the two are around each other they give the feeling of being long lost brothers. And I can't wait to see how it's played in the movie. Beyond that more Nick Fury is always welcome in my book.

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors

A lot of people will look at this video and see nothing but doom and death. I see it and see something incredibly beautiful. A swarm of machines functioning as one, the possible applications for this technology are endless. And that may be what scares some people. While I completely understand their concerns, I can't help but imagine the wonderous, and positive, things that may be on the way.