Ohhh, silly blog...you don't need updating.

Talking to your blog as you would another human being is wrong on so many levels.

Today we got a message from the king pig f****r himself, via that bastion of fair and unbiased news reporting, Al'Jazeera. Osama sent a tape sometime in the past couple of months claiming that more attacks are in the works. He also extended some sort of truce. Don't know the terms, though. Read the full text of the tape at CBS' news site. Supposedly, according to King a55hole, God does not allow al'Qaeda to cheat or lie. Depends on your definition of cheating I guess. And God. God certainly did not intervene when al'Qaeda hijackers took over commercial aircraft on September 11. Sort of seems like cheating. Not like cheating on an exam or plagiarizing an article. No, more like cheating   and murdering American citizens. I think that qualifies. I thought that SOCOM had this f**kwad in custody already; or had at least chopped him up into tiny bits, dipped the pieces in acid and dropped them over the Indian Ocean. Guess that hasn't happened yet. Time will tell if he makes good on his threats.

NASA finally got to send up a probe to Pluto today. You can read about the program on NASA's website. Guess they were delayed for a couple of days due to technical and weather issues. The trip out to Pluto is supposed to take 9.5 years. Let's do some math. According to NASA, Pluto is about 2.8 billion miles away. It's about as many miles away as the populations of China, India, Canada, the United States and Mexico combined. That's a lot. 2.8 billion miles divided by 9.5 years is about 294 million miles per year. That's the population of the United States. 294 million miles per year divided by 365 days is 805 thousand miles per day. 805,000 divided by 24 hours is 33,000 miles per hour. Damn. That's fast. It's the fastest traveling spacecraft the United States has ever built. Can't wait to see what it finds out. Well, let's see if I still even remember it in 2015.

Signed up to participate in an interesting project with NASA. It's called Stardust@home, which is based off the SETI@home project. I find out more in March, but the objective is to look at pictures of an Aerogel collection grid and search for traces of comet dust. Specifically, the trails that the dust leaves in the Aerogel as the dust itself is miniscule. If I find one, I get to name it and be cited as a coauthor of any papers that come out announcing the find. Sweet. Should be quite interesting. You can find out more about this project at the Planetary Society's website.

That's it for today. Too much going on in the world for me to write about in one short blog post.