Category: News

Moon Mining

It’s come to this?
Dozens of companies hoping to earn $20 million prize in race to mine the moon for elements, including water

“We are in the first three months of a two-year contract,” David Gump, president of Astrobotic, told FoxNews.com. “We’ll have a field-tested robot that will be able to go to the poles” on the moon to extract water, methane and more, he said.

Astrobotic isn’t the only company that hopes to dig up the moon. Last week, FoxNews.com revealed the story of Moon Express, which sees greenbacks in all that lunar “green cheese.” In all, 26 companies are in the race, many fueled by the Google Lunar X Prize, a $20 million contract to put men back on the moon.

But a contract with the California company SpaceX to hitch a ride to the moon on its Falcon 9 rockets sets Astrobotic apart, the company argues. On board the rocket, which is planned to launch in late 2014 or early 2015, will be Astrobotic’s own lunar lander, which will take the company’s mining robot to the moon’s surface.

SpaceX spokeswoman Kirstin Brost Grantham confirmed to FoxNews.com that the contract does in fact exist.

Even NASA has a stake in the company, having negotiated seven contracts with Astrobotic, the company claims: one to develop an excavator and others to give NASA information on how the company will carry out its mission at a low cost.

Potential targets include water, methane, and ammonia, hidden in pockets within the moon. Scientists are certain these elements exist beneath the lunar surface, but are unsure about the quantities and in what form they reside.

Kardashians Divorce and the Gays

I dont think either cheapens marriage but idk anyone whose against same sex marriage that also thinks divorce is awesome and there should be more of it. do you? the “people get divorced after not being married long, so people of the same sex should marry” argument doesnt make sense to me and i think its a losing line for the cause.

I get bein annoyed with someone whose a famous millionaire cuz she made a porn but im just sayin that the “divorce is a reason same sex couples should marry” isnt a good argument only cuz it doesnt change minds. i mean, if thats the argument then no same sex couples can get divorced. Rosie Odonnel and her lady were together for a decade before they got married and then they divorced within a year. if someone told me that is a mockery of marriage i would say theyre being silly but the same applies to heteros who find their love isnt sustainable after a short time as well.

Would you find the same valid point (whether you agree with it or not) in a picture showing Rosie Odonnel making the reverse point? That’s how you know this is a non-argument.

Meanwhile, on twitter:

All in all idk why people care about this.

An Update on my Bieber Fever…

As many of you have noticed, my absence of Bieber posting has been interrupted by a return of JustinLuvin.

I officially ended my BiebFeev when he cut his hair cuz then he was just a guy… like – its just a dude who sings then. it was hilarious when he was a lesbian haircut wearing 11 year old looking preppy wannabe thug who sang about love – THAT was hilarious – but now he’s just another teenager with a girlfriend in the music biz and its like, yawn. however i recently re-started my Fever, partially in response to people being disappointed that they couldnt share BiebLove jokes with me as a thing anymore and partially because when i see fans still go ridiculous-obsessy over him it still makes me laugh and gets me going back into my “i luv him MOARRRR” groove.

and also cuz i still wanna hit that (even if he IS getting to be too old for me)

Before we know it he’ll be another 20something tattooed jerk and there will be no humor in faux-adoration of his flagrant douchery.

Dudes winning at Halloween

Dexter Morgan (from the Showtime series Dexter)

Beaker and Bunsen

Blue Screen of Death (from Microsoft)

Edward Scissorhands

The dude from Memento (a movie about a guy with short term memory loss so he has to tattoo recent events on himself)

Awesome-O (from Southpark)

Animal (from the Muppets)

Jay & Silent Bob (From Clerks)

Calvin & Hobbes

Luke Skywalker riding a Ton Ton

Sarah Silverman: Live from N*****head

Maddow started this show strong with the great line that Ron Pauls candidacy isn’t really about winning but more so about whether the Wizard of Oz really was an allegory for the Gold Standard. lulz. She then went into the old “Republicans are scary cuz they’re in love with fetuses” trope and I got bored but luckily Sarah Silvermann came on shortly afterward to slam Rick Perry “Live from N*****head”.

Everything about the story of Perry leasing land with a racial slur painted on a rock is bullshit and smear-tastic and i’m disappointed that Maddow is still covering this 2 weeks after everyone else, including Perrys critics admitted there was no meat to the story. Maddow notes how quickly the story went away but blames that on it being “hard to talk about”. huh? It’s not hard to talk about at all. Especially if you think Perry is a tartar douchebucket – it makes talking about it fun and worth your while. The segment was reaching critical mass of smearage when Maddow kept twisting the knife in my heart, making it harder and harder to continue loving her by moving on to the next bullshit smear against Perry which was that he “insinuated” Obama’s birth certificate wasn’t real and then translating for us that Perry meant to say “don’t worry America. we haven’t really had our first black president yet, because Barack Obama secretly isn’t really the President”. What the fuck? Perry was asked if Obamas birth certificate was real and Perry said it was a stupid issue for anyone to focus on, but in that answer he first rhetorically reacted “I have no idea” so that is what Maddow and the other smearers are referring to as the alleged insinuation. That is rocky enough but then to go on and say Perry was telling people not to worry about there being a black man in the White House because his presidency is illegitimate? Jesus Christ, Maddow.

Thank God Sarah Silverman was introduced immediately following that insanity so this show didn’t become a total loss for Maddow. Silvermans seriousness of this non-issue is stupid, but her gee-wiz delivery as a concerned citizen and comic is a thousand times easier to accept than Maddow (supposed to be an astute commentator and journalist) treating the issue similarly. Silverman ponders as to why this issue hasn’t affected Governor Perry negatively, asking “that’s bizarre, right?” but unfortunately doesn’t develop the thought. I was wondering how exactly renting a piece of property that someone else had named with a racial slur and then painting over a rock that had the offensive word on it is supposed to affect him negatively. “What?? That guy erased a declaration of racism?? Get him!” – huh?

Best Halloween Costumes

Mrs Nesbit version of the mentally and physically broken Buzz Lightyear (from Toy Story 1):

Booze and cigarettes, Father Son edition:

This guy made the best of the flood in Thailand:

Half dude & chick:

Lumpy Space Princess (from Adventure Time):

Oogie Boogie, the Boogie man (from Nightmare before Christmas)

Dave Chappelle’s addict character (Chappele Show)

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy

Rebecca Black

Baby Ewok:

Ace Ventura:

Dalai Lama