News: UFO Crashed Into Meteorite to Save Earth

Or so claims some guy. Link.

Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908.

Hey, thank you, aliens! Much appreciated.

(via Neatorama)

News: Ray Bradbury hates the interwebs

"Yahoo called me eight weeks ago," [Bradbury] said. "They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? 'To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.'

"It's distracting," he continued. "It's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."

(via scifi wire via Geekologie)

News: NASA to blow up moon.

Link.

Not the plan but you know how these things go.

LCROSS may be one of NASA's most participatory missions. If the spacecraft launches on schedule at 12:51 p.m. Wednesday, it would hit the moon in the early morning hours of Oct. 8. The cloud from the 350 metric tons of debris kicked up by the Centaur booster should spread six miles above the surface of the moon, hitting the sunlight and making it visible to amateur astronomers across North America. The space agency is enlisting telescopes around the country to help monitor the impact.

The idea is to see if there is water on the moon.  In the moon.  Whatever.  Shoot a rocket into the moon, blast material six miles up, see what's in it.

This is a bit like when I lose my keys and throw everything in my room into the air.

Good luck, NASA.

(via Geekologie)