tommyrot's right: I wouldn't be a recent college grad right now for love or money.
I rather like my 40s: I'm not as fit as I was 20 years ago, but I have much better fashion sense, and I'm making enough to do some traveling. The only big downside is dealing with my aging parents.
The project was eventually scrapped as it was felt that the public would not respond favorably to the U.S. dropping a nuclear bomb on the moon
There's a great book about how, in the early 1960s, the Dept. of Energy decided that the best thing to do with a nuclear bomb would be to use it to excavate a new harbor on the Alaskan coast north of Nome. The protests and lawsuits associated with stopping that were some of the foundation for the modern environmental movement.
But I'd never heard about bombing the moon! Just ridiculous.
bombing the moon!
Dang, Chairface Chippendale was a hack.
Tep,
I never use Priceline for a rental car. I use Hotwire and I love it.
Dang, Chairface Chippendale was a hack.
Heh. I thought of Chairface too.
But the attitude behind "Let's bomb the moon!" reminded me of an Invader Zim episode where they discover a planet whose entire population exhausted its resources and died out because they turned their planet into a giant space ship.
Zim: But why would you do such a thing?
Alien Hologram (all that was left of them): Because it's cool.
I never use Priceline for a rental car. I use Hotwire and I love it.
What do you love about it? (I've never gotten a rental car from Priceline OR Hotwire, so I'm trying to figure out the best option for bidding on a rental car. I've used Priceline for hotels -- but not the Name Your Own Price, since I wanted a specific hotel -- and generally been happy with the rates.)
In more cheerful news, this is one of the projects I've been working on over the past few years. I've been coordinating, as my organization owns the property. this is a great gallery of photos.
When I get too pissed off about the job situation, I need to remember that.
Dang, Chairface Chippendale was a hack.
I dread the possibility of controlled nuclear fusion and petajoule laser technology being combined in Donald Trump's lifetime. Imagine a billboard that everyone can see at night.
I dread the possibility of controlled nuclear fusion and petajoule laser technology being combined in Donald Trump's lifetime. Imagine a billboard that everyone can see at night.
There was a company that wanted to sell billboards in space. They were simultaneously telling potential customers how everybody would be able to see their space billboard and telling everybody else the billboards would not be that noticeable.
The project died, probably because it was both extremely expensive and extremely stupid.
I think it's unlikely I'm having the best years of my life right now, but I don't see any reason they couldn't start next week...I've liked pretty much all of my life except the parts with the distracting pain, so we'll see.
I'm driving a couple of hours north to catch the annular eclipse. Probably doing the pinhole thing to see it, is that effective for annular? I think I've only seen partials before.
