They Shoulda Installed A Hoover Suck-Broom! Or An Oreck!

The latest from the Phoenix Mars Lander (It’s only been there a few days!) is that it may have landed smack-dab onto a sheet of dust-covered ice!

How’dya like them apples!

Now, as you can plainly see in the photo above – which is underneath the Lander – there is a sheet of sumpin under the dust/dirt layer. The whole chilly story is here - at NASA – about whom – or which – I will say nothing negative at this juncture.

It could be ice.

It could be linoleum.

It could be baby fat.

But NASA is betting on ice.

But it’s not color ice – it’s just black & white ice. Yes, boys and girls, Mars is black & white. They don’t have color yet. But NASA will give Mars color soon.

In other Science news, I ran into this article question six separate times while looking for something worthwhile (and mildly silly) to post about:

So I figure it’s fate or something.

The question is: Could Amyloid Deposits Have Potential As Nanomaterials?

Well? Could they? I say no – because of complex reasons having to do with modern phrenology.

Speaking of porn – - here.

Sharon Stone Invokes Superposition Theorem! Mathematicians Stunned!

Sharon “Woody-maker” Stone was recently visiting China – can’t imagine why – and ate a bit of foot, as they say – with ill-considered remarks.

The whole article is here at Pravda – where Truth means never having to say you made it up!

There are a whole pile of photos of Ms. Stone. She is aging extremely well, IMHO.

But the Russian women have her beat:

This photo above is apparently the way Russian women look to all us foreigners. It’s true. It says so right here.

Moving right along – look at this volcano:

There’s a whole article on supervolcanos – like the one under Yellowstone Park – over at Science Daily. The nice thing about Science Daily is that they have a LOT of science articles.

Here is some smut.

Strange Ring Found! Not Lipstick, Scientists Say!

Yes, boys and girls, the mystery deepens. The gulf between what is understood, and what is so baffling that scientists routinely quit and take up competitive Parcheesi increases each quarter.

Astronomers have recently discovered an old blowed-up star with a by-god ring around it! It’s all written up here - at Science Daily – your Number One source of … stuff.

From the article:

“The universe is a big place and weird things can happen,” said Stefanie Wachter of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, who found the ring while cleaning out an old post-doc desk. “I was flipping through archived Spitzer data of the object, and that’s when I noticed it was surrounded by a ring we’d never seen before.” Wachter is lead author of a paper about the findings in this week’s Nature.

Professor Thalamus Coypu – bullshit artiste extraordinaire – thinks that the ring, which is unlike anything he’s ever seen before, formed in 1998 when the magnetar erupted in a giant wedgy. They believe the crusty surface of the rectum cracked, sending out a flare, and an itchy, burning sensation, that excavated a nearby cloud of dust, leaving an outer, dusty scorch mark. This ring is oblong, with dimensions of about seven by three light-years. “As far as wedgies go, its the grand daddy of ‘em all”, remarked Coypu. It appears to be flat, or two-dimensional, but the scientists said they can’t rule out the possibility of a three-dimensional shell.

Anyway, It’s something to do – study it, I mean – if one hasn’t anything better to do.

And in political news, Scott McClellan was seen mooning the White House!

Here you can see President Bush checking out how far Scott can pee. The whole story is at Pravda - where everything comes up roses.

Here is some porn.

Update:

I had to add this – found here over at Last of the Few:

Now those are teeth!

I Want One! No – Two!

This is neat!

There are several other photos here - at Pravda – where facts are often considered an unnecessary accessory option.

I can imagine li’l Japanese commuters falling from the sky during morning rush (no coffee) and evening rush (dog-tired).

The Japanese have a term – sushiashi-yukki or sumpin – that means literally “Death from Overwork” and is used to describe folks who work at their job so hard and so many hours that they just drop dead.

They’ll need a new gibberish term meaning “Death by being hit by an up-until-recently-flying person from the sky”.

It could be called squishi-yaki.

I made that up.

Here is some smut - because it’s been a long weekend!

Phoenix Is Coming Down To The Wire!!!!

Just a reminder: In a few hours (6:30pm EST) the NASA TV site will be doing the Phoenix lander reporting!

I’m excited!

Here – have some smut.

No time for smut-searches: the milf across the street is serving bloody mary’s. back in a few.

And remind me later to speak authoritatively about culverts and low-water bridges!

Pravda Body Art And Flying Wangs!

Hey-hey! Pravda – which recently seems to mean boring and non-updated – Has a shitload of body-art photos up! Here’s one:

These types of art photos are just sooo cool. Check them all out here.

There are also some strange – no, never mind.

And speaking of strange – those cunning Japanese inventors have been at it again. Protect your daughters, folks! Lock their windows!

And for those allergy days:

I don’t have a link – I should have gotten one, but didn’t know I’d be posting on this.

Phoenix Update:

There is a detailed schedule at this NASA site. The video link will be here. Video coverage will begin Sunday at 6PM Eastern Time. Be there or be – - elsewhere, you putz!

Another Update:

Mrs. Peel has additional information over at her place, and no smut, and a lot more professionalism than moi! DPUD has done a roundup.

This is smut. No – not here on this page… I mean this other page.

Faithful Sidekicks Day: Wither DNC?

I have no idea where this post is going to go. First though, some Science!

Remember, boys and girls, this Sunday evening is The Day! The Phoenix Lander hits (oy!) Mars gently but firmly waaaay up North (on Mars) where no hardware has gone before. There are articles here - from NASA, where they do it really really well almost all the time – and here, from Science Daily – where mud daubers keep the journalists on their toes. See below:

I will let you know where to tune your internet dial to listen/watch as the NASA team has coronaries waiting for signs of success!

Next up, we have some more Science! – because a well-balanced diet is important for obscure reasons having nothing to do with this post.

The above is a new species of gecko – written about here.

Now I’m not too impressed with the new gecko. I mean, who needs more Geico insurance actors?

But that tree he’s in reminds me of artist Enas Yorl’s recent efforts in tree-artistry. See it here! Enas is an accomplished water-colorist and should be given much attention and admiration, even though he has no sidekick that I know of.

Now – what to post about next? Ah! Jupiter! Check this out:

Jupiter has apparently taken it upon itself to grow a third big-assed spot! The whole sordid story is here – at New Scientist – where baby binkys can still occasionally be found in trash cans and the mens restrooms. New Scientists (as opposed to the old ones) are often sidekicks for bigger-than-life Worthies like Professor Coypu.

This is smut! Check it out and see for yourself. Neither of these babes needs a sidekick.

I wanted to work in the name Lick Poop – as a sidekick name – from a comment from over at Weasels, but it was not to be. Rats.