MARS

Harsh, but beautiful.

 

"My Concern Is With The Ultimate Fate Of Knowing."

The best dissection of the moon landing "hoax" ever created,…

Lucy In The Chocolate Factory

"Spiritual leader" JZ Knight looks a lot different (from when TMR first started covering her exploits) but her heart's the same:

“All Mexicans are not worthy of conscious thought.”

Her heart's still the same as the culture's, anyway:

  "Wernher von Braun -- a former Nazi -- was much a much easier fit than [Jack] Parsons. A lot of people would be shocked to find out that the space programme was founded by a man who held orgies in his Pasadena mansion."

JZ Knight - "What The Bleep Does She Know?" - amahright? Culture is found in real sources:

  "I’ve had affairs. If you want to know if it involves your spouse, you can talk to me."

I said real sources, not authorities - big difference:

"Metro Calgary Quotes Anti-Vaccine Homeopath [One] Day After Measles Outbreak Declared"

If you live long enough, culture changes slow, but without rhyme or reason:

  "FDA Cracks Down On Autism Quackery"

Really, after all these years, it's shocking to think reason might've ever been anything to expect:

  "10 Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science"

The Macho Response: This IS Another Planet But,...Here

"Why Black Science Fiction is Essential for Our Children"

A “dangerous” inability to recognise the importance of race meant social workers and police missed glaring warning signs about a gang of Pakistani men grooming white girls for sex in Rochdale, an official inquiry has concluded.

An obsession with being “colour blind” meant they failed even to notice the pattern of abuse going on under their noses, it found.

“I knew this day was coming.”

"From the slave ship to the space ship."

Give Thanks (This Happens To Caucasians All-The-Time)

The Welcoming Committee is still hard at work out there:

"The Space Shuttle Independence which resides at the Space Center in Houston, Texas has been hit by vandals overnight.

The graffiti reads 'Houston we are the problem.' The rest of the message is said to be highly offensive and racist but has not been released to the media."

Not to worry:

Based on history, I'm sure it says, "Whitey, go home" or something.

You can handle it,...

 

Mr. We-Can-Win-By-Losing Bets Against The Poor Again

Defying critics at home and abroad, the Indian Space Research Organization is preparing to launch its first interplanetary exploration satellite to Mars. Called the Mangalyaan—”Mars Craft”—the satellite is expected to launch tomorrow afternoon and will reach the Martian atmosphere in September 2014.

India has been criticized for spending $72 million on the project instead of on “toilets and teachers,” as the FT‘s Victor Mallet put it. Indeed, the statistics are jarring. According to the World Bank a third of the world’s poorest people live in India. “I don’t understand the importance of India sending a space mission to Mars when half of its children are undernourished and half of all Indian families have no access to sanitation,” the well-known economist Jean Drèze told the FT last year when the Mangalyaan project was being organized. “It seems to be part of the Indian elite’s delusional quest,...”

I hope it works.

US Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter Has Died At 88

I always liked Scott Carpenter, he was a bit of a fool.

"You're looking out at a totally black sky, seeing an altimeter reading of 90,000ft and realise you are going straight up. And the thought crosses your mind:  

What am I doing?"

Like him, I'm shaking my head. 

Not only the second American to orbit Earth, Carpenter exemplified what became known as The Right Stuff after his capsule overshot the landing point by almost 300 fucking miles. 

He left our still-new-to-space-travel nation without communication and frantic with worry he was alive. 

But the Navy eventually found their astronaut, chillin' in the Caribbean, floating on his raft with his feet propped up.

He went around the globe three times in 1962. 

And as the backup pilot for the first Mercury mission, his was the  voice that famously said, "Godspeed, John Glenn." 

Carpenter was born in Boulder, Colorado, commissioned in the Navy in 1949, and served as a pilot in the Korean War. 

In 1959 he was selected as one of seven Mercury astronauts, training with NASA and specializing in communications and navigation. 

After retiring in 1969 he took up oceanography. As part of the Navy's (now famous and trendy) SeaLab program, in 1965 Carpenter went to California and spent 30 days under the sea.

He lived in Vail, Colorado and upon retiring founded Sea Sciences with the famous French researcher, Jacques Cousteau.

His second wife, Patty Barrett, said he suffered a stroke in September, and died not long after in hospice care.

Let it be known:

Scott Carpenter was easily the most badass #2 in history.

And John Glenn is the Mercury team's last surviving member.

Some Thoughts While Looking At Drudge In The Mourn

Two American blacks showing violent paranoia - is anyone going to seriously address this?

"Boy, do we miss you," a fan called out after the crowd chanted "43, 43" when he was introduced.

 To the Dems and Republicans who hated George W. Bush, didn't I tell you this would happen?

'Molly' Cyrus Goes Raunchy and Topless... and should be told her "career" is now suspended until she gets some sense.

The new NBC series, titled Space Race, is done with Branson’s Virgin Galactic, advertised as the world’s first commercial spaceline. The premise is the same — everyday people compete for a trip into space — in this case on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.

 I ain't competing for shit - I deserve a trip out of this madhouse.

This new Pope ain't perfect but, I'll be damned, he's the shit.

You Know When Adolf's In The Picture Everything's O.K.

Ahh - for the first real time today - back in my comfort zone:

Will Hitler Be the First Person 

That Aliens See?

It's like a warm hug from an old friend,...

 

I Pray For Everyone I Meet Before I Damn Them To Hell

Super-Earth GJ 1214b, 40 light years away, 'is rich in water with a thick, steamy atmosphere'

Gravity-defying hairstyles from Sixties Nigeria by photographer J.D. Ojeikere

GhettoTracker.com Allows Users to Track Ghettos, Rate Them as Good or Bad

Atheist murdered after heated religious debate with God-fearing friend

Holding their tongues: Pentecostals in the US are giving up on their incomprehensible babbling