Let's leave the nuclear fireworks in the Past

Long Odds

Two great truths are that everything except a contradiction has a non-zero probability of happening and truth is stranger than fiction. In that vein, there is the unemployed mortgage worker who won the lottery twice in one week and the 14 year old German boy who was hit by a meteorite and survived. As proof that I'm a geek, I'm still not sure whether I would rather have the $142,919 lottery winnings or having a scar from a falling meteorite.

Astronauts Describe Earth From Space

I found an interesting slide show with different astronauts describing what it is like seeing the earth from space. Made me want to be an astronaut again like when I was little. I would love to go to space sometime and can only hope that space travel because affordable and safe enough in my lifetime.

The Ultimate Space Walk

I have not heard of a new Sci-Fi movie, Sunshine, but in it apparently one of the characters has to walk outside in space without a suit. Slate has up an interesting article about what would happen if you did this. Slashdot also has a discussion. I found it quite interesting and not what I would have expected.