Hulleye Comes By!

not sure how many people this concerns or how many people saw bush’s state of the union speech last night. but it was interesting nevertheless. here’s a little snippet.

he said “Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research, human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.” sounds fair and simple right? maybe not. when will this man ever get anything right?

in unrelated news, i was listening to an interview this morning by the CBC of kurt vonnegut. he had some pretty damning views of the bush govt (real audio file). i didn’t realize the man is so humourous.

so turns out the the little lunar rock above, has some sweet smelling soil.

Moondust. “I wish I could send you some,” says Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. Just a thimbleful scooped fresh off the lunar surface. “It’s amazing stuff.”

Feel it—it’s soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive.

Taste it—”not half bad,” according to Apollo 16 astronaut John Young.

Sniff it—”it smells like spent gunpowder,” says Cernan.

How do you sniff moondust?

Every Apollo astronaut did it. They couldn’t touch their noses to the lunar surface. But, after every moonwalk (or “EVA”), they would tramp the stuff back inside the lander. Moondust was incredibly clingy, sticking to boots, gloves and other exposed surfaces. No matter how hard they tried to brush their suits before re-entering the cabin, some dust (and sometimes a lot of dust) made its way inside.

Once their helmets and gloves were off, the astronauts could feel, smell and even taste the moon.

meanwhile, i’m singing along to cat stevens.

I'm bein' followed by a moon shadow
moon shadow
moon shadow.
Leapin' and hoppin' on a moon shadow