Earlier this week I was wondering, “why are all the amazing astrological and deep space discoveries being ignored by the media?” I mean, in the last 12 months we discovered ice on Venus, Mars and the Moon. Why isn’t that ALL over the news? Anyways, I did some searching around I am now in love with astronomynow.com. The amount of mind blowing amazingness on there is numbing. I just finished reading about a star that we have been tracking, apparently a planet got to close to it, and it is in the process of eating it. The planets atmosphere got swollen and there is a ring of debris orbiting this monster sun. The planet is so close that it’s covering a whole orbit in 1.1 days. That’s INSANE… it take us a whole year. I also read about the Japanese program to build a robotic moon base, built by robots, for robots. WHY IS THIS NOT ALL OVER THE NEWS!?!?! That’s sooo much cooler and interesting than anything regarding Brittany Spear’s. But the highlight of my day of deep space exploration has been the discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope. If you have not already heard, NASA is retiring the Hubble space telescope. The image on the background of this site was taken by the Hubble, and it’s given us a ton of new understanding into the workings of our universe. The Hubble used to hang out around the moon and take pictures from there. The James Webb is going to orbit about a million miles from Earth. From that vantage point it will look deep into space and further back IN TIME to observe the universe when stars and galaxies were just beginning to form. It also will be instrumental in finding Earth-like planets around other stars and gain more information on dark matter, which comprises nearly 95% of all matter in the universe. HOLEY SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!?!?!?!?!??!

Anyways, if you want to see a life size model of this amazing device that’s going to advance our human understanding of the universe, the James Webb makes its next “World Tour” stop in New York City’s Battery Park, as part of the World Science Festival, June 1-6. I’ll be there.

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My old buddy from highschool sent me this video today. After watching it, he says – do you recognize the big guy? It’s Brigham Doane. An old friend of a friend from highschool is now an American professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name Masada as well as well for his appearances in Ring of Honor, Full Impact Pro, NWA Wildside, and his tours with Big Japan Pro Wrestling. He has also wrestled matches for World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

It’s great seeing old friends following their dreams and also doing odd and interesting things. In highschool he was always talking about wanting to becoming a wrestler. Now he is. Read more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada(wrestler)