just a few words...

a horrible article...

this is an article by a man who thinks he's far funnier than he really is.

i don't get it. i mean, i understand the concept, but it's no more than a 'news' article based on one of the oldest comedy bits in history.

it's not news... not even a little bit.


sunshine....

alright... mike sent me a link to on joblo.com to the trailer to the new movie sunshine...

the concept is that in fifty years, 2057, the sun is dying, and we send a ship from earth to reignite the sun.

i'll give you mike's take on things

"I don't know if this looks like an action-packed thrill ride, or the single most appalling defiance of science in the history of film. I mean, I love me some Danny Boyle...but I foresee a need for some serious suspension of disbelief in this flick. In 50 years the sun is dying?! That's about 5 billion years too soon. Also...2007 or 2057...our species can't even control global warming. Forget about "re-igniting the sun". The trailer makes it look like a good time, but seriously...re-igniting the sun? Putting aside the fact that the sun is 93 million miles away and you couldn't get within 5 million of those miles without being torched by radiation, how are you going to fix a star? It's a massive ball of Hydrogen fusion. Whose completely lame-ass idea was that? Oh...I see...Alex Garland's."

i responded my simply pointing out the word 'fiction' that is so adeptly tagged onto the end of the term science fiction. my thought is that, while it's seems completely implausible that man kind could advance as far as this story would suggest in 50 years, it's still fiction and merely a story meant to entertain.

he replied thusly:

"I don't know, brother. Re-igniting the sun is the most preposterous
undertaking I can think of in recent movie history. Especially when you
consider that the flick is set in 2057. I really don't think that 50
years is going to produce much advancement in human space travel. In
the last 50 years, we've gone from compound rockets to shuttles and
we're moving towards smaller vehicles. The space shuttle travels at
about 8,000 mph in orbit. At that speed, it would take about 1.3 years
just to get to the sun. Not a terribly long time, but certainly plenty
of time for any number of mission-ending problems to occur.

Also, the sun is the single largest body in our galaxy. It makes up
more than 99% of the mass in our solar system. An object with that
amount of mass has some serious gravitational pull. You couldn't get
anywhere near the sucker without being drawn in to it. And that's
assuming that you're not long-dead from the extremely high levels of
radiation bombarding your ship.

Turdly, how the FUCK are you going to re-ignite the MOTHER FUCKING
SUN?!!! It's just a big ball of nuclear fission. What are you going to
do, throw more hydrogen at it?! And where are you going to get more
hydrogen than what you find in the MOTHER FUCKING SUN?!!!!

Fourthly, I don't know for sure...but I'm assuming that if you were, in
fact, able to revive the sun...how are you going to make sure that you
get the "batter" just right so that the fucking thing doesn't explode
and toast the entire solar system?! I mean...It's not like making
mashed potatoes and going..."hmmm...to wet, add some more flakes. No,
no...too thick now...more water." You gotta think that when you're
adjusting the make-up of something as large as a star, that anything you
do to affect it's chemical compound will have an exponential effect.

Fifthly, I don't have a fifthly. But if I did, it would probably have
something to do with the fact that re-igniting the sun is completely
impossible. We will master time travel before we're able to re-ignite a
star. I mean think about it. Even if you shot a nuke the size of Earth
at the thing (which would be impossible because you would need a couple
of chunks of enriched uranium that equal the size of Earth, which is
ridiculous because...well...the Earth isn't made of Uranium)...but
anyway, it wouldn't do a damned thing because the Nuke would still be
less than a 1,000th of a percent of the total mass of the sun.

Either way, I bet Cillian Murphy will look oddly creepy in the
flick...and Chris Evans will flash his pearly whites at the camera so
chicks can cream their pants while he rides a nuke in to the sun."

it's clear from this, and his flat out telling me, mike will not rest until someone is as upset over this movie being created.

i respect his decision... but i think it's a fruitless endeavor. i will likely see this movie, and it's just as likely that i will laugh at the silliness of the it all. i will not, however, become enraged over it.

please note, the man doesn't seem to have any issues with the star wars series, which actually takes place 'a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away'... even if they built 'the death star' and have the ability to travel through hyperspace.... oh, and lest we forget light sabers?

but i digress....


pan's labyrinth...

i watched this movie the other night. it's phenomenal! however, it's far less of a 'kids' movie than i'd expected. as a matter of fact, there are some very brutal, stomach turning scenes that i don't think that i am old enough to watch yet...

it's definitely worth a watch. i can't wait until it gets released here.

spider ship

this is just cool!


i'm a little drunk...

so, i hung out with mike tonight, which was a nice change, because he and i don't actually get together all that often. we went up to boston's to get a couple beers... but, mike lost his license (physically, not in the 'bad way'), and so, all he had was his old expired, clipped, license... which meant that he couldn't order. it's stupid that they don't except them, but, i guess they think that it might keep 'youngin's' from getting booze...

oh well, so, i drank a huge blue moon while mike watched the wild winning... i don't know if they won out in the end, but it was 3 nothing when we left there, so i imagine they took it no problem. anyway, we left there, stopped off at the liquor store to pick up some beer, then we took it back to mike's place and hung out in his dungeon (i.e. basement office he just set up), and reminisced over old comics and watched some movies, discussing what are good and bad movies. mostly i think movies are good for what they are... he seems to be a bit more demanding.

we did agree that the wicker man has to be one of the worst movies ever made... it helped to see the 'best scenes' which make the wicker man the comedy of the year on youtube. at one point, i put on what i thought was his daughters head gear, only to discover it belonged to his girlfriend, who has a freakishly small head. it's a tiny tiny head. wow.

after which... it was obvious that the night couldn't get any better... i took some random pictures and drove home....

good times, but i'm ready for sleeping.... :)