Naked Man in Wrong Room
The man told police he been brought back to the hotel from town by a woman but at some point wandered out of her room into the hall stark naked.
” He then wandered into another room, occupied by a husband and wife, had curled up and gone to sleep, he said.” [full article]

Spy probe images Apollo landing sites
NASA’s newly launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped images of hardware left on the moon by the Apollo astronauts… [full article with gallery]

Giant ‘soap bubble’ found floating in space
It looks like a soap bubble or perhaps even a camera fault, but the image at right is a newly discovered planetary nebula. [full article]

NASA Wants To Move The Earth
Scientists have found an unusual way to prevent our planet overheating: move it to a cooler spot.
“All you have to do is hurtle a few comets at Earth, and its orbit will be altered. Our world will then be sent spinning into a safer, colder part of the solar system.” [full article]

My brother sent me a video this week of a 3D render of the galaxies imaged in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (wikipedia entry): a series of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope between 2003 and 2004 that looks back approximately 13 billion years ago and images about 10,000 galaxies.

Not stars mind you. Galaxies. Each one possible of holding billions or trillions of star systems.

And this wasn’t through a big patch of the sky either, but in a tiny region of space the size of a square millimeter held a metre away from your eye. That leaves out 12.7 million single cubic millimetre patches of sky that possibly yields some similar results.

Like the following video says, all those figures are too huge of a figure to just compute in the human brain. And I’d agree.

I read of this image being taken some years ago, but it wasn’t till about a year ago when I stumbled across this image file that compares the scale of our solar system to that of the known universe and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field itself, that I had the pleasure of properly getting my brain’s nutsacks blown off.

It’s a big file (approx 1.5megs), so I’m not gonna post it here directly, but check it out and scroll through from the top and It’ll be sure to put some decent insignificance spice into your food for thought soup. Trivial things happen every day and our lives continually shift because of it, but with a little science, it’s pretty easy to put things into perspective of how tiny we all really are and blah, blah, blah, the existential thinking, just check out what I’m talking about here.

Anyway, going back to the original point of it, here’s the video and a full in depth examination article of the Ultra Field worth checking out here.

Yeah, I know it’s been almost two months since I last blogged anything. I think that’s the longest I’ve ever gone without posting something in all these years of blogging. But I could be wrong.

Anyway, since then, I’ve moved house again, caught a buttload of films at the film festival, celebrated several events, saw off an alarming number of friends going abroad and bought and watched many more movies. There’s also been some writing going on, but that’s still on the down low.

Plenty of people have been chasing me up on the fact that I haven’t blogged in a while and well… Can’t argue with that. But now I’m coming back at it like a crack addict.

Have spent the week writing up some new code and adding to this website (which is another thing I’ve been long overdue in doing). You probably wouldn’t have noticed, but there’s a [#] symbol under the titles of each post now. Clicking on them or the time posted or the post titles themselves now lead to that particular post on its own page. Something I had meant to do since forever and finally figured out how to.

The film section has now been expanded and each film has it’s own subpage, though there are some are still lacking in a video, but that’ll be fixed soon. The current place I’m at is great, but it’s severely lacking in a decent internet connection. More specifically, I’ve had to do all my surfing at a horrible dial up speed, which makes the prospect of uploading videos to be a tedious task.

There’s also now finally something in the extras section: The Saga of the Seafood Stalker. It’s something that has been going on for the last few months and while I’ve been updating people on these strange events through facebook, I’ve always meant to dedicate a whole section for it here and for the rest of the web to see.

Given the lapse in time since the last post, I figured it’s as good an excuse as any to finally get around to writing these pages and have something to show for the near two months of silence, as opposed to a post that just says whoops. Plus I just covered that in the title.

Anyways, enough of all that, I’m back and onto the real blogging…