Nica's Blog

I normally don't use my blog to make comments on the news, but the news has just been so good lately.

They are making progress on the James Webb Space Telescope which was recently in mock up for in my backyard.

An astronaut proves that she is just as nutty as anyone else. When NASA reviews their critia for evaluating the mental stability of astronauts, keep in mind that it is essentially impossible to screen people for that sort of thing.

The trail/mistrial of Ehren Watada show just how worried the millitary is about troop moral. Watada's behavior is clearly very threatening to the Army.

I will forever remember the 2007 Boston Mooninite Scare. It's so inherently funny that I don't feel like I have anything to add. I am proud that Seattle did not overreact. I like this excerpt from the Wikipedia article:

King County Sheriff's spokesman John Urquhart went on to state, "To us, they're so obviously not suspicious ... We don't consider them dangerous. In this day and age, whenever anything remotely suspicious shows up, people get concerned - and that's good. However, people don't need to be concerned about this. These are cartoon characters giving the finger."