All hail the Stardust mission

4.5 billion years ago is a bit hard to fathom, huh? I noticed at the Art Institute the other day that I am more intrigued by items from the 18th century than I am 300 BC even, perhaps just because I feel as though I can relate with that time more? What can we imagine about 4.5 billion years ago? It just seems like a void of nothingness.

Sorry to go on sounding like I'm on drugs. I am, but only cough medicine. :-)

I was trying to figure out a way to connect "Music Sounds Better With You" to the video for "Pump Up the Volume" and then I gave up

I've read they had to work with odds of 50 to one of being hit by something and explode but this time that risky comet fly by is a total success, vivement it's return on earth in 2006. It'll be a history lesson on a time when star dust hadn't turned to flesh yet.

There is a lot of action in space nowadays:

Scientists cheer as NASA rover signals Earth it has touched down on Mars

This is all excellent news, I'm very happy.