Eunice

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1. New Sarah Jane today, YAY! I'm going to download it tonight for watching tomorrow, and I'm ten kinds of giddy that I seem to be finding actual excitement in the idea of watching something. I am hoping this will kickstart me into watching everything I haven't yet and getting my fannish glee back on. If anyone can do it Sarah Jane Smith and her plucky band of alien fighting teenagers can. *heart*

2. Guitar Hero Aerosmith is way easier than Guitar Hero Legends of Rock. I know this because I managed to play three songs on hard (with the orange button OMG) on it, while I still can just barely play some of the songs on medium on Legends of Rock.

3. Debate, bailout, election, politics...I'd say something but it would end in screaming fits of rage at a country that doesn't feel like it belongs to me. I love Obama, I have some hope that we're not completely fucked, but most of the time I look around and think we are so fundamentaly broken as a country that I don't really see a way out. I hope I'm wrong.

4. Hugh Dillon. STILL AWESOME DAMMIT.

How are you guys?

I am attempting to distract myself while I wait for a torrent. So I'm thinking about aliens. Well, I've been thinking about aliens since yesterday when I somehow ended up watching UFO Hunters on History Channel and rolling my eyes a *lot*. The weird thing is that the more I learn about space and science and the universe the more convinced I become that it is highly likely that life is abundant out there, and probable that at least some of it is intelligent. I also become less convinced that there has ever been any sort of contact or may ever be. Why? Distance + the laws of physics. The universe is huge. On a scale I don't think is truly comprehensible. I can't wrap my mind around it all when I try to think in the actual distances, and I know I scale them down in my mind to make sense of them. I'm not ruling out the possibility that techonology could be invented or properties of the universe could be controlled (wormholes!) in such a way that the distances could be crossed. It's just that the odds of both that happening, and that of the species that would cross, ours would be one of them in this vast space...they aren't very high. Practically non-existent I'd wager. That if it did, it would occur in the ways described by so many UFO encounters just...strikes me as silly. It is fun fiction, what if we could cross those distances and somehow, along the way, find that improbable needle in a haystack. It would be totally cool. It's tantalizing, especially once you realize how likely the possibility that somone is out there to be found is. But little grey men visiting Earth? Nah. Didn't happen. Us being able to travel in any way that would put us in reach of the little grey men's planet? Unlikely, definitely not going to happen in anything approaching my lifetime.

Which is okay. There is all sorts of cool stuff to discover that we can reach. And if we'd like to not be, y'know, extinct we do sort of need to find some more habitable worlds (or figure out how to make some habitable) at some point. Which is in reach before we lose this one (and we WILL, not if....when), if we manage to keep from killing ourselves off. So that's all pretty awesome. Intergalactic block parties, not so much.

Guess I'll just have to wait for the Doctor to HURRY UP AND COME GET ME ALREADY. Much like Donna, I already have my bags packed. *twiddles thumbs*

When We Left Earth is a series running on Discovery channel about the NASA space program and it is making me ridiculously happy. It's so easy to be ho-hum about the fact that we went to the moon. Because it was so successful sometimes it seems like it's just something we did. But it was amazing. Astonishing. The fact that we went at all, much less that it was done in ten years. I tear up every episode I watch because with everything that is wrong with people, this is what is amazing about us. This desire to see and to know and to explore and the will and creativity and ingenuity to just...decide to leave the planet and then do it. To come up with a way. So freaking cool. And when I think that right now the Pheonix Lander is on Mars...it is on Mars...taking pictures and data and giving us a window into the possibility of life in the universe and someday one of us is going to stand there on another planet. Maybe there's hope for us yet. It's up on On Demand, so if you've got it, check it out.