Never Underestimate The Power Of Human Stupidity!

A roundup of the news to date on this June 1, 2012:-

Apethorpe Hall, on sale for £2,500,000 - 48 rooms, no bog

Sesame Street Music As Torture

I'll probably stumble across more reports of dumb people as the day wears on. Meanwhile, Gideon Osborne and David Camoron are still incompetent dicks, Ian Dickhead-Shit is a Dickensian caricature in the mode of Mister Micawber, the world is stunned by revelations that the Pope is a Catholic, and scientists have unveiled strong evidence of sylvan ursine defecation.

Lundmark's Nebula*

 I have discovered an article concerning the future collision of the Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda. Article here.
 
May 31, 2012:  NASA astronomers say they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during the encounter, which is predicted to happen four billion years from now. It is likely the sun will be flung into a new region of our galaxy, but our Earth and solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.
 
"After nearly a century of speculation about the future destiny of Andromeda and our Milky Way, we at last have a clear picture of how events will unfold over the coming billions of years," says Sangmo Tony Sohn of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore.
 
"Our findings are statistically consistent with a head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy," adds Roeland van der Marel of the STScI.
 

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So. What will you be doing in about four billion years' time?
 
 
 
* Lensman fans ought to derive some amusement from this title. I know I did.

Logan's Run - The City of Domes and Carousel

The world of Logan's Run ...

I feel pleased to see the schematic for the Sandman gun.