“You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead — just play with this — if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world — and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded — we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.”
- Bill Hicks

God Bless Bill Hicks

Space Shuttle Endeavor had a successful launch last night and is currently somewhere between earth and sky on its mission to the International Space Station.

On board is Barbara Morgan, the teacher who was the backup for Christa McAuliffe, who was lost with the rest of the Challenger crew in 1986.

The Endeavor hasn’t flown since before the tragic Columbia disaster in 2003. Their mission is to install a gyroscope on the space station so that it doesn’t have to use fuel to fire rockets to maneuver itself correctly (or something like that). There will be three space walks, the use of a robot arm, and all other sorts of rad things that you used to want to do when you were in 4th grade.

Now all I want to do is sit around and celebrate by watching videos of The Final Countdown over and over. This version in particular:

Icy…cold…refreshing…Aquafina…is TAP WATER. Anybody else surprised?

Here’s how it goes: We pay taxes, some of which go to creating clean water. Pepsi co then uses that clean water that we’ve already paid for (Public Water Source), has plastic bottles manufactured (just what we need to be using our petroleum resources on…), slaps a picture of crystal blue mountains on it, and sells it back to us at $1.50 a pop. Brilliant!

And guess what? Most of that other bottled water you buy on the daily (Dasani, anything by Nestle)? It’s tap water! You fools! Of course it’s always been this way, Pepsi’s just now changing the labels so they can’t get called out hard on misleading their consumers. (Now’s a good time to look up Bill Hicks’ rant on marketing.)

The CNN story.

I kinda feel like Charlton Heston’s character in Soylent Green…