Found this over at WFMU and it has to be one of the best family portraits I’ve seen. I can’t stop laughing! Even comes with a GBH t-shirt! Classic!!! And the amusement continues over at Awkward Family Photos dot com.

You may remember that an object plunged into Jupiter. The blemish it left behind has, within three weeks, grown to the size of the Earth!

This past week, astronomers have discovered a new moonlet in Saturn’s orbit. The small moon is about a quarter of a mile in diameter and first photographed from the Cassini. 1000 light-years away, astonomers also found the first occurance of a planet orbiting backwards – ie. in the direction opposite to its star’s rotation – possibly due to a near-collision between star and planet. And by 2020 NASA says it should be able to detect 90 percent of potential collisions and hazards nearing earth’s orbit. These potential hazards are defined as those objects larger than 3 football fields.

Via BBC
Via Space.com
Via JPL’s Asteroid Watch

Anyone who’s seen FOX’s Glenn Beck knows that he is often confused, but even this rant over health care threw us for a loop. We Americans living in Europe (under mandatory state-run health care) find statements like, “America already has the best health care in the world…” pretty amusing (especially those of us who weren’t insured in the States because we couldn’t afford it).

But wasn’t there a time when Glenn himself detested the U.S. health care system?

It’s better than New Years, happens once a century and doesn’t mandate giving gifts!

German company Jetlev has just announced the release of their water-powered jet pak. $130,000. seems a little steep for a device that is limited to flying over water only. The pak is connected to a 10 yard hose, which is connected to a small, flat float contraption used to power the pak. Not quite what I (or Boba Fett) would have imagined, but fun nonetheless.

Via Jetlev

Zapping thru the channels back in 1994, friends and I joyfully discovered Troll 2, which has since that moment been the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Though the costumes were horrible, the dialogue stunk and the acting was painful to watch, this movie still had something that kept us glued to the set. I even ordered the DVD a couple of years ago remembering how bad (hillariously good) the movie had been.

I guess my friends and I weren’t the only ones who found this movie delightful despite its negation of quality. A documentary film, Best Worst Movie, has just been produced. And surprisingly, it seems to be drawing huge crowds. Maybe this really wasn’t the “worst film of all time” as IMDB claimed…

Troll 2 Trailer from 1990

Via Best Worst Movie