Downtown Local Making All Stops: Eagle Nebulae Next

If you want the Orion Nebulae, get back off and go across the platform for the uptown.

Seriously, I think this is a great illustration of our Milky Way galaxy. The two posts—on Flavorpill and Gizmodo—that led me to Samuel Arbesman's original posting felt it necessary to treat the reader like an moron and point out where our solar system is on the map. I give readers of the Interlude much more credit and assume you all know how to find us. If you don't know, though, I've just told you where to find the answer... and you're not a moron: it just so happens that that was literally the first thing we learned in my college astronomy class.

Oblivion Postponed

They're shutting down the Large Haldron Collider for repairs and expect it to be down for at least two months. This means they won't be starting it up again before late November/early December, at the earliest. So for me, whether or not the potential black hole that will eat the Earth is a good thing or a bad thing will depend on who wins the election. If McCain/Palin wins, it's "Haldron, take me away!"

On a related note, my friend Lee Wochner has provided a useful link to Haldron news and status updates that I'm pleased to share with you all.

If It Ain't Broke...

The BBC reports that Italian scientists claim that, using ultrasound, they have confirmed the existence of the "G-spot". They can't pinpoint it's location exactly, of course, but they believe it's there (they seem to have basically narrowed it down to "somewhere... up front-ish... down there..."). One can't help but notice that the lead investigator on the team is a man and that the primary critic of the research quoted in the article comes from a woman. I'm not saying that women aren't interested in the vaginal O, but the g-spot mystique always makes me think of a guy trying to kill two birds with one stone. My opinion, guys, is don't knock the tried and true: trust me, you'll get better eventually and the practicing is all kinds of fun!