The United States Air Force's new reusable robotic spacecraft returned from space Friday. Launched back in late April, this marks the conclusion of a 270-day semi-classified mission. ("Semi-Classified" in that we knew roughly where it was, but not what it was doing.)

Because it’s a slow news month, everybody’s talking about this article here which shows the allegedly-startling news that weightlessness is bad for you. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100821/ap_on_sc/us_sci_space_weaklings;_ylt...

As most of you are aware, I’m basically a ten year old boy in a middle-aged man’s body. Check this out:

Now, if you’re an adult you’re going to view that and say “What the hell? Nothing happened there! Why is he wasting my time with this?” And of course you’d be right. Sad and joyless, but right. (And frankly, ‘right’ generally is the vestige of the sad and joyless anyway, but that’s an article for another day) If, however, you’re a hypertrophied kid like me (Which is also sad, but not joyless) you’ll have noticed a bunch of super-hyper-mega-cool stuff in there like:

Thanks to president Obama, we're unlikely to get an answer to this question in our lifetimes, but scientists are once again saying there's water on the moon. This debate goes back and forth quite a bit - there is, there isn't, there is, there isn't, you're a jerk, your mom says you're a jerk, you mom says I'm good in bed, and then the punches begin flying - but short of actually going there, we'll never know.