Hey Freak!

Because of this. A planned hotel in space.

"Galactic Suite," the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes.

Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three-day stay.

During that time guests would see the sun rise 15 times a day and use Velcro suits to crawl around their pod rooms by sticking themselves to the walls like Spiderman.

Seriously, wouldn't that be the coolest thing? Being in space. Looking down at the Earth. Imagine what you'd see. Hell, you could see the aurora from space, if you're really lucky. I'm sorry, but that'd be about the coolest thing ever.

I'd better start saving my pennies now.

In other news, coming up this weekend:

• The Perseid Meteor Shower. "For best viewing, try to find a dark spot, away from city lights and look east. For added bonus, Mars will be out, in full red bloom, in the constellation Taurus, just below Perseus." Peak shower time is 2am, Monday morning.


• This one, you can enjoy without having to stay up late, and be in a dark place... Deep Blue is on the Discovery Channel on Sunday at 8PM. This show is made from the same folks who brought us Planet Earth (which, I think is periodically rerun on Animal Planet). The photography/cinematography is just amazing. I mean, AMAZING. I hope Deep Blue is every bit as cool as Planet Earth, because... wow. Trust me on this one - set your DVRs.

Have a good weekend!

I thought the world was supposed to end December 22, 2012. Kinda makes that trip seem worth it now.

You'd get to see an awesome view of the Earth AND crawl around like Spiderman via velcro suit! I'd so be down with that trip...

I think the Spiderman thing would be the coolest. Could we get some velcro suits that you could do that in like on the ground here? THAT would rock.

Also, I saw some Perseid meteors last night when I was stargazing with my astronomy club.

Dammit! I didn't know Deep Blue was by the Planet Earth people! Did you see it? Was it good? I missed it!

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