Posts Tagged ‘space’



So, what have I been up to?






I’m not scared of spiders, let’s be clear on that from the start off. When the kids scream from their bedroom that the tiniest spider in the world is looking at them funny from the corner of their room, I’m the first to dart up the stairs like some sort of arachnid-battling super-hero to save them from the terrifying little beasties.

Actually, what super-heroes fight spiders? I mean, Spider-Man seems to have done quite an adequate job of making the spider theme more positive than you’d expect. Perhaps I’m a spider-battling super-villain. Maybe the lines between good and evil are blurred and not instantly clear, like there’s some sort of differentiation between real life and comic books and 1980s cartoons.


So NASA has scienced up a new ninth planet to replace Pluto, because they decided Pluto was a bit shit and that. Well, they’ve theorised that a planet is there, they’ve not actually said anything definite, but the media is all excited because a new ninth planet will mean all the pub quiz books from 5 years ago don’t have to be chucked into landfill.


Apparently it is ‘slightly to the left’ of Pluto and is 10 times the size of Earth. Which is nice.
All the newspapers have photos of the new planet too, despite nobody having found it yet, which probably means it has a super injunction like that time that footballer did the dirty with his sister in law or whatever.