Intergalactic planetary

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From their email:

Dear Humanoid:

Intergalactic blogging celebrities unite! The launching of Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches into outer space elation at the coordinates of 28° 23' 18" longitude and 80° 36' 19" latitude at 6:29pm EST on Aug 04, 2006 was a success worthy of external satisfaction. A satisfaction so sweet to a job well done the Blog in Space team is almost certain "those" receiving your message will be grateful to cuddle up and read them with the intergalactic equivalent to a Grande Americano with two shots of white _mocha.

Continue to showcase your intergalactic fame by posting your personalized, extremely rare certificate on your site. Yours is one in only thousands and we discourage the selling of this on Ebay for such a rarity. Let your valiant efforts be shown and take pride in becoming one of the first bloggers to discover an outer life so mysterious, so unknown and so distant that only your compelling words could bring them forth (what a great concept!). Blog in Space admires your bravery.

When Telling the World Simply Isn't Enough.

Friendly Green Wishes,

- The Blog in Space Team

Let me just say to my intergalactic readers: Klaatu barada nikto!

Relost in space

It's been a few months (six). I thought they'd forsaken me:
Blog in Space

Far Out Spacenuts

Sorry for no new content today. Long day yesterday (Wednesday), and I didn't get in until 11-ish. Part three of the heart-warming story of Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), which I've sub-titled "The Bloodening", will be up tonight, so prepare for a bloody good time. But for now, I got another one of these today:



From their email:

"Dear Humanoid:

Blog in Space apologizes to each and every blogger not yet reading Chris Adams's blog. Have you checked it out lately? Not only does it get the Blog in Space team more excited than winning lottery numbers and fried twinkies, but they've got Intergalactic fame fighting for your right to Intergalactic Freedom of Speech!

This certificate hereby signifies that on April 1, 2006 the Blog in Space team confirmed with Deep Space Communications Network that lift-off of transmission number 8 took place at approximately 9:30 p.m. with Chris Adams's blog transmitting for 48 minutes! Will this launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida bring us the discovery thousands of us bloggers have been waiting for? We feel good, real good."

At least they didn't tell me I stink, this time. As if I have the The Indie Virus, or something.

Not Uranus

Who knows if this is based in any kind of reality, at all, but I think it's neat.
Blog in Space sent this email to me today. Somehow, my blog is hurtling towards Pluto aboard New Horizons, the unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. Hopefully, Plutonians like Frank Sinatra.



Dear Humanoid:

Move over Neil Armstrong, Chris Adams has gone into space blogging history. Ten years from now your blogs will be reaching the undiscovered, unchartered, never-before-touched-by-human-hands planet of Pluto! The 6th transmission for Blog in Space trailed "New Horizons" at north latitude of 28* 31' 27'', west longitude of 80* 35' 53'', and with a frequency of 6105.0 MHz! (Hmm...maybe your blog will in fact BEAT NASA to the punch and discover Pluto first! ) You will forever go down in history as the first bloggers to venture into the planet unknown!

What will Pluto hold for us bloggers? Could it be filled with Oprah look-a-likes with a sea of hair foaming over the sides of the planet? Or maybe they are creatures with an infinite passion for American Idol, holding their own auditions, and awarding the title of Pluto Alien Idol to the "thing" with gnarly vocals? Whatever they find, if there's no Starbucks or wireless Internet, is their really a point to travel there?!

Now don't be alarmed if you think you missed out on this mission, we have the ability to keep direct contact with this craft during the extended trip to Pluto way into July 2015. We will be utilizing the 83-inch antenna dish along with the radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) because solar power is not enough and batteries don't keep going and going THAT long. Pluto is the only remaining planet that has never been visited by a spacecraft, so we have a feeling these alien species in particular are going to be itching with excitement to read your blog.

When Telling the World Simply Isn't Enough.

-The BlogInSpace Team


Image from Astronomy Picture of the Day

Space invader

I don't know whether to believe these, or not, but it's still kind of neat!


From their email:

"Dear Humanoid:

Pop the cork! BLOGinSPACE.com has released your blogs into space yet again! As you're reading this, the words you've submitted are hurdling through space, traveling to places that man has yet dare dream." Awesome wicked cool.

Fourth time's a charm?

lost in space

From their email:

"Dear Humanoid:

No, it's not your imagination. The stars have been shining a bit more brightly the last few evenings. Solar forces are quieting, making the Universe conducive for travel between Solar Systems. Currently, your blogs are being hurled through space at roughly eight billion times the speed of light!

At approximately 3:05 p.m. on the late afternoon of December 5, 2005 at North Latitude of 28* 23' 18" and West Longitude of 80* 36' 18" traveling at a direction of Azimuth 200 degrees at an elevation of 65 degrees on a 5945 MHz frequency, your message was beamed into deep space.

While we have yet to confirm contact of any of our 'Most Likely to be Contacted', we are getting reports of satellite dish interference and suspicious lights in the middle of the night. Communication is imminent, so make sure you refer your friends and be added to the list!

Indeed, the question isn't if you'll receive extraterrestrial contact, but when?!"

It's fun to pretend.

Spaced out

(from a Blog in Space email)

Dear Humanoid:

Is the third time the charm? We believe it is!

The Blog in Space team is confirming that blog transmission is underway for the third time. This time from the Golden State, California! This certificate confirms that your blog has been catapulted at 11:40am PT and hurled into space at North Latitude of 34.6 degrees and West Longitude of 20.45 degrees traveling at a direction of Azimuth 137.6 degrees at an elevation of 50 degrees on a 5845 MHz frequency.

Space...the final frontier

I especially love the part about "redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers".
That's one small step for this little blog, one giant leap for Nacogdoches.