The Awesome and Powerful-and Sometimes Crazy World We Live In

So not too many exciting things going on the past few weeks but there are a few headlines in the news that have caught my eye recently.

The two most interesting ones for me....one which I need to dig a little to figure out the details but it was the "quote of the day" in my online email edition of the New York Times, was this:

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot."GORDON JOHNSON, of the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, on robot soldiers.

Well, I guess the good new on this one is that maybe (hopefully) some day in the future we wont have to sacrifice our young men to war and death. So much of the above quote sounds like it came right out of the anals of a Science Fiction Novel though like as in the movie "Universal Soldier"....it is funny how life (sometimes very errily) immitates art and fiction. Hmmmmm.

And then there was this little tidbit about our powerful universe and the forces within it:

NASA: Cosmic blast among brightest recorded
By Robert Roy BrittSPACE.com

(SPACE.com) -- A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday.
No known eruption beyond our solar system has ever appeared as bright upon arrival.
The event equaled the brightness of the full Moon's reflected visible light, NASA says. It was not visible to the naked eye.
The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected December 27. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).
The commotion was caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a magnetar. These fast-spinning, compact stellar corpses -- no larger than a big city -- create intense magnetic fields that trigger explosions.

More on this story:http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/02/18/cosmic.blast/index.html

Wow is all I can say.

What else.....
My little baby brother (who is not so little anymore) Jeff is getting married this next saturday and I have been asked to be "Best Man". The wedding will take place back in my hometown of Wisconsin Rapids and so now there will be another Repinski in the world charts. Her name is Mandy....his wife to be.

Cant think of much else.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.