Jue's Blog (tag:made by me)

From the snowy, moody, and sometimes sunny city of Washington, DC.

NASA's L-CHEESE spacecraft, a state-of-the-art space exploration vehicle made from unleavened dough.

On Friday morning, scientists will finally have an answer to a question that has plagued mankind for millenia: is the Moon made of cheese?

Many experts say that finding the fermented dairy delicacy is the first pre-requisite to future colonization of Earth’s natural satellite.

This is why NASA launched the LCHEESE mission, which will culminate tomorrow morning when a spacecraft propels a 2-ton saltine cracker into a frigid crater on the south pole of the moon. In the tremendous explosion that results, scientists hope to detect the spectroscopic signature of at least 10 kinds of semi-soft cheese.

“It’s too soon to tell what’ll come up, but we’re keeping our fingers crossed,” said a senior NASA official. “It might be a cloud of dust, or some pieces of pork paté. But what we’re really hoping for is a nice triple-cream brie, and maybe, just maybe, with a few slivers of manchego mixed in.”

After LCHEESE, NASA’s next step will be operation KMILK, a probe that will search for traces of milk ice hidden in lunar craters, according to the official. “Thirst will be a big problem for our astronauts. Cheese is well and good, but astronauts won’t be able to enjoy colonizing the Moon if there’s nothing to wash it down with.”

More info about LCHEESE can be found here

I couldn’t sleep last night, so I fired up GChat and Photoshop, and proceeded to compose an apotheosis to the summer-long, Google-fueled graphic design / web development crash course I’ve been giving myself. The goal? To redesign this site. This is only a little necessary–I’m accumulating some work experience IRL that could be showcased–but mostly, I’m doing it because I’m a self-absorbed, obsessive-compulsive, procrastinating geek.

Here are the 3 ideas so far, the one on the right being the current draft / what I did last night instead of work or sleep.

  

My initial idea on the left, which I actually mocked up a few weeks ago, was to combine my presence on the web into a single entry page. It failed because, well, the layout simply isn’t pretty. (After the jump: more design rambling!)

I’ve decided to try my hand at science writing after graduating from college.

This isn’t the type of life update that would usually go on my blog, but I thought it might be worth explaining the transition from the general wackiness posted here to the more serious, science and news-oriented material that I’ve been trying to put up. You know, because I need to at least pretend that potential employers (hey guys! hire me!) are reading this.

Worry not, I will still tell a few stories here if I have the chance. Not that I’ve had any sense of humor since being bored in Switzerland, though…