The hypnoid-psych test that speaks TRUTH!

So because all my other friends have taken the creepy http://www.hypnoid.com/psytest2.html test, I figured I would as well (well if everybody else is jumping, I'm off to the cliff!). And yes, it was unnerving, with the strange visual effects, shapes out of a 60s surreal educational video, and the off-center questions that seemed to be implying horrible things about my psychological state.

I was thoroughly creeped out by the end of the test. What horrible things about my psyche might be revealed? Would the menacing circles and pulsating lines drip off my monitor and start to spread over the desk? Would I hear a voice asking me to do...things?   Was I going to be hypno-somethinged? Out of dread, I nearly didn't read the answer.


( As it turned out though, the answer was surprisingly accurate. )

I am just amazed. Simply amazed.

A film, in honor of Yuri Gagarin

50 years ago today, humanity took it's first tentative steps away from it's home, an event in my mind as transformative as the first fish to leave the water, or the first dinosaur to use its feathers to leave the ground.

In honor of Gagarin's first flight, NASA has created the firstorbit site, which shows a special film that follows the first orbit from start to finish. In our sped-up world world it may seem slow, but remember, to the first astronaut this was a two-hour leap into the unknown- we didn't even realize we could survive in zero-g.

And now a multinational crew on the International Space Station celebrates this anniversary, with former opponents now sharing space. If it seems at times we've stalled in our quest for space, think of how far we've actually come.