Space - The Final Frontier

It's an all outer space weekend here. Well, not all, plenty of mixing going on this holiday weekend as well. But i can't wait for Monday's fireworks. No, not the American 4th of July fireworks, althougth I hope to see some great ones. The fireworks I'm waiting for are MUCH further away, try 80 million miles away. Has anyone been following this. NASA is sending an 800 pound probe on a collision course with comet Temple 1, a comet currently streaming thru our solar system and orbiting the sun. This isn't some mission to save the Earth from catastrophy, though I hope they are practicing, just in case. NASA isn't even hitting the comet with a bomb, just an 800 pound hunk of copper that will impact at 23,000 miles per hour, creating an explosion equal to 10,000 pounds of TNT. They expect it'll blow a chunk off the comet about the size of a football stadium. Hope it works. It's also supposed to be visible in some parts of the western hemisphere, hence the "real" 4th of July fireworks will be very far away. I'm excited. I know, you probably couldn't care less, but then again, consider that i make my living listening to the same song over, and over and over and over and....... about 200 times until it sounds like a finished mix. then the next day i do it again with a different song, and before you know it, comets seem interesting. you get the idea.
And in a completely unrelated outer space story, I saw War of the Worlds tonight. Holy cow. Great movie, go see it. Now back to mixing for me. I am mixing a crazy hot record for a new artist on Hollywood Records tonight. I'm inspired.
-Ken