ARE YOU A FELLOW SPACE JUNKIE?

I have no illicit chemical addictions but I am addicted to a few things and I confess I'm a Space Junkie. I love every thing about space and can't get enough of the explorations and findings of "what's out there." If I could be born into a future real time of a Star Trek Generation I would depart from all I hold dear and precious to me for a chance to board an exploratory starship. The photos of outer space excite me inordinately. I love them. I am utterly fascinated by them.

That said, if anyone is interested in the total eclipse today seen in other parts of the world, click on http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12045500/from/RL.1 for news, related articles and sources to view it. Lots of good stuff on there and great links and slide shows. ( When I noted the news on MSN at 2:00A.M. I clicked on link after link, absorbed in the slideshows, then decided to post it. Upon checking the url after posting, it was already gone and a MSN archive search turned up the computer version of "duuuhhh, I don't know what you're talking about." Eventually I found the above site and hope it remains good for more than a few hours. It is "Watch the eclipse on the web," has a total eclipse on video and complete coverage of the event with links to other articles. The slideshow link Month in Space, Suitrat's Space Odyssey leads you to that slideshow. At the end, click on "more space images" for a page with numerous space slideshows. Or TRY to access the url below.) MSN arouses my wrath and is earning my enmity about how quickly they archive then won't let you get to archives.

Another page that can be accessed from the url above but stands alone is http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6955261 with current news but also archives of past space presentations. It offers a variety of really great slide shows of eclipses, space, galaxies, space programs, our neighbor planets and moons in our solar family, and a closeup of the comet the probe hit (looks like a big asteroid to me). Fascinating for adults and educational for children, much more interesting than dry texts and small snaps in a school book. I'm emailing it to non-msn subscribers in my family.

If you're a space junkie, enjoy!