The Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect

ok, so on January 4 at 6:47 AM EST you should briefly be weightless due to the alignment of Pluto & Jupiter, 3,718,232,280 & 483,370,196 miles away respectively.
NASA Tweeted it.

Fat Aliens ?

Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on the commonly argued question of whether space aliens are fat or not. In his typical liberal specist manner, concludes that space aliens like goats are not fat.
Perhaps primitive silicon based space aliens living on primitive silicon based planets foraging over crystal mountains rising up out of methane seas would be skinny, who cares? What we want to know is, what about the aliens seeking to come to earth and enslave us like so many Princess Leias.
3 things come to mind.
A. - the aliens will not be doing a lot of physical labor on their trip to earth. They will likely use flesh eating robots and mind control beams to conquer us. So, conceivably they could get pretty damn fat.
B. - Space rations might really suck & be in short supply as well. They might look like prison camp dwellers and why not? They still have their mind control rays & flesh eating robots...
C. - BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, if they are shape shifting aliens, what's it matter. Tyson completely ignores this factor.
There's a reason Tyson's job application at Blogging isn't Cool got folded up & was sent sailing out the window.
Furthermore, is Santa Claus an alien?

Philae

first image from PhilaeSo the European Space Guys land a gizmo on The Comet and what's the first thing it sees?
yup, Welcome to Northside.
And now for some gumbo...

what he said.