$200 billion is the approximate total amount of the write-downs announced because of the credit crisis.

$14 trillion is the entire U.S. economy

$53 trillion is the size of the bill for the Social Security and Medicare promises we've made.

A million seconds is 12 days

A billion seconds is 32 years

A trillion seconds is 32,000 years

53 trillion seconds is 1.7 million years

Superman with a lobotomy

Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites will be testing their new spacecraft this year. I'm still taking donations for the purchase of my seat into space. Enjoy the clip of what it might be like.

March 2, 2007

A picture from the New Horizons spacecraft shows the Jupiter moon Io and the plumes from volcanoes on its surface. Hope you didn't miss the lunar eclipse, and stayed tuned for my interview with Lawerance Joseph about his book Apocalypse 2012.

Once again it's Halloween time here at Brain the Brainguy's Haunted Laboratory. Enjoy this clip of the fun.

Wally Schirra was the only astronaut to fly in all three of our first manned space programs. One of Americas great firsts. We need something great that we can do as a nation and be first at it. The first man on Mars would be great.

Well here it is my entire interview with author Lawrence E. Joseph who wrote "Apocalypse 2012 - A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End." What an interesting guy Larry turned out to be, not a fanatic or a fraud just a normal guy who has discovered and put together common sense evidence about the potential end or beginning of life as we know it.