Tomorrow will mark the day of the very first attempt at Zero Gravity surgery. A group of French doctors will be the first to attempt the feat on a specially crafted plane usually reserved for astronaught and other Zero G training activities.

The doctors are performing this surgery in the hopes of gathering, what could be critical, information about conditions when operating in a Zero Gravity environment. Over the course of a three hour flight a total of three surgeons, two anaesthetists and a team of army parachutists will attempt to remove a fatty tumor from a willing volunteers arm through the use of specially designed tools. Due to the small area of the operating room on the plane and the effects of a Zero G environments, all tools will be magnetically attached to the operating table.

The doctors involved hope to futher develop technologies involved in Zero G surgery in order to create satellite controlled surgical robots. These robots, which will be controlled on earth via satellite links with Dr’s, will perform surgeries on patients in Zero G environments in the event of an emergency.

The Drs and crew involved have been practicing for the mission since February on both the plane and on ground and they said “it is all crystal-clear in our heads.”

Good luck to the willing patient. I hope that everything goes well and look forward to hearing about the operation. How cool is that?

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Even President Bush is having a hard time keeping his real opinions hidden. This freudian slip is brought to you by YouTube, the David Letterman Show and the letters A, S, S.

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I completely forgot about the season premiere of NBC’s new show Heroes being on tonight, though luckily managed to catch it part way through while flicking through the channels.

Though I didn’t see it all, I’l fix that tomorrow when they re-air it at 9:00pm PST, from what I did see it looks like a very interesting a very promising show. I’ve been seeing the commercials for this one for a few months now and have been very interested in seeing it, so I’m glad I managed to catch at least part of it.

Monday night is a rather dead night for TV so I certainly know what I’ll be watching now. Heroes seems really interesting, has a lot of cool ideas and different characters, and even though I only caught the last half or so of the premiere, I can already tell how a lot of the characters are going to end up linking together in the end. This is going to be a good show, I can feel it.

Yay! Sadly enough there isn’t much OTHER than reality TV that I watch, so finding a regular TV show that looks promising is actually kind of exciting.

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I’ve always been a fan of former President Bill Clinton, the guy was one of the best Presidents in recent history for the US and he got booted for a little intern under the desk action. Personally, If I was a US citizen, I would rather have a president with an intern under his desk then one with Dick Cheney’s arm up his ass like a puppet.

Anyways, Bill Clinton was interviewed on the incredibly biased Fox News channel recently and caught the interviewer in his lies and trickery. Bill was super fiesty in this interview and by the time it ended he was red faced and breaking out in a sweat, I loved it. It’s certainly worth a watch, check it out:

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It never fails, mainstream media in the US is so incredibly biased sometimes it’s actually hard to believe.

This is a prime example. How is it that the cover of the most recent edition of Newsweek Magazine in Europe, Asia and Latin America features a front cover article on Losing Afghanistan, yet the US edition is surprisingly Afghanistan story free.

I guess a story about Annie Leibovitz is more important to the American people than what’s happening in Afghanistan? That must be it.

Well, it happens every time, when a new season of a reality TV show comes out, especially one as popular as Survivor Cook Islands, someone always manages to dig up some dirt on one of the contestants.

This seasons feature is the strapping young Aitutaki member Ozzy, who apparently is about as shy of walking around naked as Richard Hatch, winner of the first season of Survivor.

Ozzy, one of the current favorites to win Survivor Cook Islands, was featured on Playboy TV’s reality TV series “Foursome.” Foursome was a reality TV dating show that aired on Playboy TV that “captures every passionate moment on tape!”

I can’t wait to hear what other dirt will be dug up on this seasons contestants. This one will be pretty hard to top though, with the shear funny factor of it.

An Onur Air pilot said something you, as a passenger, never want to hear while sitting on a plane waiting to take off: “I’m resigning. This plane is not safe!”

Ding! I don’t know about you, but that’s sign enough for me to say, ‘the hell with this, I’d rather walk.’

After making the comment over the PA to all passenger, the pilot proceeded to walk off the plane and leave all 180 passengers sitting in their seats, no doubt freaking out.

The pilot apparently heard a strange noise coming from the engine of the aircraft and evidently didn’t trust the plane enought to fly it, saying “I am resigning from my job. Do not fly with this plane. It is not safe. Do not fly with Onur Air.”

It sounds to me like he heard the noise, was worried for the safety of his passengers and refused to take off and I’m guessing the folks behind Onur Air were pressuring him to take off anyways, why else would he resign right on the spot?

All of the passengers were forced to stay on the plane in 100F heat for a while before the company finally decided to pull everyone off the flight. Some had to wait an additional 2 hours before being able to get anyother flight, where as 20 flat out refused to fly. I have to admit, I’d probably be in the same boat as them in this case.

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Tonight’s episode of The Amazing Race 10 starts off as usual, with a brief recap of the last episode, and then we get into the meat of this episode.

All teams start off based on the time they finished the last leg of the race. That means the former models Tyler & James are the first time to head out at 9:04pm. The first leg of the trip sees all teams getting to a bus stop as quick as possible to throw their names on a list for either the 12:00am or 2:00am bus to the capital city of outer Mongolia, where all teams will take in a show at a local temple.

The first five teams to the bus depot get on the 12:00am bus and the second five are left sitting around waiting for the 2:00am bus.

As the teams are sitting around waiting for their bus’ the kentucky team of David & Mary pass the time by socializing with the asians and gays sice they aren’t used to being around or even seeing either. Hooray back-woods Kentucky team! Luckily they don’t seem to be racist or homophobic and actually like the asians and gays, yay!

Peter & Sarah decided to pass the time by trying to get money out of the locals who are infatuated with Sarah’s prostetic leg, alas, they fail miserably and get nothing for their efforts.

The first batch of teams arrive at the Temple, which offers shows every 10 mins. Each team must enter the temple, watch the show and then grab the next bit of info from one of the performers.

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