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Big News » The space dudes are going on another spacewalk, this time to repair some minor shuttle damage. That should be fun.

Now, today's story...

With the Burger King Incident of 2005 having long since past the point when I stopped understanding, I'd prefer to distance myself from it entirely. It was a silly story wherein I took a little poetic license so as to emphasize some goofy moments. There are people right now orbiting the planet, risking life and limb to repair a vehicle they need just to get home. And we can't agree to disagree?

Doesn't matter. Happily moving on.

But speaking of outer space, I was just thinking last night about some movies I really like. (Who knows why.) And I don't like many movies, mostly because the characters are so underdeveloped, it doesn't really matter to me what happens to them. But as always, there are a few exceptions.

When the characterization flies out the window, the next best thing is the story. It's got to be an intriguing story while at the same time being told well. One of my favorites was based on a Michael Crichton book called Sphere. (The reading material was naturally superior to those fancy moving pictures.)

If you never read/seen it, the story revolves around a mysterious, massive craft found at the bottom of the Pacific. And when I say massive, I mean massive. Navy Intel ages the thing about 3,000 leading to the obvious conclusion that it could not possibly be man made.

A crew is put together to investigate and find out what it is and where it came from. They make their way inside and start finding American flags and trash cans. Furthering the mystery part. They also find a funky spherical object inside. It has no doors, no openings, no seams. Yet one by one the crew members each manage to find their way in, later exiting with some frightening new abilities.

The big idea behind the story was that it was an American ship built hundreds of years in the future, think 2200s, 2300s. They roamed the universe apparently meeting up with alien beings, one of which created this Sphere that's freaking everybody out. Obviously they realized this thing was bad and thought it best to send it back in time 3,000 to the bottom of the ocean where no one would ever find it. They almost had it.

Then there's Mission To Mars, Red Planet, Frequency and other such sci-fi movies. I'm not that big into science fiction, but when they have stories that make you think that much, to me it's so worth it.

All this got me thinking about the mythology behind my textual series, The Chosen, one of my other blogs. I have some pretty weird ideas that I'd rather not say just yet so as not to spoil future chapters for those three loyal readers I have. In essence, the tag line is: "What if God isn't who we think he is?"

I know, blasphemous. But I live in America. And that's the way it is. Question everything, that's one of my philosophies. Get a little proof before making your mind up for good.

I know, enough philosophizing, I'm putting you to sleep.

Speaking of putting you to sleep, I got another one of those emails from the writers of Lost. They tell me that they've written the first few episodes of the new season and began production on July 28.

They also give episode titles and writers. The first is "Man of Science, Man of Faith" (penned by Damon Lindelof), the second is "Adrift" (by Steven Maeda and Leonard Dick), a third will be "Orientation" (as told by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Craig Wright).

But the best news in the world is that exactly one month from Saturday, I will own the entire first year on DVD.

And that was one scatter-brained post.

Catch Yourself Up: In case you haven't read the first 18 chapters of The Chosen, they're still there waiting for you. I've archived the first 18 chapters calling them Part I. Basically, Part I was just meant to familiarize the reader with the characters. In Part II, we'll dive into the big premise. The plan is to finish off with a third part that wraps up the series.