NERD NEWS ROUND-UP

For some unknown and ungodly reason, there's a group of people clamoring for a Director's Cut of Bryan Singer's film, Superman Returns. They've even made a trailer for the DVD, even though it doesn't exist.

Marvel Studios will begin shooting Thor in January 2010.

Martin Scorsese will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award in January, 2010 at the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

Say it ain't so, Spidey! A Spider-Man impersonator on Hollywood Boulevard was arrested on outstanding warrants after he allegedly punched a man.

NASA said they have discovered "significant" water on the moon, which might allow for the development of a lunar space station.

Monster Land has The Faces of Jason featuring the various ugly mugs from the Friday the 13th movie series.

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Space, the final frontier. Space is amazing and I still can't get my head around half the things I read about our universe. You've probably seen the still image of the planets and stars comparison before but this video really brings it home.

I leave you with a clip from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life featuring the "Galaxy Song" along with the lyrics.

Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth