Die Brüder Grimm and space trivia

Two things: I just saw the movie "The Brothers Grimm" and would advise one and all to back off and stay far, far away from this catastrophe of a film, it's a utter and complete waste of celluloid. It is one seriously confused film that can't figure out what it wants to be. Truly, it wanders from genre to genre, never actually finding itself. Come to think of it, it's very much like this blog... hmmmm... Still, you should waste no money on this film. The only worthwhile moment is in the Ratskeller of Marbaden when the townspeople are telling the brothers to seek the help of the cursed one. That's a scene worthy of Monty Python or Time Bandits. The movie also has some rather uncomfortable moments which are truly hostile to the French. I suppose that at this moment in time it's been deemed acceptable to abandon the ideal that each person should be judged on their own merits and we can now resort to ethnic and/or national stereotypes to make fun of entire peoples. I mean, it's completely believable and funny to think that someone French would eat the gore of a kitten which has just been thrown into the gears of a torture machine and then comment "Mmm... au point!"

And another thing... I dropped by Scientific American's website (http://www.sciam.com/) and they have a trivia game, the first question of which is: "How much does the Hubble Space Telescope weigh?" The answer they give is: "Hubble weighs about 11,110 kilograms and is roughly the size of a big school bus." Now, I'm not a scientist... but since Hubble's in outer space doesn't that mean that it presently weighs nothing? I mean, weight is relative depending on where a thing is located. Things have different weight on the moon than they do here, than they do on Mars, than they do on Jupiter... etc. etc. Perhaps what Scientific American meant was "If the Hubble Space Telescope were on the Earth how much would it weigh?" You see, I do deal in language, so I can quibble about that.