I love that Eli already loves books!

Countdown to LCROSS

This morning NASA will be shooting a probe into the moon at 6000 mph. The probe will shoot a huge plume of debris which will be analyzed to see if the moon has water. This is important as NASA moves towards building a permanent lunar base. For any who are interested, you can watch the impact live via the probes onboard camera here. You have to really want to see it live, because the impact is scheduled for 4:31 PDT.

Nuts!

I am confused about something and I want to see if anyone in cyberspace agrees with me because so far everyone that I've talked to in real life about this looks at me like I'm crazy.

I understand that a shelled nut means the shell has been removed, but it sounds so counter-intuitive to me. If you took the shell off wouldn't it be un-shelled or de-shelled??? A shelled nut sounds like a nut with a shell. If I say I "covered" Eli, that doesn't mean that I took a blanket off of him. That means that I put a blanket on him. I think that the description "shelled nut" needs to be changed because I cannot be the only one confused by this. I am going to start a petition to send to the nut industry. Who's with me?!?!