…as long as journalists use phrases like this: (from the NY Times) Referring to a new test rocket by Blue Origin (an experimental spaceflight company). When the company performed the first test launching on Nov. 13, it made no announcement. And that was it, pretty much, until last week, when the Blue Origin Web site …
Category Archives: Science & Space
Earth in Perspective
This video from Google Video has a nice progression of size comparisons for some familiar stellar bodies, and some familiar extra-stellar bodies. Have a look-see. Gacked from SciGuy
The Moon: Gloriously
I recommend you go to the moon.google website and zoom in to see the craters. Very fine detail, indeed. Thanks to Jenn for pointing this out.
Polar Ice Albedo and Ponderings
I’ve been reading (not exhaustively) Realclimate.org since it popped up on the 2006 Best Science Weblogs nominations. I like science blogs that stretch what I know about topics, yet are not so far past me that I can’t make heads or tails. This entry I find cogent and fascinating. It reminds me that topics such …
Carl Sagan: In Memoriam
Today is the 10th anniversary of the passing of the great astronomer and educator, Carl Sagan. To memorialize this day, Joel Schlosberg has organized a blog-a-thon of articles about Dr. Sagan. Here is my contribution. 12/20/06 Update. Here is the link to Joel Schlosberg’s meta post concerning this event. I have no terribly inspiring words …
Cobb less Anti-Evolutionary Today
According to the AJC, the Cobb County, GA, biology-book sticker case has been settled. In an agreement announced today, Cobb school officials said they will not order the placement of any “stickers, labels, stamps, inscriptions, or other warnings or disclaimers bearing language substantially similar to that used on the sticker that is the subject of …
Hugghahadabuggahda…
I am a purveyor of scienceblogs.com because they contain a lot of useful and interesting information. Not that this isn’t useful or interesting, but it hurts my brain…
Excellent Website
Cleaning out the “to be posted” file… I’ve spent the past week or so perusing the pages on this website. Most are strangely amusing. My favorite quote, found on the page of Astronomically Unlikely is: …if all-natural organic free-range babies are the perfect ingredient for tentacle lotion… Originally, I was punted over by way of …
So, You Want to be an Astrophysicist?
ScienceBlogs contains a large number of useful, cogent, and entertaining blogs. One of them I was popping around on has a series of posts titled, So you want to be an Astrophysicist? Ahhh, where was the internet when I was in High School? Oh, yes. It was called DARPA and Prodigy and Bulletin Boards… These …
Dragon*Con 2006
Wahhhhhh!!!!!! As you may notice from the categories tags, Dragon*Con was a multi-threaded, awesomely spectacular, ravingly cool, devastatingly delicious weekend. There’s so much to talk about, I’m not sure where to start. This will probably end up being a multiple posting. I’ll start by saying, I bought a new camera the week before Dragon*Con, and …