Category Archives: Science/Engineering

Thanksgiving wonders

Posted on November 21, 2006 | Comments Off on Thanksgiving wonders

Glories, ice haloes, and the opposition effect. Amusing atmospheric optics while traveling over the holiday at eight miles high–including craning your neck up against the window to see the beginning of the black.

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What is this thing called Web?

Posted on November 3, 2006 | Comments Off on What is this thing called Web?

Improve it or be sorry, says Web’s developer, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

"He also said employers were now beginning to complain that there were not enough people who fully understood the web. ‘There aren’t any courses at the moment and it hasn’t really been brought together. We’re hearing complaints from companies when they need people that really understand the medium from both the technological and social side.’"

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The space elevator games

Posted on October 19, 2006 | Comments Off on The space elevator games

Ted Semon’s informative blog is the best way to keep up with the entrants preparing their crawlers for the games that start tomorrow in Las Cruces. University of Michigan, Germans, Canadians. They look like toys, but proof of concept is the aim.

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Let the games begin

Posted on October 17, 2006 | Comments Off on Let the games begin

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Just three days to the opening of the Space Elevator games in Las Cruces, NuMex, where we can hope to see some new improvements in the technology that ain’t rocket science but presents challenges and opportunities of its own–and the promise of a smooth, no-pressure ride into the black. /image by Christian Science Monitor

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Today’s pretty picture

Posted on September 28, 2006 | Comments Off on Today’s pretty picture

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It’s been called the finest achievement of the Space Age, taking pictures of the Earth in context. This is one of the oldest and best-known, the Apollo 17 look-back at the African continent, which some scientists consider the cradle of humanity/NASA

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Storms & space

Posted on September 13, 2006 | Comments Off on Storms & space

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And you thought space was "out there" and the weather was "down here."

Uh uh.

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Texas Native Skies

Posted on August 31, 2006 | Comments Off on Texas Native Skies

Archeoastronomy is an enthralling pursuit. Star Date Magazine of UT’s McDonald Observatory has a cool site about such doings across Texas.

"Native groups used the Sun and stars to align their houses and villages and to establish planting seasons. The Sun may have played a role in the political and religious life of some East Texas villages, where tribal leaders may have been seen as ‘Sun kings’ and the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets may be depicted in the rock art of West Texas."

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