Category Archives: Science/Engineering

Closeups of Sol

Posted on April 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Closeups of Sol

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Stunning new pix and video of Sol from the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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Posted in Science/Engineering, Space, Weather/Climate

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The Brit’s phony radar memorial

Posted on April 18, 2010 | Comments Off on The Brit’s phony radar memorial

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All countries have their cultural blinders, and none is so blind as he who will not see. This one, which is set in stone, as it were, claims to mark the approximate English site of the “birth of radar,” discounting much earlier work in Germany, the USA and elsewhere. All it needed was a bit less hubris in the wording. Englishman Robert Watson Watt certainly was a significant radar pioneer, especially in microwave radar. But he wasn’t even the midwife, let alone the matriarch, of the whole technology.

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Posted in Library, Science/Engineering, Space

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Obamalot’s latest move against Israel

Posted on April 9, 2010 | Comments Off on Obamalot’s latest move against Israel

“…workers at the Dimona reactor who submitted visa requests to visit the United States for ongoing university education in Physics, Chemistry and Nuclear Engineering — have all been rejected, specifically because of their association with the Dimona reactor.”

WordPress is fighting my effort to link to the source of the above, so I’ll put it here, I hope. Obamalot’s move may also be related to this.  Commentary from Roger L. Simon.

UPDATE:  The White House and the State Department are denying it, saying the Maariv newspaper story is inaccurate and there’s been no visas denied.

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Posted in Israel, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, The War

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HD radio?

Posted on April 3, 2010 | Comments Off on HD radio?

Heck, I’m just getting used to HD teevee. Next thing it will be 3D radio. Hmmm.

Via Dustbury.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, Scribbles

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The Day After Tomorrow? Nope

Posted on March 30, 2010 | Comments Off on The Day After Tomorrow? Nope

Boo-hoo. Hollywood strikes out again. Its 2004 climate-change doom-and-gloom flicker, “The Day After Tomorrow,” predicting an ice age for Britain and Europe thanks to global warming slowing the Gulf Stream ocean current, isn’t surviving scientific scrutiny. What small changes there’ve been in the Atlantic current since sat inspections began in 1993 apparently are only part of a natural cycle.

Via Snoopy The Goon.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, South of the Border, Space

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J.E.B.’s LeMat

Posted on March 27, 2010 | Comments Off on J.E.B.’s LeMat

I met a young astronomer years ago who was descended from Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. “So where was he?” I asked the scientist. He knew immediately what I was referring to. He replied: “We should have won.” I said if we had he would most likely be a farmer and not an astronomer as there would be no call for astronomy. I do like this commemoration, 10-shot LeMat, .44 cal ball and .65 cal shotgun combined. A working copy of which you can reserve for a mere $3,395. But it’s really too pretty to shoot.

Via TOCWOC –A Civil War Blog.

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International Space Station

Posted on March 22, 2010 | Comments Off on International Space Station

It may, sooner than we’d like, be allowed to crash into the atmosphere and burn up, its fragments falling into the oceans. But, in the meantime, watch this flash timeline of how it was built and think about what yet may be done there.

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