Category Archives: Space

Finishing the ISS

Posted on December 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Finishing the ISS

ISS_0They’re finally putting more windows in the International Space Station.

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Tehran’s Star of David

Posted on December 1, 2010 | Comments Off on Tehran’s Star of David

This’ll learn ’em, by gosh and by golly. Imagine the outrage.

Islam, after all, is supposed to be the culmination of the human urge to find god in nature, not be merely a new flavor of it fit only to be surreptitiously adorned by the symbols of one of the oldest.

Heh.

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Welcome back Orion

Posted on November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Welcome back Orion

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The Constellation Orion, my favorite part of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Early NASA effort

Posted on October 24, 2010 | Comments Off on Early NASA effort

nasaLittle known outside of a select few Civil War buffs was the early Union space program designed to put an abolitionist on the streets of Richmond, if not the moon. Heck, they’d take either one. It was for sure their generals weren’t getting it done. Didn’t work, of course, or history would have recorded it. Uh, maybe.

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Blaenau-Ffycin-Ffestiniog

Posted on October 13, 2010 | Comments Off on Blaenau-Ffycin-Ffestiniog

“…observed features of the [Martian] Melas Chasma look remarkably like Blaenau-Ffycin-Ffestiniog when viewed from the heavens.”

But it’s too late, Mrs. Charm’s beloved Wales and its ridiculous spelling have lost out in the Mars-comparison sweepstakes.

Still, there’s always Qwghlm. Minus the reefs, of course

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Flood

Posted on September 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Flood

Frightening. Plausible. Sad. I couldn’t stop reading, until the Kindle battery ran down and I had to let it charge for a while. Like no flood story ever. I liked the characters, well, the likable ones. But even the unlikable ones resonated. No question I’ll be moving on to the sequel Ark. And many more of Stephen Baxter’s works.

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NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN

Posted on August 25, 2010 | Comments Off on NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN

Run for your lives. The Mars Hoax is back. Coming to a forwarded email near you.

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