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Airlift

Posted on February 22, 2010 | Comments Off on Airlift

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The latest from Michael Yon on the oft-ignored Afghanistan campaign.

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Hello universe

Posted on December 23, 2009 | Comments Off on Hello universe

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Voyager’s famous golden disc with greetings in various formats to anyone or anything who finds it billions of years from now. Something digital might have been better, but at launch thirty-two years ago this phonograph record was it.

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The Local Fluff

Posted on December 23, 2009 | Comments Off on The Local Fluff

The Voyager spacecraft, still traversing the outer limits of the giant gas bubble we live in, have measured the magnetism of a nearby interstellar cloud and its implications:

"The fact that the Fluff is strongly magnetized means that other clouds in the galactic neighborhood could be, too. Eventually, the solar system will run into some of them, and their strong magnetic fields could compress the heliosphere even more than it is compressed now. Additional compression could allow more cosmic rays to reach the inner solar system, possibly affecting terrestrial climate and the ability of astronauts to travel safely through space."

The researchers conclude: "There could be interesting times ahead!" That’s a given.

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Posted in Science/Engineering, Space, Uncategorized, Weather/Climate

The Information Explosion

Posted on December 11, 2009 | Comments Off on The Information Explosion

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Gizmodo’s graphical take on the Net. Pretty woolly stuff. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

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Why I No Longer Tweet

Posted on November 14, 2009 | 6 comments

I haven’t taken the logo off the sidebar, but I’ll get around to it. Sooner than I will waste time writing another 140-character Tweet. What a nothing. This sums it up as well as anything can:

"As a blogging, Facebooking, texting American who values the explosion of democratic user-generated Internet content and its contribution to intellectual debate, political activism, government transparency, entertainment, access to data and community, I can safely say I still see no reason to tweet."

No kiddin’. Twitter is, indeed, useless.

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Global warming? Not here.

Posted on November 10, 2009 | Comments Off on Global warming? Not here.

"For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation’s nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October."

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1877 ELISSA

Posted on November 8, 2009 | Comments Off on 1877 ELISSA

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Always time for another photo of the official Tall Ship of Texas, the Elissa, under topsails in the Bolivar Roads off Galveston. Sweet sailin’.

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