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Thursday, July 28, 2005
11:27 PMlost in imagination
Sometimes you have to put the book down and try and digest what you have just read. A man who eats cat hearts, a boy alone in the deep woods, a hand job in a girls bed, a murder. The different tones and words used to describe the scene.
I sometimes get lost in my books. I fall in and see the story unfold and then, all of a sudden, I am in my bed starring at the written page again.
At these times it is best to stop, take a quick look at the real world and to put off that next chapter to another day.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
10:21 PM
NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet
Wired -
"We won't be able to fly again" until the hazard is removed, Bill Parsons, shuttle program manager, told reporters in a briefing Wednesday evening. "Obviously we have some more work to do."
1:55 PM
Space Wednesday 19 Continued
More Discovery News:
Shuttle Debris Fuels NASA's Fears (Wired)
Debris looks to be from nose landing gear door. I sometimes wish that the shuttles had the ability to land with out crew, similiar to the Russian Buran.
Astronauts inspect shuttle for damage (Reuters)
"Almost halfway through the inspection, which was expected to take seven hours, no signs of damage had been apparent"
Space.com's Return to Flight Top Stories (Space.com)
Other news:
Cassini Reports on Sights--and Sounds--of Saturnian Neighborhood (SciAm)
Mars Plan Envisions Comfy Colony (Wired)
China Plans Woman In Space By 2010 (Space Daily)
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
3:19 PM
Space Wednesday 19
Great video of the separation of the orbiter and the tank. (NASA, Real Player needed)
Saw this live on MSNBC and we actually turned off the sound as the talking heads were driving us mad.
STS-114 Overview (PDF) (NASA)
Return to Flight Homepage (NASA.gov)
Other videos:
Launch (Real Player)Love those camera angles.
Booster Separation (Real Player)
Shuttle Roars Into Space in First Mission in More Than 2 Years (NYTimes)
"NASA officials said experts were studying what appeared to be images of objects falling away during the ascent but that it was too early to know whether or no it is a serious matter."
After Discovery's Launch, NASA Looks Toward Safety (Space.com)
"Meanwhile, shuttle officials said radar tracking of Discovery's ascent showed no debris shedding up until solid rocket booster separation, when a number of known debris sources are created. An imaging experiment that used two high-altitude WB-57 aircraft as imaging platforms for visible and infrared telescopes to watch the launch also apparently performed far beyond expectations, and apparently observed Discovery's ascent from liftoff through main engine cut-off. 'Those will be some views that we've never seen before,' Hale said, adding that it will still be at least another day until those images come in."
Mars Joins The Perseid Meteor Shower For A Beautiful Display On August 12th. (Space Daily)
I love meteor showers, I just have to get outside of Boston if I want to see them.
The Greening of Rocket Propulsion (PDF) (Aerospace America)
Long article will take awhile to download, but worth the wait.
The Mars Homestead Project
From the Press Release - "The Mars Foundation (tm) has completed a comprehensive, 8-month, pre-design study of the first human settlement on the planet Mars, an effort called the Mars Homestead (tm)Project."
Thursday, July 21, 2005
12:21 PM
Space Wednesday 18
Moon.google.com (via Kottke)
Google maps for the moon. All Apollo landing sites. Zoom in for a old standard.
NASA Plans to Launch Space Shuttle on Tuesday (NY Times)
Hopefully the sensor is working correctly.
How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet (Popular Science)
Giant space mirror to end global warming? Next on Lipschitz Live!
Futuristic Design Wins Competition For New Antarctic Research Station (Space Daily)
Antarctica is almost as close as we can get to life on another planet. Other images of the station.
Space Tourism: The Road Ahead (Space Daily)
'Star Trek's' James Doohan to Be Sent to His Final Frontier (Space.com)
Doohan had told family he wished to have "his ashes blasted into outerspace."
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
10:59 PM
Half-Blooded
Just finished the 6th book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Took about 12 hours I'd say, this in my mind is so far the best, and also the darkest of Harry's tales. One of the best things about it was that there were no huge glaring errors. Now the wait of 2 more years for the last one, well the last in this series. There is no reason why Ms. Rowling could not continue Harry's story after the 7th year at Hogwarts. I just don't know if I would want to keep reading them, 7 is a good number to finish with.
The next movie is out in November according to the website. Which will be a good way to get your Harry fix til Rowling finishes it all.
I think that Fleur Delacour looks cute.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
4:22 PM
Shh, we're hunting turtles.
Tracking the Wood Turtle, Somewhere in New Jersey (NYTimes)
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
3:50 PM
Space Wednesday 17
Discovery Launch a No-Go (Wired)
Shuttle's Liftoff Canceled by Fuel Sensor Problem (NYTimes)
If this is a small problem, then the shuttle has open 10 minute windows every day til the end of the month that NASA can use.
If a serious problem then the next launch window isn't til September.
NASA Awards Crew Exploration Vehicle Contracts (Space Daily)
Lockheed Martin and the team of Northrop Grumman and Boeing won the contracts. No surprise there.
GlobeTel Enters JV To Deploy Stratellites In Europe, Middle East, And Africa (Space Daily)
Stratellites of love.
Deep Insight: Comet Buster Reveals Dusty Secrets (Space.com)
Looks to be a "snowy dirtball" instead of a "dirty snowball".
Scientist Discovers a World with Triple Sunsets (Red Nova)
With animated videos of how the system's orbits work.
