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Hubble Strikes Again!

....co.uk/2/hi/americas/7879206.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7774287.stm http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Aviation/Aerospace&url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.universetoday.com%252F2008%252F10%252F24%252Fgoogle-founders-buy-fighter-jet-to-help-nasa%252F http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Science/Tech&url=http%253A%252F%252Fdvice.com%252Farchives%252F2008%252F10%...

Frozen Sand Dunes on Mars

Wintertime on Mars can get chilly. If you look closely you can see where Carbon Dioxide has frozen out of the atmosphere on the South side of the dunes on the right side of this image. I don't know the scale of this image, but it is probably about a mile wide.

Almost the end of this cycle - 30 December 2008

Up top, no matter what sort of animosity we might have had to her mother, congratulations to Bristol Palin for surviving childbirth and delivering a healthy boy . In other celebrity matters, that's Sir Terry Pratchett, civilian , and Disney bails on the Narnia franchise . Internationally, now provoked, Israel intends on pounding the hell out of the Gaza area to achieve a cease-fire on ...

Another

Space Station Astronauts to Vote

... to the astronauts on board the space station with login information to the secure ballot. Once completed in orbit, the secure ballot is sent back to Mission Control and then forwarded to the Clerk's Office. Orbital Saucer: http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/03/us-space-station-crews-orbital-presidential-vote/ I had a joke about aliens and voter fraud, but I've been told it wasn't funny.

Bleargh - 08 October 2008

Now that it’s gone and past, I think this summary of Banned Books Week sums up the whole thing nicely . Feeling tounge-tied in situations where tact, caution, and not setting someone off are important? The Happiness Project offers eight tips for finding the right thing to say in difficult situations . In our news of slightly stranger, monkeys in a Japanese sake house have picked up the ...

Friday fritters...mostly about writing - sort of...

Surely there must be something lolling around in the gray matter this morning... I managed to drag myself out of bed & to the gym (that makes over 2 weeks of working out at 5 a.m. (before work.)  And, I've lost nearly 5 pounds & feel a whole lot better! Wow! Who'd a thunk that just moving around could be so important? Just kidding, sort of... maybe that's my first fritter? 1. When you write - ...

Облака на Марсе

Кадры 10 минутной (по Марсовому времени) съёмки Фениксом облаков на Марсе.

Strange New Comet/Asteroid/KBO

2006 SQ372 is a newly discovered object probably about 50-100 kilometers across, which has a 22500 year orbit, but which is currently closer to the Sun than is Neptune. Here is a Universe Today article about this. What is interesting to me about this discovery is that it appears to be the second member of a hypothesized group of objects called "The Inner Oort Cloud" which is a place ...