Here in Pittsburgh we have a Toyota dealership named Spitzer Toyota . (I just found out from looking it up for this that it has franchises in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, so there may be a chance you might have heard of them too.) Anyway, their slogan jingle is: At Spitzer, our world revolves around YOU! So every time I read about the Spitzer Space Telescope or hear the commercial for...
It's like the opposite of Dr. Strangelove. And this is the coolest video I've seen in some time. Also, does anybody else feel like Facebook's new layout is turning them into a Twitter competitor more than anything else? The focus used to be on your profile page, and now it's not at all. Makes FB much more worth-staying-logged-in-to during the course of the day, much more of an ongoing ...
Right, so...I go through periods where I get very interested in a subject and will read/watch/look up stuff about it ad nauseum until I drive other people crazy with it, though I of course enjoy every moment of it until the subject burns itself out in my brain and I move on to something else. At Thanksgiving I borrowedmy dad's copy of Apollo 13, having not watched it in years, and I rediscovered...
"Observatio Directa Planetae Extrasolaris" "Direct Observation of an Extrasolar Planet" Interesting and neat and spiffy and stuff: Hubble Directly Observes a Planet Orbiting Another Star NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. And look at this: This large debris disk is similar to the Kuiper Belt, which encircles...
" NASA scientists have discovered enormous undergroundreservoirs of frozen water on Mars , away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might be sustainable on the red planet." ~ Discovery News Cheers!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/launch_blog.html I'm camped out in the living room and watching NASA TV, and right now everyone is in the White Room and they're starting to climb into the shuttle and get strapped into the seats. I'm such a spacefangirl. Eee, comm checks!
new work, reported in The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , suggests the earthquake risk for New York City is higher than thought.
see this EurekAlert for discussion. in addition to being merely interesting, this kind of thing raises the question of where is a Homeland Security response for these kinds of risks and hazards? they are a tad more powerful. ...
