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Pluto, Not a Planet, Not a Dog
Please take a few moments to look at this Discover Magazine presentation about the ex-planet Pluto. It is very well done and not at all geeky. Did you know that there are a lot of “planets” and Pluto-like objects out there at the edge of our solar system? … Read entire article »
Bad Girls in Outer Space
Orlando Sentinel A NASA astronaut is being held without bail after police say she attacked her rival for another astronaut’s attention at Orlando International Airport Monday. Lisa Marie Nowak drove more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the astronaut Nowak pined for, according to Orlando police. Nowak — who was a mission specialist on a Discovery launch last summer — was wearing a trench coat and wig and had a knife, BB pistol, and latex gloves in her car, reports show. They also found diapers, which Nowak said she used so she wouldn’t have to stop on the 1,000-mile drive. Reports show that after U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman’s flight arrived, Nowak followed her to the airport’s Blue … Read entire article »
Pluto
What did George Bush know and when did he know it? What efforts are bing made on behalf of the many refugees from Pluto created by this decision? Shouldn’t NASA be disbanded? After all, they’ve operated for decades telling us that Pluto was a planet. NASA lied! Pluto died! Those of us who supported Titan for planethood are shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Just goes to show that a bought and paid for astronomer doesn’t stay that way. You Earthlings haven’t heard the end of this! … Read entire article »
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Pluto Kicked Out of Solar System
CNN After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is — and isn’t — a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one. You realize, of course, that this means WAR! … Read entire article »
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The Sky Is Falling!
NASA There’s a new crater on the Moon. It’s about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old. NASA astronomers watched it form: “On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon’s Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that’s about the same as 4 tons of TNT,” says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. “The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope.” Lunar impacts have been seen before–”stuff hits the Moon all the time,” notes Cooke–but this is the best-ever recording of an explosion in progress: Go and watch. … Read entire article »
Our Future in Space
Somewhere along the line, NASA lost the dream. You know the one. Boldly going where no man had gone before. Nit picking by small minds. Government bureaucrats with no imagination. Something killed the dream. In less than a hundred years, the Vulcans come. That’s the Star Trek mythos, and, you know what, why not? Space flight is a risky business. That shouldn’t stop us. We need to differentiate between calculated risks and stupid risks. It’s the stupid risks that are biting us in the ass, over and over. We’ll find that stupidity was the cause of the Columbia accident. America should be angry about that. But we shouldn’t turn away from space because of idiots. The shuttle should stop at the Space Station on every trip. It would allow for external inspection of the … Read entire article »
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Sixteen Minutes from Home
Sixteen minutes from home. And, now, called to a different home. A Valhalla where they fly free, forever.Space is the Final Frontier, and these were our best, sent out towards the stars. They knew the danger and the risk. And went anyway. Generations unborn will owe these heros much. The dreams that we see in Star Trek begin here and now, and these men and women were and are the dream builders. In that distant day when we are a star-faring people, the people who crewed Columbia and Challenger and Apollo will be the reason why.We must not turn our back on space. This must be a reason to go forward, to achieve more. Their sacrifices must not feed our fears but our determination. The stars still beckon to us, … Read entire article »
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Columbia Down
Check news for futher info.It appears the space shuttle Columbia may have broken up on reentry this morning over Texas. News video on Fox News shows multiple contrails. Contact with presumed debris should be avoided as they may be heavily contaminated. … Read entire article »
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Star Trek and Our Manifest Destiny
February 3rd, 2003 | Comments Off
When you look at the major Star Fleet characters in all the Star Trek shows and movies, most are American if they are not alien. I realize not all, but most. Star Fleet is located in San Francisco. An American, Zefram Cochran, invented our warp drive. And Kirk’s sexual harrassment of Yeoman Rand was pure American. Although, she did wear the boots… perhaps it was the other way in private… “Jim, have you been a naughty, naughty boy?” Back on topic. My God! Baseball is played by aliens, America’s sport! How cool is that? Back on topic. The pause that has been our space program for two decades must end. A lunar base and a landing on Mars should be our prority. Let privitization take over the Space Station. The stars are … Read entire article »
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