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Archive for the ‘science’ Category

death star destroys the enterprise

Military force was authorized yesterday minutes after the E.T.’s 48 hour deadline had passed. The E.T’s were given an ultimatum to stop their whale poaching and leave Earth or face military action.

large hadron collider update

Here’s a recent video update/primer on the repairs underway at CERN. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)  is being built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference. [...]

thirteen new adult leaves

the philodendron on the porch is sporting some impressive (IMHO) new growth this spring.

bird’s nest: a synopsis

Blue Jays: 4 Robin: 0
Well, it was fun to watch the bird cam for a few days while mama bird kept her four eggs warm, but in the end, after discovering her nest hidden cleverly in a hanging house plant, some nefarious blue jays absconded with her eggs and she was never to be seen [...]

when a tree falls in the woods

…Or in this case the driveway, if you’re there, let me just say that you can definitely hear it. Our house barely got a scrape, but on the easement just out back, right off the side of the patio, the neighbor’s Ford got pinned down…but it’s a solid beast and took a lickin’ and just [...]

and there are those who soar above the heavens

and there are those who soar above the heavens
Ryan Nyquist. Van’s Triple Crown. Oceanside, 2003.

biggest full moon of 2009

biggest moon of 2009 tonight

The moon will be at perigee (the closest point in the moon’s orbit around earth each month) at precisely 11:37UT today, the closest perigee in 2009, orbiting roughly about 357, 298 kilometers from earth°. It will also be a full moon tonight (January 11th, 03:27UT), but that happens about 16 hours later. For those in [...]

tonight’s waxing crescent moon (6% of full)

For those of you in the world who may have caught tonight’s crescent moon: here’s a brief, janky glimpse from a basic flipcam I hand held through a 150mm (6 inch) reflector with a 35mm eyepiece. The battery ran out while it was drifting below the horizon.

lro/lcross | return to the moon

Nasa CoLab recently hosted the twelfth Luna Philosophie salon, with guest Brian Day, Educational Technology Technical Lead at NASA Ames Research Center, who gave a great mission briefing on the coming LRO/LCROSS mission to search for water and landing sites for an antarctic station on the moon. NASA CoLab was set up to help build [...]

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