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OK, This Is A Month Late
-- and I'm not going into competition with Dan Bush, but here's a terrific submission from occasional contributor Ric Locke (click on image for full-size version, 1024 × 768): Ric writes:I've noticed...
View ArticleReasons to Read "Homage to Catalonia"
I wouldn't ordinarily reference something on Townhall.com, but Paul Greenberg has a fine column headlined In defense of Orwell. RTWT.(You can read the entire book online here.)
View ArticleTonight's Lunar Eclipse
(Detailed info here.)The good news for locals is that it's going to clear off. The bad news for locals is that the wind chill is going to be 19°F. Not quite sure how I'm going to view this one -- might...
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Bit Moon Rising
Click on images for full-size (2288 × 1712) versions. All taken with a hand-held Nikon Coolpix 4800 through a 127mm Maksutov reflector with focal length 1540mm and a 32mm eyepiece yielding 48x. through...
View ArticleHeart of America Star Party, Tue 12 - Sun 17 Jun
I still wish they called it the Marais des Cygnes Star Party, but anyway, here's the website.You can read my report from last year's event here; pictures here.
View ArticleSpace Access '07
Henry Cate III alerted me that this event is being blogged by several people who are smarter than I am and have more bandwidth besides, so graze on over to:Transterrestrial MusingsSpace PoliticsRLV and...
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Lunar Eclipse Followup
(That would be this lunar eclipse.) Various people, including Phil Bowermaster and Rand Simberg, have linked to this amazing presentation of artwork by Rob Gonsalves, who seems to be the MC Escher of...
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Where I Was, and What I Was Doing
I was at the secure but not undisclosed location from 9-19 March, helping adjacent property owners put in a new water system. Here's some pix (click on images for original size):Future site of Manifold...
View ArticleBag a Near-Earth Asteroid, and Speculate About Catastrophe
Graze on over to Close Approach of Asteroid 2006 VV2 for an overview, then read the aptly titled A Big Chunk of Rock Passes Near Earth for details and charts. Go get it!Now for the usual fun. The RASC...
View ArticleWhy Rosie O'Donnell is Like Henry Morris III
-- is explained by me over at ChicagoBoyz. Enjoy!
View ArticleFuture ≠ Utopia (A Continuing Series)
Read Steven A. Shaw's NYTimes op-ed, Take a Rat to Dinner, for insightful commentary on actual vs perceived risk in food safety. His final sentence ends with "... officials should be prioritizing and...
View ArticleExoplanetary Water
Signs of water seen on planet outside solar system was the lead news headline on Yahoo! this morning. Like most exoplanets, HD 209458b is a "hot Jupiter," making it entirely unsuitable for life, which...
View ArticleCarnival of Space
Graze on over to Announcing the Carnival of Space for, er, the announcement of the Carnival of Space.
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Fourteen Years Ago Today
-- was an event whose anniversary we must never forget.UPDATE: Heh.
View ArticleDSS Video
The Dark-Sky Site, venue for the upcoming Heart of America Star Party, is seen from an unusual viewpoint in this 1-minute, 44-second video (warning: 4.4 MB) taken, somehow, by ASKCer Dave Fox, who...
View ArticleOf Gliese 581 C, Politics, and Life
The latest exoplanet being touted as "Earthlike" is yet another hot Jupiter - though "hot Neptune" might be a better phrase - that has spiraled close enough to its star to have a "surface" temperature...
View Article"Meteorite Capital" Hit by Tornado
Greensburg, KS, previously mentioned on Arcturus in Road Trip Report, Stained Glass from the Sky, and When the Stars Fall on Kansas, has been heavily damaged by a tornado.UPDATE: Greensburg is now...
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