May
20
2002

Water Balloons in Zero-G

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to see a water balloon pop in space?

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May
16
2002

SETI@Home 3rd Anniversary

Somehow I completely overlooked the fact that yesterday was my 3rd anniversary as a SETI@home participant. 11850 work units and counting…

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May
10
2002

Wacky Patent of the Month

Over at Wacky Patent of the Month – US Patent #3,216,423: Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force.

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May
10
2002

The Ultimate Monty Python Site

MontyPython.net – the ultimate Monty Python site with scripts for all shows and movies (plus Fawlty Towers) and over 1000 sounds. I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK….

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May
07
2002

stinkfactor.com

stinkfactor.com – Where losers are losers and winners are still losers documents tackling a series of difficult (and often disgusting) challenges. Anytime the rules includes things like “no puking for 30 minutes” there’s got to be fun…

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May
03
2002

Collapse!

Collapse! – I’m addicted!!!

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May
01
2002

Next Generation Space Telescope

With all of the buzz about the latest Hubble Space Telescope images it seems like a good time to start thinking about Hubble’s replacement: the Next Generation Space Telescope.

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May
01
2002

Apollo Images

I just finished reading A Man on the Moon : The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
 by Andrew Chaiken and started wondering if NASA had all of the photos taken on the lunar surface available somewhere. The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal has a very nice collection of images, but I’m still looking for scans comparable to the quality found in Michael Light’s excellent book Full Moon (sample images can be seen at his website).

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Apr
30
2002

New Hubble Images

Fantastic new photos from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) which was installed last month during the Space Shuttle’s Servicing Mission 3B. I was showing these pictures to Michele and she just asked me why I hadn’t become an astronomer. I didn’t have a good answer…

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Apr
29
2002

Something to do in your spare time

Download the Internet.

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