NASA Schedules Briefing to Announce Significant Find on Mars
WASHINGTON - NASA hosts a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Dec. 6, to present new science results from the Mars Global Surveyor. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located at 300 E Street, S.W. in Washington and carried live on NASA Television and www.nasa.gov.
Rumor is that it is big - like “running water on the surface” big.
Type geeks are a special breed… may be that was the inspiration for The Typosperma Project:
The main idea of the ‘Typosperma’ project was to create some sort of new transgenic creatures, half (human) sperm, half letter. These imaginary creatures are cloned sperms, that typographic information has been implanted into their DNA.
I was a little behind the ball on this one. Spirit has been on Mars for 1000+ days… what an absolutely amazing feat of engineering, science and exploration (remember, it was designed for a 90 day mission).
Oct. 26, 2006, marks Spirit’s 1,000th sol of what was planned as a 90-sol mission. (A sol is a Martian day, which lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds). The rover has lived through the most challenging part of its second Martian winter. Its solar power levels are rising again. Spring in the southern hemisphere of Mars will begin in early 2007.
While my chemistry skillz still seem to be up to snuff, at a conversational level at least, my physics was never that superfly. Still, this article fascinated me (in much the same way the dumbest cats watch TV I guess):
If his experiment with splitting photons actually works, says University of Washington physicist John Cramer, the next step will be to test for quantum “retrocausality.”
That’s science talk for saying he hopes to find evidence of a photon going backward in time.
“It doesn’t seem like it should work, but on the other hand, I can’t see what would prevent it from working,” Cramer said. “If it does work, you could receive the signal 50 microseconds before you send it.”
One of the most powerful videos I have seen for a long while. It is a stunning argument for understanding our own weaknesses and the fallacy of absolute knowledge. Standing in the wintry fields of Auschwitz Bronowski surrounds himself the horrors that are wrought by ideology.
Duarte Design has a write up about their involvement in creating the presentation that Al Gore uses in the movie/lecture ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. The presentation is a thing of beauty and is truly instrumental enabling the audience to ‘get it’.
