AIDS/Life Cycle 10 Kick Off

June 5, 2011

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Here’s Ted and I at the front lobby of the Cow Palace, waiting for the opening ceremonies to begin.  Can you tell we’re both running on almost no sleep?  Huge crowd, I’ll have some videos later of the riderless bike, and the start of the ride.

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The Ride To End Aids

June 2, 2011

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Ted Freitas

I recently published an interview, on QueerFresno and QueerLandia, with Ted Freitas on his upcoming participation in the 10th annual AIDS/Life Cycle, The  Ride To End Aids.

The ride begins this weekend in San Francisco, and ends the following Saturday in Los Angeles.  535 miles.  Ted will be live-tweeting the ride as much as possible, and you can follow him on Twitter, @tedfreitas, and read more on his blog, My Rebooted Life.

I’ll also be doing some posting on the blog myself, and I hope to link up with Ted and the riders Wednesday evening in Paso Robles.

Look for my posts at Ted’s site, My Rebooted Life, http://myrebootedlife.com, my Twitter feed @kc6yru, and here at JimmieJoe.com.

Mars Geek: Spirit Gives Up The Ghost

May 25, 2011

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Spirit has died.  One of two NASA rovers on Mars, no contact has been made with the plucky little machine since March 2010.  NASA had been hoping that with the return of summer to the region, the amazing little machine would come back to life.  Sadly, it appears that will not happen.

Transmissions to the Martian surface from Earth, and from orbiting relay stations have failed to elicit a response.  Age and the terribly cold Martian winter have finally silenced the science lab on wheels.

The next generation rover, Curiosity, is nearing it’s launch date, and NASA must reconfigure Earth bound transmission arrays, as well as the satellites orbiting Mars, to support the new mission.  Spirit will stand silent sentinel near Gusev crater now, slowly collecting a layer of Mars dust, waiting for the day when humans arrive to reclaim the sturdy little machine designed to operate for 90 days.  Landing January 5, 2004, Spirit studied Mars for 6 years.  Perhaps, someday, we’ll collect up Spirit, and return it home.  An honored spot at the Smithsonian would be appropriate, I think.  It’s certainly earned that distinction.

It’s twin, Opportunity, still roves on the other side of the planet, sending science back to eager researchers on Earth.

Endeavour Ready For Launch

May 16, 2011

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Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, an hour before it’s scheduled 25th and final flight.  One more flight remains in the Shuttle Program.

The Republicans Hate You (via Queer Landia)

May 12, 2011

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The Republicans Hate You Don’t believe it?  Here’s a short list of things they did in the House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee on Thursday morning: Approved, by a 33-27 vote, to require all four Service Chiefs to certify that the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell will not hurt the troops ability to fight.  Presently the law requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Defense Secretary, and the President to certify that DADT can be safely rescinded.  It seem … Read More

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Universal Geek – Albert Proved Correct, Again

May 4, 2011

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Artist conception - Gravity Probe B in orbit. Image Credit: Stanford

NASA has posted the following regarding the results of one of the longest research programs of it’s history.  The Gravity Probe B, first conceived in 1963, and in polar orbit around the Earth since 2004, has confirmed two key predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Measurements made by the spacecraft have verified two effects of a gravitational body on space-time, the geodetic effect, the warping of space and time around a gravitational body, and frame-dragging, the amount a spinning object pulls space and time with it as it rotates.

NASA’s article provides some explanations how this knowledge will further science research, and more mundane things like global navigation and weather predictions.

Check out the NASA page here.

Oh Say Can You See

May 4, 2011

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In case you missed it….

May 1, 2011

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< He’s dead.

We got him in Pakistan.

It took ten years, but it finally happened.

Tornado Strikes Visalia! I must have slept right through it.

April 24, 2011

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Display Sites Chosen For Retired Shuttle Fleet

April 12, 2011

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NASA Administrator (and former astronaut) Charles Bolden, in a ceremony at one of the Shuttle Processing Facilities, announced Tuesday the locations where the retired Space Shuttle Fleet will be displayed.

Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle, used as a test platform which never went into space, will be moved from the Smithsonian Institution‘s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport, to New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

Shuttle Discovery will be displayed in Enterprise’s place at the Udvar-Hazy Center.

Shuttle Endeavour will be at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

Shuttle Atlantis will remain at the Kennedy Space Center, on display at the Visitor’s Complex.

Retirement of the Space Shuttle Fleet leaves the United States without the capability to send people into orbit.  Any access by astronauts will be on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.  The Constellation program, which was to be our follow-up to the Shuttle has been defunded, leaving the United States hoping that successful commercial vehicles can be developed in the future.  Until such vehicles are developed, at an unknown point in the future, the United States can only send unmanned rockets into space.

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