NASA takes a bazillion photos of launches, and this is the result of digitally enhancing that data to see things usually not visible in the heat, light, and blast of a lift-off. Full details at NASA.gov.
Shuttle Geek: Enhanced Photo of Launch Shows Fine Detail
June 3, 2011
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The One True Path
May 13, 2011
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I’m an ordained High Priest. (Really, I am. Honest.)
This is one of my Altars of the One True Path.
It dispenses the Elixir of Life.
It is not necessary to bow down before it, it’s only a machine, after all.
All hail the Altar of The One True Path!
Does this picture make me look…
May 12, 2011
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… like my father?
I sure hear him when I cough, and sometimes I think I catch him looking at me in my pictures. It’s all a bit unnerving. Hi Dad.
Blinded by the hate
May 9, 2011
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Peter LaBarbera, a busybody twit whose goal in life is “exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda”, Tweeted the message above, after JC_Christian tweaked his nose about the pending Rapture, due on May 21.
Mr. LaBarbera clearly has no clue about chaps, what they are, and who actually invented them. For clarification, here’s what “assless” chaps really are:
Clearly, the cowboy movement, a hotbed of twisted perversion, has no justifiable reason for wearing assless chaps other than to allow other cowboys to sodomize them.
There are, of course, some variations on chaps…
Mom
May 9, 2011
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My mother Wanda, 2005
A Blast From The Past: Fall 2007
March 6, 2011
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A 99 year old man visiting his wife at the convalescent hospital across the street confused the gas pedal for the brake as he was backing out of a parking spot. He rocketed across the street, taking out a fire hydrant, hit the next door neighbor’s SUV pushing it into the other SUV parked in front of it, took out a small citrus tree, then our common fence. The rock you see is from my yard, and slowed the car enough to prevent serious damage to the house. The gentleman was not injured, and was able to wait for his son to come pick him up. Fall, 2007.
Space Geek – Moons, Rings of Saturn
February 28, 2011
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From the space probe Cassini, in orbit around Saturn:
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Bad Astronomer Phil Plait says:
The moon at the top is Rhea, which is about 1500 km (950 miles) across. We’re looking past its south pole here. The moon farther away is Dione, which is 1100 km (700 miles) in size. And since Cassini was very nearly in the plane of Saturn’s equator, the rings are nearly edge-on. Note that Dione is on the other side of the rings as seen by Cassini, so the bottom of the moon is obscured by the rings. We can’t see Saturn itself, but it’s off to the left in this shot.
Rhea is only a little bigger than Dione, but is a lot closer in this shot: 61,000 km versus 924,000 for Dione! That’s why Dione looks so much smaller. As seen by Cassini in this shot, it’s actually more than twice as far as our Moon is from the Earth. Both moons are composed of mostly water ice, with some rock. Both have been heavily battered by impacts, as you can see.
Robot Geek – R2A Sees off twin at launch
February 26, 2011
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R2A waves as twin is launched into space on mission to ISS
Robot R2A “waves” to the Space Shuttle Discovery as it lifts off on it’s journey to the International Space Station. On board is a twin unit to be installed aboard ISS for testing and maintenance. R2A is mounted on the Centaur mobile platform. Photo credit: NASA.
NASA Geek – Discovery’s Last Launch
February 24, 2011
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JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Monday Geek on Tuesday
May 24, 2011
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I spent yesterday, Monday, in the middle of nowhere, ‘helping’ Ted set up wireless internet infrastructure for a client of his company. Microwave links from from civilization (Fresno), to the boonies, down to a home so remote the driveway is several miles long! Geekiness all day long!
Ted on the ladder, installing solar powered microwave equipment
A few more shots, after the jump. More
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