Star Trek Geek – Captain Kirk wakes the crew of Discovery
March 8, 2011
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NASA Geek – Discovery departs ISS on last mission
March 7, 2011
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Discovery departs from ISS. Photo Credit: NASA
Space Shuttle OV-103, Discovery, pulls away from the International Space Station on Monday, March 7, 2011. This is the final voyage of Discovery, after 39 missions in 27 years. NASA is retiring the Shuttle fleet this year, due to concerns regarding the stresses on the vehicles from repeated launching and landings. While designed, built, and maintained for multiple missions, the Shuttles are, like any heavily used machine, subject to wear and tear, and at some point become a safety risk above and beyond the dangers inherent in space flight. Endeavor, OV-105, is being prepped for it’s final mission in the VAB at Kennedy Space Center.
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.
My First Album
March 6, 2011
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Some Facebook fun:
1 – Go to Wikipedia and hit random. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3 – Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days.” Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4 – Use photoshop (I used MS Paint) or similar to put it all together. 5 – Post it with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in.
Sailor punished for accidental sleepover (via Queer Landia)
March 5, 2011
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The military is making progress, but there are still plenty of bigots and homophobes in the ranks. We can only hope that some higher-up will put a stop to this eventually. It certainly does not reflect well on the Navy.
via Queer Landia
Phasers not included
March 3, 2011
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What happened to X-37A? Photo credit: USAF/Vandenberg Air Force Base
The Air Force is getting ready to launch the X-37B sooper-secret space plane Friday, March 4, 2011, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Actually, it’s launching from the next-door Cape Canaveral Air Force Station) It’s a big secret, though, so don’t expect launch-to-landing coverage on NASA TV for this puppy. Unmanned, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…. oops, sorry, I mean able to remain in orbit for up to 270 days, the new ship is a test platform for something. What that something is, or what those somethings are, remain a secret. So while the X-37B is a secret space plane, it’s not a secret, but what it does IS a secret. Or something like that. Read all about it at Space.com. Well, not ALL about it. Just something about it. If we told you the rest, they’d have to kill you. And maybe us. So let’s not go there.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
March 3, 2011
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I’m not sure when I first became aware of them. That has to do with how I wake up most mornings. At some point I realize I’m awake, but I’m never quite sure just how long that’s been so. Once I noticed them, it seemed they had been there forever. But the thing is, they weren’t there yesterday. Not even last night. Now they were just there, and I wasn’t sure what to do about that. Early on, I wasn’t convinced they were really there at all.
On some mornings the ceiling fan above my bed is the propeller of a huge plane, about to land on top of me. Other mornings it’s an avenging angel ready to smite me for my heathenish ways. Most mornings it’s just the fan, hanging above the bed.
So… when I first became aware of them, just sort of “there”, staring at me, I simply rolled over and thought to myself “no more Taco Bell that late!”. The trouble was, when I rolled back over a few minutes later, they hadn’t vanished into the dream world. This was a bit confusing, since it usually only takes a moment for the real world to assert itself, and banish the imagined back into the fog of sleep.
I did the eye blink thing.
Still there.
I did the eye rub thing.
Still there.
We stared at each other for a few beats, then…
NASA Geek – NASA TV
March 2, 2011
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Watching the astronauts suit up for a spacewalk. You can see it on your cable/satellite system, or online at NASA TV.
There is a HD feed at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html that is actually ahead of my satellite tv system feed! That’s a bit strange to me… the HD internet feed is a split second ahead of the satellite feed, and well ahead of the standard internet feed. If you’ve got a broadband connection, the HD is the way to watch online! Spacewalks are a lot of work, but you get a break beforehand… you just float there while your astro-buddies do all the work getting your suit ready to go! Once you step outside, though, it’s about 6 hours of steady work, and no coffee breaks. Bathroom breaks are a bit different, too.
Huckabee fuels ‘Kenya’ lies
March 1, 2011
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Mike Huckabee
“Thou Shalt Not Lie”
Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” KJV
Former Arkansas Governor, Southern Baptist minister, and potential 2012 Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee recently fueled the “birther” lies that President Obama was not born in the United States, and is ineligible to be President. In an interview with New York radio station WOR, Huckabee said “One thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, (is) very different than the average American,” pointing to Obama’s decision in 2009 to return a bust of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He failed to note that the bust was only on loan to the United States, sent to former President Bush by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair after the 9/11 attacks, and was replaced by President Obama with one of Abraham Lincoln.
Barack Obama did not visit Kenya until he was 26 years old, and only visited his sister there for one month.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
They Came From Outer Space
March 7, 2011
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I didn’t take this picture. It’s not of the sight from tonight. It gives only an idea of what I saw streaking across the sky above my home. Two points of light (streaks here due to shutter timing) floating silently overhead. The Space Shuttle Discovery, followed by the International Space Station.
I subscribe to a service that will send me a message by Twitter about Space Station transits viewable from my home. Today’s message told me a “very bright” ISS would be visible. I set the alarm on my iPhone. They neglected to mention that it would be a double whammy on this pass!
It was, literally, a once-in-a-lifetime event. I can’t begin to describe how I felt as I saw it.
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