Scheduled maintenance of the toilet on the International Space Station. Even NASA geek has some shitty moments! 😉
Tip ‘o the flush to Twitpic via @Astro_Wheels
It’s Not All Glamour and Excitement in Outer Space!
July 2, 2010
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In Honor of Geek Week
May 26, 2010
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This is Geek Week on the Rachel Maddow show, so in honor of that, and of the recent STS-132 mission, here’s a picture of Atlantis docked at the International Space Station as it transits across the Sun!
Picture from “Bad Astronomy”.
Survey says…
December 18, 2009
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Think of a random person, and give them a message here, no names:
You’re supposed to be the IT person, so fix the damned computers!
Can you take a bra off with one hand?
LOL… never tried. Is it difficult?
Last furry thing you touched:
A german shepard. A big one. Thank goodness she’s friendly.
Spell your name without vowels:
Jmm Rvs
Do you wanna get married anytime soon?
No, I’m too young to get married.
Have you ever kissed someone in a band?
He used to be in a band, does that count?
When you looked in the mirror today, what was your first thought?
Who is that old man, and where is he hiding me?
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The Sky on Fire
June 20, 2010
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South Polar region.
The sky is on “fire”.
The aurora australis — the southern lights — snakes its way across the Earth’s magnetic field as seen from above!
In this picture taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, charged particles from the sun interact with the Earth’s magnetic field, lighting up the sky.
Things like this is why I prefer science to superstition and mythology. Those stories are entertaining, and inform much morality, but they pale before the real thing. This isn’t because some “god” decided to light the sky on fire, this is simply the end result of natural processes. Figuring out why it happens, how that might affect us, and that it might lead to other exciting discoveries and advances is what science is all about. How unsatisfying to say merely “because God made it that way”.
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