Charlie Bolden: "I'm Not a Democratic Political Appointee" (update)
Updated: 2012-10-31 18:50:35
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The Progress 49 cargo craft ship went from zero to 28,000 km/h in about 8 minutes — as it usually does — but it then caught up and docked to the International Space Station in super-fast time, in less than six hours. This is the second Progress to take advantage of the abbreviated four-orbit rendezvous [...]
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Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hurricane Sandy intensifies as it grows Splashdown The Dragon returns to the nest As I write this , moments ago , the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a two week mission to the International Space Station . Splashdown occurred at 19:22 UTC . Yay UPDATE 20:30 UTC SpaceX has a picture of the Dragon floating in the Pacific : Click to ensmaugenate . This ends the first operational mission of the Dragon . It’s the first of twelve contracted by NASA to bring supplies up to and back from the ISS . There was no live coverage of the splashdown ,
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hurricane Sandy looms over the US Frankenstorm and the Dragon Awkwardly Embraceable interview My friend , the geekeriffic Jessica Mills , interviewed me for her blog on Tech Republic the second part is here It was a lot of fun talking with her we wandered over topics like Hubble , Star Trek , science , Doctor Who , black holes , Neil Tyson and Bill Nye , and what I would do if I encountered advanced aliens in a wormhole answer : self-promotion Jessica is amazing . She is a writer , producer , and actress , and was the driving force behind the very funny web series Awkward
. . . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Saturn storm cranks the heat WAY up Hurricane Sandy looms over the US Oh . Well . I feel pretty awful about . this They had to get their ideas from somewhere Via FlickFilosopher Related : posts FELIXTERMINATE PRECIPITATE PRECIPITATE CONFLAGRATE CONFLAGRATE EXTIRPATE Extermiknit Part II Trick or geek Share October 26th , 2012 9:43 AM Tags : Daleks Doctor Who by Phil Plait in Uncategorized 21 comments RSS feed Trackback 21 Responses to Oh . Well . I feel pretty awful about this . 8221 1. Larry Says : October 26th , 2012 at 10:07 am Destroy Destroy Destroy Is that a little
, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Flatly wrong global warming denial NuSTAR catches a black hole’s hot belch Oh , snap Another X-class flare from the Sun Yesterday , an active region on the sun basically , a collection of magnetically active sunspots popped off a series of flares that were actually fairly energetic . NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the action in this video Neat These shots were in the ultraviolet , where flares are easier to spot . Sunspots are where the Sun’s complex magnetic field pokes through the surface . The field lines store ridiculous amounts of energy did you see my BAFact
G2 Is Entering the Galactic House
The heart of our Milky Way Galaxy is home to a black hole named Sagittarius A* (known as Sag A* for short). It contains the equivalent of three to four million times the mass of the Sun, and as black holes, it’s kind of a quiet, friendly one. By that, [...]
FlightGlobal.com Privacy Cookies Privacy Cookies Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries Against advice , US Air Force throws out reusable booster baby with the bathwater GOES 13 has been recovered after sounder fix NASA tests SLS Block 1 configuration in supersonic wind tunnel ISRO goes to Arianespace for launch of GSAT 7 naval comsat and INSAT 3D weather sat President Obama gets support from first US man in orbit John Glenn Opinion : Ill-considered US Govt travel budget cuts means demise of some space and science conferences and quality downturn at others Shuttle Endeavour is moved gingerly through the streets of Los Angeles US National Research Council pours cold water on
: skip to main skip to sidebar Friday , October 19, 2012 Science Abused in Italian Courts Once Again What is the deal with the legal system in Italy A new ruling by the Italian Supreme Court has found , despite the lack of credible scientific evidence or even a plausible mechanism , that cell phones cause brain tumors The last time we mentioned Italian courts on this blog , it was in discussing the attempt to prosecute seismologists who failed to predict an unpredictable earthquake And of course , there was the famous trial of the scientist and pioneer of the modern scientific method who had the audacity to argue that the Earth is not the center of the universe Galileo Galilei It's a good thing half of CERN is in Italy . At least that offsets their silly science track record a good bit .
FlightGlobal.com Privacy Cookies Privacy Cookies Home News My FG Research Aircraft Jobs AirSpace Images Cutaways Historic Air shows More Search this blog Subscribe by E-mail Google Translate Recent Entries NASA tests SLS Block 1 configuration in supersonic wind tunnel ISRO goes to Arianespace for launch of GSAT 7 naval comsat and INSAT 3D weather sat President Obama gets support from first US man in orbit John Glenn Opinion : Ill-considered US Govt travel budget cuts means demise of some space and science conferences and quality downturn at others Shuttle Endeavour is moved gingerly through the streets of Los Angeles US National Research Council pours cold water on USAF reusable flyback booster plan Thales Alenia gets Eutelsat 8 West B GEO satellite order On a lighter note : A pear-shaped
: . skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , October 18, 2012 Cosmic Rays Might Offer Japan Much Needed Aid in Nuclear Power Plant . Cleanup On March 11, 2011 a wave almost 100 feet high rose out of a magnitude 9 earthquake centered close to the coast of Japan . As the ground shook in one of the wost earthquakes of the century , the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant initiated emergency shutdown : stop fission , turn on backup generators to cool reactors as the heat of radioactive decay gradually . abates And then the water hit . The generators were destroyed as the tsunami's flood of 40 foot waves washed over the plant . Without the cool water pumped by the generators , heat and pressure inside the reactors continued to build to a series of hydrogen explosions
: skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday , October 04, 2012 The Electromagnetic Universe It's no coincidence that our eyes are adapted to see visible light . Our sun radiates most of its light in the visible range if our eyes adapted to almost any other wavelength , our days would be much darker . nbsp And yet , visible light only represents a small fraction of all the light in the universe . Modern astronomy has allowed us to see the cosmos in every wavelength from radio waves to gamma rays , and has revealed a far more dynamic universe than our eyes could ever see unaided . nbsp This week on the Physics Buzz podcast , we'll take a brief tour of the universe , via the electromagnetic spectrum . nbsp And , we'll touch on some important questions about light . Like what does it mean for
Herschel Discovers Cometary Crystals around Beta Pictoris
We all know about comets in our own solar system. They’re conglomerates of ices mixed with dust and rock. As they get close to the Sun their gases sublimate, the dust is freed and that action creates dust and plasma tails streaming out behind the comet. Astronomers see comets [...]
And ironically, it’s XKCD What-if that is wrong. Well, not wrong by commission, but wrong by omission. First off, I’m a huge fan of both XKCD (well the 98% of their comic strips that are SFJ) and XKCD-What If. If I was 1/20th as funny as Randall Munroe, I’d probably be writing witty webcomics instead [...]