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25 June 2008
Eureka! Science News: Google News for Science
A Canadian scientist has recently launched a news aggregator for basic science. A news aggregator is a service that automatically collects headlines and blurbs from other sites, without creating any original content – like Google News, AOL News, and Yahoo News. Eureka! Science News provides science news in several categories, including astronomy! So far, I’m pretty impressed with the site, especially the Astronomy/Space section, which provides news as well as …
24 June 2008
Phoenix hilarity
My old thesis title: “Composition and morphology of aeolian deposits in the north polar region of Mars and implications for sediment transport.” My new thesis title: “Why the #$%#& are there polar bears at the north pole of Mars?”
30 May 2008
What job would you do in space?
CNN has a weird quiz to help you find out. Apparently I’m the biodome gardener. Sounds fun to me, though my houseplants here on earth tend to either dry out or die from overwatering… Apparently this is part of a snazzy site that CNN is running called “Just Imagine“. The idea seems to be to speculate what life will be like in 2020. I don’t know how this made it …
12 May 2008
Lego Mars!
Targeted ads in gmail sometimes show me some awesome sites. I posted before about the chance to buy land on Mars, and now I learn that Lego has a Mars Mission set of toys! They even manage to slip a few facts in on the web site. For example, they have “transmissions from Mars” and one of them describes working in Valles Marineris, giving all its impressive stats. Of course, …
24 April 2008
The Search for Life on Mars: Part 1
Pre-Space Age The prospect of life on Mars has tantalized humans for centuries. We long to find some proof that we are not alone, that the universe is not as empty as it seems, and so we look to the most Earth-like planet in our solar system for signs of life. Early astronomers quickly noticed that Mars shares some properties with the Earth. In 1783, William Herschel discussed the similarities …
13 April 2008
Cracking the Nutcases
Over at the space review, Dwayne Day shoots down the ever-ridiculous Richard Hoagland; the guy who, among other things, believes that there are glass tunnels and cities and pyramids and faces on Mars. Go take a look, at Day’s article. It’s pretty amusing.
12 April 2008
Yuri's Night 2008
Happy Yuri’s night everyone! What are you doing reading blogs? Go out and celebrate the 47th anniversary of the first human in space!
