Orion Launch Abort System Assembly
Great rocket-scientist photo of the day: The launch abort system being fitted to a dummy CEV housing in preparation of February testing at White Sands, NM. Note the “spares” in the top left.
Category: Science
Resonate your water for just $495!
Courtesy of the “Weird Earl’s” section of The Straight Dope comes this wondrous device to, well, resonate your water or other beverages. I can do no better than to quote the product site itself: The WATER RESONATOR is the original water balancing technology used by Tibetan and Buddhist monks for hundreds of years. Each one […]
Yellowstone Really Needs To Go Back To Sleep
Something to keep an eye on… Seems that there has been a stream of small quakes underneath the lake at Yellowstone. Quakes under Yellowstone are nothing new. Yellowstone is the shell of a super-volcano, a caldera as it is called. It has erupted massively in the past and will do so again at some future […]
The “Gore Effect” documented
The slightly tongue-in-cheek term “The Gore Effect” — meaning an abrupt change of local weather towards intense cold when or after Al Gore (prophet of Anthropogenic Global Warming) visits that location — became so-named after a few incidents several years ago (see the link above). These days, it’s generally applied whenever any Warmist group holds […]
Some seasonal cheer for you
Courtesy of The Daily Bayonet, who got it from Jammie Wearing Fool: Heh. UPDATE: And here, courtesy of Dave Barry, is striking scientific proof that white people — particularly Southern white people — are inherently rhythmically challenged: ..bruce w..
Nuclear criticality accidents over the past 60+ years
I’m trying to figure out where I ran across the link for this report (PDF, 3.7 MB); it was sometime in the past few weeks and was most likely from one of the science blogs I review daily, but I just can’t remember where. The report (“A Review of Criticality Accidents”) details sixty (60) criticality […]
The vast and widespread consequences of global warming
It makes you wonder how earth (and humanity) ever survived the Medieval Warm Period or the Holocene Maximum: Hat tip to Instapundit. ..bruce w..
Photos of distant worlds
[Thanks to Ace of Spades for the link!] Over the past decade or so, astronomers have discovered over 300 extra-solar planets, that is, planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. However, these discoveries have largely been indirect, due to the planet transiting the star it orbits, or variations in the radial velocity of the star. […]
At the mountains of madness
Every now and then, I see a news story that reminds me uncomfortably of some fiction I’ve read. Here’s one such story: Buried Antarctic Mountain Range Shouldn’t Exist at All An Antarctic mountain range that rivals the Alps in elevation will be probed this month by an expedition of scientists using airborne radar and other […]
This is so on target
This guy pretty much nails it: Flying still seems magical to me. Hat tip to Bad Astronomy. ..bruce w..
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