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I had reason recently to make reference to an episode in the original Twilight Zone series in which Bill Mumy's character sent those he did not like "to the cornfield" (actually out of existance, never to be seen again) by the force of his will. Wondering how much currency this phrase still had, I Googled... and found The Cornfield Bomber:


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Space Shuttle Atlantis's last re-entry photographed... from space.

-- Steve wants to use that as his wallpaper when he gets home.

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Photo of a Sign of Eternal Truth. Read and understand, please.

-- Steve is continually reminded that today's Democratic Party is basically Lincoln's Republican Party, and that today's Republican Party is basically the John Birch Society.

Spotted via jaylake.

Here's a photo of a partial solar eclipse... with the International Space Station transiting the Sun at the same time. I'm at work and thus can't copypasta the photo into my journal, but trust me; my feeble hyperbole doesn't do it justice. It's well worth viewing for yourself.

-- Steve's agog.

spotted via the Bad Astronomer

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Just saw this over on the Bad Astronomy Blog.

They're putting high-resolution photography from the Apollo missions up on the web. High resolution really doesn't say enough; if I've done the math right, the highest resolution pictures are at 5000 dots per inch. We're talking one photo taking up to 300 MB of image data... and they'll be in the ( Read more... )