Today's date is the same in both directions - 15-10-15 - day-month-year or year-month-day (it obviously only works for two digit year and it doesn't work for American dates but what sane person writes dates inside out). Of course that happened every month this year (and for past few years and will continue for few more years) and is going to be ( Read more... )

So I'm back in US after two extra hours spent in Toronto due to storm delays. Poland was beautiful as this is the time of year when everything is blooming (I went from lilacs and lily of the valley through the whole azalea and rhododendron blooming season all the way to pseudoacacia) and the weather was behaving perfectly. I got new visa. I met ( Read more... )

On May 20 Planetary Society is sending the first test solar sail into Earth's orbit. You can watch the launch here tomorrow.

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This first one is destined to burn in the atmosphere but this is the prototype for a actual launch next year. But they still need to secure additional founding so they have their own Kickstarter. They already almost 3x ( Read more... )

I've just spent two days in San Francisco. Actually I spent there a little over 24 hours and the rest was flying there in back. Not fun. Especially since we flew in early in the morning and then had to spent the whole day in training trying to pretend we are thinking. But at least I got this:

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So I'm enjoying spring weather in San Francisco

Night - Port and Bay Bridge

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Yesterday was Fat Thursday and I went in the search of doughnuts while the weather was getting progressively worse and worse. The day started nice with sunny and warm weather. Then it got cloudy and then the wind stated. The wind was getting colder and colder with the temperature rapidly dropping. I think I even saw couple of snowflakes. By the ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening an unmanned rocked carrying supplies for ISS exploded in midair. Noone was hurt and ISS is getting a Progress with supplies today but a lot of science experiments were lost in the explosion. So to think about more successful - like Mars missions.

Last month Curiosity has reached her destination - Mount Sharp, the Kilimanjaro- ( Read more... )

I spend last weekend travelling. It was a birthday trip for me and my friend - we are both from mid-October. We went to see Charleston and Savannah. Just as weather here got bad and it got cold and rainy we went South. This might be a strange concept since North Carolina is already far south from my point of view (I'm from 52o and here is 35). ( Read more... )

I'm on a trip through Southwest with some friends and these are the things we are planning to see: Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend, Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Sequoia, Yosemite, Mono Lake and, of course, Las Vegas which is where we are flying to and from ( Read more... )

I just spent a weekend by the ocean. Saturday was nice and sunny and pretty warm despite strong winds and I have sunburns too prove it. Then the wind got stronger and stronger and Sunday was storm level wind levels. It got cold - I think officially it was something like 12o but with the wind chill it seemed even colder. We had to avoid beaches ( Read more... )