• Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you*).
• Free Comic Book Day.
• Huge opening weekend for Iron Man 3.
• Fantastic image of the Horsehead Nebula that's gone semi-viral this week.
• The Kickstarter for the Dr. Demento documentary went nuts the last two days, and funded easily.
• And I got a book I did not know existed last week: the Nexus Omnibus Volume 1
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( Where's the KA-BOOM? Video 3, actually.... )

NASA about to launch Sunjammer, the world's largest solar sail.

Of course, we've been ridin' it for years. Check out Track 21 on Dream of a Far Light by our good friends Wild Mercy.

Any good music, or space stories, or nifty tech advances we need to see? Link 'em up.

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Gonna be a slow week for posting, I think. I have stuff to work on, stuff to do. And I'm kinda subdued in my heart. Hugs to all of you.

Meantime, this is very cool: a time-lapse video made from radar images of that asteroid, Toutatis, that came within 4.4 million miles of the Earth this past week ( Read more... )

Go play.

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No, really. Coolest comment for me:... It isn't just numbers on a whiteboard or in a computer model - practical experiments are being planned by the scientists involved in the new research to see if warp bubbles can be created on a microscopic level using lasers. The fact that such experiments can even be designed, let alone whether or not they ( Read more... )

The first man to walk on the moon has died.

Neil Armstrong has passed away at the age of 82.

I saw on TV when they landed. I watched when Armstrong took that one small step. The universe changed that day.

Condolences to his friends, family, and NASA colleagues. Beyond that, I have no words.

Except:

Ad Astra.

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He would've been 92 today. In his honor, NASA officially designated the Curiosity Rover landing site Bradbury Landing.

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Otherwise known as "NASA's Mohawk guySo, what do you want next from the space program? I think it's time to seriously start looking at a permanent moonbase with a civilian population, within fifteen years. (Newt Gingrich did it as an applause line, and to fool people into thinking he's a futurist. I'm doing it because we need to start expanding ( Read more... )

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