Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• Our good president is creating czars right and left, to the point where you can't tell the czars without a program. So maybe we need a czar czar--I know a guy named Binks who could do the job...
• Jim Strickland sent me a decent video demonstration of superfluidity in liquid helium. Liquid helium had a starring role in my 1980 story "Cold Hands," and

Comments

[whl]

Well, not as a free floating blob, but the SHOOT experiment worked with superfluid Helium in microgravity.

[samwinolj]

Czars must have been the coolest things ever. I wonder why the Bolsheviks were so down on them?

[beamjockey]

Liquid helium has been used to cool certain infrared astronomy spacecraft, such as IRAS, COBE, and the Spitzer.

I think I met a guy in 1989 who was building a superfluid helium experiment to fly on the Shuttle.

What about Gravity Probe B?

There are probably many others, but those come to mind late at night.

[beamjockey]

I believe whl refers to the experiment I was thinking of.