#space
How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-man...
A NASA engineer explains the errors introduced by rounding Pi at various scales. More interesting t...
http://www.gizmag.com/bloon-space-balloon/19553/
Statement of intent: I will do this before I die.
Spacelog
The stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in...
http://news.ucsc.edu/2010/09/planet.html
And yet we're still not funding space travel properly. What's up with that?
xkcd: Spirit
I found today's XKCD near-heartbreaking on a number of levels. Why aren't we trying to get it home,...
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/0...
I know some people who are ambivalent about the space program. This concerns me slightly, as they gi...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/rememberi...
By the time this is posted, I am sure you'll all have seen this link everywhere on the internet toda...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/08071...
Just read that headline a few times. Go on. Now: that's not science-fiction. It's, y'know, a real...
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/satur...
Sounds of the fluctuating radio emissions from the planet Saturn. The Static Out Of Space. (via Bo...