#space

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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...

alasdairw Mar 21, 2016
Spacelog
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http://spacelog.org/

The stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in...

alasdairw Dec 01, 2010

http://news.ucsc.edu/2010/09/planet.html

And yet we're still not funding space travel properly. What's up with that?

alasdairw Sep 30, 2010

http://www.xkcd.com/695/

I found today's XKCD near-heartbreaking on a number of levels. Why aren't we trying to get it home,...

alasdairw Jan 29, 2010

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...

alasdairw Jul 19, 2009

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...

alasdairw Jul 16, 2009

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...

alasdairw Jul 15, 2008

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...

alasdairw Nov 02, 2007