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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Casual Friday — It's only a model…
Day late / dollar short — my apologies, I got swamped with home & work stuff. So to make it up to you, you get a geeky two-fer today — Star Trek (TOS) and Monty Python, combined…
Posted in Humor / Just for fun
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The scientific tourist #112 — Horten hears a… B-2?
While the B-2 bomber is an impressive looking piece of gear, not that many people realize that the technology of flying wings goes back to the Horten brothers in Germany in the 1930′s…
Posted in Sci / Tech Tourism, Technology
Tagged aircraft, Germany, Technology, World War II, WWII
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Carnivalia — 2/10 – 2/16
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Communicating science, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Communicating science, Humanity, Space
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Casual Friday — STS-130 overview
Right now, astronauts are busy adding some new features to the International Space Station…
The scientific tourist #111 — ejection seats
At the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim north of Munich, a line-up of ejection seats from both sides of the cold war…
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Technology
Tagged aircraft, cold war, flight, Germany, History, Technology
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Casual Friday — Robonaut 2: this *is* the droid you're looking for…
Well, so the future of the U.S. manned space program is up in the air right now — one thing’s for sure, though. The future’s going to need a lot more robots…
Carnivalia — 1/27 – 2/02
It’s early in the month, so there’s a bounty crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals for you to choose from this week…
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Critical thinking, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
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