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Casual Friday — a bunch of garbage
Sure, everybody takes out the trash now and then. But do you think you know what’s in it?
Casual Friday — SDO vs. the sundog
Short story: SDO wins, in spectacular fashion!
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…
Casual Friday — No, you really can’t believe your eyes
Not when you’re watching TV at any rate…
Casual Friday — STS-130 overview
Right now, astronauts are busy adding some new features to the International Space Station…
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…
Casual Friday — Fly me to the m… to Mars!
OK, so at this point we have no idea where astronauts will go next, if anywhere. But in the meantime, armchair astronauts can (to some degree) content themselves with a couple of cool videos put together by Doug Ellison of UnmannedSpaceflight.com from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data…
Casual Friday — meet “Space Shuttle Jr.”
One of the longest-running sagas in the space age has been the quest for a practical, reuseable space plane…
Casual Friday — gravity waves
A five-minute explanation of gravity waves…
Casual Friday — model rocketree
If you’re like a lot of folks, you might just be facing the problem of figuring out how to recycle your now-worthless Christmas tree. If you had certain inclinations, you could always try what these guys did — gather up 32 large model rocket engines, and launch the tree with them:
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