I remember Skylab, that was cool. ISS is a much better way to spend $100,000,000,000 than say, Iraq.
With the successful landing of the space shuttle Endeavour Sunday night, the International Space Station is on the verge of completion after $100 billion and 11 years of construction. NASA plans just four more missions to wrap up its few remaining station deliveries.
If you look at how this keyboard actually works, it is an amazingly complicated sample playback machine. Wicked cool.
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built inBirmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tapes, which have approximately eight seconds of playing time each. Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds.
Is it me, or is this sign begging folks to take a stroll on this private land? I mean, even if someone manages to get caught, the sign states that they'll be asked to leave. At that point -- if you flat out refuse or in some way fail to do so, they will call the cops. They then go on to explain that "this is in the interest of safety." That's nice to know because when I see a straight-up "No Trespassing" sign posted on someone's private land I often feel like the folks are almost rude in genuinely not wanting me hanging out on their property. Ah, sweet Manitou. Where were these signs when I was a mischievous kid?
The sign is at the entrance to the quarry on Black Canyon Rd. in Manitou Springs, CO.
I was trolling through the army surplus store near my house today, and I found these amazingly cool brass goggles. They're Swedish mountain goggles, and at $16.99 a pair (with cool tin can case) I thought that they were a pretty good find. They're brass with black paint, showing some wear but they're obviously not too old as the cotton straps are still in very good shape. More pics here.
Folks! I think you're all overreacting a little bit with the privacy violations in Google Buzz. Yes, I agree that they have/had some serious flaws, but that will all be ironed out in a couple of weeks for sure. Read a couple of articles on what to watch out for and go on with your business. I don't see a reason for anything more than a "note to self" being generated by these security problems.
Here is what I think happened:
Google meant for Buzz to be something closer to Twitter than a tool to have conversations with groups of friends. They designed Buzz to be a way of publicly broadcasting the little news and goings on, and they even made it geo located to make the "local buzz" geographically relevant. Then we all started using it like it was wave.
So watch your back a bit, and if you want a different example of how Google might be doing a little more than you intended check out Google History. Probably without your knowledge, you may have been keeping record of all of your Google searches, all of your maps and directions, videos and more. If someone hacked your email account they'd gain access to a tremendous amount of information, not just about you, but about what you've done daily over the last years. Freaky. Go turn it off and purge it.
Antiprotons don't have negative mass, they have positive mass. If a proton and an antiproton collide they literally obliterate one another and their mass is replaced by two gamma photons. Cool.
There is a cool story about its experimental discovery here.
The antiproton (p, pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton. Antiprotons are stable, but they are typically short-lived since any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy. It was discovered in 1955 by University of California, Berkeley physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, for which they were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. An antiproton consists of two up antiquark and one down antiquark (uud). The properties of the antiproton that have been measured all match the corresponding properties of the proton. The question of how matter is different from antimatter remains an open problem, in order to explain how our universe survived the Big Bang and why so little remains of antimatter today in our solar system.
New look around here! Yeah. Being that I haven't been blogging very often it seems a bit foolish to spend $5 a month on a site that I don't pay that much attention to. Non-Prophet still gets more than a thousand visitors a week, but with all of the things going on in life I haven't felt drawn to put the time into this site that I once did.
So today I downgraded to the free version of typepad, which appeares to let me only choose between this groovy plant-kingdom theme and something promoted by the movie "Avatar". I went with the plants.
Now that the pressure is off, I'm of course all into blogging again, so here goes.
Peace,
NP
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