Happy Yuri Gagarin Day!
Forty-six years ago today, a human being first went into space. And it was this guy: Вы хлынулись, Comrade Gagarin!
Posted by Deana in Events, History, Holiday! Celebrate!, Space on April 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
a cat walks onto a bus…
No, it’s not the first line of a bad joke. According to the Daily Mail: Bus drivers have nicknamed a white cat Macavity after it has started using the No 331 several mornings a week. The feline, which has a purple collar, gets onto the busy Walsall to Wolverhampton bus at the same stop most [...]
Posted by Chris in Animals, Oddly Enough on April 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
in which I get to say ‘spelunking’ and ‘microbots’ and ‘Mars’
Cool (from Space.com): A Mars-orbiting satellite recently spotted seven dark spots near the planet’s equator that scientists think could be entrances to underground caves. Cooler: The researchers hope the discovery will lead to more focused spelunking on Mars. A project here on Earth aims to refine the visual and infrared techniques THEMIS used to find [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on April 3rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
TGV gets even faster (and maybe comes to California)
Oh, can we please order about a dozen of these? A French high-speed train, with a souped-up engine and wheels, breaks the world speed record near Grigny, eastern France, Tuesday, April 3, 2007, reaching 574.8 kph (357.2 mph). The black and chrome train with three double-decker cars, named the V150, bettered the previous record of [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment, News, Technology, World on April 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
just taking a stroll
Think Progress paints a slightly different picture than John McCain would like: Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq. NBC’s Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour. He [...]
Posted by Chris in Iraq, You have got to be kidding on April 2nd, 2007 | Comments Off
