Finally posting a bit about my time at Space Camp. Summary: it was as much fun as any geek could pack into eight days. And there were rockets.
Follow along with the photos as you read, and it could almost be a picture book. Almost.
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A Boston Globe article raises a good point about the “current situation in Falluja”:http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/05/returning_fallujans_will_face_clampdown. The city has been “secured” by the simple method of removing all its residents and shooting anyone who remained. The problem with that winning strategy? Letting anyone back in.
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I know I have some wild ideas of my own, beliefs that defy the available evidence, but at least I don’t “build a big shrine to my irrational beliefs”:http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/ and call it a museum. “Look! If I take this page from Genesis and “fold it like this”:http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i1/creation.asp and make the words match up like so, it’s science! Or a pteradactyl. Whatever.”
I like my news on the funny side. Humor makes the pill a bit easier to swallow. In that vein, Eric pointed out The Borowitz Report. It’s funny, it’s timely, and it’s served in small daily doses.
The folks over at the “Mars Homestead Project”:http://www.marshome.org/ are collecting recipes to compile a “Mars cookbook”:http://www.marshome.org/about/cookbook.html. Know any good ones? I’m not sure how one would test low-pressure and low-gravity baking on Earth, but there are probably some creative ways to get around that. 3-Bean “Spirit”:http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ Chili, anyone?