Once again, the best. webcomic. ever. expresses beautifully something that I didn’t even know I wanted to express:
See the rest of this comic. (I tried to link the panel above, but it just refused…)
Category Archives: Technology
Blue Origin reveals its rocketship
From MSNBC, via Boing Boing:
After years of working behind closed doors and locked gates, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has finally lifted the curtain that shrouded Blue Origin, his space tourism venture.
Among the goodies now displayed on Blue Origin’s Web site are photos and videos from the venture’s maiden test flight in November, as seen from the ground as well as a rocket-cam … pictures from the West Texas launch range and Blue Origin’s production facility in a Seattle suburb … and even the Blue Origin coat of arms, emblazoned with the motto “Gradatim Ferociter” (Step by Step, Courageously).
a small measure of privacy
Getting a new passport in 2007? I will be, and the first thing I’ll do after getting it is “sit on it wrong”. With a hammer. Why? Because the old-fashioned printed-on-paper part of it is just as useful as a 2006 passport, which people will need to be able to deal with until 2016 at least. That gives them 9 more years to work out any kinks in the system.
NASA and Google team up
Apparently NASA and Google have solidified a year-old relationship that uses Google technology to index and deliver NASA content. From Ars Technica:
In the first of many tasks that will be worked on by the new alliance, Google will work with the ARC to make NASA’s information available on the Internet to anyone who wants to see it.
Sounds like a great partnership to me. Google Maps Mars? Hubble Image Search? Maybe even a searchable archive of communications transcripts like the ones Glen worked on?
first images of SpaceShipTwo, inside and out
Gizmodo has posted the first images of SpaceShipTwo, the ship being built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic flights starting next year. (Ships, rather. The VSS Enterprise is the first to be named, but a total of five are on order.) It’ll hold two pilots and six space tourists, with big comfy seats (for soft landings after weightlessness) and sizeable portholes for earth viewing. From the images released so far, it’s going to be just as beautiful as SpaceShipOne. Perhaps moreso, because this time I can picture myself inside one…