Emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane
James May from Top Gear U.K. takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane.
08.17.09 | # | Start the conversation
Northlander.org is the online persona of Dan Bowling, a web developer living in Missoula, MT.
James May from Top Gear U.K. takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 spyplane.
08.17.09 | # | Start the conversation
Totally worth an HD download…
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman.
05.26.09 | # | Start the conversation
It really is amazing what we can’t see. Todays Astronomy Picture Of the Day takes a 40 hour, wide field, exposure to show what the night sky would look like if we could see what was really there. This isn’t your normal astro-photo and is worth a look.
04.11.09 | # | Start the conversation
This afternoon I decided to hunt down any photography groups that met in Missoula. I was left aghast when my Google Groups search for “Missoula photo” lead to a very different kind of top result. I was pointed to a post on comp.robotics.misc about the Mars Rover. Nothing to do with my search really… I almost didn’t click it. Curiosity, of course, got the best to me and I found the reason that I was lead to that article.
“Spirit had a busy weekend, culminating with a 75-meter (246-feet) drive toward “Missoula Crater” on sol 103, which ended at 2:33 a.m. PST on April 18.”
Missoula Crater? What?!? Indeed. As in Missoula, Montana. A second quick Google later, and now I have the Astronomy Picture of the Day for May 4th, 2004 that features Missoula Crater.
For a better view, I suggest the true color image of the crater from Cornell (high res version.)
01.09.09 | # | Start the conversation
It’s official, Dark Matter just came out of the cold.
“It comes in a ‘magic volume’ which happens to correspond to an amount which is 30 million times the mass of the Sun.
“It looks like you cannot ever pack it smaller than about 300 parsecs - 1,000 light-years; this stuff will not let you. That tells you a speed actually - about 9km/s - at which the dark matter particles are moving because they are moving too fast to be compressed into a smaller scale.
“These are the first properties other than existence that we’ve been able determine.”
11.21.08 | # | Start the conversation
Starbucks seems to be off the deep end here, and slightly less offensively here.
If you think your coffee shouldn’t be saying that to the masses, take your words here or leave a comment.
04.02.07 | # | Start the conversation
This is certainly not new news to the scientific community, but Carl Zimmer writes an interesting article about it anyways.more
Carl so eloquently states in his recent writing, The Sixty-Million-Year Virus, how our genome contains 8% junk viral DNA that is important to our evolution, as well as shows a positive link between our common ancestry with other primates. Chalk it up to one more piece of confirming evidence that speaks to a world view that many ignorant people fight so hard to keep out of our classrooms.
This article seems well suited for the non-science educated public, a talent that Carl seems to amaze me at all too often.
I am going to try to make it a point to mention some of the nicer articles that I find online about evolution. I am doing this for several reasons: my own archival purposes, the fact that it is timely, and that evolution (specifically how it is played out in society/politics) is a very interesting subject to most people. So here are the first two articles on my new list: (more…)
02.20.06 | # | Start the conversation
