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Columbia and the NASA Web Site
NASA mulled nixing Web site after shuttle loss: The recent report on the Columbia disaster shows that NASA got worried about how current the information on its Web site was and how this would be interpreted by the press. "...one proposal by a midlevel employee at headquarters for a 'complete ...
Published: August 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
NASA Sued Over Deep Impact
NASA is reportedly being sued by a Russian astrologist because the Deep Impact probe "deformed her horoscope." Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe." ...
Published: July 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 981
Shuttle Program Critique
A Rocket To Nowhere: This is a brutal but facinating essay on the shuttle program. The author makes a compelling case that the program is less than worthless and should be abandoned -- along with the ISS -- as soon as possible. While half the NASA budget gets eaten by ...
Published: August 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 914
Helicopter to Catch Satellite
NASA prepares to catch a falling star sample: This is awesome. It's rare that the world of geeks and the world of action movie stars collides so enjoyably. To increase understanding of the sun's composition, NASA in 2001 launched the $264 million Genesis mission to collect samples from the solar ...
Published: August 20, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 901
Deep Impact. Almost There!
A while back I posted something about NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, and its hoped-for rendezvous with Comet Tempel 1; well, it looks like everything is a go -- so far anyway -- and that rendezvous will happen early tomorrow morning. Thus far the images that NASA's put up on the ...
Published: July 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 893
Deep Impact -- Bullseye!
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft hit its target early this morning. Unfortunately, I went to bed early and missed the thing as it happened. Shoot. I won't bother putting any images up; you'll find lots of them on the Deep Impact website, and elsewhere as well. My boys are as excited ...
Published: July 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 891
Around the Crater in 90 Days
NASA's Spirit rover recently reached it's "Mission Success" point, meeting all the goals that NASA had outlined for the mission. The rover is still doing science and going strong, but the turbo-geeks at JPL marked the occasion with a cool little Quicktime video showing how the rover has done its ...
Published: April 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 879
Armstrong's Quote: Right After All?
Speech software finds missing 'a' in astronaut Armstrong's famous quote: Some guy digitally analyzed the statement Neil Armstrong when he stepped on the moon. He concludes that Armstrong didn't hose the most important quote of his life. Some historians and critics have dogged Armstrong for not saying the more dramatic ...
Published: September 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 870
Tough Ethical Questions for Mars Mission
NASA rethinking death in mission to Mars: There are some very sad questions you have to answer when you re sending someone to Mars. How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back? When should the plug be pulled on ...
Published: May 1, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 839
So Long, Hubble
Hubble casualty of Bush space plan: Sometime in the future, we'll be mourning the poor Hubble Space Telescope. It was good while it lasted. The Hubble Space Telescope will be allowed to degrade and eventually become useless, as NASA changes focus to President Bush's plans to send humans to the ...
Published: January 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 832
Deep Impact. For Real.
This Summer the guys at NASA get to have a little fun. Sometime this month they'll be launching an unmanned spacecraft called Deep Impact. The craft will travel about 268 million miles, park in a safe spot, and launch the Impactor (sounds like another movie title!) which will collide with ...
Published: January 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 825
Meanwhile, back on Mars
I must admit I was shocked to find out today the the Mars rovers are still quietly going about their business on the red planet. They're still plugging along climbing through craters and scratching rocks. The Spirit rover has travelled over two miles since it landed. The folks at JPL ...
Published: September 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 816
The Gigapixel Camera
Ok, so it is basically a large-format film camera, the image only gets to gigapixel size after the film is developed and scanned, and the thing will probably never see mass production, but Clifford Ross' R1 camera is getting plenty of attention in spite of it's decidedly low-tech construction. And ...
Published: December 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 794
The Utility of Consultants
A friend of mine sent me this joke today. Pretty funny. A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL ...
Published: June 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 745
Google Mars
Google Mars This map of Mars, published by Percival Lowell in 1895, was the result of many years spent carefully studying the Red Planet through his telescope. Now you can do the same through your web browser. In collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University, we've created some of ...
Published: March 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 745
"We dropped it..."
Satellite mishap blamed on human error: It took 113-pages to come to this conclusion. A $239 million satellite toppled to a factory floor last year because nobody bothered to check that it was secure before moving it, according to a NASA investigation board's report on the mishap. There's a picture ...
Published: October 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 744
The Language Behind the Mars Rover
Internet language runs real, virtual Mars rover: Spirit runs on Java. I wonder if Beagle was running .Net? Java, the software developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s as a universal platform for Internet applications, gave NASA a low-cost and easy-to-use option for running Spirit, the robotic rover that ...
Published: January 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 736
Viruses in Orbit
Reports: Laptop infected with virus on space station: And this is why you don t use Bonzi Buddy as your auto-pilot. A laptop on the International Space Station is infected with a virus, according to SpaceRef, a website that covers the space program. NASA confirmed the report to Wired. A spokesman ...
Published: August 27, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 736
Computers in the Movies
The Use of Computers in Movies: A great list of "rules" in how computers are used in movies: High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, will have easy to understand graphical interfaces. Those that don't, have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that ...
Published: October 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 718
Kill-Free Meat
Our buddies at NASA have been working on a way to produce meat without having to raise animals. On a deep-space mission this would be a handy thing, but here on the home planet it would be a great thing too. Papers published recently describe how industrial-scale tissue engineering could ...
Published: July 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 713
Airplane Parachutes
Giant parachutes help small planes in distress float down to safety: I saw a bit on The Discovery Channel about these once. They started on ultralights, and I watched home video of a guy popping his plane's chute after a massive structural failure caused both wings to collapse. Very impressive. ...
Published: December 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 701
Fuel Up The X-Wings
The Cassini Space Probe has photographed a frightening visitor lurking in orbit of Saturn. NASA is trying to play it off as the moon Mimas. Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet at the heavily cratered moon Mimas (398 kilometers, 247 miles across). The enormous crater at ...
Published: July 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 701
High End Linux Installations
Linux weighs in: With all the hype about Linux on the desktop, and the presumption that Linux runs servers, a lot of people forget that pure Unix is its competitor in the server room. This article is talking about 500 or 1000-processor Linux installs not your everyday workgroup server. ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 699
Mark your calendars...
April 13, 2029 is the date that asteroid 2004 MN4 a quarter-mile wide chunk of rock may hit the earth. (Of course, it's already got a Wikipedia entry!) If you're wondering if that is a Friday, I checked already; it is. The risk rating for asteroid 2004 MN4 ...
Published: December 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 699
NADS
The National Advanced Driving Simulator: I was going to post this as a comment to Deane's last article, but I thought it deserved it's own post. The University of Iowa (my alma mater) has the mother of all driving simulators NADS. NADS resembles something NASA would use to train ...
Published: September 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 698
China Gets the Bronze!
Congrats goes out to the Chinese as they have successfully launched a person into space. Looks like space will be getting a little more crowded, but at least the food will be good. NASA better watch out, price for sending people and payload into orbit will soon take a tumble. ...
Published: October 14, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
The Comair Mess Revisited
Airlines' computer systems questioned: In the wake of the big Comair systems meltdown over the holdays, CNN has an article about why airline's systems are so rickety. It's notable for a quote from uber-security expert Bruce Schneier that tells the naked truth of it. Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert ...
Published: December 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 691
Spinning Spraypainting Scrambler
Rosemarie Fiore re-uses amusement park rides to create works of art. She s turned The Scrambler into the world s largest spirograph, and uses pinball machines as a painbrush. Fiore s selection of the Scrambler to make a painting, then, is by no means arbitrary. It represents the link between the old world s ...
Published: September 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 686
Send Your Name To The Asteroid Belt!
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is sending an unmanned spacecraft the ion-propelled Dawn to the asteroid belt, and is giving you yes you the chance to send your name along for the ride. Send your name to the asteroid belt on the Dawn spacecraft. Your name will ...
Published: December 21, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 685
Huygens Lands On Titan
The Huygens space probe made its descent to the Saturn moon Titan today, and early signs seem to indicate that the mission may have been an even greater success than was hoped. A sequence of parachutes then slowed it down to less than 300 km per hour. At a height ...
Published: January 14, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 680
Trebuchets and R. Lee Ermey
I was watching R. Lee Ermey on Mail Call tonight (awesome show, BTW), and they were pelting things with a trebuchet. No, that's not just a font from Microsoft it's like a super catapult. They had "the world's foremost trebuchet expert" on the show, and that led me to ...
Published: April 18, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 680
World Wind
NASA World Wind: I've been playing with this for a few weeks, and it's as close to the James Bond-ish utopia I always hoped computers would become. World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, ...
Published: February 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
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