game on?
Category: random
So the USS Nimitz leaves San Diego on monday with its strike group, destination Arabian Sea...
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March 31, 2007
March 30, 2007
Law of Large Numbers: $$$ edition
Category: astro
As the number of proposals submitted go to infinity, most all researchers must have near average success rate.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:22 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HST cycle 16 announced
Category: astro
STSCI just announced cycle 16 selections......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More bad pet food news
Category: random
Apparently an FDA press conference this morning gave some bad news on pet food....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - $$$
Category: random
Oy vey, it is friday again. On this season of passing over, we intrepidly approach the mighty iPod One, and ask humbly: what about funding, oh Mighty Omnipotent iPod? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whooooooosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:33 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2007
smallpox scare in air
Category: random
USAir flight 1014 - New Orleans-Charlotte held on runway while man tested for smallpox Update: He was the Director of the Navy Medical Service Corps? (kos diary) That is weird....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Evil Genius Redux
Category: astro
Ouch. Julianne treads where few dare......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deadly Dark Matter
Category: astro
"...invisible clouds of something that seem to swaddle the galaxies, and to provide the scaffolding for the structure and evolution of the visible universe." "It's about power, in a way."...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Political Paranoia
Category: random
There is a lot of speculation in the non-US press and in blogs about an imminent US strike on Iran, what with two US carriers in the Persian Gulf (and two Marine amphibious groups), the incident with the UK...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Paranoia
Category: science
The Incoherent Ponderer just submitted a paper to Science, and got an e-mail notifying him that he was listed as a co-author and asking him to do something if he did not accept this. I had the same thing...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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