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Category: astro
What would it take to capture our life, in full fidelity? It may be less than you think. I think....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:58 PM • 10 Comments •
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June 30, 2008
Category: astro
What would it take to capture our life, in full fidelity? It may be less than you think. I think....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:58 PM • 10 Comments •
June 27, 2008
Category: random
Stormy friday, and we idly ask the iPod: what about the weather? Will the Mississippi flood down river? Will the droughts continue elsewhere? We gots to know. Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:51 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: astro
Carnival of Space #60, like, up at Slacker Astronomy, dude....
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Category: astro
Early tantalizing Phoenix lander results from Mars....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:06 AM • 0 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Category: science
Who is Obama's Science Adviser?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:58 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: astro
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Colbert BFF, is back on The Report......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:52 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: random
Hardly seen any of the footie to date, just caught the second half of the Spain-Italy quarter final, and now the last 30 mins of Turkey vs Germany (replay)....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:37 PM • 4 Comments •
June 20, 2008
Category: random
Frantic, frazzled frændfólks friday. So, oh mighty iPod - will any good come of all this, and you know of which I speak...? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:42 PM • 0 Comments •
June 19, 2008
Category: astro
Phoenix has been digging shallow trenches on Mars, and hitting hard stuff, which is bright white - like maybe ice. Now bits of the stuff are vanishing before our eyes......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:53 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: astro
Carnival of Space #59 up at SciBlog Green Gabbro...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:21 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: astro
What is your take on the philosophical, or theological, tone in some recent popular treatments of modern physics?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:56 PM • 7 Comments •
June 18, 2008
Category: astro
NASA is really getting into the blog thing......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:51 AM • 0 Comments •
June 17, 2008
Category: academia
why is there always One that hatesdoesn't click with you......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:53 PM • 3 Comments •
June 13, 2008
Category: academia
"So, you get through grad school. You do research that gets lot of citations. You get tenure... ...then Larry King wraps it up: "Tomorrow, we'll talk about psychic kids." " 'cause y'know linking is an intrinsically good thing to...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:12 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: random
Hot and sultry friday. We ask the iPod: will GLAST really detect cold dark matter annihilation radiation from centers of nearby galaxies? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:56 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: astro
Carnival of Space #58...
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June 12, 2008
Category: random
About a week ago, George Will, in a column, asserted incorrectly that Cuba was letting NorwayChina drill for oil in Gulf waters. The meme was promptly picked up and eventually asserted by the US vice President. Where did this come...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:56 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: science
A few weeks ago I noted that the spring had the potential for some worrying flooding in the Mississippi basin...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:00 PM • 1 Comments •
June 11, 2008
Category: astro
GLAST launched at noon video here...
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June 9, 2008
Category: astro
In case you missed it, NASA announced selection of the six SMEX concept studies that will be downselected to two launch missions in 2012-2015....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:02 AM • 0 Comments •
June 8, 2008
Category: random
New Sigur Rós album coming out, they they do a free concert with Björk in Reykjaví at the end of June. In the meantime video and free download of Gobbledigook - first song on the album - here - signin...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:16 AM • 2 Comments •
June 6, 2008
Category: random
Sunny, glorious friday, as we head home. So, we skip to the Great iPod and ask: what is in store for us in the near future, oh Great iPod One? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:18 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: random
I've spent the last couple of weeks at the Aspen Center for Physics. As always, it has been productive and a pleasure, but I noticed one big change as I was puttering around town....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:33 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: random
Cordesman of the CSIS has a presentation on potential Middle East nuclear conflicts...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:43 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: astro
Three times smitten by my spear he pressed the dust...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:04 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: astro
Carnival of Space #57 is up...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:51 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: random
John McCain's website is puzzling:...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:25 AM • 0 Comments •
June 5, 2008
Category: astro
Battery anomaly on GLAST launcher, launch now no earlier than 11 June. Instantaneous slip rate is > day-per-day Current launch window is good for another 8 weeks or so though. This too shall pass....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:01 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: random
Senate Select Intelligence Committee has released its second report on 9/11 and Iraq related issues....
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June 4, 2008
Category: science
I am currently in one of my favourite physics hostels......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:46 PM • 2 Comments •
June 3, 2008
Category: science
"In the beginning......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:48 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: science
A young, male polar bear was discovered in northern Iceland this morning. He had, almost certainly, got stuck on an ice floe that broke off the east Greenland pack and drifted to Iceland, where he swam to land....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:22 PM • 5 Comments •
June 2, 2008
Category: astro
New planet discovery by Bennett et al, about three Earth masses, adds to the variety of exoplanets. Prospects for lots of Earth mass planets being out there are improved....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:31 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: astro
It is very rare at this stage of my life that I find myself unable to put a book down....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:07 AM • 3 Comments •
June 1, 2008
Category: astro
The Roadside Gallery in Carbondale, CO, is doing a Hubble exhibit...!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:40 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: astro
The Phoenix lander on Mars has touched the soil and is getting ready to do some digging...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:28 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: astro
Carnival of Space #56 is up at the Lifeboat Foundation...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: astro
today was a beautiful day. the sun shone, temperature was mild, the air was clear, the pool was open...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:17 AM • 0 Comments •
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