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Dynamics of Cats
Speculations on astronomy, astrophysics, news I find interesting, theoretical issues, science and science policy. I will digress into computational physics, science fiction and general issues and basically whatever I feel like whenever. And, of course, cats.
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- Steinn Sigurdsson on Planetary Habitability Laboratory
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- What to do...
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- The More You Write, The More You Write...
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October 30, 2009
October 29, 2009
you know who you are!
Category: academia
You either get this or you do not....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:36 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2009
linkedy links xx
Category: random
another random walk through recent blog bits...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
manly
Category: random
The governator writes a letter. A manly man letter, not at all a girly man letter....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ares eXperimental
Category: astro
In case you missed it, the Ares 1-X launch this morning was successful....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:55 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2009
my precioussssss
Category: random
my precious has returned from its mystery excursion...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 26, 2009
silver linings
Category: Iceland
McDonald's to abandon Iceland Ha ha ha. Tommaborgari wins....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:27 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 23, 2009
Finding planets en masse
Category: astro
30 new planets reported at "Towards Other Earths" Porto conference. Some of them are rather interesting....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:28 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 22, 2009
NASA: Augustine Reports
Category: astro
"Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation" Time to pee or get off the pot.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 20, 2009
Overkill: solving the Fermi Paradox
Category: astro
So, I was thinking, where are the cold alien intelligences who ought to be out there, studying us dispassionately, as if we were microbes...? Well, what if we accidentally killed them all?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:43 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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