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What Chuck Norris can never do....
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Dynamics of Cats
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April 29, 2010
Nuclear Compton Telescope crashes on launch
Category: astro
The single most annoying thing about this, is that the vast majority of the news sources that have covered this did not say what was on the balloon! Just said "expensive scientific equipment..."
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:38 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2010
"To Serve Man"
Category: astro
Beware the pig-like Kanamit....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:59 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2010
Iceland - Katla's Dimples and Kakali Rocks
Category: Iceland
New crater radar image, and picture of Katla with her dimples
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:16 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2010
the shape of things to come
Category: science
Cal Sate Budgetpocalypse - Dr Free-Ride blogs on CSU San Jose State near term situation. Shocking Fraud From Financial Scum - MarkCC rips into the Squid. See, it is like this: Goldman Sachs organized a league, they then talked...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:44 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Eyjafjallajökull - the Street Cred of the Umlaut
Category: Iceland
Comedy Channel went wild on Iceland last night. For those who could not stay up late......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:36 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2010
highlights from Eyjafjallajökull
Category: Iceland
Pretty pictures galore this weekend facebook video from Norðurflug - helivideo upwind from the volcano NASA's Aqua MODIS Between Heaven and Hell - fb - extraordinary images from Náttúra Íslands Cool ITN footage from April 19th Don't forget to...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:06 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 18, 2010
Eyjafjallajökull - Relief in Sight?
Category: Iceland
There is no "C" in Icelandic - so be careful if you demand "Cash, NOW" from us. Less ash coming out now, and not ejected to as high an altitude - shift seen sunday morning.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:31 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2010
F-18 vs Eyjafjallajökull
Category: Iceland
The Finnish Air Force got some F-18s into an ash cloud from Eyjafjallajökull. Far, far from the source, somewhere over Europe. They then checked the engines with a boroscope....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:38 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Surtur smiles.
Category: Iceland
You are not superstitious, are you? Eyjafjallajökull - from the air is it clear that there are three craters in the caldera. click to enlarge The mind does some great interpolative associative processing ;-) Image is radar, from an...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:53 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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