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Stephen Hawking steps down  permlink

Category: Science

Hawking steps down as Lucasian professor in UK. H/T Anthropology.net...

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NOVA: Is there life on Mars?  permlink

Category: Space

I notice that the NOVA documentary, Is there life on Mars?, is viewable online (from December 2008). Check it out....

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Who supports the space program?  permlink

Category: Space

I just listened to a radio segment on public sentiments toward the Apollo space program expenditures in hindsight. The polling had a small N, 3 people in Los Angeles on the street. But it got me wondering: who supports the...

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Hawaii, going long on space tourism  permlink

Category: Environment

Hawaii Looks to Space Tourism to Aid Recession Woes: According to the Honolulu Advertiser, the state would start by spending up to a million dollars developing a spaceport. But Hawaii isn't alone: The state is already facing heady competition from...

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Habitable planets & Alpha Centauri  permlink

Category: Space

Seed's Mr. Space Lee Billings has an interesting piece, The Long Shot: "If planets are found around Alpha Centauri, it's very clear to me what will happen," Marcy said. "NASA will immediately convene a committee of its most thoughtful space...

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Mars Science Laboratory on schedule!  permlink

Category: Space

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech I rarely post anything on space because I really don't know much more than the average reader of this weblog; no value-add from me. But yesterday I ran across an article which reported the financial overruns in...

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Mercury  permlink

Category: Space

Flyby of Mercury Answers Some Old Questions: Mercury, the smallest planet, bakes in the heat of the Sun, but it has water in some form. It has volcanoes. It appears to have an active magnetic field generated by a molten...

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The Phoenix has landed  permlink

Category: Space

As you probably know, the Phoenix has landed on Mars. No problems so far. I assume the best place to track the data as it comes back is the NASA mission page for Phoenix. Here are the mission goals: --Determine...

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Stephen Hawking is not a dumb cripple  permlink

Category: Space

I too defend space cadets, what is mankind without a dream? I remember back in the late 1980s a speech by Joseph P. Kennedy II as he stood on the floor of the house of representatives and asked his fellow...

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Earth like planet detected?  permlink

Category: Space

Since Chad Orzel hasn't posted on it, I figured I'd link to this story about a Nature letter which announces the discovery of a planet 5.5 times as massive as our own! This is pretty cool, I was a big...

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