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warren_ellis post.The shuttle appears to be in good overall shape, but the survey did uncover a 53cm (21in) line of chips on the vehicle’s right side. The line of chips uncovered by the inspection are in thick tiles that make up the protective heat shield on Atlantis’ starboard side. The damage is located where the right wing joins the shuttle’s fuselage. Nasa said the chips could be related to a debris event detected by the wing’s leading edge sensors 104-106 seconds into the lift-off.
The stuff he talks about at the end of the post is one of the things I willfully chose to ignore when I was writing Worldwired. The science in science fiction is mostly much more useful than this real-world science of ours. Like, for example, you can do stuff quickly with it.
Come home safe, guys.
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worried - Music:Rob Zombie - Dragula
No, really. I think I want to live there.
And so we return to the moundbuilding technologies of our ancestors, and METAtropolis scores a few more points in the predicting-the-future lottery.
269.2 miles to Rauros. After a thoroughly crappy run on Wednesday (My get up and go had got up and went) and a merely lousy one yesterday, today I managed mediocrity! Go me!
Of course, medioccrity now is better than my best was six months ago. So we get points for that.
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giggly
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/garr
- Mood:
impressed - Music:Shriekback - The Bastard Sons of Enoch
hopefulHas the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the Earth yet?
Apparently, they're not actually smashing atoms until 10/21. So keep checking back!In other news... The Greatest American Hero: The Movie ??? Oh, man. Will it still be a massive source of hippy propaganda and government-mocking? Pleeeaaasseeee?
- Mood:
peaceful
- Mood:
complacent
- Mood:
cheerful
- Mood:
optimistic - Music:Happy Rhodes - Cohabitants
Soviet and American astronauts alleged to have secretly tested possibilities for sex in space.
Sure, don't tell us what *does* work? I think this article would be more convincing if it had included some juicy bits. Any tabloid writer knows THAT.
(My solution was grab bars, and lashing somebody to the wall, but maybe that's too kinky for NASA?)
Really, the appropriate music for this would be Jonathan Couton's "I'm Your Moon," wouldn't it?
- Mood: beset by cats
- Music:NPR- Weekend Edition
via National Geographic:
Scientists today announced the discovery of an extraordinarily preserved "dinosaur mummy" with much of its tissues and bones still encased in an uncollapsed envelope of skin.
duuuude.
A newly found "dino mummy" has exquisitely preserved bones, skin, and possibly muscle and internal organs, scientists have announced.
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contemplative - Music:Matt Nathanson - Answering Machine
"Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you were looking for is so damned difficult."
-- Erin McKean, Lexicographer
Oh yah. That's going in a book.
Also, the Rives four in the morning rap is making me wish I still wrote poetry, and still poetry slammed....
- Mood: contemplative
The rain at last is blowing in. The cat broke a water glass. I think I'm going to go do some math and play some guitar. Despite being incredibly tired, for no reason I can determine.
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awake, barely - Music:Tragically Hip - Thompson Girl
- Mood:chipper
And news like this improves it even further.
Okay, I'm going to do some math and then walk to the bank. (It occurs to me that I could also even walk to the concert tonight: it's only 2.4 miles.* Hmm.)
And then guitar practice and more Maul.
*Have I mentioned that I love where I live?
- Mood:
happy - Music:Mick Smiley - Magic
I am not making that up.
Not even a belated April Fools joke.
It's poisonous.
I am so putting cuttlefish aliens in Chill.
- Mood:
squiddy - Music:Nova -- Cuttlefish!
Oh, steeped in the pretty.
- Mood:
tired - Music:Planet Earth
Superposed on the effusion
Mirthfully, mirthfully, mirthfully, mirthfully
Existence is illusion!
Mmm. Particle physics before noon.
- Location:the boulevard is not that bad
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charm, and anti-up - Music:Jetro Tull - Mother Goose / Tori Amos - Tiny Dancer
I'm so sad.
I can't make my blind spot work. (not work?)
You know, I can never get those supposedly 3D wavy line pictures to work either. Not once, ever, and I have spent hours staring at them.
I think it's an emperor's clothes kind of thing. Admit it! None of you can actually see that ship. You're just making it up!
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determined - Music:Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
I'm reading Phantoms in the Brain, by. V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, a book on, among other things, brain-mapping and phantom limbs.
And either Dr. Ramachandran or his co-author is hysterically funny. Talking about galvanic skin response:
If you look at a pig, a newspaper or a pen there is no GSR, but if you look at something evocative--a Mapplethorpe photo, a Playboy centerfold, or a heavy rock teetering above your foot--you will register a huge GSR.
I already love this book a lot.
- Mood:
and the eighth deadly sin is... pizza - Music:Jimmy Buffett - Bank of Bad Habits
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