Nasa @ MindSay

1. Why raise one puppy when two can be so much more exciting? ;)
   
   
2. Why was Bush able to push through handouts to some of the richest in the American financial world with little argument, comparatively, and no oversight while Obama sets a course for new standards in oversight with his handouts and yet he's called a Socialist?
   
   
3. Did you see all the space trash that can be detected in earth's atmosphere - it was clearly displayed by the CNN weather team last week. Meteorologists used radar models showing the orbits of virtually thousands and thousands of pieces of debris from satellites and other "junk".
   ( The recent collision of two orbiting eavesdroppers has added a significant amount.)
   
   
4. Gee Whiz - what have well educated, even brilliant  scientists, astronomers and engineers been thinking? Why isn't space debris at least incinerated?
   A no-brainer from day one!
   
   
5. Weather forecasters note; Everyone is glad the groundhog was wrong?
   Yes - I am fairly certain!
   

What is scarier? The thought of being totally, utterly and eternally alone? Or the thought that there is someone else out there?

 

Tomorrow NASA is going to launch the Kepler Mission, a dedicated Space-Telescope that will search for other planets that are Earth-like in size, mass and composition, as well as taking into account the planet's orbit, eccentricity and rotation as well as the parent star's size, age and luminosity, all key factors in determining the habitablity of the planet for life as we know it.

 

The telescope will search a 3000ly patch of sky, from an Earth-trailing-heliocentric-orbt, watching 100000 stars and recording their brightness every 30 minutes.

 

If the telescope finds even a single Earth-like planet in that patch of sky I think I would be somewhat surprised. I also wonder what NASA hopes to achieve. Is this about a search for intelligent life? or is it merely a chance to look for other planets that could harbour Human life? Personally I think it is more-likely to be the latter.

 

What do you think? Will a discovery from the Kepler Mission be enough to turn humanities eyes to the stars again? Do you think we have intelligent cousins out there somewhere? Would you like to think we have intelligent cousins out there?

The best NASA presentation I've ever seen [pdf]

So today, was pretty uneventful. I went to the VA clinic with Chuck. Was so pointless. Had to leave work early to waste an hour and a half there. He had blood work done and had to attend an orientation.
That's unheard of, an orientation for a doctors' office. Come on, get real.
Though, there was a crazy guy there, he was quite amusing. He was harassing the hell out of the poor nurses, and the lab technician. He kept saying something about a PSA, I'm sure what that is, but he was quite upset about it, cause I guess no one would authorize it.
Eavesdropping on one of the conversations he was having with a nurse. He refused to give an updated address. And everytime he was asked for a new phone number, or address, he would just rattle off the NASA website.

I know it isn't funny to laugh at someone who obviously wasn't all there. But sitting there waiting for so long, I had to amuse myself with something.

After that we went to the grocery store. It was far more fun than a grocery store should be. lol..

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