So I was at Kennedy Space Center yesterday and learned about the launch so I went out to St. Augustine on the beach this morning to watch the launch. Saw the orange fireball going up, and then a large puff of white smoke and thought maybe I had seen some sort of multi-stage separation going on, but nope, it was blowing up.[DOUBLEPOST=1435538745,1435538573][/DOUBLEPOST]At least Jun got to see it too. Not only was it her first launch, but she got to see a minor(?) catastrophe as well. 2 for 1. I can only say that because it was unmanned.
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Did he walk through a swamp to get there or something?
Yeah, it's called "Disney World"!
The unofficial names being used for Pluto's surface features are being drawn from the dark figures of myth and literature such as:
The reasoning was “We got tired of calling it the dark spot on the left and the dark spot on the right,” said Jeffrey M. Moore, the leader of the geology, geophysics and imaging team. (via The New York Times)
* I am a little leery of them making Lovecraftian connections to Pluto. If they decide to rename the planet Yuggoth, I'm out of here...
A large splotch that resembles a whale was named Cthulhu, a deity from a H. P. Lovecraft story.*
Other splotch names included Meng-Po, the goddess of forgetfulness in Chinese mythology.
Balrog, a creature in J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” books.
Vucub Came and Hun Came, death gods of Mayan mythology.
The reasoning was “We got tired of calling it the dark spot on the left and the dark spot on the right,” said Jeffrey M. Moore, the leader of the geology, geophysics and imaging team. (via The New York Times)
* I am a little leery of them making Lovecraftian connections to Pluto. If they decide to rename the planet Yuggoth, I'm out of here...
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I'm pretty sure this is where we'll find the Kerbal Deep Space Kraken, at this rate.
So no talk about NASA's conference about Kepler 452b? A planet 20% larger than Earth in a VERY Earth-like orbit around it's sun that's only slightler larger (and older) than our own sun.
I listened to the conference while waiting for an appointment, exciting stuff. Can't wait for them to finally get the James Webb up there so it can start giving us incredible new details about all the exoplanets Kepler has spotted, including seasonal changes, atmosphere make-up and possible signs of vegetation.
I listened to the conference while waiting for an appointment, exciting stuff. Can't wait for them to finally get the James Webb up there so it can start giving us incredible new details about all the exoplanets Kepler has spotted, including seasonal changes, atmosphere make-up and possible signs of vegetation.
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