Kat's Weekday Obama Administration Report, 1/11/11
Hi all. Today's report features:• Two Presidents: The President meets with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.• In memoriam: The President, First Lady and White House staff join in a moment of silent...
View ArticleKat's Obama Administration Report, 3/7/11
Hi, all. Today's report features:Investing In Education: The President travels to Florida to see an example of how investments in education coupled with reform can help our kids succeed and help...
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The Week in UFO Phenomenon: UFO Sightings Increase 67 Percent During the...
Namaste TWiUPians isn’t that an interesting little nugget. According to MUFON the Mutual UFO Network the largest private UFO tracking organization in the world more people are reporting UFOs during...
View ArticleSomething for Overnight - The Beauty of the Night from Above
There's treasure in all kinds of places, beauty we never think to look at, miracles we don't begin to appreciate. Once upon a time when people of vision were still allowed a chance to make dreams...
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Hacker Wares Hawked at Secret State-sponsored Spy Conference
State-sponsored hackers offer offensive capabilitiesGovernment agents recently congregated with surveillance and telecommunications firms to purchase high-tech hacking tools at a...
View ArticleEarth at night: most awesome video ever
Recently NASA installed a low-light camera aboard the International Space Station, capable of taking hi-res video footage while the ISS is passing over the nightside of our planet. During Expeditions...
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Swiss to Grapple Junk for Removal
What looks like a swarm of bees flying around a ball is actually a map of the junk and debris in low orbit (<2000 km) around the Earth. The plot is from NASA Earth Observatory. The dots are plotted...
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Physics of Angry Birds Space
Are you an Angry Birds fan? If you are like the millions of other fans, you might have heard that NASA announced on March 8th the coming release of the Space version on March 22nd. Rovio, the maker of...
View ArticleScience Off the Sphere
I am away on vacation and found some entertaining video from astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station. Don regularly posts science commentary and videos on his blog teaching about the...
View ArticleISS Startrails - TRONized
How about a diversion from politics, ads, polls, debates, etc. Here is some eye candy for you.Astronauts aboard ISS have gathered huge numbers of great images during their missions. One in particular...
View ArticleISS Tour by Suni Williams
If you haven't toured the International Space Station, this 29 minute video is your opportunity. It is led by astronaut Suni Williams. Suni served as Station Commander for Expedition 33. She landed in...
View ArticleISS & a Cargo Ship
Tonight if the weather is right you can see the Space Station & the cargo ship pass by.In Charlotte the time is 9:48. you'll see it in the sky WSW it will take 6 minutes to disappear to the...
View ArticleUnexpected Double Treat!
Despite degrees and a pretty specialized engineering job I'm really just a general nerd. That is, I don't really have one particular subject in science that enthralls me. So tonight I got an...
View ArticleReplacing the ISS
With Russia threatening to end its participation in the International Space Station (ISS) program and possibly even removing one of its major components from the orbiting space station after 2020, some...
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals Dragon V2 spacecraft for travel to ISS, mars,...
SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk, unveils the Dragon V2 spacecraft in Hawthorne, Calif.Alan Boyle, the science editor for NBC News, writes Mars Ahead? SpaceX Unveils Dragon V2 Capsule for Astronaut Trips....
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Italian Scientists and Engineers Deliver Technological Breakthrough
Espresso in space. Food scientists at the Italian coffee firm Lavazza, an iconic name in fine Italian espresso coffee, along with Italian aerospace engineers at the space firm, Argotec, will equip...
View ArticleWhat? What? Wait. . . .
While we have been distracted by the collapse of the two party system in this country, held in sick fascination by the Republican side show, Ted Cruz and the snake people, the world apparently refused...
View ArticleNASA Busy: US half of ISS evacuated, 10 years since Huygens and Beagle 2 rumors
Some days NASA is merely busy, others are, well, eventful.Earlier today, an alarm went off indicating an ammonia leak in the US section of the ISS leading to its evacuation as astronauts took refuge in...
View ArticleBREAKING: SpaceX rocket breaks up after launch to ISS
I've just been viewing the livestream of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket launch of the CRS-7 mission to the International Space Station. This was an unmanned cargo flight.At about 2:20 into the flight,...
View ArticleTwo out of Three...
Now that it is certain that the man known as “Mullah Omar” has been confirmed dead, we should take note that there is but one name remaining on the short list of the men who brought 9/11 to America:...
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