By smith on
5/25/2008 8:00 AM
My four year old son started the day by yelling "Mars Day!!!"
4pm today... flip a coin on Ares allowing us in.
And remember, Peter Ward's UW Astrobiology Team was a NASA group when he published "Life As We Do Not Know It" and said:
"NASA has had huge triumphs in this new century on its Mars missions and knows more than it is telling about the possibility of life on Mars. For NASA, information about life on Mars is the crown jewel of its intelligence, and getting that information is a bit like getting the CIA to divulge what it really knew about Saddam Hussein's WMD, even for us insiders" (page 175)
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By smith on
3/30/2008 1:13 PM
It's a big thing. May 25th 2008. Phoenix.
The years of delay and rescheduling kept making my brain jump to it being unreal, but all of a sudden it hit me: May 25th is just weeks away.
The outrageous success of the two rovers also added up to making it seem like the landing would be so easy these days.. but then it smacked my brain from the other side: this is a powered landing, not a balloon bounce.
Mars is still the angry planet for landings, more losses than hits.
Whew. Wow. I feel for the folks on the mission. If it's just popping up as 'real' and 'real scary' for me, it must be a hell ride for them.
Best wishes to all involved. If I were religious I'd be praying for you and the craft. Matter of fact
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By smith on
3/27/2008 7:45 PM
You ever fly over the midwest and see all of those huge circles? Obviously they are farm areas, but why circles?
And what does it have to do with Mars?
Watch this Modern Marvels and pay close attention to the section about Nebraska. There's you answer about what the circles are... so what does it have to do with Mars?
Listen closely for the mention of how all of those center pivots have already started noticably dropping the watertable and have - no doubt about it - directly played a part in diminishing the pre-historic underground lake that made the midwest 'a food basket for the world'
Further listen for how water
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By smith on
3/16/2008 10:10 PM
If you have a child or know one, this is something from left field that will be remembered.
Chris Gall's wonderfully illustrated easy to digest - subtle - little story:
http://www.amazon.com/Theres-Nothing-Mars-Chris-Gall/dp/0316166847
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By smith on
3/9/2008 9:49 AM
Hmmmm...
Woke up to the front page Seattle Times article "As world's appetite soars, so do food bills"
A line hit me:
"Everyone wants to eat like an American on this globe but if they do, we're going to need another two or three globes to grow it all"
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By smith on
3/7/2008 11:17 AM
Got the dvd .. interesting research on the packaging.
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By smith on
2/26/2008 6:41 PM
Many have wondered why this dvd about American know-how and American power has never been available in America. I did.
Wonder no more. It is now waiting for you.
More important than Inconvenient Truth... Because this is a bigger truth.
The wonderfully produced documentary of the debate over some of the points presented in Dr. Zubrin's monumental book The Case For Mars.
http://www.themarsunderground.com
It is available now. So get it. Now!
But...
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By smith on
2/25/2008 4:57 PM
dnn sitelett is on the air
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By smith on
2/21/2008 4:04 PM
Since 1996 every single page including the ebooks and example pops were all done in notepad; Starting with PerlCGI/HTML, then asp then ASP.Net. Nothing elitist against web "code", but it was a lot of 'been there done that'... sometimes we just wanted to get an idea or tip put on file and slogging through the treeview code was tiring.
So... first time ever and with some trepidation... we'll be trying out a more high level approach. Drag & drop components, premade authentication, just a place for our stuff.
Does it work for you?
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