Science

• Sep 23 2009 - way to go, LRO ... LRO does it again, water on the moon! That’s so cool! NASA is important people, we’re laying the foundation for future generations here. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html And of course finding water is not the same as finding lakes, but imagine the potential for fuel sources and or human sustenance. Water is damn heavy, and not something we can easily take with us. Pretty cool stuff.
• Sep 1 2009 - LRO sends us some underwhelming evidence! ... I remain a huge fan of projects like LRO, and personally still believe that the disbelievers are crackpots but I also have to admit to being a little underwhelmed by the photos listed here on NASA’s site for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html Still, I’m excited “we’re” (go NASA) going back, and if anything this just really highlights for me how damn big our “little” moon is. Easy to forget that the satellite that’s taking those photos is still 50 kilometers!
• May 6 2009 - Transcendent Man! ... I read the singularity is near last year and really enjoyed it, despite a few misgivings for Kurzweil’s ego and some dubious use of statistics. One of the things I found myself really intrigued by was Kurweil himself and this movie looks like a fun look at the man and his ideas. Do I believe him? Part of me wants to, definitely. The ultimate end-game of the singularity is fascinating and wondrous, but I actually found some of the more intermediate steps in his projections to be more fascinating.
• Nov 11 2008 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ... A good friend of mine Sarah believes that the moon landings were a hoax. Despite being a huge science geek , a fan of NASA and a member of the planetary society she subscribes to the idea that man has not in fact walked on the moon, and the entire thing was a lie perpetrated in an effort to win the political war with the USSR. Or something along those lines. Somehow this deeply disturbs me.
• May 11 2008 - Saturday night science link (DNA Visualization) ... Fantastic molecular visualization of how dna, rna and ribosomes work… where was this kind of stuff when I was going to school?