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Baron Grim Started conversation May 19, 2010
Thought I'd start a journal for miscellany. Like this. I'd say this one falls into the Wow! category. Shuttle AND ISS transiting the sun, image taken by an (extremely talented) amateur astronomer.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/18/iss-shuttle-transit-the-sun/
Click on the image for the big wow.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 19, 2010
That's pretty damn neat 
Y'know, each time I start a journal thread that's supposed to be an ongoing thing I always forget to keep up with it, except maybe for weather and films and people dropping off the twig. But all kinds of wonderful beers have passed through Gosho's fridge without a mention 
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Hypatia Posted May 19, 2010
This thread is a great idea. So how do we keep it from being eaten in our back conversations list? Like Gosho, I forget all about conversations like this. Or if I remember, it takes a monumental effort to track them down since I rarely remember the subject titles.
That's an amazing photo.
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Baron Grim Posted May 19, 2010
Hopefully, I'll find things to update here often enough for it not to drop more than a page or two into my convos list. Since I daily scan reddit (and digg a couple of days a week) and I'm finally on twitter following a few interesting streams I shouldn't have trouble keeping it active. Of course I still have my Stupidity thread and a couple of others for politics and skepticism as well.
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Hypatia Posted May 19, 2010
Great. That's easy, then. I'll rely on you to keep it going. 
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted May 19, 2010
Now that really is one amazing picture!
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Baron Grim Posted May 20, 2010
OK... this definitely goes into both the Wow! and Cool categories.
It's got Ninjas!
Banzai!
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/ninjas-rescue-student-from-thugs/story-e6frf7l6-1225868928257
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Baron Grim Posted May 20, 2010
Oh, and then there's this that just makes me .
A list of games for the old Commodore 64. I didn't recognize most of them, but go ahead and scroll down to numbers 2 and 1.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/05/the_15_greatest_sci-fihorror_games_for_the_commodo.php?page=2
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Baron Grim Posted May 20, 2010
Ok, how about a "Hmmm, that's interesting" item.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/05/like-most-junk-science-that-just-wont.html
This is a wonderful essay on polygraphs.
The best way to read this is to scroll down just past the handwritten pages and read the transcript.
If you don't recognize the author's name immediately, return to the top of the page and read the intro.
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Baron Grim Posted May 20, 2010
Oh, man... busy day.
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Time lapse video of the six week prep of space shuttle Discovery for STS-131. http://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/videos/Go-For-Launch.html
Share and Enjoy 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 20, 2010
Definitely wow
Nice to see that they still use the VAB and the Saturn V transporter.
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Baron Grim Posted May 21, 2010
OK... I should really confer with my former supervisor to confirm the numbers, but here's from memory...
OK... so shortly after a shuttle launches, you see it roll 180 degrees from launch orientation. Now we know that the proper orientation for the shuttle during its assent phase is orbiter down. So why doesn't it launch that way? The short answer is because it would have cost $1billion extra in 1980 to build a dedicated launch pad for the shuttle. Instead they rededicated one of the original Saturn (Apollo) launch pads. Now, keep in mind that the Saturn rockets were round, symmetrical, they had no preferred orientation other than "UP". The Shuttle is semi-asymmetrical, it has an "up" and a "down". If NASA had spent $1billion extra in 1980 for a dedicated launch pad to accommodate the orbiter down orientation of the shuttle it would have saved the equivalent of more than 10,000 pounds of payload capacity in fuel.
In other words, the equivalent of a small satellite per every shuttle launch was burned just to rotate the shuttle because they reused the launch pad from the Apollo era.
Hey, a Billion dollars is still a big number. But averaged over the 30 year life span of the shuttle program,.. A billion dollars seems cheap. Just think about how much it would cost to launch over 100 satellites. That's how much NASA "saved" by reusing an Apollo launch pad.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted May 21, 2010
Ah, the economics of politics. Can't see beyond their own term limits.
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Baron Grim Posted Jun 24, 2010
Very Cool?... Well, very hoopy anyway.
The Hithchikers' Guide to Doctor Who.
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/06/the_htchhikers_guide_reminds_you_not_to_panic_if_y_1.php
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 24, 2010
Very nicely done
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Jun 24, 2010
I still love watching that
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 9, 2010
BLU has been at it again. Big Bang Big Boom
http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/bbbb.htm
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 17, 2010
I can completely sympathize with these fruit having stuck my head in an MRI machine often enough.
http://insideinsides.blogspot.com/
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Hypatia Posted Jul 19, 2010
The mushroom is seriously weird. I liked the others.
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