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NASA Humor
As is common for NASA missions these days, the LCROSS satellite broadcast a live Twitter feed as it headed toward the Moon. It makes me deeply, viscerally happy to report that just before it smacked into the lunar surface its last tweets were the whale bit from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Wow, 150km…
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Higgs Boson May be Killing its Own Grandfather
The troubled Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to start up again in December, nearly a year after a series of malfunctions shut it down. The LHC restart may again be plagued with malfunctions according to (as this NY Times article puts it) “a pair of otherwise distinguished physicists.” They hypothesize that the Higgs boson, which…
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50 Years of Space Missions
National Geographic’s current Map of the Day is a zoomable, movable image of our missions throughout the solar system. It is kind of awesome. Link (via Cognitive Dissident)
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Nerdcore Horror Calendar
Nerdcore does a pinup calendar every year with scantily-clad models dressed as science fiction characters or superheroines or whatever makes the geeky heart go pit-a-pat. Their theme for 2010 is horror movies, featuring scenes from Carrie, The Shining, Psycho, and other genre classics. Destructoid has the first nine images and Shock Till You Drop has…
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Useless Superpowers
(From Once Upon a Geek via Geek Orthodox)
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Link Dump
The 10 Rules of Time Travel – 1. At all costs, avoid your ancestors. Super Social Networking – Facebook statuses of superheroes. Knit Alien Facehugger – Complete with pattern! Particle Physics T-shirt – This made me giggle. Evolution – Nice roundup of the more common arguments by evolution deniers, along with rebuttals. Mario-Inspired Eveningwear –…
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SF Writing Contest
Over at SciFi Scanner, John Scalzi is holding an impromptu writer’s workshop. He’s provided ten writing assignments; write one or more and leave your answer in the comments over there. The assignments are just wonderful. 2. Whilst visiting an alien world to collect plant samples, one of your crew ran afoul of the local sentient…
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Hey There Cthulhu
Just try to get this song out of your head. Just try. Also, there’s a CD available. Heh. (via Cynical-C) (Cross-posted at The Art of Darkness)
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Strike a Silly Blow for Science
On November 19, the dynamic duo of whackjobbery Kirk “if evolution is real why aren’t there crocoducks?” Cameron and Ray “the existence of god is proved by bananas” Comfort* will be distributing 50,000 free copies of Darwin’s Origin of Species to universities across the U.S. The catch, of course, is that a 50-page introduction (Warning:…
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In a Cauldron Far, Far Away
From Para Abnormal. (I liked this one, too.)