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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

nasa ditches ie in favor of firefox

NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox

This got my attention:

According to Dan Turner "NASA has given up entirely on Internet

Explorer. Now every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to

three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts. The official

line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and

now NASA's standard browser is Firefox."

Firefox is the default on our school computers.

nasa dubs space shuttle replacement

NASA dubs space shuttle replacement 'Orion' - space - 23 August 2006 - New

Scientist Space

NASA dubs space shuttle replacement 'Orion' - space - 23 August 2006 -

New Scientist Space

"Orion is the new name for the spaceship NASA is developing to replace

the space shuttle and carry astronauts to the Moon, NASA confirms. The

new name echoes that of a spacecraft in the film 2001: A Space

Odyssey, and of a cancelled US nuclear propulsion project."

It's a shame it's not more high-tech looking, I'd always imagined

something from Buck Rogers replacing the shuttle, instead we have

Apollo 13 on steroids. Still, anything that takes man back to the moon

has to be a good thing.

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Record flight, NASA at Mount San Jacinto College

click image to read plaque

This historical marker used to be located on Cottonwood between Warren

Road and Sanderson. It is no longer there.

This historic moment created a relationship between the San Jacinto

Valley, and Russia. For those of you that don't know San Jacinto used

to be the administrative center of Riverside county, also called the

'County Seat'.

In the early 1990's a cosmonaut, and astronaut after returning from a

joint mission to the I.S.S (International Space Station) came to Mount

San Jacinto College. Yes NASA came to MSJC. I attended this historic

event, thinking they would tell about studies they've made, and

possible advancements in science. Instead their presentation focused

mainly, on Earth. Very specifically the border of Mexico and the

United States. They showed pictures from space, and asked the crowd as

each successive frame was closer to the Earths surface. When it became

clear it was the border between Mexico and the U.S. they talked real

slow and said see how from Space it is all connected. You can't see

any borders from here.

Why the Historical Marker was removed, I don't know. I am hoping it

was moved to the new fire station across the road to protect it from

vandalism. The missing marker gave me a reason to share a bit of

nasa to announce significant find on

NASA to announce "significant find on Mars"

Ooh, this is exciting - although normally when NASA says this, it

turns out to be only moderately exciting. This is apparently the end

of the Global Surveyor Mission though, so there might be some kind of

grand finale.

The mission has brought us some amazing images of Mars, and opened up

many intriguing questions about the Martian environment. Anomalists

have combed over images looking for anything that might be artificial

artefacts, or signs of life, but nothing is conclusive. The anomalists

have managed to highlight some very unusual images though.

Sadly, I doubt that a significant find will mean life. It will just

mean interesting information about geology and weather systems. They

would surely use a greater superlative than significant to describe

life. It's still NASA's policy, I believe, to keep quiet about any

sign of other life in the universe - for fear of causing widespread

panic and chaos on Earth.

There is, however, the Disclosure Project, where hundreds of military

and government figures have come forward to testify their experience

with UFOs, ETs etc.

Regardless of whether we find life or not, the prospect of exploring

our plantetary neighbours is very exciting. NASA is hoping to have a

permanent lunar base from 2020. It's another leap towards the space

age future that we all dreamed about as children. From the Moon, it

will be much easier to launch missions beyond the Earth's orbit - the

biggest impediment to space travel is the Earth's grativational pull,

which makes it very difficult and energy intensive to get out of the

atmosphere. Once you're out of the Earth's atmosphere, you're half way

to anywhere.

It would put us within reach of Mars, or within reach of exploring

asteroids - which could be particularly vital in helping us work out

how to prevent an inevitable meteor collision with Earth.

playing with nasas java worldwind on

Playing with Nasa's Java WorldWind on Suse

Geertjan has a really good first article on using Nasa's latest Java

WorldWind client software wrapped up in a NetBean's project. Note that

the client is a preview, but it's still quite usable to get started

with. Geertjan looks to have used NetBeans 5.5. My project uses the

following tools and environment:

* NetBeans 6 Milestone 9

* Java 1.6.0 Update 1

* Suse 10.2

* Latest ATI drivers (8.35.5 or later)

When I created my project I elected to start with the Java Desktop

Application (New Project > General > Java Desktop Application). Most

of what Geertjan specifies that you do is still correct under NB9, but

there are some subtle differences which are easy to figure out. There

is one (minor) issue to be aware of. When you want to drag and drop

the WorldWindGLCanvas Bean onto the DemoFrame, you need to delete the

central canvas that's already there. Once deleted, you then drag the

WorldWind bean into its place.

This looks to be a really interesting tutorial series.

nasa world wind 3d satellite images

NASA World Wind - 3D satellite images from NASA

World Wind is an open source project, that lets you zoom from

satellite altitude into any place on Earth. It uses Landsat satellite

imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, as well as several

data sources that provide historical and information on storms, fires,

floods and other major events, as well as important landmarks with

links to additional information on the web. World Wind also includes a

full copy of the Blue Marble, a true-color image of the entire Earth

as seen on NASA's Earth Observatory. Other data sources include Land

Sat 7, SRTM, NASA SVS, MODIS, GLOBE as well as country and US state

borders and city names. NASA World Wind also provides imagery of the

moon. Even though the program appears similar to Google Earth, it

covers a much wider range of data sources, however it is not nearly as

user-friendly and requires an in-depth look at the documentation.

Download : Click Here

weird nasa ufo movie

Weird NASA UFO Movie

Dr. Fong Say:

This is some footage of strange things that have been recorded by

astronauts in space. Most of it looks like dust to me. Again, too low

quality to make any kind of determination.

"In front of an assembled audience of UFO enthusiasts and the media,

evidence was presented that would appear to indicate the existence of,

not one, but two types of unknown extraterrestrial lifeforms. Labeled

`Phenomena One' and `Phenomena Two' by a man who spent several years

recording and logging thousands of hours of NASA space shuttle

transmissions, this "historic" footage and the story that lay behind

its discovery can now be revealed."

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1 Comment:

Anonymous said...

One of the transmissions was one

astranaut telling another astranaut

a joke about Specialist Lisa

Marie Nowal and two alien greys

going into a bar. The aliens ask

Lisa if she would like to split a

pitcher of Klingon Ale with them,

But she said no, Klingon Ale makes

act crazy. ....I guess you have to

be an astranaut to get the joke. I

don't see the humor.

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