Posts Tagged: Nature, Space, Science, Tech
To the Moon
Posted by on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 in - 1 comment
It is good to hear that the US is heading back into space, aiming for Man on Mars just in time for me to retire so I can follow the whole thing from my jelly sofa listening in on my wireless brain implant. Whatever it is, however, it is not quite "news" as this was the plan in '89 and even back …
Do I really need this?
Posted by on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 in - 5 comments
There are things you need and things you think you need and things you know you don't need and then once in a while there is something hanging right there on the cusp like a CD of incidental music to the 1960's UK marionette sci-fi show Thunderbirds. Dandy tribute site here. I am more of a Captain …
Biometric Day
Posted by on Thursday, January 8, 2004 in - 4 comments
Yesterday was very biometric: • The date for my seminar with the Surveillance Project at Queens was reset for later this month. I am going to talk about my thesis on the constitutionality of automated biometric surveillance and the recent cases on the liberty right in section 7 of The Charter of …
Shock of the New
Posted by on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 in - 10 comments
I am not the first to embrace new technologies. I read how people think these web sites will revolutionize politics, society, education, the economy and I think of lonely people isolated from each other who would be better off joiing an industrial softball league. I read about new car gadgets and …
News from Mars
Posted by on Sunday, January 4, 2004 in - 1 comment
Steve gave me a heads up by instant message and I spent two hours at the end of yesterday listening to the landing on Mars live from NASA. I tagged Mel, too. Here is the site for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Get some Tang and food in tubes and follow along. • The photo right is the rear …
Useful Logs
Posted by on Monday, December 29, 2003 in - leave a comment
Logs, that is, not blogs. Researchers in the UK are studying climate change as recorded in ships logs of the British, Dutch and Spanish navies. Even though the records pre-date common use of scientific instruments, • “Dr Wheeler told BBC News Online, "We've verified that the data are highly …
Great Eastern
Posted by on Thursday, September 4, 2003 in - 2 comments
My facination with things Brunel grows. This image appeared on the BBCi site this morning, the hulk of the ship which laid the Trans-Atlantic cable, the greatest ship before the Titanic, rotting near Liverpool in 1889. • Apparently the BBC is running a series on great events of the industrial …
Mars! Bringer of Prudent Warning
Posted by on Friday, August 29, 2003 in - 1 comment
So, did everyone see Mars? We were out to Charleston Lake Provincial Park last evening visiting Wally and Laura who have been there all week and on the drive home there is was...[turn on your copy of Holst's The Planets...riiiight..now!]...Mars! I suppose in the days before flashing antenna tower …
