Despite the outlandish predictions of some internet pundits, the future of humanity was never at risk today. But scientists were hoping to use the fly-past to work out how best to defend the planet against asteroids in the future.
Browsing Posts published in January, 2008
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, the sat known to us as USA-193 has come to the attention of the worlds press as a threat to all life on earth, when, complete with it’s multi-megaton thermo nuclear power source, it hurtles back into the earth’s atmosphere from whence it once came, to wipe either London, New York, Paris, Sydney (or all of them) off the map. As is usually the case, the official sources are saying nothing, the press (and me) are just making stuff up, the only people with any clue what’s going on are the amateurs. To understand the real story of USA-193 and follow it’s progress, the best place to look is the SeeSat List. One of the seesat posters Dr. Marco Langbroek from Holland has a great blog that explains it all in detail.
USA-193 – Image by John Locker from the SeeSat List
why couldn’t i have had this when i was at uni? this would take me three weeks to do what this software allows you to do in realtime. Bastards.
Considering this will be a blog about my work with mobile games and games design in general, and quite possibly a vent for all my enthusiasm for anything space-like, a more appropriate banner was needed.
Howdy Space fans!
The date for the rescheduled STS-122 Atlantis mission has been announced. Unfortunately it’s outside of our working hours, but should be fun anyway. You can watch it at home if you are geek enough, http://www.nasa.gov
In other news, a huge bus sized US military satellite is due to crash land somewhere on earth soon. Should be a lot of fun. Check out the news stories Here and Here – hysterical stuff!
For more fun links to “when space things go bad” give these two clips a spin, both are of the same event, the launch of a US Delta 2 rocket back in ’97 carrying a military GPS sat. I hope the crew of the soon to launch STS-122 don’t watch this!
at long last i’ve given the blog a bit of a face lift in preparation of getting typing. the picture of a the bulb is one of mine that i took a couple of years ago at a working electric generating waterwheel. the bulb had these huge amber glowing filaments that made it look like it came right from the Victorian era. how it survived that long I’ve no idea.
