Archives for the 'conference blogging' Category
Weighing Polaris
Published on 8 Jan 2008 at 10:33 pm.
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About a year and a half ago, I did a posting on the star Polaris. For those of you who don’t know, Polaris is the name of the North Star. You can look at my previous posting for some additional information on the star. One interesting thing about Polaris that a lot […]
Mike Griffin’s presentation
Published on 8 Jan 2008 at 3:05 pm.
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A couple hours ago, Mike Griffin gave an interesting presentation at the American Astronomical Society Meeting being held in Austin. It was interesting, but also a bit sobering. He talked about many of the wonderful things that NASA is doing. But, he also pointed out that NASA is seriously underfunded for what […]
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AAS in Austin
Published on 5 Jan 2008 at 12:21 am.
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This coming week, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) will be holding its winter meeting in Austin, Texas. That is just a few hundred miles from here, so it is fairly convenient for me to go. Even better, I get to miss the silly week full of meetings that precedes the Spring Semester, which […]
Space Tourism Safety
Published on 30 May 2007 at 11:48 pm.
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Outer space is a dangerous place. Humans are not designed to live in space. When in space, you are subjected to radiation exposure far greater than you get on Earth, the lack of gravity causes bloating and loss of bone mass, and many people become disoriented. There is no air in space, so you need […]
Going straight to Mars?
Published on 29 May 2007 at 3:34 pm.
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Dr. Robert Zubrin was at the conference this weekend. For those of you who don’t know him, he is an aerospace engineer who has been a driving force behind a movement promoting a direct Mars mission. By a direct Mars mission, I mean that he proposes that we set a goal to go to Mars […]
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Blogging about space blogging
Published on 26 May 2007 at 11:48 pm.
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We had and interesting Space Bloggers Summit earlier today at the conference. I got to meet Flying Singer there. Jeff Foust was also there, though I didn’t get to speak much with him.
So, why was there a session on space blogging? That’s a good question. The blogosphere has become something pretty well […]
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A virtual presentation
Published on 26 May 2007 at 10:52 am.
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Well, we had a session this morning like none other that I’ve ever seen at a conference. The speaker, instead of standing in front of the audience, sat a computer, and gave a presentation via Second Life. Dr. Simon “Pete†Worden gave a presentation via his Second Life avatar Simon Pete Raymaker. The talk was […]
