The Space Shuttle program has come to an end. NASA decided where to “store” each of the four shuttles – luckily for me one of them is going to Udvar-Havy. Watch the 14 minute video on the space shuttle, narrated by William Shatner.
Wired had a great article about a Canadian geological statistician who was able to crack the code on lottery scratch-off tickets. After his analysis, he could get the winning tickets right 90% of the time. Pretty amazing.
Read it here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1
The shuttle Endeavour lifted off this morning — it was the last night shuttle launch and there are only four missions left total. The imagery never ceases to amaze me.
Do you use Google Maps? How about Google Earth? It’s fun and interesting to see landmarks around the globe from space. But now you can take an astronomical view, looking into space – see stars, galaxies and more as Google has released Google Sky.
Source: Google Sky
Need a new background for your desktop? Or do you just enjoy star gazing? I never get tired of looking at pictures of galaxies, supernovas, and other astronomical phenomena. Now you can enjoy a cool new picture from NASA each day, with an good explanation of what you are looking at.
