Live from the Nuke Free Zone

I am currently working at Drexel University, which has recently been scheduled to host the October 30th Democratic Presidential debate. This means, presumably, that I may have the opportunity to ask a question.
Being a mathematician and educator by trade, I am particularly interested in questions on math, science, education, or combinations of these. […]

Forget my flying car, I’ll be happy if there are rocket races on the tube. For now.
Congratulations to New Mexico’s forward-looking Governor Bill Richardson, who announced a while back that Las Cruces, New Mexico was going to be first out of the gate in the private spaceport industry in the U.S. Its dry […]

Bush killing Space Shuttle, Hubble, unmanned probe, International Space Station programs

Well, as most of you have probably heard by now, Hunter S. Thompson decided to void his warranty last night at the age of 67. I’m only familiar with some of his works and considerably less familiar with his research methods; suffice to say, other people can discuss him better than I can (though I’m […]

Two years ago today.

“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.”
–Ellison Onizuka

That’s not exactly what I wanted to say to this, but even the Nuke-Free Zone is bound by certain unwritten decency guidelines. Otherwise, you would have been treated to the link below, followed by a whole lot of distressing monosyllables. I’ll spare you all, though, and stick to language I could use within a mile […]

Hyugens
successfully landed on Titan and transmitted for well past its expected
battery life, bringing us the first pictures of what the surface of this mysterious
moon actually looks like.

More to come, and as always the NFZ will be there.

The Cassini mission has dumped off the Huygens probe into Titan, and it’s sent back pictures. We see rivers and seas and what appear to be boulders of some sort. Keep an eye on the Nasa
and European Space Agency pages for updates and more information.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s near-infrared vision is hot on the trail of a possible planetary companion to a relatively bright young brown dwarf located 225 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile detected the planet candidate in April 2004 with infrared observations. The […]