Thinking about Ray Bradbury ... someone sent a link to this poem read at JPL the night before Marineer 9 went into Martin orbit. I remember a talk by Carl Sagan shortly before he died where he read this poem - noting it was very important to him.
I'm not a great fan of manned spaceflight - the notion of spending the money on science and pure exploration appeals to me much more, but I realize there are forces other than exploration that drive people and also forces that limit the scale of science and real exploration. But that doesn't keep one from dreaming.
A few months ago Phil Plait, an astronomer I know a bit, was asked to give a talk at a high school science fair awards ceremony. Just before the talk he caught the local TV news which was giving "equal time" to pseudosciene. He reacted by pulling out his notepad and rewritting his talk on the sport. He gave it and it made its way around through email and blogs. A few days ago an artist took the words and illustrated it.
Click the image for full size. The artist's site is here - you can buy prints if you like.
On the Far Side...
Has IBM scored again? Everyone has heard of Moore's Law. Discussions at the water cooler often center around, have we reached the end of the curve yet?
"On 13 April 2005, Gordon Moore stated in an interview that the law cannot be sustained indefinitely: 'It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens.'"
IBM may be getting close to the tail end of Moore's Law. However, it may not be a disaster yet but a new revolution in modern computer technology.
There is no telling what might happen in this country, if only we could learn how to teach high school students from the bottom up (pdf). Visualization (pdf) is the key.
We could do something like this or this.
One of Kristopher Wehage's interests is developing procedures for characterizing and modeling metal composites, such as trimodal 5083 aluminum composite (pdf,) down to the atomic level as an aid to developing, visualizing, and evaluating new synthesis procedures.
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