Category: space geekery
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Bam!
Meteors: Nature’s way of asking, “How’s that space program coming along?” Read.
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hell yes
Aw, hell yes! Read.
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pooped
We had to shovel the driveway. I’m pooped. Here’s an awesome video. G’night. Read.
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moon hoax not
Well, this is refreshing: “I don’t know whether or not they landed on the moon, but I know they couldn’t have faked it.” Read.
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space chronicles
“…the Cassini spacecraft pulled into orbit around Saturn. There was nothing scientific about it, just pulling into orbit. Yet the Today Show figured that was news enough to put the story in their first hour – not in the second hour, along with the recipes, but in the first twenty minutes. So they called me Read.
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face up
“Unlike other animals, humans are quite comfortable sleeping on our backs. This simple fact affords us a view of the boundless night sky as we fall asleep, allowing us to dream about our place in the cosmos and to wonder what lies undiscovered in the worlds beyond. The effect is to leave us restless for Read.
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wink at the moon
I have a strange confession for a space geek to make: I have only the sketchiest idea where I was, and no memory of what I was doing, when Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon. I’m pretty sure I was in Marquette, Michigan when it happened, but I have no memory of Read.
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Neil Armstrong 1930-2012
I’m not one to worship heroes, and I have my doubts that Neil Armstrong was ever one to consider himself a hero, but dammit, he was. He really was. So long, Neil, and thanks for daring to do great things. Read.
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mojave?
Mars looks a lot like the Mojave Desert. That’ll thrill the hoaxers. Read.
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up and at em
I crawled into bed at about one-thirty this morning after staying up half the night to watch NASA land a robot on Mars. “Did your thing happen?” My Darling B asked dreamily, as I settled into a comfortable spot. “Yes, my thing happened,” I told her. Space geekery is “my thing.” Then tried to fall Read.
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