For now, in a seeming tangent, I got a call from Alan Stern — the ex-Associate Administrator for science at NASA and the PI on the New Horizons Pluto mission — because he wanted to let everyone interested in astronomy know about an upcoming conference called The Great Planet Debate.
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Three great things that go great together, I’ve always said. Gia, who was at CERN (and who’s married to Brian Cox and is totally cool), wrote a lengthy reply to Sizemore’s reply. But I will add you can see Gia’s pictures of all us at CERN on her Flickr account.
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As a followup, let me add a few things about the move: Most folks should already have that as the feed address, but check your feed reader to make sure. The Discover Hive Overmind wanted to get everyone moved over first, and then tweak things. The ad stays, and the About Me thing stays.
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By now you’ve heard that Phoenix found ice on Mars. This is cool — har har — but we need to be careful here. But while I was at TAM a lot of folks were asking me about it, and it became clear that some of them thought that this was the first time ice had been seen on Mars.
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The one Tom quotes, about there not being a vacuum stage big enough to hoax the landing set, isn’t right. There is one that’s pretty big, and could house a small set. And don’t even get me started that there is still a need for a Moon Hoax debunking page.
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Pretty much every real scientist on the planet then said, nope, won’t happen. The argument based on cosmic ray collisions is not limited only to cosmic rays impacting on the Earth, but on every astronomical body in the observable Universe, including very dense ones such as neutron stars.
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Years ago, President Bush asked the telecom companies to give him massive amounts of personal data from their databases. This request was incredibly invasive, yet many companies (notably AT&T) bent over backwards to accommodate him. Their actions were in fact illegal; no one argues this.
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I’m still recovering from TAM, and I’ll be blogging up a storm in a little while. But until then, this made me laugh. We’ve all done something like this, I suspect…
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Geek Monthly is a pretty cool magazine aimed at people like you and me: geeks. And even better: he is on page 14, and I am on page 28, which numeralogically is twice as cool.
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