I’ve been taking pictures with my cellphone camera, but a weird error on WordPress had been preventing me from uploading the pictures until now. So, these pictures range from the start of last year till now, but I figured I’d put a few up. I’m not a good photographer, and my cellphone camera isn’t particularly [...]
Category Archive for 'Fun'
Meteor Crater, Dinosaurs, and Spacefaring
Posted in Commercial Space, Fun, Lunar Commerce, Lunar Exploration and Development, Space Development, Space Policy, Space Transportation on Apr 16th, 2012
On the way home from the Space Access 2012 conference yesterday, we drove by Meteor Crater, Arizona. I’m not much of a photographer, but I take pictures anyway. Here’s a few of my favorites: While I was standing there looking at this pretty darned impressive hole in the ground, I started thinking about Larry Niven’s [...]
AV-017, Bubbling UFOs, and Centrifugal Settling
Posted in Astronomy, Fun, Propellant Depots on Oct 27th, 2009
I’ve been so busy lately that I’m only now getting a few spare minutes to show off some rather cool pictures I was sent a week ago. A week ago Monday, I got an email from Claire Flanagan of the Johannesburg Planetarium in South Africa, asking about some strange pictures, including the one taken above [...]
This is poor taste, but too funny not to pass along (I apologize in advance to CxP workers reading this). Upon hearing about another CxP element that’s been supposedly defunded, a NASASpaceFlight.com member (Lawntonlookirs) expressed his frustration by creating the following, slightly modified mission patch for Constellation:
Science vs. Screwing Around With Heavy Equipment
Posted in Fun on Jun 27th, 2009
For your amusement, Ben explains: I’ve found that the difference between “screwing around with heavy equipment” and “science” is whether or not you record the results with a high speed camera. This principal has been repeatedly demonstrated by the Mythbusters.