“We are not going to be done with this before the winter shutdown, so there will be no more beam in the LHC this year,” Gillies told The Associated Press. “The winter shutdown will go according to schedule, which means that we start up the accelerator complex in the spring months.”
The latest notice from CERN [...]
“The objective is to provide an analog close to space where the consequences are really life and death,” said Marc Reagan, mission commander for NASA’s sixth Extreme Environment Mission Operations program or NEEMO. “Rookies can make their mistakes before they get to space.”
On July 23, 2004, an astronaut by the name of Dave Williams was [...]
Seventy-nine year old Professor Peter Higgs believes that the God-Particle will be found by the simple act of switching on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Researcher (CERN), located below the Franco-Swiss border. And now that the switch has been turned on, he still feels it is necessary to understand [...]
“We are a bastard life form, born of unknown parents, with no relatives, no friends, no outside contact. WE are human, animal, and plant, isolated and abandoned on a planetary island…and WE are increasingly lonely.”
(Jeremy Heil, Ted Meyer, Terry Schmidt, and Matt Whitten—Group 1, 2002)
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In 1984, a meteorite called ALH84001 was found in Allan [...]
NASA WATCH
Mike Griffin’s Leaked Email: Is He Falling On His Sword?
Editor’s note: Some of you may recall my posting on 11 March 2005 that Mike Griffin was going to be the next Administrator of NASA. In that posting I recalled an action taken by Griffin during the Space Station Freedom redesign activity [...]
A special thank you to Discovery News space correspondent, Irene Klotz, who chronicles humanity’s efforts to leave the planet. One day, she wants to see for herself what all the fuss is about. Meanwhile, she is hosting this week’s Carnival of Space #69 for a variety of subjects, all done in alphabetic order per subject [...]
Born on September 5, 1908, soon to be one-hundred years ago, one of the fathers of Italian physics and a pioneer in nuclear research, Professor Edoardo Amaldi, died on December 6, 1989 at the age of 81 years of age. Studying under Enrico Fermi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1938 for his research on [...]
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~ Results of damage testing ~
It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane’s windshield at approximately [...]
If NASA can fix moonship shaking with shock absorbers, there is no reason why a NASA intern—Erez Lieberman—cannot use the very same technology used by our returning space travelers, to lower statistics for elderly individuals who have high rates of falling, providing a technical warning system before it happens. Called the “iShoe”, the [...]
“Our experience tells us there’s lots of diversity among the cobbles,” said Scott McLennan of the State University of New York, Stony Brook. McLennan is a long-term planning leader for the rover science team. We want to get a better characterization of them. A statistical sampling from examining more of them will be important for [...]
