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Archive for June, 2006
“Where is the Earth-shattering kaboom?”
The Moon has a brand new crater.
Meteoroids hit the Moon all the time, but on May 2, 2006, two NASA engineers managed to get this best-ever-video of an impact in progress:
Note the flash in the upper right of the image
The explosion released 17 billion joules of kinetic energy. To put that [...]
The awesome rate of innovation continues over at MadCap Software. Not resting on the initial success of Flare, the team has revealed yet another product, called Blaze.
Just like Flare is a 21st century replacement for the behemoth RoboHelp, (you have made the switch, haven’t you?), Blaze is intended to replace FrameMaker. FrameMaker users who have [...]
Housecat chases a black bear up a tree. Priceless.
Image credit Suzanne Giovanetti, AP. Click to embiggenate.
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After years of debate and controversy, the International Astronomical Union is finally going to “officially” define what a “planet” is.
It sounds odd that the astronomical community has never got around to doing this… but until recently, the need for an official description was not needed. Was it large enough to see in telescopes, forced spherical [...]
Shortly after 2am on Wednesday, a hillside in northern Norway was struck by what appears to have been a very large meteorite.
It appears that the energy released was comparable to that from a small atomic bomb.
The news is just now starting to trickle in (it is rural Norway, for crying out loud). The only eyewitness [...]
I have discovered the secret of the universe. As I suspected all along, the answer can be found using donut theory.
Vhat? De Donut tery? Fascinating. Proceed.
It came to me suddenly, while watching someone eat a double-chocolate glazed pastry at Tim Horton’s. I noticed something… she didn’t eat the donut’s hole. [...]
