Posts Tagged ‘space’

perseid meteor shower at joshua tree

Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, videos on August 18th at 4:58pmcomment

I missed the perseids this year because humboldt county and sf county are too darn foggy, but this video helps to make up for it!

vintage NASA photos! June 14th at 7:08pm – comment

here!

space shuttle ‘discovery’ time-lapse

Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, look over here!, videos on June 4th at 11:36amcomment

watch the ‘discovery’ get prepped for launch! so so cool. I am not ashamed to say I cried at the end of this. I again quote a recent episode of ‘the big bang theory’:

…there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only 60 years before had just invented the airplane!

humans are pretty amazing, guys. the things we can do are breathtaking.

bots of both worlds

Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, look over here!, videos on May 25th at 7:43pmcomment

behold: the latest installment of the spitzer science center’s web series for kids. starring amy okuda from ‘the guild’ and the voice of wil wheaton. the setting: the giant ring of saturn!

tangent: as wil wheaton has noted via his site and twitter, there was a truly great line in the finale of ‘the big bang theory’ last night, and I’d like to share it here:

…there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only 60 years before had just invented the airplane!

whoa. right??

beautiful time-lapse

Posted in videos on March 5th at 12:49pmcomment

The White Mountain from charles on Vimeo.

…guys?

Posted in i must retire to my nerdery on January 29th at 2:21pm2 Comments

JPL Open House

Posted in i must retire to my nerdery, photos on May 4th at 9:10pmcomment

Science!! Space!! Robots!!

Ellen gave me the heads up about the Jet Propulsion Lab’s annual open house and I was all over it, as you might imagine. It was like a science fair for adults. I had a great time and can’t wait until next year!

Photos are captioned generously. Here is a brief post about the day.