Entries for September 2005
Google and NASA
I should really be working on the vestiges of my homework (as always) right now, but it's my birthday, so I feel justified in doing anything I want to at the moment.
Scanning the BBC headlines this morning brought this article on a new venture between NASA and Google that was announced. My first thought was something along the lines of, "Well, that's nice, but... why?" Then, I saw this:
"Imagine having a wide selection of images from the Apollo space mission at your fingertips whenever you want it."
NASA has huge wealths of information hidden away on their website. Having just finished that space shuttle project, I've been combing through a lot of it recently, and I know that my mother, a science teacher, frequently uses NASA's website for educational purposes, too. Now, if Google could make it easier to find a lot of that information from the get-go, that would be wonderful for people like us.
And who knows? Maybe coming across some of the stuff NASA's got hidden away will inspire a few more kids like me.
As for other things Google and NASA could do together, well, I can just imagine the results.
EMAE 381 Flight Info
The following is the information from our flight test on 10 September 2005.
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Moment of Insight
Rarely is there anything as exciting as discovering the answer to a problem with which one has been wrestling. It's even better when that epiphany comes before the homework is due. Here's hoping that this is the start of an excellent day!
Interview with New Orleans' Mayor
One of the blogs I read regularly posted an mp3 of an interview with New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin that has since been censored. It is more than worth a listen.