Astronauts now able to access porn from space
NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space
HOUSTON — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.
Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new system Friday, when he posted the first unassisted update to his Twitter account, @Astro_TJ, from the space station. Previous tweets from space had to be e-mailed to the ground where support personnel posted them to the astronaut’s Twitter account.
“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space!
More soon, send your ?s”
This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station and gives astronauts the ability to browse and use the Web. The system will provide astronauts with direct private communications to enhance their quality of life during long-duration missions by helping to ease the isolation associated with life in a closed environment.
During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications, the crew will have remote access to the Internet via a ground computer. The crew will view the desktop of the ground computer using an onboard laptop and interact remotely with their keyboard touchpad.
Astronauts will be subject to the same computer use guidelines as government employees on Earth. In addition to this new capability, the crew will continue to have official e-mail, Internet Protocol telephone and limited videoconferencing capabilities.
The whole setup seems to be a bit kludgy…
Woman caught anthrax from drums
Anthrax Found In Drums Linked To Infected Woman
US health officials have confirmed samples from a pair of African drums used in a drumming circle attended by a New Hampshire woman who is severely ill in hospital with gastrointestinal anthrax have tested positive for the deadly bacterium.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) confirmed on Monday that test samples from two African drums stored at a building belonging to the the United Campus Ministry to the University of New Hampshire in downtown Durham have come back positive for anthrax, but stressed they have not been confirmed as the source of the infection and additional tests are still going on.
Again, synthetic drum heads may not be such a bad idea.
– OR –
If one thinks like Newt Gingrich, one can conclude that God hates drums.
And yet the world continues to exist
Atom-smasher sets world energy record
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment on the French-Swiss border has set a new world record for energy.
The LHC pushed the energy of its particle beams beyond one trillion electron volts, making it the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator.
Researchers working on the collider have said they are delighted with the quick progress made since the machine restarted on 20 November.
Still no sign of effects from the future in the Large Hadron Collider…
Bizarre Physics News
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.
Whoa! I’d like to see the math behind all this. Then again, if a Higgs boson is actually detected by the Large Hadron Collider, the theory is immediately falsified…
Worms in a Micro-wave?
Hypothesis: I predict that the fatest worm will blow up the quickest & blow up more GUTS!
Is that a Confederate flag in the lower right hand corner? WTF?
Even when Microsoft tries to do good…
…they somehow manage to be at least a little bit evil. For example:
Microsoft has put the Richard Feynman Messenger Series of lectures online. Which is definitely a good thing. Unfortunately, Silverlight is required to access the content of this page. Which wouldn’t be so bad, but this page doesn’t work with Moonlight. Apparently, we Linux users can’t access the content of this page.
When a web sight requires a specific browser/OS combination, it can mean one of two things:
- The web developers are incompetent.
- Someone is being a dick.
I leave it up to the reader to decide which category Microsoft belongs in…
.. he dominates the DECADENT SUBWAY SCENE.
