September 23, 2011
September 21, 2011
September 7, 2011
Apollo 12 Landing Site
NASA just released updated high-res images of a bunch of landing sites. I redrew the path that the Apollo 12 astronauts took... to make it a bit clearer.
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September 5, 2011
Franklin's Walking Stick
"Franklin received a cane while serving as ambassador to France during the 1780s. In his will he bequeathed this reminder of the Revolution and its ideals to George Washington"
"My fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a Sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it."
"Washington's grandnephew donated the cane to the U.S. government in 1843; it was transferred to the Smithsonian from the State Department in 1922."
via http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=57
"My fine crab-tree walking stick, with a gold head curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a Sceptre, he has merited it, and would become it."
"Washington's grandnephew donated the cane to the U.S. government in 1843; it was transferred to the Smithsonian from the State Department in 1922."
via http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=57
September 2, 2011
Disappearance of glacial river stuns B.C. hikers
via CBC
"One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with icebergs.
"You see where the bergs had been dragged along the bottom and you could see the drag marks in the mud from all the various icebergs."
photos at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/02/bc-glacier-river-icefield.html#
"One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with icebergs.
"You see where the bergs had been dragged along the bottom and you could see the drag marks in the mud from all the various icebergs."
"The maps will have to be redrawn a bit because there's no more river there," he said.
Atlin residents weren't the only ones caught off guard by the shift. Icefield researchers working in the area this summer found normally dry walking trails to the Llewellyn Inlet flooded with chest-deep water.
photos at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/02/bc-glacier-river-icefield.html#
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