Science Etcetera Saturnday, 20080308

March 8th, 2008

White Killer Whale

I’m sad that my entry didn’t win, which included Major Tom and Black-Hole Sun, but the ESA is sending the Top 10 space songs to the ISS.

Kav’s been covering Britain’s STFC funding crisis from the perspective of someone who’s career is in jeopardy from it, and it also has immense repercussions for the rest of us as World-leading telescopes will be shut down as well, meaning a lot less Science Etcetera material.

A dispute has erupted over who discovered the solution to the 140 Year old Math Problem first.

If we do find Planet X, we may not be able to send a probe to look at it as a Plutonium Shortage May Thwart Future NASA Missions to the outer solar system.

Mark me in the satisfied customer column, despite being half-blind in one eye for several months, 95 percent satisfaction rate worldwide for LASIK patients.

In an admirable display of environmentalism and common sense, Britain will Serve Tap Water at Government Meetings.

Something to mull over just before 2AM Sunday Morning, it appears that increased heating and cooling expenses Offset “Daylight Savings”; however, the social benefits of DST are hard to quantify.

Meet Dextre, the robot that will be joining the ISS crew shortly.

The Turkish and Pakistani Flags are Astronomically Inaccurate.

The NY Times reports that Senator Inhofe “has said that [Global Warming's] effects are exaggerated,” which is a pretty tame way of describing the position of a man who has called global warming a hoax and compared Al Gore to Hitler. (I’ve covered Inhofe here).

Humans have been evolving life on Earth for thousands of years, not try your hand at guided natural selection with the Flash Game: Seed (HT Science Punk):