NASA tool pouch literally “lost in space”
Nov 20, 2008
I suppose every handyman at one time or another has asked his wife, “Honey, have you seen my grease gun?” Well, that phrase probably wasn’t uttered in this case, but NASA astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper did indeed lose her grip on a $100,000 tool pouch while performing maintenance outside the International Space Station on Tuesday. And [...]
Planet Fomalhaut B photographed by Hubble Space Telescope
Nov 14, 2008
Astronomers have predicted for centuries that many stars in the universe probably have planets orbiting around them, and in recent decades their actual existence has been proven via mountains of “circumstantial evidence”. But now we actually have visible-light photographs of a Jupiter sized planet orbiting a star named Fomalhaut, which lies approximately 25 light years [...]
Microsoft gears up to release Windows 7
Nov 3, 2008
Every once in a while a product is released that simply fails to catch on with consumers, the most famous of which were probably Ford’s ill-fated ”Edsel” and the equally dismal ”New Coke”. Well, with Windows Vista the boys from Redmond have managed to release a version of the embattled operating system that has left a very bad taste [...]
