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EsoZone is a mutant unconference, Portland Oregon USA, October 9 and 10 2009.  See you there!

By applying a method of calculating gravity that was first developed for the moon to data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, known as Grace, JPL researchers have found a way to measure the pressure at the bottom of the ocean.

Old Moon Discovery Helps Unlock Earth Ocean Secrets

2009 marks 400 years since Galileo exhibited his telescope, 150 years since the publication of On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin and 40 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing.

The calendar and anniversaries and mathematics are human inventions. The small satisfied feeling I get from nice round numbers and overlapping anniversaries is something like a superstition. I act on my superstition by writing a blog post and I don’t expect anyone to act on my superstition, so it seems harmless enough. Compared to how the professionally superstitious responded to Galileo’s telescope and Darwin’s theory, I think I’m doing pretty good. On this anniversary of three nice round numbers, take a moment to consider what science has revealed and what superstition has concealed about the universe.

They don’t let pussies go to the moon.

Neil Armstrong: One Badass Mother Fucker. | MetaFilter

accidental mysteries: Fiodar Sumkin: Cyrillique Fantastique

we are a species only about 100,000 years old, evolving on a planet where the average lifetime of a species is 10 million years. Unless we blow it, humans are going to be around in 1,000 years

Kim Stanley Robinson — Exploring Space Can Help Us Protect the Earth – washingtonpost.com

No, really.

Making of Buzz Aldrin’s Rocket Experience w/ Snoop Dogg and Talib Kweli from Buzz Aldrin, FOD Team, Ryan Perez, and Snoop Dogg – Video

“the mind is a fire to be ignited, not a vessel to be filled” – Commander David Scott

Moon men: The most exclusive club in human history | Science | guardian.co.uk

Together, you and thousands of other Stardust@home participants will find the first pristine interstellar dust particles ever brought to Earth.

Stardust@Home

numerous plans for rocket kits that are no longer being manufactured as well as other non-kit plans and out-of-print rocketry publications.

Ye Olde Rocket Plans