drt on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: Blog, Human Interest, Miscellaneous, Space Flights
Tired with the political news, I flipped the TV channel and saw this guy talking about the applications of NASA technology by Google. After a while I found out that it was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google giving a presentation as part of NASA 50th Anniversary Lecture series.
Since I missed the first part [...]
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drt on Apr 13 2007 | Filed under: Space Flights
I was so busy last week and haven’t updated my blog for the past few days. Yesterday I was thinking of writing about Yuri Gagarin launching anniversary after reading the email from Christian Krjnet. I went to check and indeed I saw that Google had honored Yuri Gagarin by the picture shown in the [...]
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drt on Feb 01 2007 | Filed under: Space Flights
Few days ago when I saw this video, suddenly, one question came to mind.
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How come the explosion of Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia accidents were all happened at the small window at the end of January up to February 1? Now, Sea Launch Rocket exploded around this time of year too. Was that simply a [...]
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drt on Jan 30 2007 | Filed under: Space Flights
My son got a kick when he saw this sign somewhere in Tokyo with the words “Defend the children.” I also laughed at it when he told me the link. Indeed, the Japanese words ‘mamori’ or ‘mamoru’ means ‘to defend’ when it refers to “defend the country against the enemy.” However, as the Japanese words [...]
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