Boy, you know you've been away for a while when you come back and your blog's front page is blank. Yikes. Hopefully the moblog has allowed some inference as to what I've been doing while away (Pssst. I'll give you a hint: it ends with "iami"). Rest assured the survival story of last weekend and the party story of this weekend will soon be posted.
In the mean time I offer you news of the success of NASA and JPL in striking Comet Tempel 1 with the Deep Impact probe. Huzzah! The flash of the 800-pound copper impactor was unexpected, but I guess that's what you get when you heat anything to several thousand degrees Kelvin. No doubt there are scads of data being processed by those diligent engineers at this very moment, and I hope we'll all soon know what makes up the heart of a comet. Perhaps, if we're lucky, it might hold a secret or two about the origins of life. Oh, and check out the movie from the impactor's view. It's scary watching a comet approach at 23,000 mph. And vaguely reminiscent of Georges Méliès' 1902 film Le voyage dans la lune.
Posted by George at July 4, 2005 10:48 PMwow - the movie from the impactor's view seems so surreal! hard to believe it's moving that fast and filming at the same time. wow.
Posted by: delara at July 6, 2005 12:09 AMends in iami... hahaha. i like it. :)
Posted by: nas at July 7, 2005 01:11 AM