2011/07/05
The Canadarm (the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, or SRMS) has been in use for almost thirty years: it was launched on the second shuttle mission (STS-2, using the ill-fated Columbia), on November 12, 1981.
In the picture below, from 2005, Astronaut Stephen Robinson is balanced on the end of the Canadarm.
2011/06/25
Usually I don’t notice the patterns around me, but my camera helped me with this one…
2011/06/22
The differing color phases in the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone Park are a result of diverse algae and microbes. Hot water springs emerge from the ground and the water cools as it flows down the incline, thereby producing distinct temperature zones; different strains of microbes are adapted to each temperature zone, and the distinctive color variations of the water are a result of the various microbes within each zone.
Researchers at the University of Colorado discovered that the microbes use hydrogen for food, which gives hope for finding life on other planets that have dissimilar chemical compositions to that on our planet.
2011/06/17
The cork bark leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus pietschmanni) was discovered in 2003 by scientists in the Madagascar rainforest. It’s a wonder it was ever discovered: it took me a while to find it in the picture below even though I knew it was there…
photo credit: Joel Walley
2011/06/08
The pictures of Castle Stalker (in Loch Laich, Appin Scotland; the castle of Monty Python fame…) were found here
2011/06/01
I’m definitely going to see the new exhibit (May 28 – Sept 25, 2011) at the Vancouver Art Gallery,The Colour of my Dreams: THE SURREALIST REVOLUTION IN ART
The Oneiroscopist, 1947
oil on canvas
The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art in the Israel Museum
Photo: © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011/05/30
Greece: rising from the plain of Pinios, the monasteries hanging in the air… (image by: Leo Palmer)
I wonder if Tolkien ever traveled there…
2011/05/23
Earlier this month ( May 6th), in Zagreb Croatia, 768 people broke the Guinness World Record for the biggest human smiley face.
Photo by Nikola Solic, Reuters
2011/05/16
This picture of the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final launch was taken by Stephanie Gordon while on a flight from New York to Florida today:
2011/05/09
db johnston
almost falling 