I watched it this morning and "NASA astronaut Cady Coleman spent the next two hours reeling Dragon in, carefully guiding the capsule towards the ISS's Harmony module..." isn't really accurate. It was just sitting there while they double checked readings and confirming the solar arrays etc were stowed for 99.9% of that time. The actual act of pulling it in to dock took about 1 minute (and NASA TV cut away for it! The bastards!) There was a lot of static image of the Dragon module just sitting there the rest of the time.#corrections(Edit comment)
"NASA astronaut Cady Coleman spent the next two hours reeling Dragon in..."Ummm, Cady's not on the Expedition 31 roster...[www.nasa.gov]#corrections(Edit comment)
"A 2009 expedition grazed the bottom of the Pacific Gyre, so that researchers from Denmark's Aarhus University extracting 90 foot cores of sediment. Within the sediment they found an unnamed form of bacteria that went over eighty-six million years without a meal thanks to food scarcity under the suffocating sediment."1. This was the NORTH Pacific Gyre. Although this is a cool-sounding name for an area, it's really a very non-specific reference to some part of the North Pacific Ocean.2. The clay sediments found there were deposited as much as 86 million years ago. The age of the clays does not speak directly to the age of the bacteria.3. The bacteria found there are assumed to be descended from the bacteria originally caught up in the clay, BUT Hans Røy, the head of the study, does NOT assume that the bacteria he saw were actually 86 million years old. He speculates they are more likely no more than 1000 years old. (See, e.g., [phys.org])4. The bacteria have NOT been dormant for 86 million years "without a meal"; they have been metabolizing what little organic nutrients and oxygen was available in their environment very slowly over this whole period.5. In other words, this is not a "ancient organism comes back from the dead!" story, it's an "ancient organism survives in an extremely inhospitable environment for millions of years!" story.#corrections(Edit comment)
"Unchecked hoards..."It's hordes.A hoard is a collection of valuable objects, such as the pile of treasure a dragon sits on. A horde is a large group of creatures.#corrections(Edit comment)
I love you guys, but under "When & Where", don't you mean EDT & PDT? During daylight savings time, UTC --> PDT = -7; UTC --> EDT = -4 During standard time, UTC --> PST = -8; UTC --> EST = -5I know it's nitpicky, but this is astronomy, after all - and there are parts of the world that stick to Standard Time all year.You're awesome, though. :)#corrections(Edit comment)
Cool article. There's a neat bar today called the Lèche-Vin which is decorated by hundreds of images and statues of Jesus crammed into every corner.Also, when you typed about the "Cabaret du Néant ("The Cabaret of Nothingness") in the neighborhood of Montmarte," you meant to write "Montmartre" with a second "r" at the end. Pretty sure. #corrections(Edit comment)
"Lunarcrete is a mixture of similar to concrete" - a mixture of what? "The brittleness would pose a problem in an problem in an oxygen void atmosphere" - a problem in a problem in? #corrections(Edit comment)
"He managed to change the world with an already-existing technology by turning it something that anybody could buy and use."Missing word #corrections(Edit comment)
Now, we all know you meant Spock, just Spock.#corrections (Edit comment)
A horde is a large group of creatures.#corrections (Edit comment)
During standard time, UTC --> PST = -8; UTC --> EST = -5I know it's nitpicky, but this is astronomy, after all - and there are parts of the world that stick to Standard Time all year.You're awesome, though. :)#corrections (Edit comment)
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"The brittleness would pose a problem in an problem in an oxygen void atmosphere" - a problem in a problem in? #corrections (Edit comment)
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