Dating In Marching Band

I wish I could say I was good at drawing shit on a computer, but alas, I am not. Nevertheless, this is my rendition of Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. You can tell that I literally copy and pated a few of those patches on, which is why some have legit text and others have scribbles

George Romanes – Scientist of the Day

George Romanes, a British physiologist and animal psychologist, was born May 20, 1848, when Charles Darwin was twelve years back from the Beagle voyage and two years into his long barnacle project.

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Well, I'm a day late

Nineteen years since humanity lost a hero. Remembering Carl today.

Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996)

Is this Ellington Field in Houston? Because I know they mounted Space Shuttle Independence (NOT the one from Micheal Bay’s Armageddon) onto Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 a few years back after they moved Explorer (NOT the one from Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity) to Houston and rechristened it with the name we all know today. Or this might just be one of the SCAs when they were very much in operation. This is still a cool picture.

One hell of a parking lot.

A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns. The rising of the Milky Way.

Carl Sagan

Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger was the first (fellow) graduate of Space Camp in Huntsville, AL to fly in space.  She flew aboard Discovery on STS-131.

Rockhound, with the Tampax in Taipei.

Original Series Special Effects though!

European Scientists Want to Shoot a Giant Bullet at Europa

Europa has been calling to astrobiologists for years. Although its surface is frigid and bombarded with radiation, inside it contains a vast liquid ocean that might be capable of supporting life. NASA is planning to launch an orbiter and lander to Europa in 2022, and during today’s meeting of NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group, scientists expressed interest in getting the European Space Agency (ESA) involved in the mission.

The most exciting proposal is for ESA to build a projectile that could penetrate a few meters below the surface of the icy Jovian moon, to learn about its geophysics and search for hints about the moon’s ability to support life.

Read about the full plan here.

Image Credit: Geraint Jones