Last Saturday I took my first trip to Dublin Zoo in several years, and its improved vastly from my last visit. The animals have much more room to roam about than they had on my previous visits, and work is continuing to improve facilities further. A Zoo provides great photo opportunities. One of my favourite […]
James A. Van Allen died yesterday age 91. Van Allen made the first great discovery of the space age, with his instruments on the very first american spacecraft, Explorer 1. The largest Earthly “object”, the Van Allen radiation belt, is named after him. http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/vanallen.html It sad to see one of the last great space age
I’ve been getting a bit lazy thanks to Google Earth. Just type in an address (works best in the US) and you have the coordinates. Plug the coords into the GPS and you are fine. I’m in the US at the moment and staying in a hotel I’ve not been in before. So I googled
www.cybuscorporation.com – Runs the SunOne webserver. Cybus founded in 1982, Sun Microsystems founded 1982.Participation age eh? Perhaps its too easy to get too stuck into Dr. Who! 🙂 Long live the Daleks!