Go Bode, Congress, and NASA!

Bode Miller captured his second gold in this year's Alpine skiing world championship. Congress blocked the Total Information Awareness system from reading my mail and their funding to boot. Good going guys! NASA is doing some cool stuff right now regarding the early universe and human spaceflight in microgravity.

Bode Miller

Bode nipped Hans Knauss of Austria by three hundredths to take gold in the world championship giant slalom. After the first run Bode was in 4th place and he turned in a solid second run to place first. Erik Schlopy, Bode's teamate, had the most phenomenal second run, moving from 23 to take bronze and net a double podium for the Americans! Go USA!

Congress Zaps Poindexter

The government will not be reading my email. Which is good, 'cause that guy Poindexter is a dick. Read about it via Google News. Get the geek take via Slashdot: House and Senate Reject Email Surveillance.

Now if they can just nix that horrid Patriot Act II. If that damn thing is 'patriotic' I sure ain't.

Dark Energy

The universe is mostly dark energy. This from NASA measurements of the early universe via the background radiation. And to think ... they laughed at me when I talked of anti-energy. If I can only find those old notes ...

I should probably get going on a related project that this will really help along.

Hypergravity

This month's Wired has a cool article by a reporter who was lucky enough to participate in a NASA hypergravity experiment. I kinda wonder about the feasibility of such a scheme. Why not just spin the main hab section of the spacecraft at 1 g? I mean, that'd be better than spinning a smaller section at 1.25 g and then not being able to use it full time or spinning a section up and then down and up and down. Heck, you could probably get away with just sleeping in the centrifuge. Which would be good, considering your head would be level with your heart and the chance of blacking out would be minimized.