I generally live under a rock and am rarely the first to hear about anything. A co-worker alerted me to the upcoming movie Oblivion and I can’t wait to see it.
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With Great Joy, Comes Great Sorrow
By Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times
September 3, 2012, 5:12 p.m.
Space shuttle Endeavour’s final 12-mile journey through the streets of South Los Angeles already promises to be a meticulously planned spectacle: a two-day parade, an overnight slumber party in Inglewood and enough hoopla to create a giant traffic mess.
But for some residents in South L.A., the excitement of the shuttle rumbling through their neighborhoods quickly faded when they learned that 400 trees will be chopped down to make room for the behemoth.
The California Science Center — Endeavour’s final home — has agreed to replant twice as many trees along the route from the shuttle’s docking place at Los Angeles International Airport to Exposition Park
I am thrilled that we are getting a space shuttle here in LA but it is coming at a high price to our environment. I wish the trees could be moved somewhere else instead of just being cut down.
Continued here: LA TIMES
For more information on the pending arrival of the Endeavour, visit California Science Center Space Shuttle Page
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Working sixteen hours a day every day for the last month, I’ve had very little time for watching, reading or talking about science fiction and I realize that it’s left a big void in my life. I really get a lot of pleasure discussing different ideas and new possibilities that science fiction always invokes. The best writers may give you hope for the future or show you a vision so bleak that it sparks you do better in the here and now. I look forward to returning to my normal work schedule and once again pursuing a better tomorrow through literature, television and movies.
I don’t think that Mattel understands what a drag queen is…
“Drag Queen Barbie” Will Launch By Christmas
So this is why there are so many UFO sightings in the desert…
…it looks like home
Is it the Mojave or Mars? New photos from the red planet may blur the line
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This is the first image taken by the Navigation cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover. It shows the shadow of the rover’s now-upright mast in the center, and the arm’s shadow at left. The arm itself can be seen in the foreground.
Californians and other West Coast denizens may have a whole new drinking game on their hands, as even more pictures are released of the craggly, dune-y, suspiciously Mojave-looking “red planet.”
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have spent the past week piecing together panoramas of black and white images that the Mars rover Curiosity has been steadily sending since Sunday.
“You would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture,” said project scientist John Grotzinger, referencing one snapshot near the rim of Gale Crater.
“The thing that’s amazing about this is [that] to a certain extent, the first impression you get is how earth-like this seems.”
Scientists said pictures of marks in the ground that rover engines made during landing reveal a first glimpse of bedrock below the planet’s pebbly surface.
NASA plans to release more Mars photos over the next few days, including a color panorama.
To check out the slide go Mojave or Mars
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