February 2012
29 posts
Custom quartz watch lets you track both Earth time...
iheartchaos:
A day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes, which is just enough of a difference to Earth time to make trying to keep track of both a real pain in the ass. Since Martian rovers and landers operate on local Martian time, people working on these missions needed a way to keep track of days on both planets. Sure, they could have done it easily with digital watches, but NASA went to a...
“Politics is far more complicated than physics.”
– Albert Einstein (via amcarder)
The Dock Podcast: s01e13 - You Guys May Not Hear... →
thedockpodcast:
Episode 13
Jamie and Jon were joined by David Kanter, who does user support for Intuit. They began by contemplating customer service for software and the difference between “feedback” and “support.” They considered which media — Twitter, email, IM, phone — work best for customers and their…
NASA Officially confirms: Cold Fusion →
darylelockhart:
deus—ex-machina:
NASA is all in and claiming to “be working on another way of producing energy with efficient nuclear power.” NASA as an organization apparently suddenly wants to be seen as in the forefront of this new thing they see coming. Pretty cool actually.
NASA has produced and featured a video presenting…
