Category: Wonders of Science

Cross posted from an email from Carolyn Porco

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December 3, 2007

Dear Friends,

To celebrate the holiday season and mark the close of another year
exploring Saturn, CICLOPS is running a contest for the most popular
image taken by our cameras since Cassini’s arrival in the Saturn system
nearly 4 years ago.

Please go to …

       http://ciclops.org

… and vote for your favorite color and `black and white’ images, and
your favorite movie clip, too.  The field has been narrowed from the
thousands of image products that CICLOPS has released thus far to a
handful that have been pre-selected by the members of the CICLOPS Alliance.

The voting ends at midnight on December 30th, Mountain Standard Time.
The results will be posted on December 31.  And three lucky people among
the entrants will win a printed poster of the winning color image or an
image of their choice.

And let’s tell the whole world what Cassini has accomplished!  Invite
anybody and everybody you know to visit our site and cast a vote.  This
contest is for everyone to enjoy.

So, good luck to all of you, and let the voting begin now!

Carolyn Porco
Cassini Imaging Team Leader
Director/CICLOPS
Space Science Institute
Boulder, CO

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Vote early, vote often kids!

Science meets anthropomorphism

How to make a rat laugh.

Anyway, this time tomorrow I’ll be winging my way to “still recovering from Noel” La Republica Dominicana.  Just to give you an idea of how cool the Canadian anthem is, here’s a portion of a really really bad translation of the national anthem of the DR.

Compatriots, let us proudly
Show our face, from today prouder than ever;
Quisqueya may be destroyed
But a slave again, never!
 
Please note Quisqueya is what the native peoples called Hispaniola. That’s one of the closing verses.  The version that is on Wikipedia is so bad I suspect Haitians put it on Wikipedia just to poke the Quisqueyanos in the eye.
I’m packed.  Do I want to take my mandolin, that’s the question that’s bugging me.
I heart Hugh Laurie.  Omar Epps isn’t exactly Mr. Uggly either. 

My flabs in zero g

Well, not exactly.

Smell for comfort. 

I may have posted this already, but it’s still funny.

V. cool pic of deep sea urchins.

Human reproduction sure can be odd. 

Will Allegra stop providing links to articles about the collapse of the Yankee dollar?  Sadly, no.

Math Song Finite Simple Group of Order Two.