Edge, seat, etc.

NASA press conference Thursday to discuss astrobiology finding which affects the search for ET life.

Name That Moon

For some time, I have been thinking that our moon needs a better name. I mean, Jupiter has moons named Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, Amalthea, Himalia and Leda; and Saturn has Titan, Enceladus, Hyperion and Phoebe. Mars has Phoebos and Demos (Latin for fear and panic); Neptune has Triton (not to be confused with Titan), Galatea and Larissa; and Uranus has Juliet, Cupid, Portia, Belinda, Miranda and Margaret.

We are stuck with "moon." I realize that all those other planets have many, many orbiting satellites, but I don't see why we can't have one with a cool name. Ancient civilizations called it Luna and Selene, but we don't have a pretty name for it now. Just moon.

I guess maybe renaming it would play havoc with popular music, but I still think it would work. I'm liking "Garrett."

From the book I'm reading. I LOL'd.

"Collapsing wave function" is one of those phrases that physicists just toss around, along the same lines of, "computing the eigen values of the Hamiltonian" or "staying home alone on a Saturday night." 
We're just so used to it that it might never occur to us that it needs additional explanation.*


*Not that "staying home alone on a Saturday night" really needs much additional explanation. Enjoy the rest of the book, nerd.

While we're on the subject of funneh...

The picture from this article makes the whole thing funny¹ºº.

NASA Announces Plans to Bring Wi-Fi to Its Headquarters by 2017

From the ONN Space Desk

Gol DRAT, The Onion needs to do more space stories...
I think I might have posted these before but they are still funny as hell.

Crime Scene* Nebula

No it's not. I lie.

*Also, there's a squid in the picture.



Lemon Slice Nebula

You know what's the best thing about space exploration?

 All the pictures are in the public domain, that's what.

...jiggity jog.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Victoria Beckham of galaxies

                                                                            NGC 4452. Or a lightsaber.