Just one week to go, kids! I’m working my ass off on finishing touches, but the Skepchick Spaceship is mostly go for launch! I’m very much looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there. You’re in for a fantastic weekend. ….
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Every time a skeptic tells a lie, a blog somewhere dies
Just so you know, this post led to this meltdown.
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The “Humans are/are not Apes” Falsehood discussion is now in podcast form
…. along with the discussion of Transhumanism. Click here.
Deep Impact/EPOXI will fly past Earth this Today
It’s one of those hitch hiking deals:
NASA’s Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will fly past Earth this Sunday (June 27). Mission navigators have tailored this trajectory so the spacecraft can “hitch a ride” on Earth’s gravity field, which will help propel the mission toward its appointment with comet Hartley 2 this fall. At time of closest approach to Earth, the spacecraft will be about 30,400 kilometers (18,900 miles) above the South Atlantic.
“Earth is a great place to pick up orbital velocity,” said Tim Larson, the EPOXI project manager from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “This flyby will give our spacecraft a 1.5-kilometer-per-second [3,470 mph] boost, setting us up to get up close and personal with comet Hartley 2.”
Are women “bailing out” of IT?
Or are they being pushed out, but blamed for it?
A blog post in on Womensenews.org, raises interesting issues.
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How did the victims of the Plinean Eruption of Vesuvius die?
Even at the most extreme edges of the flow of stuff out of the volcano Pompeii, at the far edge of the mud and ash that came from the volcano’s explosion, the heat was sufficient to instantly kill everyone, even those inside their homes.
And that is how the people at Pompeii, who’s remains were found trapped and partly preserved within ghostly body-shaped tombs within that pyroclastic flow, died. They did not suffocate. They did not get blown apart by force. They did not die of gas poisoning. They simply cooked. Instantly.
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Church of emacs Sunday Sermon: games
Church Suspects Treated like Possible Criminals. Vatican Shocked.
I’m not going to say anything about the methods the Belgian authorities have used, because I don’t know anything about due process in that country. (Though I did notice that that Belgian police carry big machine guns, at least when I’ve been there.)
Anyway, the Vatican has it’s shorts in a twist because civilian police have, apparently, treated church property and priests as non-sacred.
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Germany has a magic octopus
He swam straight over to the German glass, climbed in and even put a lid on top once he was sitting inside.”
What to do with those pesky religious skeptics
In which I provide my two cents regarding the current discussion between PZ Myers, Pamela Gay, and others.
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Gulf States Continue to be Stoopid
I know you don’t like when I say this, but you people living in Florida through Louisiana (and points in between) are not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. As it were.
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LOL Cats never before seen
The Myth of Christianity Founding Modern Science and Medicine
If you’ve not seen this graph, or read this blog post, you should:
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Is BP burning turtles alive?
According to some sources, yes.
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