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YouTube - M81/NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy, zoom into view video
5 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-...)
Another from Magnetosheath, this being a Star Trek like journey to the billowing arms of M81. It's a trip, man.
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YouTube - NGC 1512 Spiral Galaxy, zoom into view video
2 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_...)
A zoom sequence animation using Hubble images of an almost magically-perfect spiral galaxy.
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Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database view story
4 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 7 months ago
- (http://hypertable.org/)
Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is nothing less than that Hypertable become the world's most massively parallel high performance database p
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The Great Bipartisan view photo
2 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 8 months ago
- (http://gunnerromantic.deviantart....)
Never a dull moment with Gunner...
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Uriel view photo
3 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 8 months ago
- (http://one-vox.deviantart.com/art...)
Breathing fire is inefficient: have a head of flame!
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YouTube - 3C 321 'Death Star' Galaxy Black Hole view video
2 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD...)
Animation of one galaxy pointed the "death beam" of its super-massive central black whole at a smaller companion galaxy. On the plus side, the Milky Way is bigger than its near companions....
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YouTube - 'Blue Blobs' in Space, Hubble zooms in on view video
2 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 8 months ago
- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh...)
Cool zoom through space using successive images from Hubble. It will be very sad when the orbiting telescope stops taking pictures.
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EFF Campaign To Stop Warrantless Immunity for Telecoms view story
4 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 8 months ago
- (http://https//secure.eff.org/site...)
The EFF is promoting a campaign to keep Congress from agreeing to grant the Bush Administration's request to give phone companies immunity for spying without a warrant.
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Today's Mercury Flyby To Be the First Since 1974 - washingtonpost.com view story
7 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 9 months ago
- (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...)
Right around noon today, if all goes as planned, a spacecraft called Messenger will swoop past the planet Mercury and begin two days of unprecedented picture-taking and data-collecting.
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Pro Libertate: Yoo's On First: Let The Lustration Begin! view story
2 votes- Submitted by melmon
- 9 months ago
- (http://freedominourtime.blogspot....)
It's an emotional call for An Accounting from those in power, and though I think it aims at the wrong target (the deplorable Mr. Yoo), it is extremely well written.

