Well….I did have one thing that I wanted to do today and I forgot about it….I really wanted to watch Space X try to land their booster on the floating platform but I got distracted by other things and forgot…I did get to see the launch which came off great and that was cool but the landing didn’t go well…again….but they are getting closer and it will be cool when they finally do it….haven’t seen the landing yet but it should be pretty cool when it’s gets posted….that’s it….this one was fast to keep from going another one down….
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Rockets away….
Well…have been feeling like crap again today with another fever up over 101 and I am getting really tired of it…was just getting over the past one and got up coughing my lungs out again….but, that’s not what this one is about…there is going to be another Space X launch tonight at 6:10 and, after they put the satellite into orbit, they are going to try to soft land again on one of their floating landing pads….that should happen about 7 or so and NASA is going to cover the launch live…not sure if they are going to cover the landing but that would be the cool part…at least there will be video of it tomorrow….that’s it…feeling too crappy to write more so I’ll hit the couch and try to rest….
Some science stuff….
Well…as you know, politics has been boring me lately so I thought I’d do one with some short science thoughts…sounds like as good an idea as any so I think I’ll give it a go…Space X almost did what many have said is impossible over the weekend…they landed their first stage rocket on a barge in the ocean off Florida…a little too hard to reuse it, but they got it down on a tiny little platform..well…tiny is kind of relative…the barge was about 100 yards long but I still think it was a pretty cool thing to try…there is a naked eye comet that is visible in the northern sky for the next week or so and it looks kind of green…there have been so really cool pictures taken through telescopes that Phil Plait has posted in Bad Astronomy on Slate so go out and take a look…both at the site and outside if it’s clear…should be near Orion….They are getting ready to restart the LHC at CERN in the next month or so and they have upgraded it to have twice the power it had when the found the Higgs boson…can’t wait to see what they are going to try next…maybe prove supersymmetry or extra dimensions? It will be pretty cool no matter what they do….one last thing…take the time to find the new Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy….just a breathtaking set of photos and you can see the individual stars it is such high resolution….made me smile….