Jose Hernandez – NASA’s Mexican-American Astronaut

These days, everybody and their dog is getting into the space race. Something is afoot. Great Britain, Mexico, China and India are all funneling large sums of capital, into their respective emerging space agencies. With regard to one of NASA’s newest Astronauts José Moreno Hernández; oddly enough, the greatest criticism has come from the ranks [...]

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All systems go — MetroRail In The Bag

last updated: 03-10-2010 Just like Laura Palmer, ticket kiosks and ticket validation machines are shown here, wrapped in plastic, on the occasion of Dr. F’s recent visit to the MetroRail’s MLK Jr. station.  Whether this new covering was for the protection of the fancy new machines from the elements or from vandalism, I cannot say. Last Summer’s brutal heat, sent the computers [...]

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Summer From Hell Freezes Over

The supposed “global cooling” consensus among scientists in the 1970s — frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can’t make up their minds — is a myth, according to a survey of the scientific literature of the era “I was surprised that global warming was so dominant in the peer-reviewed literature of the [...]

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Summer From Hell Meme

As if it were ripped straight from the front page of a supermarket tabloid, this morning’s satellite image shows what we’ve all been thinking: namely, there must be some exceptional reason it’s so damn hot in Texas and now we know. Demons!

Hottest 30 Days in Austin Weather History!

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Solar Cycle 24 Begins–Again?

updated January 25th, 2010.    After a bang-up start to ss24 in November of 2009, the Sun, again entered a quiescent period, devoid of sunspots–until January 15 or there about, when an M class flare disrupted terrestrial radio reception, creating spectacular auroral light shows in Earth’s polar regions.     Last week, the sunspot’s magnetic field erupted five times, producing a string of M-class [...]

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