A meteor exploded in the atmosphere near Santa Fe, New Mexico just before 5 a.m. on the morning of July 31. Local amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft captured the event from his personal observatory using an all-sky optical video camera developed by Sandia National Laboratories that is specifically sensitive to the near infrared flashes that meteors create.
By Greg Tate
Once upon a time in the Bronx, before HipHop had a name, or came to be defined by the Five Elements of MCing, breakdancing, B-boying, turntabling and the painting known as graffiti, it had Writers. These scribes wrote on the trains of New York’s subway system. Mostly they wrote their names: a host of colourful noms de plume.
‘We don’t want anybody just turning a radio telescope on the sky and sending their own messages to the source.’
by Jon Ronson
If we are ever contacted by aliens, the man I’m having lunch with will be one of the first humans to know. His name is Paul Davies and he’s chair of the Seti (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Post-Detection Task Group. They’re a group of the world’s most eminent scientists and will be, come the big day, the planet’s alien welcome committee. His is an awesome responsibility, and one he doesn’t take lightly.
Scientist Meets the Ghost Captain – Kevin Martin’s sleeve notes from his 1995 compilation Macro Dub Infection Vol.1
Isotopic analysis of the gases krypton and xenon suggest that much of Earth’s atmosphere came from outer space, not inner space.
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