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Carnival of Space, the golden edition

It’s the 50th Carnival of Space, and it’s at KySat, and you want to read it.

’nuff said.

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April 17th, 2008 6:34 PM by Phil Plait in Space | 7 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

7 Responses to “Carnival of Space, the golden edition”

  1. 1.   Bigfoot Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    This is EXACTLY what we need — more grass-roots science efforts from ordinary towns to involve people in science and get them to think about and appreciate the science around them, no matter what field of science it is.

    It is so frustrating to me that our world has largely devolved into a superficial pop-culture crazed idiocrasy, and we are particularly guilty of that in this country.

    How do we make science interesting to people? Involve them! Efforts like this are a great first step.

    As long as science is perceived as an abstract exercise practiced exclusively by white-coated nerds sealed behind locked doors who only infrequently emerge to issue a press release about some possible finding that, if fortunate enough to be adequately bizarre sounding, gets tacked on to the end of a slow-day newscast (after of course, the entertainment news) as a misleading 30-second soundbite to which the rest of the newsstaff get to reply with their superficial glib comments, science will be continue to be looked down upon by the huge majority of it’s benefactors. Fools, they, but it is our society that made them so.

    Science to the people!

  2. 2.   Quiet Desperation Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 9:04 am

    OffTopic: Hey, Phil, have you mentioned this anywhere and I missed it?

    http://darwin-online.org.uk/

    The largest collection of works by Charles Darwin EVAH. Some of these have never been seen before.

  3. 3.   www.actionforspace.com Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Bigfoot:

    Here here. its all about getting the public involved. In the 60s, the government promoted space to the public, and it wasn’t sustained. Now, we need to get the people promoting it to the government for a sustained effort in space exploration. Check out http://www.actionforspace.com to find (almost) daily opportunities to tell the government about different ways and reasons to explore space!

  4. 4.   Chris Radcliff Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    Brilliant! Thanks for introducing me to KySat and the Carnival, Phil. Another reason to keep coming back here.

    I like the way the New Space Race is shaping up. Don’t just promote space science, *do* it. Don’t just talk about space technology, build some!

  5. 5.   SKFK Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

    Offtopic: The London Institute of Contemporary Arts had a panel discussion about legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby (who passed away in 1994).

    http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16036

    They played a recording of an audio interview conducted with Kirby less than a year before he died, and this interesting little tidbit came up.

    “Speaking on cassette, Kirby himself related a story about turning down an illustration job for NASA’s space program because they wouldn’t allow him to go into space as payment.”

  6. 6.   Daniel Erb Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    Phil, thanks for the link!! I am a member of the team building KySat-1 and just wanted to say thank you all for your comments. It is very encouraging to see that people do care about what we are doing and appreciate the efforts to bring science and technology to everybody; because everybody really can (and should) do it!! Check the website for updates, we hopefully will be launching soon

  7. 7.   Charles Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    GLAST’s launch has been delayed by a minor accident:

    “Originally scheduled for May 16, the launch of a Delta II rocket carrying NASA’s GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) is now listed as indefinite. However, officials expect only a minor delay.

    An adapter beam was fractured during preparations last week to hoist the second stage atop the first stage on Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

    After inspections, a new date for stacking the second stage will be set. Nine solid rocket boosters have been attached to the first stage. ”
    - Flame Trench blog on floridatoday.com

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