8.28.2008

hello to everyone not reading this

Well, now that most of the interns have left, I'm finally getting around to making an entry. I'm not sure I'm "officially" a Small Spacecraft Intern, as I'm in the NASA CoLab. We don't have any small spacecraft sitting up on blocks in our front yard that we're trying to build/fix, but I think the CoLab is organized as part of the Small Spacecraft Division.

With all that established, I figure I'll limit myself to two points in my first post.

Number one, Mythbusters' show on the "moon hoax" aired last night, and wow did it lay a vicious beating on the conspiracy theorists. These folks usually need half an hour of screen time to figure out whether you can tenderize a steak with high explosives, but it took them about five minutes apiece to spank the daylights out of each dopey "the moon shots were FAKED!" myth. Seriously, if you haven't seen it, you should.

Number two, am I the only one who thinks the logo on this page is reminiscent of the emblem used by the Galactic Empire in Star Wars?

Yup, I'm a major turbonerd.