Archive for June 7th, 2007

What Good is a Moon Base For? Apparently, Spying and Bombing.

So, what good is a moon base for? Apparently, this question had been asked before:

Ever since the dawn of the space age lunar base proponents have had a difficult time explaining exactly why a lunar base is needed and what it can do that justifies its immense cost. NASA is currently struggling with that issue right now. But in the late 1950s the United States Air Force had what its leadership believed was a clear rationale for building a base on the Moon: use the Moon to spy on the Earth and throw nuclear bombs at America’s enemies from the ultimate retaliatory high ground. Dr. Strangelove would have approved. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed.

Here’s the story of the contractor teams who were given "the impossible goal by the US Air Force: find something useful to do on the Moon, preferably involving bombs".

Link – via Fark.

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Photosynth: Cool New Technology from Microsoft.

Here’s Microsoft Live Labs engineer Blaise Aguera y Arcas talking in March 2007 TED conference about some very cool upcoming technology called Seadragon and Photosynth.

The fun thing about Photosynth is that it can take disparate image data from, say, thousands of Flickr tagged-images, and stitch them together into one coherent, virtual model.

Link – via mister starfish, Thanks Haj!

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Another Neatorama Ambigram.

I love ambigrams, especially when it features Neatorama! Here’s a neat ambigram from Nagfa, whom we have actually featured before.

Link – Thanks nagfa!

See also: Neatorama Ambigram by Homero

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No Exit: Libertarianism is Anarchy for Rich People.

Do you agree with Andy Singer’s panel? Is libertarianism [wiki] just another version of anarchism [wiki], but for property-owners and rich people?

See more of Andy Singer’s comics: No Exit.

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Curved Yellow Fruit.

What’s the name of that fruit again? Found at Scribal Terror.

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Mario and Luigi Beaded Notepads.

Etsy seller lostmitten created some beaded notepad featuring our favorite videogame characters: Mario and Luigi!

Too bad it’s sold out, but maybe you can special order some: Link – via Smidigt

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Infinity Pretzel.

Who said that pretzel has to be boring? Evil Mad Scientist Lab created this infinity pretzel and others (like ampersand, currency, and even the Mac command key).

Link – via Miss Cellania (from her Geek Cooking post)

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