Taking a look at wiki software in particular, what it does, and why it may or may not be useful on a particular content site.
Through one of those weird connections the Internet makes, I stumbled upon the awesome, if not disturbing discovery that the Soviet Union had built a shuttle, too. And it did some things the American one didn’t.
NASA’s space shuttle was a feat of engineering that hasn’t been matched since. But maybe one of the coolest things about it are the three main engines that help propel it into orbit.
A bunch of cool videos exist that are so amazing, it’s hard to believe they’re even real. They certainly look less real than much of the CGI we watch on TV everyday. See the Milky Way from Chile and some views of the shuttle launching from the solid rocket boosters. It’s pretty goddamned cool.
The Kepler and James Webb space telescopes are on the chopping block, budget-wise. Probably only because too few people are aware of how much they’ve done for the human understanding of the universe we live in.
