Space shuttle Discovery maakte deze week zijn allerlaatste vlucht. Het toestel werd op de rug van een boeing 747 naar zijn laatste bestemming in Washington gevlogen. Daar zal de Discovery worden tentoongesteld in het National Air and Space Museum. De space shuttle vertrok vanaf Kennedy Space Center.
Voordat de shuttle vertrok naar Washington DC maakte het eerst nog een laatste vlucht langs de Space Coast, het deel van de kust van Florida dat van Cape Canaveral tot het meer zuidelijk liggende Palm Bay strekt. De shuttle is in deze gemeenschappen niet uit de lokale cultuur weg te denken. Het verkeer op de snelweg die langs het strand loopt zat zoals bij elke shuttle launch volledig vast, mensen stopten spontaan de auto langs de weg en liepen het strand op, en burgers die er wonen stonden buiten, om deel uit te maken van deze historische gebeurtenis.
Ook in Washington DC, het nieuwe huis van de shuttle, staan mensen overal op straat. De shuttle landde op Dulles Airport. Elke landing van een normale 747 is geweldig, laat staan deze 747 met Discovery als passagier.
De laatste vlucht van Discovery was een historische ervaring, al is het voor velen met gemengde gevoelens, met name voor de Space Coast bewoners en de rest van Centraal Florida. Ook de andere drie overgebleven spaceshuttles, de Enterprise, de Endeavour en de Atlantis worden in de VS tentoongesteld. De Atlantis komt bij het Kennedy Space Center zelf te staan.
Doe mee aan de discussies over de space shuttle en de volgende uitvinding van de mensheid. Niets is onmogelijk, dat heeft het spaceshuttleprogramma overduidelijk bewezen. Bezoek de nieuwsgroep sci.space.shuttle!
Strolling around the alt.food.sushi newsgroup, I found a tutorial for making sushi. This is a great how-to for beginners wanting to learn how to make sushi and enjoy it at the comforts of their own home. Its incredibly affordable and easy to do. Learning to make sushi at home is a great way to show off to all your friends too.
This weekend is the opening for the movie, “The Hunger Games”. Its estimated to be the biggest movie opening so far this year. Media claimed that “John Carter” was the first biggest blockbuster of 2012, but turned out to be a big disappoint at the box office (I personally thought it was a great movie, and see no reason why it did so horribly).
The Hunger Games will likely be one of the greatest mega-blockbuster that run side by films like “Harry Potter”, “The Dark Knight”, “Spider-Man”, and even the “Twilight Saga”.
If you haven’t read the trilogy by Suzanne Collins, you should! The story line didn’t interest me at first, but once I started book one, I got hooked to finish the entire series at once. It’s a great read. The movie will definitely be an awesome treat for the huge fan based it has already acquired, including me!
alt.tv.game-shows has some great chatter of remembering game shows hosted on the Nickelodeon Network. Some of my favorites back in the day were Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare, and Wild and Crazy Kids. You don’t realize how old you are until you start remembering shows that haven’t aired for a decade like they were here yesterday!
Other game shows on different networks that I thought were awesome is Supermarket Sweep, and Press Your Luck. The Price is Right is also a great one, but only when Bob Barker was the host. =)
I think the only exciting game show nowadays is Minute it to Win it. Definitely keeps you off of your seat.
Deze week werd van 14 tot 16 maart Innorobo gehouden in Lyon Frankrijk. Innorobo is de grootste robotbeurs in Europa. Dit jaar kwamen meer dan honderd exposanten uit 11 verschillende landen bijeen om kennis en expertise te delen over hoe robots in de toekomst hulp kunnen bieden. Er waren meer dan 150 robots te bewonderen.
Mocht je het gemist hebben dan is er volgend jaar vast een nieuwe kans om Innorobo te bezoeken. Ondertussen kan men via de web site www.innorobo.com alsnog een beetje meeproeven van deze ervaring. In 2011 werd de beurs voor het eerst gehouden. Vanwege het succes was de beurs dit jaar nog uitgebreider. Of, voor wie het ervoor over heeft om ‘iets’ verder te reizen, de Robotics Asia 2012 beurs staat gepland voor 10-12 juli. Meer info over deze beurs is beschikbaar via www.roboticsasia.org/2012/.
Hoe dan ook, genoeg materiaal voor uitgebreide discussies. Doe mee op Usenet in de nieuwsgroepen alt.binaries.robotics en comp.robotics.misc.
Apple has confirmed just today that they will be unveiling “Something you can see and touch.” Along with the invites to the event on March 7th (where the heck is our invite – C’Mon Apple what gives?) at 10AM PT, 1PM EST in San Fran CA, Apple sent along a photo (pictured on the right) of what definitely looks like an iPad. We are tingling with anticipation to see what improvements have been made if it is indeed an iPad, Can anyone say Retina Display, bigger screen, maybe a little 4G LTE… One thing is for sure Apple has not ever been known to disappoint and we know this will be no exception, so tighten your boot strap and buckle because we are in for something totally awesome…
this from rec.food.cooking just a couple of days ago…poor Frank G. was broke, in Germany on a Sunday (where they apparently also do not have grocery on Sundays) and had 30 minutes to make a fab dinner for a date….
SUBJECT: help!
Hi!
Shops are closed today (Germany! – forgot to go shopping yesterday) and
a girlfriend wants to come for a visit in half an hour and I just got:
5 potatoes,
3 onions,
3 tomatoes,
a citron,
3 apples,
3/4 cucumber,
1/2 camembert,
a tin of sardines,
1/3 package spiral pasta and half a package of sweet cream.
Also some sweet mustard, butter, olive oil, some herbs and spices.
Any idea?
Thanx
–
Frank G
Luckily for Frank, within a few minutes a fellow netizen posted:
Boil pasta
Saute onions in oil, add sardines, some of the cream and some herbs,
perhaps some mustard.
Toss pasta in onion/sardine/cream sauce.
Plate pasta.
Dice tomatoes, strew on top of pasta.
For dessert, bake apples with some shredded citron, butter, sugar and
spice; top with remaining cream.
In the end all worked out great for Frank!
Just wanted to say ‘Thank You!’ for your help yesterday evening (UTC+1).
In the end we were cooking together!
Your ideas inspired us for the following dinner:
Salad:
Tomatoes, cucumber and camembert with a vinaigrette made of white
balsamico, mustard, salt, coloured pepper, dill, parsley and olive oil.
On top some diced toast fried in butter.
Pasta:
In butter sauted onions, salt, white pepper, thymian, honey and sweet
cream with the spiral pasta plated. On top breaded and fried sardines.
Decorated with a piece of citron and parsley.
Dessert:
‘S Viemeister’s baked apples’ filled with raisins, honey and butter,
some citron and cinnamon. There was no cream left, so we served it with
some cherry jam.
First we had some pinot grigio and later mocca and cognac
In the end it was a nice evening!!!
Thank you!
(Need to go shopping now…)
Head over to rec.food.cooking to see what else happened to Frank and to engage in the very active conversation about “Weird food laws”. It never occurred to me that Germany had no grocery shopping on Sundays…
In keeping with our ongoing love and fascination with outer space and the universe, we thought we would take a moment and share something amazing that will absolutely blow your mind and melt your brain at the same time…once upon a time scientists pointed the best telescope the Hubble at what appeared to be nothing..and…..were they ever wrong!
The official trailer for the long awaited and eagerly anticipated film The Hobbit: the Unexpected Journey, is here and it gives us a tantalizing taste of what looks to be quite a formidable and awesome installment to the Lord of the Rings series – A we dive right back into the action with Gandolf and Bilbo Baggins as they embark on a fantastic quest together to find a special treasure, looks to be anything but dull with the shady re-appearance of the oh so lovable Smigel!
This past Saturday November 26 2011, NASA sent into space an Atlas V rocket that carried a payload of a totally Awesome laboratory onboard the Mars rover “Curiosity” whose job it will be to explore the bottom of a 100 mile wide crater that is believed to hold the key to unlocking and discovering the possibilities of life on Mars. Curiosity will spend its time questing for organic life…watch as Curiosity soars to new hieghts as she reaches the vastness of space without a hitch
Strolling around the alt.food.sushi newsgroup, I found a tutorial for making sushi. This is a great how-to for beginners wanting to learn how to make sushi and enjoy it at the comforts of their own home. Its incredibly affordable and easy to do. Learning to make sushi at home is a great way to show off to all your friends too. 
