Archive for October, 2009
Happy Halloween!
It wouldn't be Halloween without the War of the Worlds broadcast... On October 30, 1938, The Mercury Theatre, a young drama troupe under the direction of Orson Welles, performed a radio play called "War of the Worlds" on WABC, New York, and over the Columbia Broadcasting System network, coast-to-coast. It was based on a science fiction [...]
Friday Night X Minus One
X Minus One: Castaways - 09/15/1956 The military is having trouble moving natives off a Pacific island that is going to be used for a bomb test. They say they won't go because their ancestors were castaways from the bird canoe. The cast includes Karl Weber, Staats Cotsworth, Bob Hastings, Joe Julian, Roger De Koven, Luis Van Rooten, Leon [...]
Apollo 17 – “…our the flag was still there”
The Lunar Reconnassance Orbiter, currently orbiting the Moon just 50 km off the surface, has taken more shots of the Apollo 17 landing site… and has seen the actual U.S. flag! (Here is a wider shot of the landing site) So far all of the landing sites that the LRO has photographed have had tracks around them, and this one has the flag [...]
Fri. Show Prep – Discount Casket Edition
It's official, you really can get anything at Wal-Mart. The discount giant is going to start selling caskets and urns online. Nancy Pelosi unveiled the House health care bill on Thursday. It's 400,000 words and 1,990 pages. I'm a little worried about the fact that no one has read it, but the title of the bill is "To Serve Man" John Boehner calls [...]
Geeky Space Picture of The Day: Ares I-X Launch
(High Resolution Version) Ares I-X Roars Off the Pad With more than 12 times the thrust produced by a Boeing 747 jet aircraft, the Constellation Program's Ares I-X test rocket roars off Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At left is space shuttle Atlantis, poised on Launch Pad 39A for liftoff in November. Also, [...]
Wed. Show Prep – Fading Hope Edition
One year after his election, people have a different view of President Obama. He's seen as more liberal and his approval rating his hovering at just about 50%. One year ago 84% of Americans were dissatisfied with the direction the country was going. Now? 72%. That's an improvement, but not exactly a new era of foolish optimism. Stories like this [...]
