Talk about exciting birthdays! Exactly 30 years after the launch of Pioneer 10, NASA has re-established contact with the space probe, now 11.9 billion kilometres from the Earth.
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It is conceivable, as one of his colleagues has suggested, that Theodore Postol could be more effective “if he did not eventually accuse just about everybody of fraud or malfeasance or stupidity.” Postol vs. the Pentagon
Garmin has a cool new gizmo that marries the ruggedized two-way radio with a GPS. Remote control GPS location for hiking partners (or mall shoppers?): press a button and your location is "beamed" to the other radios. Hopping on the P2P bandwagon they call it Peer-to-Peer Positioning.
JOHO has a pointer to this great gallery of internet network map images. Very cool. They look like little galaxies. And they make for interesting photoshop fodder.
