It would suck to get the ability and technology to get to space, but be trapped by an orbiting cloud of space debris that stops us from launching in the near future…
Stephen Wolfram’s immense tome “A New Kind of Science” is now available online, for free, in a really sharp, full color format. I won’t even pretend I’m going to read it, but if I ever do get the gumption to tackle it I’ll probably try it out online before I refinance my house to buy the book. [boingboing]
I thought this was a pretty nifty site NASA made that allows you to find out all sorts of things about the space station. Propaganda, to be sure, but still nifty.
To be honest, the station has been creeping slowly together that I hadn’t realized how big it had gotten when I used the 3-D walkthrough. Also cool was the shuttle fly around of the station.
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Stephen Wolfram’s immense tome 
What’s the cartography of your life? 
I thought this was a