Freaky future
Our friends in the land downunder have come up with some interesting concepts about the home of the future....check it out at www.experimenta.org. Take a look at the couch you can pet and it purrs (or growls if you sit on it) or try one of the multiple games...I wasn't a very good boss to my meta pet, but I'll try to do better the next time.
- posted by Paula Porter @ 2:22 PM

 
The lonely end to a galant spacecraft
Since its launch in 1989, the Galileo spacecraft has carried on its mission, flying thru the galaxy to Jupiter. In 1995, the spacecraft began its orbit and study of Jupiter. But all good things must come to an end, and the Galileo will plunge into the Jovian atmosphere on Sunday, September 21.

Read about one of Galileo's "fathers" and Design News Engineer of the Year, Bernard Dagarin, at
http://www.manufacturing.net/dn/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA150394

Or check out these other sites about the little spacecraft that could...

JPL's site on Galileohttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/
NASA site on Galileohttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/galileo.html
Other sites of interest
http://grs.lpl.arizona.edu/~loretta/solarsystem/
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/galileo/galileo.htmlhttp://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/missions/Galileo/
Scientific American Article from February 2000 on the mission
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00019D42-ACFE-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21
Galileo images
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/images.html
- posted by Paula Porter @ 1:34 PM

 
Bossa Nova
Found a new site today for the space, science and technology crowd -- rednova. com. There's a spot for you to check out what the sky is going to look like tonight in your location. There's a great photo and some debate on the site about a cloud that appears just before a sonic boom. Tech news and daily updates are abundant...you can also sign up for email updates and forum, even for your own email account...(like we all need another email account!).
- posted by Paula Porter @ 2:49 PM