Since I have a job currently that consists mostly of me stumbling around the internet... I have created a new blog of my interesting findings and commentary (like anyone cares). For the past few weeks I have been jotting down things I think are interesting on little sheets of paper thinking I will share them with friends or return to them at a later date when I'm bored again. Several times I have created art work based on my findings (which has been really fun), a couple of times I have had some very interesting facebook posts that ensue in lengthy and hilarious comment threads... but most of the time... I simply lose the little sheets of paper or find them between my couch cushions (I'm sure many a homeless person has been entertained by finding them on the light rail). So now they have a home. From now on I will know where to refer back to and maybe there's a chance that the fellow internet bum will have a moment of entertainment instead of a light rail one.
I am also certain that ppl have become tired of my constant updates on facebook such as:
"OMG WATERBEARS CAN LIVE IN SPACE! I am totally making a spacesuit out of them"
or...
"The Ben Franklin mesoscaphe mission had many experts aboard, including Chet May from NASA who's specialty was "man working in space"... leave it to NASA to be clever... o_O (also not a space mission but a gulf stream mission... so he wasn't even working in space)"
So this blog will be full of random facts, slightly obsessive rants and anything else that interests me in-between. Enjoy or move on.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18471_5-animals-that-basically-cant-be-killed.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
I have to admit that, though I was aware tardigrades could survive exposure to space conditions, it never occurred to me to make a space suit out of them. You must therefore keep this blog alive for posterity, if nothing else.
ReplyDeleteFor someday....someday, we will need such technology.