IN 2007, NASA will let the Hubble telescope go to the place where useful expensive space equipment go when they are done. In the wake of NASA's decision to let Hubble go, it has spurred on efforts to assemble a World Space Observatory.
The WSO would be a boon to UV astronomers. Because Hubble multitasks across infrared, visible and UV, only about one-third of its time is allocated for UV observations with, Kappelmann said, 10 times more requests for observing time being submitted than are accepted.So I guess it's a case of win some, lose some.
Not only would WSO be UV-only, it would be five to 10 times more sensitive than Hubble, Kappelmann said.
"Certainly, a decent UV space telescope, perhaps the WSO, is needed after the Hubble Space Telescope" stops working, said Bengt Edvardsson, an astronomer at Uppsala University in Sweden who had not heard of the project until recently.
Surgery is a game
Apparently, in a totally predictable turn of events, surgeons who play video games err less in their surgery. That's right. The PS2 and Xbox sessions aid the surgeon in their small motor athleticism. "But what about all the blood and the violence?" you may ask. The last time I recalled surgery was pretty violent bloody business, so maybe it helps in their continued inured-ness and inertness about bloody things that make the rest of us squeamish.
Also...
I was shown this very funny site about injuries. Maybe it's not a good idea for Jason Szuminski to be playing ball when he could be training to be an astronaut.
- Art Neuro