You know about the recent slide of the Yankees (everybody is using that damned pun I'm not going to dignify it with caps); well, Mike Mussina tossed a complete game shutout to temporarily right the good ship Yankees. I don't know if I'm really encouraged by this as the win came against Joe Blanton, a rookie hurler of 'Moneyball' fame and a struggling Oakland offense. Red Hot Orioles these guys were not. Still, it's good to start somewhere and it's good to see the Moose stepping up to be the stopper. The press keep accusing him of not having enough ticker or being too aloof, but the competitor in him is gold.
I recently traded for Moose in my fantasy league and sat through 2 excruciatingly dodgy starts before the last 3 wins. Maybe the cream always rises in which case maybe the Yankees will go red hot and make a charge for .500 before the month s out. Man did I just write that? I feel like a fan of the Milwaukee Brewers or something. Gack. Small goals first, really.
Unfortuanately they are sending Kevin Pound-For-A-Brown to the mound tomorrow. Better brace myself for giving up 6 runs in the first inning again. *Ugh*. My baseball Empire for a Moose. :)
Gremlins In The Dust
Six years after the gremlins in the machine took down NASA's polar lander, it seems to have been located.
"The observation of a single, small dot at the center of the disturbed location suggests that the vehicle remained more or less intact after its fall," wrote Michael Malin, president and chief scientist of San Diego-based Malin Space Science Systems, which operates the camera aboard Global Surveyor. Malin makes his case in the July issue of Sky & Telescope magazine. A copy of his article was posted Thursday on the magazine's Web site.
Global Surveyor will take higher resolution images later this year in an attempt to confirm the missing lander's location. "It looks intriguing," said Michael Meyer, the lead scientist for NASA's Mars Program. He said the images show just one possible location of the missing Polar Lander and more images are needed.
The $165 million Polar Lander was headed for touchdown near Mars' south pole on Dec. 3, 1999, when contact was lost. A NASA team concluded a rocket engine shut off prematurely, causing the spacecraft to plummet about 130 feet to almost certain destruction.
For a while there it seemed any and everything that could go wrong did go wrong when it came to Mars Missions. So I guess it's an interesting postscript to that era of mars exploration.
Delays, Delays
More on the shuttle...
Discovery's first fueling test, on April 14, uncovered sensor and valve problems that still puzzle engineers. NASA hopes to better understand the trouble by filling Discovery's fuel tank sometime the week of May 15, said spokeswoman Jessica Rye.
Rye said Discovery will then be moved off the launch pad and back into the Vehicle Assembly Building in late May for a tank swap. Shuttle managers decided to remove Discovery's fuel tank, which is attached to a pair of booster rockets, and install a brand new set that had been meant for the second post-Columbia flight, by Atlantis.
More updates to follow. I've run out of smart-ass comments to make about the Shuttle so you can insert your own.
How Do You Say 'The Law Is An Ass' In Russian?
A Russian astrologer wants to sue NASA for ramming the commet with the 'Deep Impact' mission.
Star-reader Marina Bai's case was thrown out of a lower court because Russia has no jurisdiction over NASA, but the ruling was overturned when her lawyer, Alexandra Molokhova, was able to show that the agency's office in the US embassy in Moscow does fall under Russian jurisdiction.
Bai seeks a ruling that would restrict NASA in its plans to annihilate a section of the Tempel 1 comet in a project that has been dubbed "Deep Impact," as well as punitive damages of 8.7 billion rubles (300 million dollars, 240 million euros).
"My client believes that the NASA project infringes upon her spiritual and life values as well as the natural life of the cosmos and would disrupt the natural balance of forces in the universe," Molokhova was quoted as saying.
The lawyer said Tempel 1 had sentimental value to Bai because her grandparents met when her grandfather pointed the comet out to his future wife.
Oh yeah, right. There is no end to stupid lawsuits on ths planet.
- Art Neuro
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Yeah. Backed by the big left wing conspiracy to make some angry people feel bad about themselves. :)
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