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Quick Hits

+ 1 - 2 | § 'Blog' Tops Dictionary's Words of the Year

Word.

+ 0 - 3 | § Kirk beats Picard

In Bravo's list of greatest TV characters.

+ 1 - 2 | § Lemmings!

Play the old Lemmings game online.

+ 1 - 2 | § Most back moon trip, but not Mars

69% support near-term Vision goals.

+ 2 - 1 | § Does Not Compute

Turns out ATW fell for a hoax. Sorry.

+ 0 - 3 | § NASA's O'Keefe to meet Chinese space agency chief

Will "exchange thoughts" in informal meeting.

+ 0 - 3 | § The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy

Ah, the silly things Yankees say!

+ 1 - 2 | § Drunken Rats Used to Study Alcohol Effects

Turns out Lain was ahead of his time.

+ 1 - 2 | § Greengrass to direct Watchmen

Hmmmm.

+ 1 - 2 | § Hack your way out of writer’s block

Tips and tricks.

+ 1 - 2 | § Microsoft's Gates Is World's Most 'Spammed' Person

Heh.

+ 0 - 3 | § Poetry Beamed Into Outer Space

And people wonder why we haven't been contacted by extraterrestrials.

+ 2 - 1 | § Massive "Raygun" Fires Up In Megawatt Last Test

USMDA successfully tests airplane-based laser weapon,

+ 2 - 1 | § Moon trip needs new Saturn V

From the conference I attended this weekend.

+ 1 - 2 | § Amazon CEO Wants to Go Into Space on Own Rocket

Blue Origin working on suborbital craft.

+ 2 - 1 | § POPEYE OFFICIALLY ADOPTS SWEE'PEA

Turns out he got married not that long ago too.

+ 2 - 1 | § NASA Studies Real 'Rain Man'

"Out of seven thousand books he's read over the years, he remembers 95 percent."

+ 1 - 2 | § A Vintage Palmtop Holds Users In Thrall

Another NYT Newton article, from March 27, 2003.

+ 0 - 3 | § Why does Rice play Texas?

"Because that challenge is one that will serve to measure the best in us."

+ 0 - 3 | § ASTRO CITY: THE DARK AGE POSTPONED

I thought Kurt wasn't going to do this anymore.

+ 1 - 2 | § The world's safest computing environment

And I bet most ATW readers can guess what it is.

+ 1 - 2 | § China's Shenzhou 6 To Carry Two Astronauts On Five-Day Mission Next Year

The 5-day bit may be new, not sure.

Reading

+ 1 - 2 | Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans


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+ 1 - 2 | Fanfare For The Area Man


Reading

+ 0 - 3 | Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons


Reading

+ 1 - 2 | The Bride of Anguished English


Reading

Watching

+ 1 - 2 | Destination Moon

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+ 1 - 2 | Plan 9 From Outer Space

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+ 0 - 2 | Star Trek Generations

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Listening

+ 0 - 2 | Afterglow Live

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+ 1 - 1 | For Stars And Moon

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2007
June 11
WWDC Stevenote
June 17
4400 Season 4 TV
July 4
Transformers M
July 21
Harry Potter 7 B
July 24
Thursday Next B
Hot Fuzz DVD
July 27
Simpsons M
August 7
Simpsons Season 10 DVD
August 28
Heroes DVD
Sept. 25
My Name Is Earl 2 DVD
Dec. 11
Lost Season 3 DVD
May 22
Indiana Jones 4 M
Dec. 25
Star Trek XI M



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"All These Worlds" is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, Apple-type stuff, decent science fiction, media issues, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool.

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+ 0 - 2 | Which portable Apple device would you carry with you into space?

iPod (2 votes)
iBook (0 votes)
Newton (0 votes)
Quicktake (2 votes)

+ 0 - 2 | What is Steve Wozniak up to these days?

Pressing all Steve Jobs’ black turtlenecks (1 votes)
Reading ATW and posting as “Richie” (0 votes)
Readying his own killer robot for the next round of Robot War (0 votes)
Wishing he’d thought of Blogpoints (1 votes)

+ 1 - 1 | Which is most likely to conquer the Earth and subjugate or eliminate humanity?

Robots (4 votes)
Monkeys (0 votes)
Aliens (0 votes)
Nanites (2 votes)

(Options not included can be suggested in comments.)

+ 1 - 2 | Which do you believe should be a higher priority for NASA now?

Human space exploration (4 votes)
Orbital microgravity science (2 votes)

Aerospace Events


2007
June

NET 6/8 -- STS-117 launch
6/20 -- Dawn launch
Late June -- Genesis II launch

July or August

? -- SpaceShipTwo Unveiling

August

8/3 -- Mars Phoenix launch
NET 8/9 -- STS-118 launch

October

10/6 -- Exp. 16 Soyuz launch
NET 10/20 -- STS-120 launch

November

Mid-month -- Jules Verne ATV launch

December

NET 12/6 -- STS-122 launch


2008
February

NET 2/14 -- STS-123 launch

April

NET 4/24 -- STS-124 launch

July

NET 7/10 -- STS-119 launch

September

? -- Dragon I launch

NET 9/10 -- STS-125 launch

October

10/9 -- STS-126 launch

? -- LRO launch

Unknown 2008

? -- SpaceShipTwo test flight


2009
January

NET 1/15 -- STS-127 launch

February

? -- Japanese HTV-1 launch

April

? -- Ares I-X launch
NET 4/9 -- STS-128 launch

July

NET 7/9 -- STS-129 launch

September

NET 9/30 -- STS-130 launch

December

? -- Silver Dart orbital test flight

Unknown 2009

Mid-year -- Silver Dart flight
Fall -- Mars Science Lab launch
? -- DreamChaser suborbital flight
? -- Rocketplane XP first flight


2010
April

NET 4/1 -- STS-132 launch


2012
September

? -- Ares I-Y launch


Other Missions
STS-131STS-133Shenzhou VIIShenzhou IXShenzhou X
All dates subject to change.

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