Things found on twitter
Sep.06, 2008, filed under Miscellany
This is the first ever picture of the Earth taken from the surface of another planet.
That is awesome. I mean, the pic itself doesn’t have the same heart-stopping beauty of the Earth taken from our own orbit, but a photo taken from the surface of another planet in our Solar System is just so neat.
And the bio of Scott Maxwell, the rover driver, is not exactly what you’d expect to find on the NASA website…
It amuses me immensely that the various NASA projects tweet at each other in the first person, such as this one from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:
“Appreciating my awesome instrument teams…so glad they’re here with me during my testing!”
While over at Cern it’s a rather more dry style:
“The final LHC synchronization test before first beam was a success.”
It’s the same as the cultural difference demonstrated by comparing “Good job!” with “Well done,” I suspect.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
