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As we await the launch of Discovery, I can’t help but wonder: what is the point of the shuttle program? Does it contribute anything, really, to space exploration? To scientific discovery? It’s an orbiter  [more...]

Well, while summer thunderstorms rage back home, I’m learning about what happens here in California during the summer: fires. The other day there was a brush fire not too far away that destroyed at least one home;  [more...]

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