Just came across an amazing article on the BBC about NASA‘s plans to catch a re-entering space capsule in mid-air with a helicopter. No the date hasn’t gone back to April 1st, its completely genuine!
…the Genesis space probe will eject a capsule to Earth carrying fragile samples of the solar wind – particles spewed out from the Sun.
The capsule’s fall will be slowed by two parachutes, but its fast descent means the container must be caught in mid-air by a helicopter with a hook if a damaging impact with the ground is to be avoided.
Checkout the and a Q & A with the stunt pilot.
Konstantin Ryabitsev posted a humerous, but for many people poignant, message to fedora-devel-list looking at how Red Hat and the community have interacted on the Fedora Project.
While reading a blog about the recent X.org meetings I came across this site of pictures from a trip through the Chernobyl area. Some interesting & scary stuff.
If I step 10 meters forward, geiger counter will run off the scale. IfI walk
a few hundred meters towards the reactor, the radiation is 3roentgens per
hour – which is 300,000 times normal. If I was to keepwalking all the way to
the reactor, I would glow in the dark tonight.
Some tourists companies have been trying to arrange tours…but the first
group of tourists found the silence unnerving and downright SPOOKY….They
charged 1200 hryvnas for a 2 hour excursion and after some 15 minutes, they
wanted to flee to the outside world.