I dunno, I was just looking around, and found a nice site that detailed exactly how I could and likely will die. Is this something humans do, sit and explore the probabilities and methods of their own mortalities? I dunno, it's hard not to be kind of morbid sometimes when you feel like a dead satellite orbiting ( Read more... )

For anyone who may have been worried by my lack of posts, I've not gone into a retrograde orbit quite yet. Had a rather busy weekend on my plate, and it seemed like I was just getting turned this way and that. Some of these astronomers need to realize what weekends are for, and that even us space telescopes could use a day off. I swear, I'm ( Read more... )

Watch it with those asteroids. That scared the bejeezus outta me! Bit too close for my comfort the way it just went streaking by. It could at least put some pants on ( Read more... )

Wow, I didn't expect these to be out so soon, but my pictures of Sedna are already released. They didn't show a moon, but they do show it in much more detail.

Sedna Picture

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Rapid fire back-to-back posts, cause I just got some good news from the astronomy group. Seems that my prospects are improving a hell of a lot, because the BBC is reporting that NASA might look into specialized robots to maintain me and keep me running ( Read more... )

Well, I notice that the rovers and the Goes family are both getting rather poetic and creative in their Live Journals. I was thinking about doing the same. Then I realized I have no real ear for poetry, don't know any music except what I was able to hide when I was launched, and my short story about a plucky telescope floating in earth orbit ( Read more... )

Was scanning around the web for news about myself. What? Yeah, like none of you ever stick your name into Google to see what pops up. Anyway, I thought people might be interested to know that the March 14th New York Times is going to feature an Op Ed piece by Sam O'Keefe. If the name sounds familiar, he's the one who made the call to cancel the ( Read more... )

Alright, I'll admit that I'm really out of pop culture floating up here. Heck, just look at my music selections, and you'll notice that I'm stuck with what albums I could stow away with back in 1990. However, I did start picking up on this season of American Idol when I started hearing that, apparently, the Jet Propulsion Labs has entered, and is ( Read more... )

There's a scientist in Russia who has patented a way to put billboards in space. I'm sure most of you have seen the story. It's gotten me thinking, however. I wonder if I could stay up here longer if I managed to land some commercial endorsements. You know, The Hubble Telescope, Presented by Citibank. Or hell, go for the naming rights and ( Read more... )