Astronomers defend asteroid warning mix-up – space – 13 November 2007 – New Scientist. …”Astronomers have defended a system intended to spot impending asteroid impacts after it mistook the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft for an incoming rock and issued…
Okay, well the first time I can really remember almost getting killed, I was about 7 years old (and so am estimating 1961). My family went on a weekend trip from Chicago to Wisconsin Dells, a church camp I think……
When I first arrived in England as a young 20 year old USAF Airman I was happy. I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire (now closed), I was an imagery interpretor in the intelligence section of the 77th tactical…
This episode involves my first car, a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine. It was a very cool car. Fun! Dangerous. well, wrong side of the road and all. I was stationed in England in the Air Force and paid $700 cash for her from another…
