Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

… if you were an Earth robot on Mars!

Sunday night I watched “I Am Legend” [9/10] and really enjoyed it. Many people I talked to said it wasn’t good, but I stayed away from the previews (I only knew one plot turn) and it was all good, even with an intermission to get photos of the International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery as they zoomed over Regina. Find out when they fly over your city/town/farm.

-ISS is the faint dash in the centre. The white dot near it is a hot [dead] pixel on my 6 year old Canon PowerShot S30

-Discovery followed a minute behind, it’s the fainter dash to the left of centre.

A man walking down the street saw my friend Jesse and I standing in the middle of the Central Park baseball infield, and Jesse told him we were about to see the space station. The estimated time was a little off, but it showed up before I looked like a fool for dragging Jesse and a stranger into an open space to sky-watch. A couple walked past as the ISS was zooming out of sight, and saw it too. Then the woman noticed the shuttle overhead. They sounded in awe that it was almost 400km away (close to 340km right now). It was farther away than Saskatoon, yet it was visible as if it was a plane, and it’s only the size of a mansion.

And Canada is on Mars now. See the wordmark on Phoenix here.
And Canadian..bagels..in..spaaaaacccce! Watch for Canadian Pigs In Spaaacccce next. Canadian bacon probably, as the Americans would call it.

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And I ended up holding on in the top 10 political blogs in Canada with some rather well known bloggers. Yay PageRank 5! Seeing as I’d have to have about 10 times the significance to attain PR 6, It will be next to impossible to crack the top 3 with Kate, Matt Good, and Steyn. Plus, Robert J. has taken the step of adjusting the position of blogs who have inflated positions due to PageRank anomalies.

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John Murney has another detail of the outcome from the Saskatchewan Liberal Association’s grassroots rebuilding. The party members there graciously let me attend and say a few things about what’s keeping people away from party membership. I think many people of my generation don’t see any advantages to being a party member (of any party) and in fact see serious drawbacks from participating in the political process. Long workshops (that get started late), could even be a significant downside, even if they are a necessary part of party life.

Damn Interesting has a bit of history from WWII. Also interesting is that it was written from Saskatchewan.

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And a bit of Canadian technology landed on Mars on Sunday!

Google is finally doing something right, and branching off into space exploration with the Space Ship One equipped Virgin.

I know what I’m doing now in 2014!

Holy cow, the Red planet can still find ways to be interesting so long as we keep our Martian satellite’s “eyes” on it.

March 3, 2008: A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet’s north pole.

“It really surprised me,” says planetary scientist Ingrid Daubar Spitale of the University of Arizona who first noticed the avalanches in photos taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Feb. 19th. “It’s great to see something so dynamic on Mars. A lot of what we see there hasn’t changed for millions of years.”