It’s a beautiful spring day in Huntsville, Alabama and even I must duck away from this computer screen and get some fresh air. I’ve accumulated a few somewhat offbeat / obscure stories over the week that I keep saying “I’ll write about THAT” and I just haven’t, so I’m just gonna list ’em here. Science quickies, so to speak. Manish Chhowalla has discovered onions in space. Eshel Ben-Jacob is growing brains under glass. Ho, hum, another day, another planet discovered, another Mars picture, another North Pole. Out in New Mexico, 700 people have worked overtime to rediscover the semi-lost art of making pits. And remember how you thought US Government scientists mucking around deep, deep, deep in the Earth with forces they were never meant to understand was some silly science fiction movie? Ha! Behold The MINOS Project!
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Los Alamos cleans pits with environmentally responsible cleaners instead of solvents that are prohibited today.
Oh, good. We don’t want any thermonuclear bombs to damage the environment.
The rediscovery of the art of making pits is shown in wonderful detail in the documentary “Holes”, presently showing in select theaters in the USA.
Hey Ricky,
I need to get somebody from Huntsville to San Jose for Memorial Day weekend (for ISDC) – any advice on the best airlines, best strategy? There don’t seem to be many good flights straight out of Huntsville, at least the last time I checked…
When I need to get to the West Coast and it’s coming out of MY pocket, I always go Southwest airlines from Birmingham or Nashville. Your guest will understand, they probably do the same thing. It’s not that far to Bham from Huntsville (90 min) and less than 2 hrs to Nashville. (If you GOTTA fly out of Huntsville, let me know and I’ll think about that some more). Looks like a good conference! The SWA website is here…