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Re: The Launch Pad: Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Rollout: The X PRIZE Perspective

eliasjordan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:24:26 -0000

So thats what it looked like from the back ;)

Re: NASA’s LRO and LCROSS Missions: Lunar Impact – 09.10.07

eliasjordan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:21:10 -0000

For those of you that might want to watch the Impact LIVE be sure to watch at:

http://www.slooh.com/specia...
or of course
NASA.TV (Spacevidcast)

Re: No Doomsday in 2012: The Reason Why Science Will Not Win

eliasjordan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:12:25 -0000

PS I also learned that you "aint dumb"

Re: A Visor Filled With Awesomeness

eliasjordan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:57:51 -0000

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Its a Nikon! =(

hmm, Canon's are better for Astrophotography! ;)

Thanks Ian.

Re: A Visor Filled With Awesomeness

eliasjordan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:46:09 -0000

So Ian without me having to google, and read...
What kind of cameras do they use in space? (I.E. Brand/models) Canon, Nikon, Olympus, or does NASA create their own?

Re: No Doomsday in 2012: The Reason Why Science Will Not Win

eliasjordan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:25:55 -0000

Wait, what just happened?

Did, did I just get.....nevermind.

What I have learned from this post:

Hitler was a meth dealer
Meth is worse than the holocaust
The sky is the color of my poop
CERN is a person
and!
Math is a solid

Re: No Doomsday in 2012: The Reason Why Science Will Not Win

eliasjordan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:12:40 -0000

Alright, I stopped reading the comments after I got down the what 30th?

Now I must say everyone who believes the earth will end is smoking something...heavy!

Mayan Calendar: Some guy eventually ran out of spaces to put more dates on the calendar! Geez its one large circular calendar, how many dates can you fit on it!

Ian, you did a great job with the article, all your articles. Now I must admit if something *magically* does happen it will be kindof funny/ironic, BUT nothing will happen.

Its just the same as :"Y2K" and all other "doomsday" theories....Anyways we should be looking towards death by Apophis, in 2036 ;)

(You know someone is going to look that up now...)

Re: The Launch Pad: This Pretty Much Sums it Up...

eliasjordan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:55:08 -0000

alright, I am adding Moonpies to my bio!

Re: The Launch Pad: This Pretty Much Sums it Up...

eliasjordan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:28:40 -0000

Wait! No moonpies!?????????????

Re: Jeph answers questions about the moon – 09.09.15

eliasjordan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:08:09 -0000

Cool!
I want to do a podcast! =)

Re: Twitter: Benefit or Bane?

eliasjordan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:51:08 -0000

Twitter, In my belief is GREAT! When I first joined twitter I thought it was somewhat weird, I mean who needs to know what I am doing...Right? But after a few months I saw the possibilities Twitter had for Astro-outreach. So I started "tweeting" observations and sometimes images from my scope. Eventually I used twitter as a log book of some sort.

Though eventually it wasn't as fun, so i took a break. Then a few months later Twitter become part of my job, tweeting fro the obs, and updating status for the new website. Well, one day as I started up my e-mail I saw a new blog feed being submitted for an event called #Meteorwatch and thats were my Twitter story really began.

The Newbury Astronomical Society was creating an online twitter event. Though i had heard of one earlier in the year (#Moonwatch) I did not care to much for it. But now I was interested, since I already spent 2/3 hours a day on twitter.

So I contacted the society and asked about the event. After talking for a few days with them I was mesmerized by the ingenuity of it! So I decided to participate. Eventually I managed the US side of the event, now we have planned many such events.

You, tweeting live images of Meteors, the night sky, galaxies and such is a lot of fun. But when you get people telling you thanks to your tweets I saw my first meteor it really makes it worth it.

So now I am on twitter every day for maybe 4/5 hours talking with fellow "spacetweeps" watching for new space news and in between watching a few moonpie contests ;)