Happy birthday, Apollo 11!
(From yesterday.) Oh no! You’re over the hill now! We’d better wear black armbands for the birthday party. We can celebrate by watching these newly restored videos of the moon walk while we eat red velvet cake. Woo!
Also: We Choose the Moon – relive the launch in real time!
Dinosaur burrow in Asutralia.
Sounds like a very cool discovery, and may help with understanding some paleo-climate change. Hopefully we’ll see more about these!
Why Titan is so exciting.
And it is – very exciting. Planetary geology is very cutting edge as far as science goes, and I’m very excited to see how much we can learn about other planets (and moons) just by analyzing photographs of them. Geomorphology for the win!
Map of Taraniki reveals volcanic history.
I want one of these. Seriously.
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission holds hearing on gas drilling at nuke test site.
You know, this just seems like a very bad idea, on pretty much every front possible. I’m incredibly puzzled as to why people want to drill for gas there so desperately, considering that natural gas prices are even more in the shitter than oil prices. There are plenty of other natural gas fields if we absolutely feel we must drill. How about we leave the radioactive stuff alone until we’re running out.
When Yellowstone Explodes
Article from National Geographic about the Yellowstone caldera. I’m… not terribly thrilled about the title, but the article itself is pretty cool. And you can’t argue with the excitement factor when it comes to Things That Could Explode And Kill Us All. That said, I am getting kind of tired of people grabbing my sleeve and, a frantic light in their eyes, exclaiming that did I know there’s a supervolcano in Yellowstone that’s going to explode tomorrow and cause us all to choke and die in a cloud of hot ash. While technically it could explode tomorrow, I’m of the school of thought that by soon, we mean geologically soon. Which means not soon at all. Won’t my face be read when the pyroclastic cloud rolls over Denver and we all asphyxiate under several feet of ash?
Mayon in the Philippines is threatening to erupt again.
We may be getting some impressive pictures out of this soon. Mayon is incredibly active as volcanoes go (48 eruptions in recorded history – nothing to sneeze at) and there are signs that there’s a lot of lava activity going on there.
New seismic shooting method for complex structure.
If you’re not feeling hyper nerdy, I’d recommend skipping this one. It’s about a new method for shooting 3-D seismic to examine sub-surface structure, which I just thought was very interesting.
Ridiculous Life Lessons From New Girl Games
The shit video game makers try to sell to girls makes me CRY. And also forces me to admit that, for all I bitch about the chainmail bikinis and bouncy boobs, at least in WoW girls get to stab things, set them on fire, and hit them with clubs.