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mantel clocks — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:03:07 +0000

Thanks for this exceedingly good quality post Dave – I will link to you from my Facebook page.

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Comment on First Direct Image of Multiple Exoplanets Orbiting a Star by Kaeden

Kaeden — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:07:14 +0000

Wait, I cannot fathom it being so straightfroward.

Comment on The Secret in Building 26 by Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:24:20 +0000

I have not read Cryptonomicon yet, but it is next up on my Kindle app. I’m looking forward to it.

Comment on The Secret in Building 26 by Kevin Fling

Kevin Fling — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:46:25 +0000

I’ve always been a huge crypto geek and this looks like a truly excellent book recommendation; I’ve already got it on the way from Amazon! Have you read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by chance? It’s one of the few fiction books that I could read over and over again.

Comment on An Amateur Astronomer’s View of the Space Shuttle Discovery Cozying Up to the ISS by Dave

Dave — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:52:27 +0000

Note, you can get some good views of the ISS yourself this week. See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html.

Comment on John Harrison and the Longitude Problem by Dave

Dave — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:05:25 +0000

This book doesn’t mention that. The reasons given were more like “How could a carpenter turned clockmaker possibly solve the problem that the Astronomy Board couldn’t?” Besides, keeping it secret implies that the British were using it, but they didn’t start using it for decades after it was proven to work.