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Stories · 4
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Yellowstone Super-Eruption Threat Debunked
GennyCream writes "The Internet has been all a-buzz with tin-foil-hat geeks have been in a tizzy over supposed government coverups of a soon-to-come super eruption in Yellowstone (especially see The Shadow Confederacy, but also Rense.com, or BlackVault for entertaining examples). I found an article on ATSNN.com (the Above Top Secret News Network) that cut the paranoia with the proverbial knife and went straight to the source. Their interview with USGS Yellowstone scientists covers all the angles and should inspire the mad-hatters to find something else to fear (for now)." -
NASA's Playlist for the Mars Rover Mission
TaddyPorter writes "'It has become somewhat of a NASA tradition that during missions to space a wake-up song is played at the beginning of each day's mission.' Over at atsnn.com a NASA Mars mission manager contributed their playlist. What's even more interesting is what song has been played and why, for instance, when NASA lost communications S.O.S by ABBA was played and when the system experienced a flash problem the Flash Gordon theme song by Queen was used." -
NASA's Playlist for the Mars Rover Mission
TaddyPorter writes "'It has become somewhat of a NASA tradition that during missions to space a wake-up song is played at the beginning of each day's mission.' Over at atsnn.com a NASA Mars mission manager contributed their playlist. What's even more interesting is what song has been played and why, for instance, when NASA lost communications S.O.S by ABBA was played and when the system experienced a flash problem the Flash Gordon theme song by Queen was used." -
Explaining the Mars Photo Colorization
TaddyPorter writes "I've seen stories going around the 'net in regards to NASA editing photos of mars. Mainly, the sundial used for calibration showed different colors than the dial on mars. While a wide range of explanations were taking shape, the Pancam Payload Element Lead for the mission, Jim Bell of Cornell University, was kind of enough to explain the color differences."