Yeah, I know, I’m supposed to be face-down in work. And I am, I am. But this is just too cool to let pass without pointing it out: a team out of Santa Cruz and Carnegie have tagged a potentially habitable planet around Gliese 581. And they did it with a good old-fashioned ground-based telescope. […]
Archive for September, 2010
Worth the Price
If wifi were water, this place would be Arrakis. Free bandwidth is an alien concept in Australia. A minute of internet is treasured more than the rarest jewel (or at least, it costs as much). Notwithstanding which, this country rocks. I could go on about the fact that the neurotoxins that developed in this place […]