brainwagon

Well, last year I recorded a simple quicktme of the fireworks using my little Nikon 4500 from Jack London Square. This year, I decided to take out my new JVC MiniDV camcorder, and trundled it down to Pinole to try the same. I brought a tripod, set it up in manual mode with a best [...]

Check out this movie of the impactor as viewed from the flyby spacecraft. Cool.

Need some audio material? Try the Colonial Williamsburg Past to Present Podcasts. Or, you could just download The Declaration of Independence, available from Project Gutenberg as etext #1.

Tonight the Deep Impact space probe impacted Comet Tempel 1. I’m watching the coverage life on NASA TV. We can expect to see a photo from the flyby space craft to be all over the front pages tomorrow. Congratulations to all those rocket scientists. Cool stuff.