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Cloud Nine Restaurant

A site within the Phoenix Mountains Preserve raises a lot of questions about its history. It’s the multi-level foundation of an historical restaurant in Phoenix (at least, in the context of the history of Sunnyslope Village) known as “Cloud Nine”, or “Cloud 9″, long-since leveled. Cloud Nine is considered a landmark from the early 1960′s, visible throughout much of Phoenix at the time due to its elevated perch about half-way up the south side of Shaw Butte in north-central Phoenix. The edges of the roof were lined with multiple neon tubes that caught the eye on many trips around town. Read the rest of this entry »

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Men: Beware!

Men, a heads up…. Ladies, enjoy the laugh.

After the jump, 9 words or phrases with exclusive meaning to women:

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Oui, Oui!


La vie en Rose from steve on Vimeo.

Near Misses

clipped from www.planetary.org
Itokawa rotates under Hayabusa

I’ve been investigating some of the recent excitement about dangers from the skies, and particularly asteroid 2007 TU24, which will pass harmlessly by Earth tonight, considerably farther from Earth than the Moon. Here’s some recent radar images of the near-Earth object, which is roughly 250 meters in diameter.

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Time for helmets…

US Spy Satellite Could Crash To Earth In February

The Russian space station Mir reentering the the atmosphere in 2001. Substantial pieces crashed into the Pacific Ocean (credit: Reuters)

Hopefully a solution to this tricky problem can be found quickly, but it is hoped that most of the satellite will disintegrate during re-entry and any leftovers drop into the ocean… but it would be nice to know if there is a risk of impact anywhere other than the oceans. 

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Earthset on the Moon

Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft has inaugurated a return to the Moon and the start of the International Lunar Decade. In addition to its many science instruments, Kaguya carries a high-definition television camera provided to the mission by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation strictly for public communication purposes. This five-image Earthset sequence is cropped from some of the first HD movies returned from the Moon.

Earth-set

A very cool open-source program is available for creating images with just computer characters. It’s known as ASCII Generator dotNET

Check out an image of me

ascii-steve

Dad

MAN, WHAT A HANDSOME GUY!

Dad

Doggie in the window

Patti caught this in Flagstaff on a girl’s weekend. Love the expression, and great framing with the ridges in the bed of the truck and the windows.

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