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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Space in news -- Comment()
Space news: Europe's moon probe, NASA's scramjet: "There have been two important pieces of space-related news recently, the first of which was the European moon probe's success in entering the moon's orbit. The second bit of news concerns NASA's scramjet test flight." [Ars Technica] As a somewhat related note, I was yesterday elected to the board of Ursa Astronomical Association in Finland. Great! I'm hoping that some of my daughters get interested in astronomy as well.
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IBM to host worldwide scientific computing grid: "IBM aims to take the lead in distributed computing by creating the world's largest networked computing grid for scientific applications: the World Community Grid." [Ars Technica]
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Don't trust Wikipedia -- Comment()
The Faith-Based Encyclopedia: "The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him."
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