Subject: NASA

• Benford Tools, er, Toils

  Sci-fi writer and UC Irvine physics professor and Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Cambridge University visiting fellow and Lord Prize winner and American Physical Society Fellow and NASA consultant and blah-blah-blah Greg Benford has joined forces with UCI environmental biologist Michael Rose, whose list of credits has nearly as many impressive blah-blah-blahs, on a new web venture: www.benford-rose.com. Among other things, the site neatly presents the eggheads' co-essays, which can be purchased and d

  January 12, 2006

• Muzzling Troy

  Troy High School in Fullerton has a lot going for it. The combined public and magnet school is known for its high SAT scores, Troy Tech and International Baccalaureate programs, its wins or high placements in the U.S. National Science Olympiad and Western Regional Science Bowl sponsored by NASA/JPL, and recognitions for being among the nation's top schools from President Clinton, the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence panel and the selection committee for California Distinguished Schools.

  April 11, 2006

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises

  Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Earlier this year, Beroletti devoured 47 donuts in five minutes.) Tim “Eater X” Janus dunked his treats in a milk-water mixture and nabbed second place with 37.5 sandwiches. Rich “The Locust” LeF

  August 9, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: OC Inspired Space Travel?

  California's Police State: Imagine you are a suspect and the police take your entire statement out of context by secretly recording only snippets that seem to incriminate you in a crime. Can’t happen? Think again. California police officers have won the right to selectively tape you. It’s the Rush Limbaugh method of police work and by any fair measure it’s disgraceful. Today, Register opinion writer Steven Greenhut slams Orange County state representative Todd Spitzer (R-Brea) for his att

  September 30, 2007

• OC Sex Inventions

  Inspired by an exhibit of sex inventions at the New York-based Museum of Sex, I thought I'd do a little trolling through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's online search for anything interesting coming out of our fair county. Anaheim inventor Wayne Manska was awarded patent #6,645,164 in 2003 for a "lingual vibration device" --- in English a tongue vibrator --- that "[causes] a user's tongue to rapidly, yet gently, vibrate during various oral sex acts such as cunnilingus." In his applicati

  November 9, 2007

• The Year in Killing El Toro

  January 2, 2003

• Tonight: Neil Hamburger at Alex's Bar!

  Why did NASA send a titanium copy of the latest Linkin Park album to every planet in our solar system? Well, to kill off any interest that the aliens may have had in invading earth. That's one of the many jokes in the considerable arsenal of Neil Hamburger, "America's youngest comedian." For those unfamiliar, Hamburger is in the same milieu of Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton character, an intentionally bad comic that tells unfunny jokes and bitterly insults his audience; which is, depending on you

  November 12, 2008

• UCI Scientist Helps Add More Culprits to the Global Warming List

  Anyone worth Al Gore's salt knows that cars, factories and farting cows contribute to global warming, but an international study that includes the research of a UC Irvine scientist has found drought and deforestation can also help fuel the pesky phenomenon and should be included in future climate pacts. ScienceDaily.com reports today:The study, analyzing six years of climate and fire observations from satellites, shows that in dry years, the practice of using fire to clear forests and remove org

  December 9, 2008

• Moneyopoly

  Who are the OC players who contributed to the 2008 presidential candidates?

  January 24, 2008

• Rumored/Confirmed Coachella Artists Start to Trickle In

  LAist has about 20 artists they say are "confirmed" for Coachella (coming up soon! April 17-19!), and many more that are "rumored"--and given that just about every act of note is "rumored" for Coachella at this point in the year, a classification that's about as meaningful as last night's Golden Globes (though any night when Tracy Morgan and Bruce Springsteen both get to give acceptance speeches is pretty awesome).Here's who they say are confirmed:

  January 12, 2009

• Dana Rohrabacher Praised for Saying the Sky is Falling

  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), shown here possibly pointing to a dangerous object in the sky, is being commended by the no doubt august Institute for Human Continuity for his "Planet X forsight" and belief that Earth's preparedness for dealing with cosmic debris hurtling toward it is "key for the survival of the human race." What the Star Surfin' Congressman did specifically was introduce House Resolution 4917, the "Near Earth Objec

  February 10, 2009

• This Week in OC Weekly

  In "Hive and Seek" Gustavo Arellano discusses saving Orange County's bees--and possibly breaking the odd city code and state law in the process--with the Backyard Beekeepers.And R. Scott Moxley takes a look at what OC's Board of Supervisors has been doing with its loose change for the past few months in "Times are Tight." Plus... The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey, You! and Savage Love.Restaurant reviews of Royal Kitchen carne and Flor Blanca #2.Culture focuses on Bo

  March 2, 2009

• Listen to the Band: The Dahmer Party

  It's amazing how some bands end up being tailor-made for certain venues. In the case of Fullerton thrashers The Dahmer Party (don't be alarmed, none of them are actually cannibals...I think), Slidebar's rock-n-roll party scene is an ideal stomping ground. And it's not just because their drummer works there (he actually does, look around next time for the guy with a bunch of tattoos and plugs in his ears, oh wait...). These guys have been kicking around for a bit, showcasing a mix of hard "rawk"

  March 19, 2009

• [CD Review] N.A.S.A., 'The Spirit of Apollo' (Anti-)

  February 26, 2009

• In the Judd Apatow-Produced 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' Jason Segel Uses His Balls to Great Effect

  April 17, 2008

• [DVDish] Chafing Dishes: Reviews of No Reservations, I Could Never Be Your Woman, more

  February 14, 2008

• Aural Reports

  Noise of the Spheres: Inspired by Videodrome, SST and Dick, NASA Space Universe Make a Cosmic Racket

  October 18, 2007

• Space Case

  February 7, 2002

• Rocket Men

  Reliving the glory of America’s giant leap for mankind

  September 13, 2007

• QUICK-CHANGE ART

  September 8, 2005

• Fly Me to the Moon

  Astronaut Farmer dares to dream

  February 22, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  Jan. 31-Feb. 6
  

  February 8, 2007

• Gotta Lotta Money

  November 30, 2006

• They Live

  October 12, 2006

• Sleepers Awake!

  Bigg Jus and Nikola Tesla and the Lunar Hip-Hop Robot Camera

  August 24, 2006

• Jesus Kills

  February 23, 2006

• Science Friction

  February 23, 2006

• Get Out!

  December 15, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• Spread Some Aloha

  World peace starts at your summer barbecue

  May 19, 2005

• Its Snot Unusual

  Im George W. Bush, and I Approve This Destruction

  September 2, 2004

• Watching the Carbon Detective

  January 15, 2004

• Shuttle Diplomacy

  February 13, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  September 26, 2002

• Beam Me Up, Greggy

  May 9, 2002

• Hootenanny Hoedown

  July 12, 2001

• Strings & Things

  May 31, 2001

• Cruz Control

  March 1, 2001

• Glamour Guys of Geezer Gulch

  August 10, 2000

• Send in the Clowns

  April 6, 2000

• Pearls of Wisdom from our Vice-President

  July 29, 1999

• Cox, Dicks, No Balls

  June 10, 1999

• Polyester Road Diaries

  May 13, 1999

• Play Harder

  February 18, 1999

• Astronaut Panel

  July 9, 2009

• How Did Chung Get Away With Spying for China for So Long?

  In light of today's first-ever economic espionage conviction of Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 73, of Orange, it must be asked: How did the former Rockwell International and Boeing engineer get away with being a spy for China for so long? Born in China, Chung was employed by Rockwell in Downey from 1973 until its space unit was acquired by Boeing in 1996. He worked at Boeing's Huntington Beach offices until retiring in 2002. But then he returned as a Boeing contractor the next year and remained until Sep

  July 16, 2009

• 18 Reasons Sammy Davis Jr. Beats Michael Jackson in Heavenly Greatest Entertainer Who Ever Lived Smackdown

  Barry Gordy eulogizes Michael Jackson.At Michael Jackson's moving memorial in the Staples Center Tuesday, Motown founder Berry Gordy eulogized that the title "King of Pop" was not big enough for Jacko, calling him "simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived."Somewhere in Heaven, Sammy Davis Jr. fumes.See, it's been universally accepted that Sammy was the greatest entertainer who ever lived. Now that both he and MJ are sharing the bill at the Great Rendezvous Ballroom in the Sky, it behooves

  July 8, 2009

• Wax On, Wax Off: First Glimpses of Fall Conditions

  By Nolan HallOffshore Conditions in Baja​The Santa Ana Winds and the hottest weather of the year are already showing up this year, even as early as late August. It brings back memories of last year, coughing and surfing ash-covered waves under dark, smoky skies. Early Santa Anas bring that haunted dryness that feels like fire waiting to ignite. But they also might mean some great surfing to close out the summer. The various contest promoters, as well as Surline.com, are predicting good conditi

  August 28, 2009

• What Astronauts Do With Taco Sauce In The Space Shuttle

  ​I had to share this recent story with my fellow science geeks out there.  It's all about stuff you never knew to ask about food in NASA's space shuttle.  According to the article, here are some fun tidbits: - "Salt and pepper are available but only in a liquid form because astronauts can't sprinkle salt and pepper on their food in space - it would simply float away." - "In 2007, an astronaut was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon and accidentally squi

  November 18, 2009