Royce Eddington

I was over at BoingBoing and saw they had posted a video of a space shuttle booster falling back to earth.

They say this video is from a “…solid fuel boosters on the STS-124 Space Shuttle Discovery launch. The action starts at 1:50, when the boosters are ejected.”

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Science rocks.

I love scuba diving, and I really enjoy swimming among all the marine life that’s in the ocean.

Having said that, this next video is really beautiful, and completely nuts at the same time. Right around the :23 mark….

Chuck Patterson posted that video where he said he… “was SUP surfing with a couple friends and 2 sharks circled us for about 15 minutes. the next day, i decided to go back out at around the same time and take my GO PRO HD HERO camera (gopro.com) mounted on a 10 ft pole and do some exploring. Sure enough within 5 minutes a 9 ft shark came out of no where and circled twice and slapped his tail on my board before disappearing. then a minute later a 7 ft young juvenile Great White swam circles around me for 12 minutes. It was an unreal experience that I will cherish forever.”

Awesome. Slightly unnerving, but awesome!

It’s time for a middle-of-the-week stress reliever!

Can it be?!? A major mainstream media outlet has caught on that President Obama hasn’t changed a damn thing?!? That Obama has actually continued Bush’s gross violations of the US constitution?

The good part starts at 2 minutes 08 seconds.

Jon Stewart? You da’ man!!

You can see more of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart here.

Why am I such a big advocate of science? Why is it important to keep things like the space shuttle, deep sea exploration, the LHC and every other complex scientific project funded, operational and moving forward?

Right here.

This little 8 month old baby just heard his first sounds.

Awesome.

The same kind of giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico happened 31 years ago. And the same processes are being followed to stop the leak.

Give this video a look to see how the more things change…

Leave it to a real foreign press corps to deliver the news.

Jump to :55 seconds to see how bad the gulf oil spill is.

EDIT: The news report says nobody is in charge of cleaning the slick and nobody is taking charge of what’s hitting the shore.

This is the best video I’ve seen all month.

Go ahead. Keep a straight face at the end. I dare you.