{"id":36953,"date":"2011-07-09T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T14:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/working-with-nasa-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-07-09T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T14:38:21","slug":"working-with-nasa-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/working-with-nasa-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Working with NASA | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know NASA collects 4 terabytes of data each day? And that a lot of this data is available to the public?<\/p><p>My friend Chris Pirillo <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chris.pirillo.com\/what-does-open-government-mean-at-nasa\/\">interviewed Nick Skytland from NASA&rsquo;s Open Government Initiative<\/a>, and they talk about what NASA does beyond launching rockets:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/shuttle_google_earth.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/18bd0_googleearth_shuttletrack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34380\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Pretty cool. NASA does a lot of stuff&hellip; so of course the House of Representatives <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/07\/congress-puts-nasa-and-jwst-on-the-chopping-block\/\">is talking about massively cutting it back<\/a>. Incidentally, since writing that post, Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is gathering her forces to block canceling the James Webb Space Telescope program. I sent her a note thanking her, and hopefully the Senate can reign in the House&rsquo;s political bluster.<\/p><p>And speaking of all this, with the successful launch of <em>Atlantis<\/em>, if you have Google Earth <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/shuttle_google_earth.html\">you can track the location of the Orbiter<\/a>! Pretty cool. Also, as usual, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heavens-above.com\">Heavens-Above.com<\/a> will allow you to predict the times when <em>Atlantis<\/em> and the Space Station are visible from your location. <\/p><p> <em><\/em><\/p><p>Related posts:<\/p><p>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/07\/congress-puts-nasa-and-jwst-on-the-chopping-block\/\">Congress puts NASA and JWST on the chopping block<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/08\/atlantis-rides-above-the-waves-2\/\">Atlantis rides above the waves<\/a><br>- <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2007\/12\/20\/call-for-help\/\">Call for Help!<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dLjL0Nn0Fhm33A-TTcKYNB5oDgg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/18bd0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dLjL0Nn0Fhm33A-TTcKYNB5oDgg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/18bd0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/18bd0_HWdi4IkG9ew\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/18bd0_GXyjt7mq-4c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know NASA collects 4 terabytes of data each day? And that a lot of this data is available to the public?My friend Chris Pirillo interviewed Nick Skytland from NASA&rsquo;s Open Government Initiative, and they talk about what NASA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/working-with-nasa-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}