Among the things I learned this week:
* Sydney Chaplin, whose accomplishments include negotiating Charlie’s major contracts, speaking film’s first talkie word (“coffee”), and founding the first private US airline (which he closed because of the burden of government regulations, such as requiring pilots have licenses). (Courtesy: A Dog’s Life)
* Antam Sanskar and Sikh services. (Courtesy: MV)
* Crore, lakh, and the Indian numbering system. (Courtesy: India This Week)
* Apollo 10, the full dry run for Apollo 11’s moon landing, didn’t include enough fuel in the lander’s tanks to return home. NASA wanted to mitigate the astronaut’s desire to execute the final lander steps in order to the be the first people on the moon. (Courtesy: TechCrunch)
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The Pointlessness of Stating What We can See from Space
Boing Boing, courtesy of a Twitter post from Jad Abumrad and using imagery from NASA, has a post about how we can see the path of the Massachussets tornado from space and includes a photo. Yeah, satellite imagery is powerful. It is time we retire the can-see-it-from-space line.