I can't help but feel a bit disappointed in NASA. When I heard they were firing two rockets at the moon, with the full intentions of actually crashing them right into the moon, two pictures came to mind...
• A great big Hollywood style explosion with all the oooos and aaaahs we've come to expect from anything involving crashes from that…
If NASA was a South African company, or had some South Africans in their higher ranks, they'd have thought twice about the abbreviation for their "Polar Operational Environment Satellites" project...
Haa haa haa haa. If you're not sure what it means, Wikipedia to the rescue (you'll have to search for it on the page).
Searchopensource.com published a good story about how Linux was used to send the NASA Rover to Mars. This was picked up very quickly by people on one of the internal aliases due to the following excerpt:
"Our personal view is that Linux, period, is only for the desktop. We don't run our main servers on Linux, because there are too many…
As we all know, the Discovery space shuttle blasted off into space from the Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday and successfully made it into space. However during the launch, the onboard cameras recorded large pieces of debris falling off the space shuttle's external fuel tank. Following this news, the BBC reported the following:
