Oct. 27th, 2005

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As I pulled onto the top deck of the parking garage at work I noticed that the upper half of the office tower to the west was lit a deep red from the rising sun. I hurried inside and grabbed the camera I keep at my work station. Unfortunately, clouds were already moving in , and I only got about half the glory. :-(
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I wish people writing about some new development in science or technology would be more careful about the hype they repeat or invent. Just because a particular author hasn't heard of some innovation doesn't mean it's new!

Two corrections of recent science articles:

The Multiple Mirror Telescope is not the first to use a honeycomb back to reduce weight and speed temperature change. The 200" mirror of the Hale was cast with what is usually called a "waffle" pattern, back in the mid-Thirties.

Arthur C. Clarke is a brilliant and creative man, but he did *not* invent the beanstalk (aka the space elevator). Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky developed it in *1895*.



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