Billie Piper to leave Doctor Who

Billie Piper leaves Doctor Who 

British pop star turned actress Billie Piper has officially announced that she will not be returning to her role as Doctor Who‘s traveling companion Rose in the third season.  She was quoted as saying

"It has been an amazing adventure and I can confirm it comes to an end, for now at least, as series two climaxes… Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years, I am truly indebted to Russell and to all the Doctor Who fans old and new who have been so supportive."

Male fans everywhere are in mourning.

Billie Piper to leave Doctor Who

Labs compete to make new nuclear bomb

Nuke

 

 

Now this sounds like fun:

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation’s first new nuclear bomb in two decades. Scientists at both facilities are working around the clock on plans that will be presented to the Nuclear Weapons Council, a federal panel that oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons. The council will choose a winner later this year.

Labs compete to make new nuclear bomb – Yahoo! News

A Meteoroid Hits the Moon

Moon impact 

Very neat. I hope that the next probe that is sent to map the surface will get some crist high detail images of this new crater.

There’s a new crater on the Moon. It’s about 14 meters wide, 3 meters deep and precisely one month, eleven days old. NASA astronomers watched it form: "On May 2, 2006, a meteoroid hit the Moon’s Sea of Clouds (Mare Nubium) with 17 billion joules of kinetic energy—that’s about the same as 4 tons of TNT," says Bill Cooke, the head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. "The impact created a bright fireball which we video-recorded using a 10-inch telescope."

NASA – A Meteoroid Hits the Moon

60th Anniversary of The King of Thailand

60th Anniversary of The King of Thailand

Long live the king! I know this is a bit late but it’s still news worthy.
I happened to see live streaming of his address to his people from the government building in Bangkok. Seeing the hundreds of thousands of people gathered to hear their king was amazing. It was a sea of yellow (yellow is the color of royalty) as everyone was sporting their official ‘I love the king’ shirts.

2Bangkok.com – 60th Anniversary

Impressive Apollo Space Program Fan Site

A while back I ran across a page that has quite a bit of information on the Apollo space program. As fan sites go it’s amazing. You can even get a cool LEM screensaver from here. 

July 1969. Boosted aloft into the Florida skies by the immense Saturn V rocket, the Apollo 11 spacecraft carried men to the surface of a celestial body for the very first time. There have been many spacecraft built since the conclusion of the Apollo program, the Space Shuttle included. However, they merely creep above the atmosphere, flying only a scant few hundred kilometers above the Earth’s surface. To this day, Apollo remains the world’s first and only true spaceship. It journeyed farther, traveled faster and was more expensive than anything before or since

APOLLO MANIACS : Apollo spacecraft and Saturn Rocket / Apollo project