Making Light :: A lovely photo of BOB :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Sat, 31 May 2003 22:47:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en A lovely photo of <a href="http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/~brian/astro/ecass/issues/2003-me/cover/bob.jpg">BOB</a> It's from Cassiopeia, the magazine of the Canadian Astronomical Society/Socie9te9 Canadienne d'Astronomie (CASCA). BOB is short for "Big Orange Balloon",... It's from Cassiopeia, the magazine of the Canadian Astronomical Society/Socie9te9 Canadienne d'Astronomie (CASCA). BOB is short for "Big Orange Balloon",... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html A lovely photo of BOB -- comment #1 from Avram comment from Avram on 31.May.03 I hope that blue thing still on the truck is his pipe.

]]> <p>Posted May 31, 2003 10:47 PM by Avram</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21134 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21134 Sat, 31 May 2003 22:47:30 -0500 A lovely photo of BOB -- comment #2 from Jordin Kare comment from Jordin Kare on 1.Jun.03 Teresa, if you like neat balloons, you should go look at what JP Aerospace is doing. They bill themselves as "America's Other Space Program" and they've spent the last several years learning to fly balloons and balloon platforms -- big lattice structures supported by up to several dozen balloons -- to 100,000 feet. Eventually they want to launch rockets to orbit from the platforms, but meanwhile, they do more high-altitude balloon flights per year than NASA or anyone else. Plus they carry video cameras (They have a video taken by a Sony camcorder falling from 80,000 feet all the way to the ground after its balloon burst) and other neat things.

JP also runs the neatest "kids science" program around -- PongSat. Kids can build any science experiment or device they can think of that will fit *inside* a standard pingpong ball (with a few restrictions, like no flammables) and JP will put it on one of their balloon flights and take it to the edge of space, then return it to them. So far they've flown something like 900 PongSats and gotten about 3000 kids to actually do their very own space experiments.

]]> <p>Posted June 1, 2003 12:24 AM by Jordin Kare</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21136 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21136 Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:24:10 -0500 A lovely photo of BOB -- comment #3 from Stefan Jones comment from Stefan Jones on 2.Jun.03 Ah. Avram beat me to it.

]]> <p>Posted June 2, 2003 2:36 AM by Stefan Jones</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21150 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21150 Mon, 02 Jun 2003 02:36:03 -0500 A lovely photo of BOB -- comment #4 from Barbara comment from Barbara on 11.Jun.03 Teresa, everyone in Arizona knows that BOB stands for Bank One Ballpark--home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The big orange ball plays at America West Arena, and it didn't even go to the playoffs this year.

]]> <p>Posted June 11, 2003 1:53 AM by Barbara</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21618 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#21618 Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:53:21 -0500 A lovely photo of BOB -- comment #5 from mohammad comment from mohammad on 5.Aug.03 cars nature

]]> <p>Posted August 5, 2003 4:14 PM by mohammad</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#24956 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002657.html#24956 Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:14:16 -0500