Happenings this Week If you were a kid before 2006, you probably memorized the solar system with “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.” And then—suddenly—no more pizza. Just Nachos. Or Noodles? (Not nearly as satisfying.)Here is a short poll to gauge your emotional temperature before attending Laura Hammerbeck’s talk at ELO on Saturday: How did you cope with Pluto’s demotion? ☐ Denial ☐ Anger ☐ Bargaining with the IAU ☐ Acceptance (but only technically) ...| Minnesota Astronomical Society
Incluso en el más allá hay problemas y en Crypt Custodian es Pluto quien debe buscar la manera de solucionarlos con la ayuda de una escoba| Akihabara Blues
Several years ago a friend of mine asked me to make a program for mapping a globe onto a twenty-sided die. I wrote a simple Python script, some basic coordinate remapping and image processing with a simple GUI wrapped around it. The script takes an image that's a flat projected map of a planet, builds a virtual icosahedron around it, projects the image of each part of a globe onto the faces of the icosahedron, and then arranged them on an output image along with fold lines and glue tabs w...| Drew's Robots
Several years ago a friend of mine asked me to make a program for mapping a globe onto a twenty-sided die. I wrote a simple Python script, ...| drewsrobots.blogspot.com
The distant world 2014 MU69 is known only as a small blurry dot. But that will change next year. The post A Billion Miles Further appeared first on One Universe at a Time.| One Universe at a Time