The end. Today it’s all over. Three decades of the Space Shuttle, with its many amazing successes and two horrible failures, are gone forever. This video shows those thirty years in one single launch.
Ink Calendar designed Oscar Diaz.
The ink will slowly color each day of the month as time passes by.
(Source: oscar-diaz.net, via inthesummerheat)
Vending machine sells ideas for things to do
Craighton Berman’s DIY Coil lamp
Bottlenose Dolphins in Surf
Photograph by Andrew Wong
Dolphins are known to jump out the back of big waves as they break against the shores. This pod of bottlenose dolphins was leisurely surfing in the waves as the offshore wind blew against the incoming waves, creating and atmosphere that was most unique and magical. At a place called Waterfall Bluff in the Transkei, South Africa.
npr:
Groundbreaking foods are often answers to questions no one was asking. Like: What if at the end of pizza, there was more pizza inside the crust? Or: What if yogurt was spelled with a “g” instead of a “y”? This week: what if ice cream sandwiches were made with donuts? —>Sandwich Monday: Donut Ice Cream Sandwich : Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!
TdoubleB note: iCANT with this right here.
Read my tribute to the NASA Space Shuttle program (via T-minus one (last time). A tribute to the NASA Space Shuttle Program « Ambition. Among Other Things.)
Image description: We have liftoff! Space shuttle Atlantis launches into history from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Aboard are four astronauts; Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim delivering the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts for the orbiting outpost.
Photo by Fletcher Hildreth/NASA
Space shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) during today’s launch of #STS135 via Bob Jacobs
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Fireworks!!!
true life.
Steve Adams
All hail the Duchess arriving at LAX! — Welcome to California, Will and Kate.