Topic: =/\= good day for space news!!! project icarus and 5mp photo of night sky!

[stoneyface]

first up is an interesting story about a new interstellar project named: "project icarus". i like the fact that they are finally looking at recycling tanks during the mission for other purposes (i have been saying for 20 years they should not discard the external fuel tank on shuttle missions. they should put it in orbit, perhaps at the ISS, and reuse it for pods, metal work or whatever they need instead of letting it burn up in atmosphere). so here is the article and the main icarus webpage. you should check it out.

http://news.discovery.com/space/project-icarus-secondary-propulsion-overview-110509.html
http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/

next is a new beautiful picture of the night sky. it is 5megapixels of awesomeness and eye candy! check it out at skysurvey
http://skysurvey.org/

finally a new installation of a continuing and amusing series about the dirtiest jobs in IT. i laugh and cringe when i read these...
http://www.infoworld.com/t/information-technology-careers/dirty-it-jobs-partners-in-slime-005?page=0,0