By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

You’re probably familiar with seeing images of the Earth from space that seem two-dimensional with respect to how flat the earth’s surface appears. I thought that this photo was unique when I viewed it, because it’s possible to actually see the height of the Earth’s atmosphere from an angle. This image was taken from Discovery during the STS-96 mission in 1999. Click here for the high-resolution, full size version.

By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Jake writes in his Third Rail blog that the best day and time to post to your blog and be noticed is Thursday at Noon PST. More generally, Tues - Friday between 10am - 2pm PST are the “hot times” for popular blog posts. Read more about the methods that he used to draw these conclusions in his blog here.

By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Conspiracy theorists often accuse NASA, the US Air Force and sometimes even the President himself of actively obfuscating evidence relating to UFO or extraterrestrial visits to planet Earth. Well, here’s a case where NASA has done a good job, in my opinion, disproving a specific UFO claim that was associated with the Apollo 16 mission. In this case, the purported UFO in question turned out to be the EVA floodlight/boom used for spacewalks. See the related NASA page here for detailed images, diagram and explanation.

By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Can Google search result counts be an indicator of what interests people in this world? Just went to Google’s home page, searched the following terms, and received the following search result counts:

google — about 2,170,000,000 results
microsoft — about 738,000,000 results
sex — about 713,000,000 results
god — about 485,000,000 results
jesus — about 181, 000, 000 results
celebrity — about 171,000,000 results
britney — about 133,000,000results
clinton — about 128,000,000 results
islam — about 123,000,000 results
obama — about 85,300,000 results
christianity — about 51,400,000 results
mccain — about 41,200,000 results
buddha — about 28,400,000 results
muhammad — about 25,200,000 results
mormon — about 12,100,000 results
scientology — about 10,800,000 results

By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Here are some great photos of Bill Clinton.

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