Squid embryos will rocket into space aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last flight, and the penultimate flight of the shuttle program.
Drowning Man Recap Meeting & JD’s Birthday Celebration Extravaganza
The Bacliff Exploration Society will convene at Perry’s Italian Grille on March 30, 2011 (11:30 am CDT).
Pants to Moose Head
The Bacliff Exploration Society is embarking on an epic experiment. The goal: to start with a pair of pants, and (by bartering, trading, and/or stealing) to end up with a moose head (or a narwhal tusk, or stuffed polar bear or penguin). Follow this grand adventure at: Pants to Moose Head.
Fortran Cross Product
In today’s lesson, we learn how to compute a vector cross product using Fortran.
function cross(a,b) result(axb)
implicit none
integer,parameter :: wp=selected_real_kind(15, 307) !double precision
real(wp),dimension(3) :: axb
real(wp),dimension(3),intent(in) :: a
real(wp),dimension(3),intent(in) :: b
axb(1) = a(2)*b(3) - a(3)*b(2)
axb(2) = a(3)*b(1) - a(1)*b(3)
axb(3) = a(1)*b(2) - a(2)*b(1)
end function cross
Australians Believe They Have Created Space Beer. Sure, Whatever.
Two Australian companies are claiming to have develop the very first beer that can be consumed safely in space. It is a well-known fact that most normal beers transmutate into deadly acid in zero-gravity. This important breakthrough is a giant leap for Australian kind.
Shrove Tuesday Planning Meeting and Free Pancake Brinner
The Bacliff Exploration Society will converge at IHOP in Webster, Texas on March 1, 2011 for free pancake brinner. This meeting will also serve as a planning meeting for Shrove Tuesday. The meeting will commence at 6:00 pm, and is sponsored by Johnny B’s Flying Flapjacks. Continue reading “Shrove Tuesday Planning Meeting and Free Pancake Brinner”
What Happened to Amelia Earhart?
The Earhart Project is testing the hypothesis that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan landed, and eventually died, on Gardner Island, now Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati. Now in its 23rd year, a major underwater search is planned for July 2012, the 75th anniversary of the flight.
Fajita Jamboree
The Bacliff Exploration Society Winter Solstice Fajita Jamboree was held on December 15, 2010 at Tierra Luna Grill in Houston, Texas. T. Campbell was presented with the Henry Hudson Award for discovering intelligent life in Alaska (i.e., a bear), and J. Eldridge was inducted into the elite corps of the Jr. Ham Radio Rangers.
Congratulations FASTRAC!
Congratulations to all the members of the FASTRAC team!
The FASTRAC (Formation Autonomy Spacecraft with Thrust, Relnav, Attitude and Crosslink) satellites are a pair of satellites built by students from the University of Texas at Austin that were launched on November 19 on a Minotaur 4 rocket from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska.
Steak Lunch Hootenanny
The Bacliff Exploration Society Steak Lunch Hootenanny will take place Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 at 11:30 am CST at Saltgrass Steakhouse in Houston Texas. Smoking jackets are encouraged, but not required.