@Justin Reich: There's a saying about dual engine planes: "The second engine is the one that takes you to the crash site."

@jace53: The only restrictions on photography was not to take flash photos of mission control because people were working there. NASA continues to periodically host tweet-ups at its centers (including Kennedy) and announces them on its webpage, on @NASA, and on @NASAtweetup. I definitely encourage people to try for a…

"NASA's current budget cuts obviously make it a bit difficult to focus heavy resources on public relations and social media, but reconnecting the people with the wonder of space, like this video does, should be more important than it currently is."

The Lifehacker article identifies some of the advantages of the app over the mobile web interface; for example, the app includes a specialized keyboard for mathematical input, native voice search, and geo-location awareness.

@Mattz: Cornflour isn't necessary to a non-Newtonian liquid; it's just integral to oobleck, which is a commonly used to demonstrate non-Newtonian fluids. Blood is also non-Newtonian, for example.

@her0_0f_time: Non-Newtonian liquids are still liquids. They just respond to shear differently than Newtonian ones. They may respond "like a solid", but they are still most definitely a liquid.

Google Wave got me through my PhD qualifiers. It was a great way for our group to share and store the massive amounts of information we were passing back and forth. I hope that Google provides some easy way for users to backup the data they currently have on Wave before it's shut down. Next year's class of grad…

@GitEmSteveDave: The chicken that broke up didn't look terribly frozen in that video. I would have expected it to shatter, not splatter, if that were the case.

@Kerensky97: It just seems kind of odd that I lived in Germany and studied German in college and never saw color footage before this.

I don't know that I've ever seen color footage of actual Nazi Germany before.

@WingedGenius: It takes more than 5 Gs to make a person pass out. But for the price, whatever it is, I'm sure they can give you some Scop-Dex and a pressure suit.

@minibeardeath: Fins like that are often found in wind tunnel diffusers. They create vortices in their wake that mix the fast-moving freestream with the air closer to the wall so that the flow doesn't separate.

@NagaJolokia: I think the other one is Flexo. It looks like he's got a goatee.