Did they design it in Minecraft?

Eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the multipurpose amphibious assault ship took the rest, September the 26th, 2010. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

You don't need much magnification for the Lagoon Nebula. Its a gigantic thing in the sky, actually covers 3x the size of the full moon viewed from Earth. Even a small 80mm amateur retractor gets good photos: [www.flickr.com]

@JakeMG: Waxing Pedantic: Here's a photo of Jupiter I took through my telescope Monday night, simply holding my camera up to the eyepiece.

@SKiTz: I suppose I'm in that segment. What I really want would be an iPod Touch or Dell Streak with a iPad-style data-only plan. So far, this Peek 9 abomination is as close to that as I've seen.

@OA 5599: Came to post the same thing. I wonder why GM, and more importantly Car & Driver, fail to see the irony. Plastic = Oil!

@Eddard: The technology is here (just slap a 3G chip into an iPod Touch, or remove the phone part from a Dell Streak), its the bureaucracy of the telcos who stifle the handset manufacturers because they don't want a portable device to cannibalize their highly profitable voice+data plans.

@hahn: You, good sir, are a gentleman and a scholar!

@Eddard: This. Even now I barely use voice, and rarely, if ever, text. The thing I'm most happy about is the price of the monthly plan, which would be 2-3x more if data were involved.

@triggerx: They've been around for the better part of 2 years, and have been featured on Lifehacker multiple times: [lifehacker.com]

@cobrajoe: I remember seeing some Discovery Channel show on crash-tests, and modern guardrail testing was one of the segments. They had a test of the old design, where the rail just skewers a car like above. Before the ribbon-type rails, the original solution was to turn-down the ends, but that tended to make for a…

@triggerx: See: Grooveshark.com

@hahn: True, this one-time event probably (hopefully) didn't have a lasting impact on the bird population, but it serves as a plain, obvious example of how irresponsible lighting (light pollution) negatively affects wildlife.

@Ganconer: Here's some actual data instead of your presumptions: "Lighted towers and tall buildings can confuse migrating and local birds, leading to collisions with other birds, structures or windows, or circling the lights until they die of exhaustion. Artificial lighting has attracted birds to smokestacks,…

@OMG! TangoTL!: The light pollution map is based on this NASA satellite image. The NASA image depicts the source location of light, but does not take into account the diffraction of light into the atmosphere, topographical influences, etc. Info on how the light pollution map was made: [www.lightpollution.it]

@OMG! TangoTL!: Actually, light pollution from cities big and small have far-reaching impact on sky quality. Really, anywhere on the eastern half on the US and you're screwed. On this map (which is using 10 year old light pollution data, so its probably worse now) go anywhere there is black.

@ilikeili: For the deep space images and planetary imaging, "stacking" is usually the method used by both amateur and professional astronomers. Instead of leaving the shutter open for a long time, take many (sometime hundreds) shorter images over many hours. Then, using special software, stack all the images on top of…

@Kerc 2.0 beta: Agreed. I think the H&M in the mall wants their in-store music back from this video.

We also get our pew-pew-pew on at Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii. [www.flickr.com]

What happened to this?