Last Night Shuttle Launch Makes for Beautiful Astronomy Picture of the Day

by Susana Polo | 2:30 pm, February 13th, 2010

It safe to say that a lot of the people here are geeks. So, you may have already seen today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. If you haven’t, it’s quite pretty.

Waterway to Orbit was made by taking a two minute exposure of Monday’s shuttle launch from Ponte Verde, Florida, more than one hundred miles north of Kennedy Space Center. It was the last planned night-time launch for NASA’s space shuttle program.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Waterway to Orbit

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cool, wat shuttle?

A Beginner's Guide to Diablo III's Lore

Twelve years later, the third installment in the famous hack-and-slash franchise has finally released. Though the franchise is largely known for an inordinate amount of hacking and slashing, there's actually quite a bit of complex lore backing it up. Luckily for you, we have it summed up right here. Take a gander.

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Eric Limer Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
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Max Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
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Eric Limer "That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
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Max "lily_tomlin_explosion.gif"
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Eric Limer André 300 http://t.co/4HX40AEk
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Max Lowest rating for the Antz soundtrack on http://t.co/l4iFAqyD is three stars and is titled "It did not meet all of my criteria."
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Eric Limer Spotify is great for listening to soundtracks of games with licensed music. There's playlists for everything. Now playing: Guitar Hero 2.
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James Plafke I think the next Bond movie, Skyfall, should be 2 hours of Bond falling through the sky, doing action and spy movie things.
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Eric Limer I swear Xbox Live is never not offering me 2 months of gold for $2. At that price, I kind of don't even mind the dirty, auto-renew trick.
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Rollin Bishop Easily the strangest thing I've seen this weekend. http://t.co/AW7UGSQJ
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Max Pull up a loose tile in fifth avenue, discover a secret world populated by dogs that walk on hind legs and wear little waist coats.
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Max Legally changing my name to The Beachbummer
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James Plafke Just got home from a friend's, and now I'm eating Kix and reading about underwater phenomena on Wikipedia. #Saturday
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Eric Limer It's really a shame that writers spend so much of their time writing, which is -- coincidentally -- a very boring thing to write about.
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Eric Limer "Oh my god! That joke was so funny! I'm gonna pee your pants!"
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Max How to do a Thor voice: It's like a Kennedy trying to do Shakespeare, but less Bostony.
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Max I really sandals.
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Max Despite having an invitation from Cuba, I will be unable to attend "Battleship" in LA tonight.
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Eric Limer Cure for boredom: Start enough pet projects that you're procrastinating literally all the time. Suddenly, everything is fascinating!
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Max (exasperated horse noise)
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