Image of the Day…. Vanguard satellite…

One of the Vanguard satellites is checked out at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1958. Vanguard 1, the world’s first solar-powered satellite, launched on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) 1958. It was designed to test the launch capabilities of a three-stage launch vehicle and the effects of the environment on a satellite and its systems in Earth orbit. Vanguard 1 was the second U.S. satellite in orbit, following Explorer 1, and remains the oldest artificial object orbiting Earth to this day. Vanguard began as a program at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and transferred over to NASA (along with many of its personnel) after the agency was founded by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.

Image Credit: NASA 

SOURCE::::: http://www.nasa.gov

Natarajan

Image of the Day… Full Moon and Jupiter on 3 rd and 4th Feb 2015….

The moon and Jupiter on February 3 - over Atlantic Beach, Florida - posted to EarthSky Facebook by Eve Baker.

The moon and Jupiter on February 3 – over Atlantic Beach, Florida – posted to EarthSky Facebook by Eve Baker.

What a sight … the full moon coupled up with Jupiter on the night of February 3-4, 2015.

EarthSky Facebook friend Duke Marsh caught the February 3 moon and Jupiter from New Albany, Indiana.  Thanks, Duke.

EarthSky Facebook friend Duke Marsh caught the February 3 moon and Jupiter from New Albany, Indiana.

SOURCE:::: http://www.earthskynews.org

Natarajan

Joke of the Day… ” Get Out Of The Car …” !!!

Get Out Of The Car!

(This is supposedly a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida)

An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!” The four men didn’t wait for a second threat.

They got out and ran like mad. The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of theold womancar and got into the driver’s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee, and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.

A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake. The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn’t stop laughing. He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a car jacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun. No charges were filed.

Moral of the story? If you’re going to have a senior moment…make it memorable!  

Source::::: ba-ba mail.com

Natarajan