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March 23rd, 2010
The RMS Queen Mary 2 is to date the largest ocean liner ever built (but no longer the world’s largest passenger ship, a record she held until 2006).She arrived in Durban harbour this morning around 07h30 SAT to much fanfare and local excitement, these photographs are from colleagues who watched the arrival from the harbour area (she was also easily visible from the Derivco building).
RMS Queen Mary II’s current status (added bonus – a webcam on the bridge, even if it’s low quality)
Twitter coverage from @MarcForrest and @tequiladiva
Also see Marc Forrest’s Flickr set.
February 23rd, 2010
South Africa’s second satellite – Sumbandila (“lead the way” in Tshivenda) – has produced its first official images from orbit (see left).
Launched on 17th September 2009 from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket, Sumbandila is a small 81kg low orbit (500 km) solar-powered satellite with a Butane propulsion system successfully fired in January. It carries a 6 spectral band imager (6,25 m × 6,25 m resolution) for ground photography and video (agriculture, mapping of infrastructure and land use, population measurement and the monitoring of dam levels etc), as well as an amateur radio transponder (SA-AMSAT) among other experiments.
See the Sumbandila mission blog for details, as well as the Wikipedia article – there is also a Facebook group.
A video taken of Earth from orbit (13th October 2009, moving over Namibia).
January 29th, 2010
From Ionian Enchantment – the latest version of the African science and skepticism blog-roll, or a list of “those dedicated to science and reason on the African continent”. I am proud to be included. Definitely something thought-provoking for everyone – and quite a few reasons to get vocal and involved, no matter what your viewpoint is on science, pseudo-science, skepticism, religion, homeopathy, maths, vaccines, general woo-woo etc.
The latest Carnival of Africans – the Phoenix Edition – is well worth a read.
- 01 and the universe
- Acinonyx Scepticus
- Amanuensis
- Ambient Normality
- ASSAf Blog
- Botswana Skeptic
- Bomoko and other nonsense words
- Communicating Science, the African Way **new**
- Defollyant’s AntiBlog
- Effortless Incitement
- Ewan’s Corner
- Geekery
- Grumpy Old Man
- Hello Universe, This is Nessie
- Ionian Enchantment
- Limbic Nutrition
- Lenny Says
- McBrolloks **new**
- Nathan Bond’s TART Remarks
- Orion Spur
- Other Things Amanzi
- Pickled Bushman
- Psychohistorian
- Reason Check
- Retroid Raving
- Scorched
- Shadows Hide
- Stop Danie Krügel
- Subtle Shift in Emphasis
- Synapses
- Tauriq Moosa
- The Science Of Sport
- The Skeptic Black Sheep
- The Skeptic Detective
- Turn 2 Reason
- Word of the Blog
January 22nd, 2010
Kulula‘s paint work for their new Boeing 737-86N (January 2010).
Another image – a great closeup of the detail on the left tail section.
Not your average boring airline.
All images matching a search for Kulula on jetphotos.net.
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