the-star-stuff:

Neil deGrasse Tyson is behind the only major technical change in theTitanic re-release

It took James Cameron 60 weeks to prepare Titanic for its rerelease, but apart from remastering the original at 4k resolution and converting it to stereoscopic 3D, nothing about the movie has really changed.

Well, almost nothing.

According to Cameron: “Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year [April 15, at 4:20 am], in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen.”

“And with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in. So I said ‘All right, send me the right stars for that exact time and I’ll put it in the movie.’”

So Tyson did just that, and Cameron re-shot the scene. According to the Telegraph , it is the only major technical change in the film’s re-release.

unknownskywalker:

Same Crew, New Ride

This is a printable version of NASA’s “Same Crew, New Ride” poster depicting an artist’s conception of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The poster features a NASA astronaut in the foreground with a vehicle launching toward the International Space Station in the background.

CCP is investing in the aerospace industry and helping multiple companies design and develop crew transportation systems that could be capable of flying to the space station and other low Earth orbit destinations. The program is meant to accelerate a United States-led capability to the station where critical scientific work is being performed for use in applications here on Earth.

CCP is expected to drive down the cost of space travel as well as open up space to more people than ever before by balancing industry’s own innovative capabilities with NASA’s 50 years of human spaceflight experience.

Well, there’s your problem right there..

Investigating an email problem that caused a user to not receive new mail. This is what I found after realizing all mail was in the deleted folder.

OOps.. I love problems that have easy solutions like this.

Rules can be super helpful when executed properly, in this case it was probably an honest attempt at efficiency but a simple mistake botched the whole process.

A buddy found this at work yesterday..

(Source: bewarethefalsemotivesofothers)

We are made of star stuff.

This is exactly how I feel right now. For some reason it hurts.

(Source: neverlookbackmore)

A friend of mine was given two of these and let me have one of them. I cant wait to get it cleaned up and start printing!

It’s and Epson Stylus Pro 7600 wide-format printer!

Thanks for finding this Danielle!