Hello all. Now that I woke James up an hour before he needed to be up this Saturday morning, I had time to upload all the photos I have taken recently. We will work chronologically backwards because I have more to say about things that are current.
First, yesterday was amazing! I thought it was just going to be a free dinner courtesy of one of Hubii's students who backed out last minute on a conference. Her name is really Francine and I have no idea how you can misspell it the way they did. Dinner was alright. As I was licking the last bits of my cherry cheesecake I wondered how long and boring the the keynote speaker would be.
I was soo off. The speaker's name is Dr. Carol Browning, who is a CS/ Math professor at Drury University. Which is pretty cool by itself, but she also worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Labs from 1987-1995. And she had some awesome stories. She talked about how the failure of Galileo led to the ubiquitous presence of smart phone. Galileo failed to open completely because some spines of its web became tangled and the next mission, Cassini, had the mandate of no moving parts. They had to find a way to create memory without magnetic tapes. They started to work with state of the art technology called solid state memory and the rest is history, as reported by twitter.
She had a lot of great stories. But I thought I would share this adorable video made from images from the Cassini mission. Sorry I wasn't sure how to embed an online video in my blog.
Dr. Browning's speech was very interesting and I was quite satisfied with it but then they said 'WAIT! We have one more thing for you. And now I will embed a video for your viewing pleasure.
I apologize for the poor quality of my cheap mobile phone video and for my childish exclamations. It was just sooo cool. I know... I am a 12 year old.
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