NASA’s mission statement cropped (and vision flawed), UK heatwave…

• 1 – Guardian Unlimited | Science | Fight for Stonehenge takes to the air
  “Hot-air balloonists will highlight danger of traffic-choked roads and call for tunnel beneath monument.” I love the ‘Henge, but despite that whole Israel thing it seems to be a ’slow news day’. Meh.
  (tags: preservation landscape history monument tunnel roads UK pollution traffic Stonehenge)
• 2 – Smoking reduces alcohol’s effects, likely encouraging more drinking
  Damn it, I don’t need excuses and justifications like this right now!
  (tags: increase dose reduction effect alcohol tobacco drinking smoking medicine health)
• 3 – The Eagle has broken; first men on Moon used pen to fix lander
  Turns out the Apollo 11 mission was a lot more risky and fault laden than the media may have let on at the time. Gee, d’you think?
  (tags: hacking repair fix bodge Aldrin Armstrong 11 Apollo mission Moon Lunar space astronaut)
• 4 – WindFire Cursor-Kite
  Ever fancied a kite that looks just like a mouse cursor hanging in the sky? Now you can own one. Link via BoingBoing.
  (tags: airborne technology weird illusion creativity art geek design kite cursor)
• 5 – To Understand and Protect Our Home Planet
  This is the phrase dropped from NASA’s mission statement. It’s also the phrase that we should clutch to our hearts and fight for.
  (tags: learning knowledge science exploration NASA statement mission futurism race human Earth space)
• 6 – UK Record Heatwave And Rising Pollution Observed By Eyes In The Sky
  Just in case we hadn’t realised, it’s unusually hot over here in the UK. Hockey stick? What hockey stick?
  (tags: atmosphere pollution breaking record temperature science ecology warming global environment change climate heatwave UK)
• 7 – NASA Vision Plans Doomed, Space Advocacy Group Reports
  Sounds like a bit of an overstatement by the headline, but they may have a point.
  (tags: futurism politics expansion technology implementation enterprise private exploration vision NASA space)