Tag Archives: space


Mar 10

Phi, Lambda and (Slightly Embarassing) Temporality

Longitude and latitude have been formally used as a geographic coordinate system offset from the Greenwich Meridian since the International Meridian Conference of 1884 in Washington D.C. As a spatial coordinate system, longitude (abbreviated as φ, or phi) and latitude ( λ, … Continue reading

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Sep 09

Got a Spare Apollo 11 Moon Lander at Home?

Is it lying in your shed or garage, unloved, a bit rusty and in need of some care and attention? You’d love to get it going again but lost the original maintenance manual? Maybe this Haynes manual, spotted this morning … Continue reading

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Jul 09

Deliciousness: data, licensing, WordPress autosaves, cheese in space and lots of Nutella

More intriguing, interesting and just plain bonkers stuff from the information hose pipe we call the internet: Starting off with a serious note, Ed Parsons, my opposite number at Google, wrote a great blog post on the knots that data … Continue reading

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