Mein Großvater ist Der Buchstabenentschlüssler.
Ich habe in der Grundschule die Sütterlinschrift gelernt. (Natürlich nicht als erste Schrift, das war die lateinische Ausgangsschrift.) Im Mathematikstudium hatte ich dann einen Professor, der Vektoren mit deutschen Schreibschriftbuchstaben (statt lateinischer Kleinbuchstaben mit Vektorpfeil darüber) zu bezeichnen pflegte. Es gab wohl nur sehr wenige Studenten, die diese Hieroglyphen bereits kannten.
After Universe Today finished their series 13 Things That Saved Apollo 13 (see my posting from April 25th) they’ve added three pages with questions from readers, answered by NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill.
It’s been 24 years since the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl exploded. Garret linked to an article on Wired: This day in Tech – April 26, 1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Suffers Cataclysmic Meltdown.
I wrote about it four years ago.
Forty years after the Apollo 13 mission, Universe Today takes a look at the missions, the accident and how the astronauts got back to earth safely: 13 Things That Saved Apollo 13 (Link via MetaFilter: Surviving a Space Scrape 40 years Ago.)
So far, nine of the 13 parts have been posted. (I’m going to add the other links as the pages become available.)
Gene Kranz was the flight director for NASA‘s Gemini and Apollo Missions. Here’s a Discovery Channel Video of Kranz talking about his experiences with the Apollo 13 mission. I’m reading Kranz’s book Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond right now and enjoy it immensely.
Yesterday Miep Gies died. She would have turned 101 years old next month. Gies was the last surviving member of the group that helped Anne Frank, her family and the other four onderduikers.
I visited the Anne Frank huis in Amsterdam on May 17, 2000. The concentration camp in which Anne and Margot Frank died in March 1945, is quite close to André’s parents place; we visited Bergen-Belsen in December 2007 and passed it on our bike trip last summer. Today, none of the original buildings of the concentration camps remain, but the train station is still there, and a white line along the side of the road marks where the prisoners were forced to to walk from the train to the concentration camp.
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