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[wispfox]

Phoenix high school students enter a submarine robotics competition, link from mactavish

3-D Starmap, link from woodwardiocom

[edit: OK, that first one was possibly the worst summary of a link I have ever used. Just go read it!]

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More proof it's not the school, it's people believing in themselves

[starphire.livejournal.com]

The story about the students from West Phoenix was the most inspiring thing I've read this year. I almost cried. I hope it inspires a whole bunch of new teams to enter next year's competition.
But then, I'm a sucker for stories where the underdogs win.

Re: More proof it's not the school, it's people believing in themselves

[pockingell.livejournal.com]

Ditto that.

I predict we'll see a godawful Hollywood version within ten years. But I'll watch it anyway.

[fourgates.livejournal.com]

3-D Starmap
I saw something like this somewhere (I think it was Deutches Museum (http://www.deutsches-museum.de)) that was similar in concept but denser with map points. The increased density showed more clearly that the (very large) area occuluded by the (very large, but smaller) visible objects is actually cone-shaped -- something that hadn't occurred to me before.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing something like the starmap, but it was on the microscale rather than macro... Chemical structures of proteins, viruses, such as caffeine.