Here it is…. after a long delay (sorry Martin), my e-interview with Martin Bower.  Check out his website for loads of cool photos and information about the many shows and movies he has worked on.  http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/

E-interview Questions: 

We would certainly LOVE to put up the Cloverfield monster, but sadly we cannot find an image.

If there is anyone out there who with the connections to get an image to us, please send us a note!

Sorry for such a gap in the blogging (I’ve been busy with my new job). Here’s the good news, I’m finally creating a new database for all these images. That means that the site will be searchable! …so if you only want to see ships/aliens from a certain show/movie/game/book; you’ll be able to.

 Happy New Year!

Astronomy Day - Saturday - April 21st, 2007  Don’t forget to look up tonight and think about were we might travel to in the future and appreciate the beauty and mystery of the universe.

Welcome home Charles Simonyi and thank you for pushing limits, you are a pioneer, sir.

Today is the forty sixth anniversary of the first man ever to orbit the Earth, mankind’s first foray into space. Yuri Gagarin was a twenty seven year old Soviet cosmonaut when he traveled into space aboard Vostock 1. Yuri’s flight lasted one hour and forty eight minutes and he retuned to Earth safely. One year after the historical flight Cosmonautics Day was established to celebrate this momentous feat.

I’m not sure if there have been any celebrations in Russia this year. I hope so. If anyone has any news about celebrations this year, send me the link. In the mean time let us all take a moment to think about that wonderful day and all of our accomplishments since and where we’ll be in the future.

Today is the Vernal Equinox (in N.A.); otherwise known as the first day of spring.

Twice a year the length of the day and the night are equal (exactly twelve hours each), these days are the equinoxes. The spring equinox signals the start of longer days until the longest day, which is known as Summer Solstice. Then the days become shorter until the fall equinox (where the the night and day are of equal length again) and continue to shrink until the shortest day, which is Winter Solstice.

Or, if you are in the southern hemisphere you experience the season opposite of the northern hemisphere and today you celebrate the Autumnal Equinox.

Here is a fun little Equinox quiz to celebrate today.

See, I knew computer games were good for me! Thank you to Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, for showing that playing action video games improves the spatial resolution of people’s vision. Not only does this study help justify playing computer games, but there may also be a therapeutic application. People who have vision problems such as “lazy-eye” or even those suffering the ravages of time can improve their vision by playing Quake 4!

The European Space Agency announced that Paolo Nespoli (from Italy) will be a Mission Specialist for the STS-120 mission to the International Space Station. One of the main goals of this twenty third mission to the shuttle is the delivery of the Italian built Node 2, a connecting module, which is an important piece as it will allow two new laboratories to be added to the station.

Remember less than one hundred years ago this was science fiction.

We’ll need a new image of the ISS! (see the 1x page)

Never before have geologists been able to so precisely determine the date of geological processes that a rock experiences as time passes. A new device uses a mineral called monazite, which acts as a petrologic black box to determine when a rock was exposed to events such as: extreme heat, the pressure of a glacier, or an impact with another rock. The task of utilizing the properties to monazite fell to the University of Massachusetts and a French analytical instrumentation company. Together, they created a machine called ‘Ultrachron’! Sadly, I do not think that Ultrachron transforms, but read more about it anyway.