BBC NEWS | Americas | Space station ma'am gets a whip
Space bondage is probably a good idea, given the difficulty having sex in zero gee. The Russians are thinking ahead giving this woman a whip!
Scientists to shut down space telescope - Yahoo! News
This story refers to FUSE, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, charged with important missions like determining the primordial Deuterium to Hydrogen ratio and hunting down the local baryons in high states of ionization. It did these jobs, and others, pretty well. I was a FUSE post-doctoral researcher for three years while I worked in Arizona with Richard Green and published several papers based on FUSE data. It's being shut down now because they can no longer point it due to gyroscopic failure. Really successful mission that lived beyond its design.
SPACE.com -- Cosmic Factories Produce Rubies and Sapphires
The actual quote I'm referring to is this:
"Quasars are like the Cookie Monster," said study team member Sarah Gallagher of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Sarah is a friend and collaborator, I'm going to have to give her some hell for this one. It's catchy, but I'm not sure it's quite the best comparison. Also, I think I was supposed to be on this project (I was a co-investigator listed on the Spitzer proposal, but haven't even seen a draft -- although this could be a different project).