Judging from the sounds the squirrel was making at me

It blamed me for startling it and making it topple off the fence it was running along.

Did I mention I accidentally chased a squirrel for over a block a couple of weeks ago? At one point it got away from me by running up a set of stairs on the side of the Valhalla but then it ran down the other set of stairs, which put it back in front of me.

Have I pointed this out before?

Rosemary Kirstein's blog.

Your recommended dose of ReformaTory-battering

Emily Lakdawalla's "What's up in the solar system in April 2012"

So, what highlights do we have to look forward to in April 2012? The Cassini Saturn orbiter is in the middle of a busy stretch of several orbits that take it close by Saturn's icy moons, offering lots of opportunities for great images, which get posted (as always) to JPL's Cassini Raw Images website almost as soon as they arrive on Earth. It's Mars' southern winter solstice today, so Opportunity's power levels are beginning to pick up again. Ebb and Flow are in the full swing of science operations at the Moon, and will be streaming thousands of MoonKAM photos to Earth over the coming months. And MESSENGER will shortly start lowering its orbit at Mercury.

I wonder if this is going to be another Nellerphone?

Of course it is on youtube.

Interesting attitude regarding orbital overflights....

Apparently the subject line I was going to use is offensive so I will go with "halfway to anywhere"

Suppose it's the future and further suppose that space tourism actually takes off enough that there are excursions to the Moon akin to what we see in Antarctica. Although probably not the 37,000 people a year you see headed to Antarctica because going to the Moon is going to a crapton more expensive.

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