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Miles O'Brien was a featured speaker at today's NASA Tweetup for STS-129.  After a terrific speech (watch it here via UStream)about how the internet has changed journalism, he was kind enough to share his thoughts with me on how the quality of information delivered via social channels can be superior to that found in traditional media.  Listen carefully because I think Miles coined a new term that should resonate in social circles...the "editorial commons." 

Astronaut Mike Massimino on the stage now...he's the first person to Tweet from space.  "That's one 140 character message for man, one giant leap for social kind."  Sorry.  Way to cheesy.  But how can you not revert to being 10 years old at something like this?  Check out the famous video of Mike fixing the Hubble, and then later on Craig Ferguson.

 "On this day, before the eyes of an enormous gathering two men rose into the air...Two hundred thousand men, lifting their hands in wonder, admiring, glad, astonished; some in tears for fear the intrepid physicists should come to harm, some on their knees overcome with emotion, but all following the aeronauts in spirit...What with the novelty, the dignity of the experiment, the unclouded sky, welcoming as it were the travelers to his own element, the attitude of the two men sailing into the b

Off to a good start with Jon Cowart, the Arez I-X deputy mission manager on the ecology of Cape Canaveral.

On a related note...Right around 1960, Jay Barbree of NBC, the only reporter
to cover every spaceflight from Sputnik onward, found the Cape Canaveral of 1960 a place
where "bear-shared the natural habitat with alligator and deer, and
Indians buried their dead on sacred mounds."

Hey tweeps - How did YOU get ready for #nasatweetup?  This is was NASA was working on...

Driving down FL-528 tonight, I was looking down the long and creepy highway when I noticed some lights ahead.  It took an embarassingly long length of time to realize that they were stars.  You see, around New York City, you rarely see stars. And when you do, it's just one or two; not a field across the sky. 

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has a lot of people thinking existentially, and their insights illuminate some interesting aspects of how we think about the past and future.