Microsoft Worldwide Telescope, Look at the Stars on your PC!

I am a Astronomy junkie, have been since I was a kid who lived in Twain Harte, Ca who on summer nights would go to the “ROCK” at the Twain Harte lake with Andy Rake armed with a Telescope to see the moon and the stars. Twain Harte was in the Sierra’s and I lived there for 10 years of my young life. No City lights to obscure the heavens wonders.

I can’t do that up here near Chicago, to many city lights to see the nights arial display. Now I can do it from the comfort of my office..

On May 12′th Microsoft released the “Microsoft Worldwide Telescope” Project.

Shipmates “WOW” I mean “WOWW!”

Take a look, if you have kids and want to help them learn about the heavens above, check to see if your machine can run this. It is really slick.

Let us know what you think in our forums.

Enjoy!

Day 5 Gotcha!! Those Activation Rumors…

Greetings!

GOTCHA!! Well got quite a few of you. Yesterday I posted that I had received a message via courier that I had been re-activated to active duty. What most didn’t catch though was yesterdays date.

Last year I got folks thinking I had sold out to Google, made a huge fake press release and everything. I was getting congrats from several folks, even folks in the media because it had gotten out to Google news. (Too funny!).

Well this year, I wasn’t sure if I could top it, but I did.

8404 was frantically trying to find a way for me to get out of it, until he heard my podcast. He had forgotten that yesterday was “April 1st”.

It truly was a great prank, I thank all of you who helped the seed spread. Hell I even had phone calls from Corps School wondering what was going on! (Naval Hospital Corps School was my last command.).

So with that wondrous holiday over, Spring is here, plants are starting to sprout and it looks like old man winter is taking a much needed rest. He deserves it.

We are completing our categories.. I have suggested quite a few to Crazy, and he will be putting them in order tomorrow. We are also creating a “WTF” list, (Usually a FAQ, but since most of us are Vets.. we are calling it WTF?)

More tomorrow, we are almost there. I believe we are keeping the colors we have as we have only had 1 negative comment and the rest have been positive.

Drop us a email if you see any bugs..

admin1@corpsman.com We will hunt it down and squash it..

Gnight!