Wired profiles Trevor Paglen, a photographer who snapped 189 secret spy satellites. “Paglen uses spy-satellite data compiled by Ted Molczan — a renowned amateur astronomer profiled by Wired magazine in 2006 — to predict where a given ‘black satellite’ will be in the sky. Then he decides how he wants to compose the image.” Other subjects he’s captured: “various military sites in the Nevada deserts, ‘torture taxis’ (private planes that whisk people off to secret prisons without judicial oversight) and uniform patches from various top-secret military programs”
So…big news. I’m getting married. Well, I’m not sure yet to whom. But I know when: 2011. That’s when SpaceWedding rockets brides and grooms 62 miles up to space. Now, if any potential suitors happen to have $2.2 million lying around, I’ll print out the invites. (via.)
“Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space…The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article ‘Aliens Are My Brother’.” – BBC
From Wired Science, a comment on an article (pdf) arguing for lunar property rights by Dave Wasser and Douglas Jobes of the Space Settlement Institute, explaining “Nations could recognize land ownership claims made by private space settlements without being guilty of national appropriation or any other violation of the [The Outer Space Treaty of 1967.]“
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