Science – Vorlon's Blog

5 Dec 2008

Network Security Breaches at NASA

Bruce Schneier points to an article at BusinessWeek about repeated attacks on the NASA networks and successful intrusions. The article also mentions a possible connection of the problem of ROSAT pointing too close to the sun in September 1998 to such attacks.

24 Apr 200825 Apr 2008

Ma(r)x Planck!?

Yesterday was the 150th birthday of Max Planck, one of the probably most famous physicists. But was his name really Max or was it actually Marx, as Spiegel Online reports. According to an old church book, it appears to be Marx, which is said to be common for the latin name Marcus. Let’s wait what even more experts say… and the Max Planck Society, which reportedly only heard about it by a phone call from Spiegel.

Personally I don’t consider this such a big issue, but a funny story 😉

UPDATE:
Searching the web for “marx planck” or even “marx-planck-institute” gives actually quite a few results from non-german sites/publications mentioning Max Planck institutes. That makes me actually wonder how new this ‘discovery’ even is or if it is just some kind of a typo or something on those sites.

UPDATE II:
The director of the archive of the Max Planck Society comments on the name question in a press release. Really no big issue here.

21 Dec 2007

2009 – The International Year of Astronomy

Earlier this week the UN has declared 2009 the “International Year of Astronomy”.

Information can be found at http://www.astronomy2009.org/

19 Oct 200726 Jun 2008

Elite

Es sieht so aus, als ob wir hier nun auch eine “Elite”-Universität in Göttingen haben….

Mal auf die offizielle Presseerklärung warten.

Update:

Eine gemeinsame Presseerklärung von DFG und Wissenschaftsrat ist nun veröffentlicht.

12 Jul 200725 Jul 2007

Tag der offenen Tür in der Physik

Heute gibt es in der Physik einen Tag der offenen Tür mit Vorträgen, Laborführungen und Sachen zum Mitmachen. Natürlich kann man sich bei der Gelegenheit z.B. auch die Beschleunigerhalle, das Teleskop und die historische Sammlung ansehen.

Also heute von 16 – 22 Uhr in der Fakultät für Physik am Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 (Nordbereich der Uni). Genaueres zum Programm gibt es hier auf der Fakultätshomepage.