So if you’re reading this blog, there’s is a fair chance you haven’t already bought a Mother’s Day present. I’m not hating –just making an educated guess about the internet crowd who knows that shopping online gives them more time to pick out something. Luckily I’ve come up with 4 fool proof gifts for the decreeing geek mom:

The start-up company, Planetary Resources (PR), has the ambitious plan to survey, both by orbital telescope and automated probe nearby asteroids and then harvest those asteroids for natural resources. The concept is nothing new, as it’s been a staple of sci-fi writers for years (Ben Bova’s Asteroid Wars series is a personal favorite).  But to see a real-world attempt is nothing short of grand.

There is an excellent little café not far from where I work where some coworkers/friends and I like to have lunch from time to time. A few weeks ago, as luck would have it, I bumped into a older gentlemen whom I used to work with while I was working on the Space Shuttle contract.

A Russian physicist has been getting a lot of press over a paper he wrote on why he was innocent of running a stop sign.  At first I thought “What a clever idea!,” — then I realized it wasn’t very clever at all… unless you count the con job he pulled on the judge.

Because sometimes you can’t help but laugh at your technologically inept family members!