Astronomy bleh

I took my 15" dob to Berzerker, so of course it was overcast the whole weekend.
And while I can't complain too much about a summer where it never got truly uncomfortably warm, August through October is typically a great time to get the scope out as the nights get longer and the bugs get less numerous. But Clear Sky Clock continues to read lousy transparency and seeing, even on days when it's not totally clouded out. I haven't had the scope out more than once in the last year, and it's kind of a shame to leave a nice instrument like that gathering dust.

Maybe I need to switch to asteroids instead of galaxies; been thinking about that anyway. Asteroids I could see through bad seeing.

Whoa, awesome news

"Wearable kidney" being developed to replace dialysis machine. Or rather, a 10 pound dialysis machine that a patient can wear around all the time.

Apparently has already passed a couple of trials.

Of course, growing new kidneys for people would be best, but this is way up the "good things" list.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820175853.htm