NASA/JPL has a vidoe describing this month's landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander cleverly edited in action movie trailer style, rather than boring press release. Also a 180 MB HD download of it.
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The Vatican just released a statement saying that they believe in aliens and it’s all part of “God’s creative freedom”. But what if their idea of an alien turns out to be wrong? Deadly wrong? muuuhaaahaaa
I’m wondering, though, what would happen if these aliens turn out to be lusty drunks who use birth control, have abortions, eat meat on Friday, and are hopelessly vain? Will the Vatican still be singing their praises? What if our…
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The WorldWide Telescope allows anyone to see stars and planets thousands of light-years away.
The inspiration for the WorldWide Telescope, and much of the early work, came from Jim Gray, a renowned computer scientist who disappeared last year while sailing alone off northern California. Mr. Gray had long been intrigued by the computing…
Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes.(+Download Link)
"I see the WorldWide Telescope as having an important educational mission," said Robert Kirshner, professor of astronomy at Harvard University. "[It] gives somebody a kind of freedom to follow their…
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As startups vow to beat the once stubborn agency back to the moon, officials and analysts say NASA has begun to shift its priorities?and cash?toward a dependence on the growing independent market for spacecraft.
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Recently we praised the latest sci-fi blockbuster Iron Man for including so many real-world technologies. It makes a change, since all too often Hollywood's use of science involves shocking blunders: including spaceships making whooshing noises in Star Wars to the journey to the center of the Earth in The Core. So, to give credit where it's due…
All scenes in outer space are silent ? sound does not travel in a vacuum The stars do not move past the ship ? for there to be a visible motion of the star field, the ship would have to be travelling at close to the speed of light The crew eat…
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Top 10 Arthur C.Clarke quotes. “If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run?and often in the short one?the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.”
“Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then…
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A virtual guided tour of an orbit around the Earth.
Southern Canada is covered with a myriad of small lakes. If the sun is overhead, you can see the sun glint off the lakes, rivers, and streams—briefly lighting them up as the reflection point moves across the surface of the Earth with…
The world’s first exhibition of ‘extinct and impossible’ smells is under way, from the metallic fallout of the first atomic bomb to the aroma of cloves and oranges from first aid kit of a medieval plague doctor.
The aromatic exhibition has drawn on the efforts of perfumers, chemists, botanists and a Nasa scientist. “What we have created here is a world first, a scientific flight of fancy made up of exotic and strange scents,” says Robert…
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Very nice shot of a shuttle launch. Be sure to check out the larger size.
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