Amazing Video: Felix Baumgartner’s Free Fall from Space
Via GoPro (this is the sort of thing GoPro was made for!). “Sometimes you have to go up really high […]
Innovation, Space
Space
Space, Uncategorized
Jupiter Layer Cake (Yum)
Jupiter layer cake via Cory at boing boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/07/29/jupiter-layer-cake.html#more-246280. More cake at http://cakecrumbs.me/2013/07/24/jupiter-structural-layer-cake/
Productivity, Space, Sustainability, Technology
“We’re headed for a disaster of biblical proportions!”
Jeremy Grantham has been doing the math, and is convinced that world resources are way insufficient to support the current
Space
The little engine that could, space age version
This is cool – a little engine with attitude has a near-space experience. Watch the facial expressions (I hear they
Science, Space
Mars is boring
Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally jazzed about interplanetary exploration, have been for decades. But could we have picked a
Science, Space
Martians flee after seven minutes of terror!
Your humble blogger burned the literal midnight oil to watch Curiosity’s landing on the surface of Mars, which actually meant watching the NASA team as the landing progressed, via NASA TV. No real evidence of the “terror” on their faces, they actually seemed confident and professional.
Space
Spectacular time lapse from the International Space Station
Knate Myers has created a time-lapse from cleaned-up video shot from the International Space Station. I’d love to see the
Space
SpaceX: a new era, a few years late?
The launch of the SpaceX Dragon is a major step toward the privatization of space travel, which according to Messrs.
Science, Space
Multiverses, dark matter, infinity: Occupy Reality
The idea that there’s a set of consistent first principles behind the existence and operations of the universe is undermined
Space
Voyager changed our understanding of the solar system
The Voyager program’s data transmissions, including images of the most distant planets in the solar system and data about galaxies
Science, Space
Detail Moon
NASA’s created a topographic view of the moon. Sez Mark Robinson, Principal Investigator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC)
4th Way, Science, Space
Tracks on the Moon
Nasa’s lunar reconnaissance orbiter caught a nice shot of the Apollo landing site, including tracks left by astronauts in 1969-72.