Middle school students in Indiana and Australia
Middle school students in Indiana and Australia are building edible moon rovers, with the idea that if you’re going to ship a car to the moon or Mars, why not have it be edible when you get there?
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A relativistic examination of gravity in the
A relativistic examination of gravity in the galaxy may indicate that the invention of dark matter may not be necessary to solve the not-enough-matter problem. “The motions of stars in galaxies is realized in general relativity’s equations without the need to invoke massive halos of exotic ‘dark matter’ that nobody can explain by current physics.”
Update: mjt has doubts about the paper referenced here and notes that there’s other evidence for dark matter that is not questioned by the above study.
Google and NASA have announced plans to
Google and NASA have announced plans to collaborate on projects like “large-scale data management, massively distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and encouragement of the entrepreneurial space industry”. In 6 months, Yahoo will announce a collaboration with the Russian Space Agency to launch original content into space. Microsoft will announce in a year that they’ve had space travel capabilities built into Office for years now but no one uses it…in two years time, they’ll completely reorg around manned missions to Mars.
Is PowerPoint responsible for the woes of
Is PowerPoint responsible for the woes of the Space Shuttle? Well, no, but it’s not helping any. “The deeper problem with the PowerPointing of America — the PowerPointing of the planet, actually — is that the program tends to flatten the most complex, subtle, even beautiful, ideas into tedious, bullet-pointed bureaucratese.”
Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely, thank goodness.
Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely, thank goodness.
Fantastic must-read article slamming NASA with regard
Fantastic must-read article slamming NASA with regard to the Space Shuttle program. I’ve been following Maciej’s del.icio.us links about the Shuttle for weeks now and was wondering if he’d get around to writing it up. Worth the wait.
Google Moon: explore the Apollo landing sites
Google Moon: explore the Apollo landing sites in the Google Maps interface.
Space Shuttle launch scrubbed because of faulty fuel sensor
Space Shuttle launch scrubbed because of faulty fuel sensor.
The Space Shuttle is set to return to space today
The Space Shuttle is set to return to space today. Looks like you can watch a live video stream of the launch onthe web.
Explanation of NASA’s launch countdown
Explanation of NASA’s launch countdown. T-20 minutes doesn’t necessarily mean there’s 20 minutes until launch.
NASA Commission says Space Shuttle still not
NASA Commission says Space Shuttle still not safe enough for flight.
Gaia telescope will map the Milky Way with 1.5 gigapixel camera
Gaia telescope will map the Milky Way with 1.5 gigapixel camera.
After being grounded for more than two
After being grounded for more than two years, the Space Shuttle is set to launch next month.
We’re still finding lots of new moons
We’re still finding lots of new moons around the planets in our solar systems. Twelve new ones were just discovered around Saturn and Jupiter now has 63.
Cassini spacecraft finds complex hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of Titan
Cassini spacecraft finds complex hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of Titan.
Is the Hubble Space Telescope ready to come down?
Is the Hubble Space Telescope ready to come down?.
Pioneer Space Plaque Redesign by Edward Tufte
Edward Tufte, well known amongst information & Web designers for his trilogy of ID bibles, puts a bit of magic into the possibility of Earth’s first contact with aliens:
Since the principles of physics hold everywhere, magic is conceivably a cosmological entertainment, with the wonder induced by theatrical illusions appreciated by all, regardless of planetary system. Accordingly the plaque aboard the Pioneer spacecraft for extraterrestrial scrutiny billions of years from now might have escaped from its conspicuously anthropocentric gestures by showing instead the universally familiar Amazing Levitation Trick.
Who says information designers don’t have a sense of humor?
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