Space: Rational Discussions About Nuking Asteroids Headed For Earth...
The going theory about smashing a nuclear missile onto an on-coming asteroid is that the big BOOM wouldn’t be enough, at least according to Billy Bob Thornton in Armageddon. Researchers are now...
View ArticleScience: India Plans Their First Trip To Mars
Just because the United States is broke, creatively and economically, doesn't mean the rest of the world will stop looking at the stars. On March 16, India took a big step toward a Mars orbiter...
View ArticleFuturism: NASA Women Mentor Girls in Science, Math, Tech [@cijithegeek]
Over a decade ago, Mattel introduced Teen Talk Barbie, a Barbie that uttered 4 of 270 sentences. One of her catch-phrases was "Math class is tough." After criticism from the American Association of...
View ArticleScience: NASA and Space X Make A Date To Meet The Future This Weekend
In hard economic times, prospects of exploration and space travel seem not just illogical but impossible. For almost everybody … An exact date has bounced around for the last couple of weeks, and NASA...
View ArticleNasa and Astronaut Safety: How Much is a Life Worth?
HeatherN wonders whether NASA is holding itself back by putting too much emphasis on astronaut safety. According to this interview with Dr. Robert Zubrin, NASA is putting too much importance on...
View ArticleThe Future Is Ours: Video
If I’m part of the mechanism that lights a spark for just one person to effect change, it’s worth it. My good friend of almost 10 years, Michael Marantz, just made this video. The Future is Ours from...
View ArticleWhen Black Holes Get Hungry They Reach for the Stars
Proving exactly why they matter, NASA released a new video, showing exactly what happens when a black hole eats a star. Wait, what? Forget Unicron and Galactus, this is on a whole other level! As a...
View ArticleFuturism: The First Space Mining Company Is Set To Secure The Stars
– The commercialization of space has begun in earnest, as a group of billionaires has settled on a revolutionary way to jump start both the global economy and our race’s stumbling steps towards the...
View ArticleI’m Stark Orbited: Deal With It
[Warning: mildly NSFW picture follows at the bottom of this article.] I watched with nerdy elation Sunday night as NASA successfully landed the Curiosity rover on Mars. The landing sequence was so...
View ArticleWhat If We Celebrated Science Like the Olympics?
What NASA does every day is like a perfect balance beam act, performed every day, in space. Why don’t we celebrate these feats with the enthusiasm we reserve for Olympic athletes? If we celebrated...
View ArticleLearning From Mars
What does landing a rover on Mars have to do with business? Everything, says Ken Goldstein. This article was originally published at Corporate Intelligence Radio. If you went to elementary school...
View ArticleOk Sandy, Let’s Do This
One guy prepares for Frankenstorm. Tom Love, Massachusetts, Rumblestribaudio – Sandy on her way to the above household, courtesy NASA:
View ArticleOpen Thread: Is the World Going to End on 12/21/2012?
Is it really the end? The Huffington Post ran an article recently in their politics section addressing the question of whether or not the world is going to end on December, 21, 2012. They state:...
View ArticleHas the Time Come for Private Space Exploration?
More corporations are starting to get into space exploration. How does this emerging market work? 20th century science fiction had a problem; its authors loved writing free-market fantasias where...
View ArticleVideo: Take a Tour of the International Space Station
Do you know how astronauts sleep? Find out from the Commander. I had no idea how astronauts sleep until I watched this video of a tour through the International Space Station lead by Commander Sunita...
View ArticleMeteor Explodes in Sky Over Russia Injuring Hundreds (Video)
Scores of Russian’s captured the meteor explosion on dash cameras. Russian authorities have confirmed that a meteor exploded in the sky over the Urals region Friday morning. According to CNN, the...
View ArticleExplore the 100,000 Stars Closest to Us with This Awesome Interactive Site...
100,000 Stars gives users a chance to explore through the stellar neighborhood in one beautiful and interactive site. I am utterly blown away by this. According to the 100,000 Stars website: 100,000...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Could You Survive 16 Months Alone With Your Partner?
A private company plans to send a married couple on a mission to mars. Do you think a relationship can survive a trip like that? Dennis Tito, the NASA engineer-turned-mulitmillionare and the world’s...
View ArticleNEWSER: Sex in Space Won’t Kill You After All
Apparently the string of “sex-in-space-can-kill-you” stories that were flying around last week were incorrect, unless you plan on reproducing. According to researchers, who studied “plant sex” in zero...
View ArticleNASA’s It Gets Better (Video)
As part of an inclusive workplace, NASA employees sharing their personal stories and talking about how it gets better. Brain Pickings says: Thirty years after Ride boarded the Challenger, NASA joins...
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