Dare Mighty Things
This is a fantastic video using JPL animation and actual footage, compiled and set to music, showing the entry, descent, and landing of the Curiosity rover. Check it out!
Tagged: Science
Mars or Bust
The new Mars rover, Curiosity (or more technically, the Mars Science Laboratory) will reach the Red Planet around midnight on Sunday, August 5th. As far as landings go, this one will be a doozie. Checkout this NASA video, hosted by Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher of Star Trek fame), explaining the...
The Future is Ours
The news today is rife with stories of heartbreaking tragedy and unrelenting terror, gloomy outlooks and pessimistic forecasts. But as Peter Diamandis points out in his recent TEDTalk, the media caters directly to our amygdala, giving us more pessimistic news than optimistic news. The reality is, we live in a world...
43 Years Since Moon Landing…
It’s been 43 years since the first human beings landed on the moon… And we’ve not been back since December 1972. It’s utterly baffling to me — this is the year 2012, and by now we should have flourishing lunar colonies, L5 space stations, and human explorers walking on the...
Higgs Boson Discovered
The great thing about science is that it makes predictions that can be tested, the results of which either disprove or leading credence to, various theories and models that describe how the universe works. One of these was the prediction that a particle known as the Higgs Boson “gives mass”...
Yes, Falling into a Volcano Burns
On the heels of Phil Plait’s post on how much getting blasted out an airlock sucks, Discovery News has just chimed in to say that falling into a volcano is awfully fatal too. In case you didn’t know. Check out this video of a 30 kg (65 lbs) bag of...
Yes, Explosive Decompression Sucks
Famed astronomy blogger Phil Plait has a few sagely words to say to all sci-fi writers and movie directors about what happens when you’re suddenly exposed to the perilous vacuum of space. So what does happen? Does your body suddenly explode? Does your blood boil? Do your eyes pop out?...
Neil deGrasse Tyson – We Stopped Dreaming
Neil deGrasse Tyson has some very poignant (and sometimes a bit heated) things to say about how and why America stopped dreaming about space exploration. Check it out! And for a longer version of his, here’s the first part of his “We Stopped Dreaming” mini-documentary. And the second part: In...
Planetary Resources: A New Space Venture
A new private space company, Planetary Resources, has announced its intention to begin a long term venture aimed at prospecting and mining asteroids within the next 10 to 20 years. Ordinarily, such a venture would be scoffed at by most experts, but Planetary Resources has been operating in secret for...
And Now Some Words from Neil deGrasse Tyson
Have you ever wondered what the most interesting fact in the universe is? Well, here’s how Neil deGrasse Tyson answers that question. And if you have more time on your hands (1 hour and 18 minutes of time), here’s Stephen Colbert’s interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Very funny, and very...
