Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. (Rest in peace, Douglas Adams). Now here’s a great two part video explaining the nature of and possible answers to the Fermi Paradox. Not only does the narrator have a smooth British accent, but...
I recently came across an interesting infographic comparing real-life eccentric billionaire Elon Musk to the not-so-real-life eccentric billionaire Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) of Marvel Comics fame. I always knew they seemed similar, but the parallels are actually pretty amazing. The only real difference is that Elon Musk doesn’t have...
From PBS Digital Studio’s Crash Course web series comes Crash Course: Astronomy, hosted by famed astronomer Phil Plait. This is a fantastic little web series on astronomy, so go ahead and check it out! There are 6 episodes in the series so far, and you can see them all on...
Take a look at this fantastic 3D video demo by visual effects artist Lucas Green. He used pictures and footage from Cassini, Hubble, and other sources to create these breathtaking 3D rendered video effects. He explains on his blog how he created the visual effects. Wild! http://vimeo.com/111882554
NASA’s new Orion space capsule has successfully launched and landed in its first-ever test flight. On the morning of Friday, December 5th, at 7:05 am, a Delta IV Heavy rocketed the Orion space capsule 5,800 kilometers (that’s 5.8 megameters) into a high elliptical orbit. After some 5 hours, it then plunged back to...
Take a look at this amazing video of Earth, as filmed from the International Space Station! Truely epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dAHGvmT6v8#t=153
Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Christopher Nolan film, Interstellar, which comes out this November. It’s hard to tell much about the movie itself, but this could very well be a great sci-fi drama, assuming it’s done right. We’ll just have to see!
Looks like the folk at NASA’s Eagleworks are still hard at work on a possibly plausible faster-than-light system, generally known as an Alcubbierre drive, which is sort-of similar to the warp drive of Star Trek fame. If you have an hour to kill, take a look at this informative talk by NASA’s...
According to Elon Musk, SpaceX has its ambitious sights set on Mars — and has since the beginning. “The reason SpaceX was created was to accelerate development of rocket technology, all for the goal of establishing a self-sustaining, permanent base on Mars,” he revealed at the International Space Development Conference. Elon...
60 minutes recently interviewed Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors (and PayPal, before he sold it). Pretty interesting stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is0WFSDmFgw
