Unreal. A German fan of NASA’s now-retired Space Shuttle program launched a model LEGO shuttle into the atmosphere using a helium weather balloon. For reals. Read more »
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10 Geeky Photo Mosaics
Geeky visuals alert! Check out these ten giant images made of hundreds (or thousands) of smaller images, aka photo mosaics. Read more »
Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?
Wanna go to outer space for a living? Now’s your chance. For the first time ever, NASA is accepting astronaut applications from the general public. Read more »
NASA: The TRACTOR BEAM will soon become reality
We are truly living in the age of tomorrow. Making leaps from the Internet, touch screens and human computing, human civilization is moving on to the next phase of technology — defying the laws of physics even more. As technology gets even better, science fiction such as Star Trek serve as pegs for the reality. The tricorder is today’s smartphone, voice commands are in computers and mobile phones, touch screens are everywhere … so now it’s time to look at the more astounding “macro” uses of technology. Last week we were made aware that levitation is now possible (hello hover bikes, hover boards and gravitational plates). It’s possible because of Read more »
NASA Three-year Mars journey presented in three minutes
It took the NASA Mars Rover Opportunity three years to cover 13 miles of otherworldly terrain, but now you can experience the journey condensed into a three minute span. NASA recently posted the “Rovers Eye View” video on its website gallery, explaining the Mars trek took the vehicle from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater between September, 2008, and August, 2011. In the course of the trip, 309 “horizon photographs” were captured and later edited together for the slide show. NASA adjusted audio data recorded by the rover so it could be heard and applied it to the video as a captivating soundtrack. Read more »
The NASA MMO
There have been plenty of video games set in space, and a not-small portion of MMOs are set in space, too. But you’ve never played one where space exploration and travel are simulated with absolute realism, in the shoes of a NASA astronaut. Until now. Read more »
LEGO Gods to Go in Space
It just doesn’t get any better than this. You get LEGO minifigs of Roman gods, and these minifigs get to go to space as well! The LEGO Group has created special (and you bet that they’re special!) LEGO minifigs which are going to be the companions of the rocket Atlas V. This spacecraft is also going to carry a space probe named Juno. The destination? The fifth rock from the Sun: Jupiter. Wondering who the LEGO gods are? Take a look. Here’s a closer look at each of the LEGO gods. This one’s Jupiter – the connection being as obvious as the sun at noon. The King of the gods. Read more »
Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v 15
What do you get when the DHS, trivia ‘bots, Facebook stress and comets collide? You get the wins and fails this week in geek! Read on to discover the best and worst this week had to offer. FAIL: Doing Your Homework …which is precisely what the Department of Homeland Security failed to do when it yanked some 84,000 sites offline during a massive Internet raid for child pornography and counterfeit goods. To be fair, they got it right with a whopping 10 sites which deserved that increasingly infamous DHS seizure image. But the 84,000 which did not have received little to no acknowledgment of the fairly substantial “oopsy”. The problem Read more »
Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v 13
Who says #13 is unlucky? This week has given us a plethora of wins and fails to gleefully dissect, from mass firings at MySpace to social networking space robots to sex on Mars. Hey, at least somebody’s getting lucky with that last one. Let’s dig in. FAIL: Job Security Again. This seems to be a recurring theme in our weekly updates. Perhaps, given the economy and the fickle nature of the Internet, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see 47% of MySpace’s employees sacked this week. It’s even less of a surprise since, at least to me, MySpace’s decline has been fairly evident for some time. 500 employees lost Read more »
Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v 12
Welcome to 2011! Does it feel different than twenty-ten? Regardless, some things never change: the first week of the new year’s brought plenty of wins and plenty of fails, and we’re here to recap the best of the best and the worst of the worst for you. Whether it’s urine-activated video games, elaborate medical hoaxes, or Doctor Who‘s regeneration, we’ve got something for everyone this week in geek. WIN: Digital Stoners Rejoice, everyone who’s ever dreamed of recreating laser light Pink Floyd bowling with a Wii, the entire inventory of Spencer’s, and an iPod: the band has finally caved to digital downloads of individual tracks. They have hitherto bitterly fought Read more »
