The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology
The commercialization of space has always been one of the goals of the space program and our science fiction is littered with lunar bases and colonies in orbit, but more than 45 years after Alan Sheppard flew on Freedom 7 into low orbit the space business is still largely the domain of NASA and other [...]
For your lunar eclipse viewing pleasure, here’s a clip of the opening sequence to the 1970s TV series Space 1999. It was an incredibly cheesy sci-fi show from the mind of Gary Anderson (Thunderbirds) that supposed the moon has been blasted from its orbit by a nuclear disaster. For it’s time, though, the special effects [...]
If you’re trying to trick a tribe of aboriginal people, or maybe just fool your friends down at the pub, tomorrow night might be your best chance. Tell them to look up at the night sky about 10pm EST and “behold … the wrath of the Gods have turned the moon red with anger,” so [...]
Japan is testing a satellite that can turn solar power into microwaves and beam the energy back to receiving stations on Earth. Read all about the project here at Pink Tentacle.
On the surface that sounds like a great idea: Satellites in geosynchronous orbit beaming down power via microwaves or lasers. It could solve our energy [...]
For quite a while now we’ve carried the torch against the coming robot uprising, but maybe we should have been a little more concerned about dangers from above. It seems marauding objects from space are going on the offensive against the planets.
Last night an asteroid about 800 feet long passed within 334,000 miles of the [...]
The race to privately-funded space took a shot to the groin this weekend when the lunar lander from Armadillo Aerospace burst into flames upon ignition. According to reports, the engine exploded but luckily no one was hurt in the accident. The company founded by video game maker John Carmack had come to the high desert [...]
So those lovable little Martian rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are still going strong, eh? Opportunity reached the edge of a new crater yesterday and will begin examining rocks at the top before scaling its way down inside. Spirit, meanwhile, is exploring a Martian plateau called Home Plate.
No don’t get me wrong, the science is [...]
I always thought Google was part of the robot conspiracy and now we have proof: The search engine giant is offering a $30 million prize to the first person to blast a robot to the moon. Heck, it only took $10 million to convince Burt Rutan to send his buddy Mike Melvill up in that [...]
The space shuttle Endeavor is scheduled to finally lift off tomorrow from Cape Kennedy at 6:36 EDT, weather permitting, of course. The past few weeks have been rough for the space program, having suffered an attack from a would be saboteur who damaged a computer that was supposed to be delivered to the International Space [...]
While you’re waiting for Richard Branson to get his Virgin One space tourism business up and running, you can get close to space by taking a ride in a Mig-25 Foxbat. The Russian fighter can rocket from the ground to 65,000 feet in less than 10 minutes, giving you ample time to survey the view [...]
