• The Funky Craters of Mars

    Updated: 2011-12-31 09:49:01
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  • Happy 2012!

    Updated: 2011-12-31 09:41:05
    Journey to the Stars Wandering through the realms of the cosmos , pondering its huge vastness Home About this site The Author Gallery Astronomy Projects Organizations Happy 2012 Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946  Image Credit Copyright : Adam Block , Mt . Lemmon SkyCenter , U . Arizona Celebrate the New Year with the Fireworks Galaxy Also known as NGC 6946, the big , beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 10 million light-years away , behind a veil of foreground dust and stars in the high and far-off constellation of . Cepheus May God bless you throughout this year and always Have a prosperous year ahead Rate : this Email Like : this Like Be the first to like this . post This entry was posted on December 31, 2011. It was filed under Deep Sky Objects Personal and was tagged with fireworks galaxy

  • Time’s Arrow

    Updated: 2011-12-31 08:05:01
    The Discovery Enterprise: It controls the rhythm of our lives like a Metronome ticking away and measuring the pace and tempo of our existence. Time is an enduring mystery. And, along with time’s arrow we are taking an inexorable voyage into an unknown future. Many of us today, the world over, will be counting the seconds as Mid Night approaches and a New Year dawns. All of us during some moment of our lives have

  • Misc. space items

    Updated: 2011-12-31 06:48:49
    HobbySpace RLV Space & Transport News: /-- Sara Howard talked on the Space Show about her "experiences being one of two women who worked on the Saturn V rocket": Sara Howard, Friday, 12-30-11 - Thespaceshow's Blog /-- More 2011 reviews: /---- Year in Review – Part 3: ISS makes new discoveries about living in space - NASASpaceFlight.com /---- Russia Falls, China Rises in Space Efforts - Aviation Week /---- Space exploration in 2011 - russianspaceweb.com /-- Forget those little problems like low cost reliable space transport and focus on the important issues: How We Will Terraform Mars - io9.

  • Misc. space items

    Updated: 2011-12-31 06:48:49
    . Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conf Washington . D.C Feb . 15-16, 2012 Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conf NASA Ames Mountain View , CA Feb . 27-29, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here Misc . space items Sara Howard talked on the Space Show about her experiences being one of two women who worked on

  • From the author: imagining another Apollo (part 5)

    Updated: 2011-12-31 06:10:21
    : : Beyond Apollo space history chronicled through missions and programs that didn't happen Friday , December 30, 2011 From the author : imagining another Apollo part 5 Below this post is an article I wrote a couple of years ago about a 1967 MIT study called Project Icarus . The study , performed by students as an exercise in systems engineering , assumed that the mile-wide asteroid Icarus would not merely pass Earth at a distance of four million miles on June 19, 1968 as it in fact did but would instead strike in the Atlantic Ocean east of Bermuda . The resulting big splash would inundate ocean-front property all around the Atlantic and toss debris into the atmosphere that would cool the Earth unless it were . stopped I've been thinking about this as another point of departure for an

  • Twin NASA Probes Set for New Year's Moon Rendezvous

    Updated: 2011-12-31 06:09:51
    SPACE.com: NASA's Grail mission will map the moon's gravity like never before.

  • Lovejoy Diary Day 11

    Updated: 2011-12-31 05:51:01
    Astroblog: Slept in. Missed a call from ABC local radio about strange goings on in the sky.

  • Latest Copenhagen Suborbitals engine tests

    Updated: 2011-12-31 02:18:04
    Kristian von Bengtson of Copenhagen Suborbitals posts "a quick video and photo update of the engine tests performed today of Launch Escape System engine BIG-LES and active guided rocket SAPPHIRE-1": Rocket Test BIG-LES & Sapphire-1 Update One - Wired Science/Wired.com - Short but cool looking firing of the LES starts around 1:28 into this video:

  • Private spaceflight regs unbound at end of CSLAA countdown

    Updated: 2011-12-31 02:12:02
    Jeff Foust reports on developments with a provision of the law governing commercial human spaceflight that restricts until 2012 how far the FAA can go in regulating the industry: The other December 2012 countdown - Space Politics.

  • Upbeat articles on commercial spaceflight in IEEE Spectrum & Forbes

    Updated: 2011-12-31 01:52:36
    James Oberg is optimistic about commercial spaceflight: Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away: This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off - IEEE Spectrum. And here is another positive view on its prospects: Billionaire Space Race: 2012 Will Be The Year Private Space Transport Takes Off - Forbes

  • NewsFlash: NASA's Twin Spacecraft 24 Hrs from Lunar Orbit

    Updated: 2011-12-30 22:15:31
    NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft is within 24 hours of its insertion burn that will place it into lunar orbit. At the time the spacecraft crossed the milestone at 1:21 p.m. PST today (4:21 p.m. EST), the...

  • Should We Terraform Mars?

    Updated: 2011-12-30 19:44:45
    As we continue to explore farther out into our solar system and beyond, the question of habitation or colonization inevitably comes up. Manned bases on the Moon or Mars for example, have long been a dream of many. There is a natural desire to explore as far as we can go, and also to extend [...]

  • Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy

    Updated: 2011-12-30 18:40:56
    This artist's concept pictures the fastest rotating star found to date. The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102, rotates at a million miles per hour, or 100 times faster than our sun does. Centrifugal forces from this dizzying spin rate have flattened the star into an oblate shape and spun off a disk of hot plasma, seen edge on in this view from a hypothetical planet. read more

  • Fragile Oasis: Astronaut Dan Burbank: A Beacon For The Holidays

    Updated: 2011-12-30 18:32:27
    Welcoming our new crewmates, Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers and Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station on Friday was wonderful, made all the more so as it came just before Christmas. Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and I have been operating the ISS ourselves for over a month and are happy to have reinforcements, but also very glad to be able to spend the holidays with three good friends. read more

  • Powerful Pixels: Mapping the Apollo Zone on the Moon

    Updated: 2011-12-30 18:28:16
    Mosaic of the near side of the moon as taken by the Clementine star trackers. The images were taken on March 15, 1994. Credit: NASA Grayscale pixels - up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon: For NASA researchers, pixels are much more - they are precious data that help us understand where we came from, where we've been, and where we're going. read more

  • The Future of Science 2021

    Updated: 2011-12-30 07:27:08
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 The Future of Science 2021 The Institute for the Future has published A Multiverse of Exploration The Future of Science 2021 Invisibility cloaks . The search for extraterrestrial intelligence . A Facebook for genes . These were just a few of the startling topics IFTF explored at our recent Technology Horizons Program conference on the Future of Science . More than a dozen scientists from UC Berkeley , Stanford , UC Santa Cruz , Scripps Research Institute , SETI , and private industry shared their edgiest research driving transformations in science . MythBusters' Adam Savage weighed in on the future of science . education The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade :

  • Space Studies Institute names Gary Hudson as President

    Updated: 2011-12-30 07:16:11
    Glad to hear that Gary Hudson has been named President and CEO of the Space Studies Institute. Here are statements from Lee Valentine and Gary about the future of SSI: SSI Update December 2011 - Space Studies Institute.

  • More on Virginia space burial tax incentives

    Updated: 2011-12-30 07:08:17
    Skip to main . content HS Home Space for All Space Transport News Archives About Contact NewSpace Log 11 Space Access 11 SFF NewSpace 11 On Twitter On Facebook NewSpace Employment Jobs Place your job ad here Further details Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space Scaled Composites The Spaceship Company SpaceDev SNC SpaceX Tethers Unlimited TGV-Rockets XCOR FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conf Washington . D.C Feb . 15-16, 2012 Next-Gen Suborbital Researchers Conf NASA Ames Mountain View , CA Feb . 27-29, 2012 Tip Jar Regular readers can support HobbySpace with a contribution via credit : card Support HobbySpace with monthly donation More payment options available here More on Virginia space burial tax incentives Here's the legislative language for the proposed Virginia state tax

  • Russian space industry needs major overhaul

    Updated: 2011-12-30 06:59:32
    The Russian space infrastructure, on which US access to the ISS depends, is looking scarily wobbly: /-- New Russian Space Czar Hits Ground Running - Parabolic Arc /-- Photos of Energomash rocket plant in Moscow’s Khimki district

  • China lays out space plans until 2016

    Updated: 2011-12-30 06:44:34
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 China lays out space plans until 2016 UPDATED- China Daily has a copy of the white paper that describes China space programme’s five-year plan , a China National Space Administration CNSA pronounced a Long March-5 rockets will use non-toxic and pollution-free . propellant” This would catch up to Russian and American rockets that have been using non-toxic fuel for a few . decades BBC News- The Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spaceships will be launched to dock with the Tiangong-1 space lab module . Officials have indicated that at least one of the two next Shenzhou missions would be manned and that 2012 might even see the country's first female . astronaut Major Tasks for the Next Five Years In the next five years

  • A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire but it was successful put out

    Updated: 2011-12-30 04:00:38
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 29, 2011 A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire but it was successful put out A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire Thursday , but officials say there was no radiation leak and no one was . injured The fire on the Yekaterinburg submarine happened while the vessel was docked for repairs in the northern Murmansk . region The Russian Defense Ministry said all of the submarine's weapons had been unloaded before the repairs and its reactor had already been shut down . The Delta IV class vessel is able to carry 16 intercontinental ballistic . missiles NY Times After battling for hours to extinguish a blaze aboard a nuclear submarine , Russian firefighters finally gained control of it early Friday by submerging the

  • Video: Phobos-Grunt Re-Entry Animation

    Updated: 2011-12-29 22:56:24
    When and where will Russia’s Phobos-Grunt satellite crash back to Earth? It’s too early to tell, but the engineers from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) have put together an animation which recaps what has happened with the spacecraft so far, and what is expected to occur during the uncontrolled re-entry. (...)Read the rest of Video: Phobos-Grunt [...]

  • What are the Odds? Extraterrestrial Civilizations of the Cosmos (Holiday Feature)

    Updated: 2011-12-29 21:43:19
    "What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilization millions of years...

  • 5 Hours of Beautiful Comet Lovejoy in 30 Seconds

    Updated: 2011-12-29 20:34:38
    Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) Esperance WA (27-12-2012) from Colin Legg on Vimeo. Colin Legg from Esperance, Australia has been documenting Comet Lovejoy’s holiday gift to the southern hemisphere, and this is his latest — and possibly last — timelapse, as the comet has started to fade. This one covers almost 5 hours of Legg’s Comet [...]

  • Photo: Titan and Dione As Seen by Cassini

    Updated: 2011-12-29 19:06:20
    Saturn's third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Titan (3200 miles, 5150 kilometers across) and Dione (698 miles, 1123 kilometers across). North is up on the moons. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ring plane. read more

  • Mars Rover Opportunity Wheel Passes Checkup After Stalled Drive

    Updated: 2011-12-29 18:56:00
    sols 2805-2812, December 14-22, 2011: This period began with a campaign of using the Microscopic Imager (MI) and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) to examine a target called "Komati" on the "Saddleback" outcrop. read more

  • One more Lovejoy time lapse… maybe the last

    Updated: 2011-12-29 18:46:25
    Reports are starting to come in that Comet Lovejoy is fading rapidly, which isn’t too surprising. As it gets farther from the Sun it gets colder, and the ice on its surface doesn’t turn into gas quite so vigorously. It’s the cloud of expanding gas that reflects sunlight and makes a comet bright, so there [...]

  • NewsFlash: NASA Twin Spacecraft on Final Approach for Moon Orbit

    Updated: 2011-12-29 17:19:42
    NASA's twin GRAIL spacecraft to study the moon from crust to core are nearing theirNew Year's Eve and New Year's Day main-engine burns to place the duo in lunar orbit. The spacecraft are scheduled to beplaced in orbit beginning at...

  • Twin NASA Spacecraft to Orbit Moon to Start "Full-Body Scan" This Weekend

    Updated: 2011-12-29 16:34:17
    NASA's twin Grail spacecraft (short for Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) are slated to start circling the moon one day apart, with Grail-A arriving on Saturday and Grail-B following on Sunday --both to study our lunar satellite from crust to...

  • Will NASA's GRAIL Probe Solve the "Mystery of the Missing Moon"?

    Updated: 2011-12-29 15:00:00
    NASA's GRAIL mission will start its lunar probe this weekend (see post above) to uncover some of the mysteries buried beneath the surface of the Moon --even, perhaps, a long-lost companion. According to a paper published recently in the journal...

  • Mars 4 Billion Years Ago --"The Water Planet"

    Updated: 2011-12-29 02:19:12
    "We can now say that the planet was altered on a global scale by liquid water about four billion years ago." John Carter of the University of Paris Minerals in northern Mars craters observed by two NASA orbiters suggested that...

  • Video Review: 2011 for NASA

    Updated: 2011-12-28 23:16:20
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  • NSF Awards Logistical Support Contract for U.S. Antarctic Program

    Updated: 2011-12-28 22:03:10
    A view to the north from McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station is one of three year-round research stations that are supported by the U.S. Antarctic Program. Credit: Jeff Scanniello Larger image read more

  • Voyager 1 approaches interstellar medium

    Updated: 2011-12-28 17:13:38
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links Voyager 1 approaches interstellar medium by mdr on Dec . 28th , 2011 Interstellar space graphic Courtesy NASA Voyager 1, an unmanned NASA space probe is nearing the outer edge of our solar system and will soon enter the vast , unknown region known as interstellar space

  • Internet teaches you how to kip up and thriller dance

    Updated: 2011-12-28 04:31:13
    skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 Internet teaches you how to kip up and thriller dance Internet videos not only let you learn physics from Richard Feynmann but also let you learn how to kip up from Ryan Doyle Parkour expert and how to dance the Michael Jackson Thriller Dance Learn how to kip up and more Parkour for Beginners Parkour Fight Science Learn how to Thriller Dance first 6 of 40 videos If you liked this article , please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon Thanks Posted by bw at 12 27 2011 Labels : education internet Internet teaches you how to kip up and thriller dance Internet videos not only let you learn physics from Richard Feynmann but also let you learn how to kip up from Ryan Doyle Parkour expert and how to

  • Venus and the Moon, looking pretty

    Updated: 2011-12-28 01:24:09
    The Moon and Venus make a pretty pair, don’t they? I took this shot myself an hour ago as I write this, about 17:00 local time here in Boulder. I used my cell phone camera, then in Photoshop cropped it to 610 pixels wide (the biggest my blog width will allow) and blurred it a [...]

  • Image: Peering Through Titan's South Pole Haze

    Updated: 2011-12-27 18:03:37
    These views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft look toward the south polar region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and show a depression within the moon's orange and blue haze layers near the south pole. The close-up view was captured with the narrow-angle camera. Another view taken a second later with the wide-angle camera is also included here for context. read more

  • Nuclear, coal and other energy news

    Updated: 2011-12-27 17:39:21
    , skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Timeslide View Flipcard December 27, 2011 Nuclear , coal and other energy news 1. The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano presented a forecast that the number of nuclear power plants would increase by 90 to 350 units in the world between now and 2030. The figure was estimated by IAEA following the accident at the Fukushima I nuclear power station operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co . Inc . Amano said , While the rate of increase will be smaller than that prior to the accident , we still expect a substantial increase . 2. Kyushu Electric Power Co . said Monday that it shut the No . 4 reactor at its Genkai nuclear power station on Japan's western island of Kyushu for planned . maintenance With the closure , only six

  • 'Super-Earths' May Mimic Mars: Lacking a Magnetic Field, Existing as Dead Zones

    Updated: 2011-12-27 16:30:00
    Rocky planets a few times heavier than Earth that were thought might be life-friendly may lack a protective magnetic field that originates from an iron core that is at least partly molten. A simulation of super-Earths between a few times...

  • Jupiter's Moon, Io --Could Extreme Life Thrive There?

    Updated: 2011-12-27 16:00:00
    Io, the innermost of Jupiter's large satellites and the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with plumes of matter rising up to 186 miles (300 km) above the surface is considered a prime candidate as a hotspot for...

  • Could Mars and Moon Harbor Alien Artifacts? Leading Astrophysicists Says "Yes"

    Updated: 2011-12-26 17:37:56
    The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a low probability of success, but it would have a high impact if successful. Physicists Paul Davies and Robert Wagner of Arizona State University argue that it makes sense to widen the search...

  • Image of the Day: Huge Caves and Tunnels Spotted on Moon

    Updated: 2011-12-26 15:00:00
    A pit in Mare Ingenii, possibly the result of a collapsed lava tube. Natural tunnels like this would be ideal sites for an Earth or alien moon base, according to Paul Davies of Arizona State University (see post above). In...

  • Holidays Greetings from 1,000 Light Years Away!

    Updated: 2011-12-25 17:10:45
    Astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that resembles a wreath. The green ring (evergreen) is made of tiny particles of warm dust whose composition is very similar to smog found here...

  • Happy Holidays From Antarctica

    Updated: 2011-12-25 13:23:26
    Saturday , December 31, 2011 About On Orbit Advertise Here Contact Information Feedback Log Out Home Blogs Features Recent Posts Happy Holidays From Antarctica Submitted by keithcowing on Sun , 12 25 2011 06:23. Astrobiologist Dale Andersen's Field Reports Astrobiologist Dale Andersen from the SETI Institute is currently on his way back to the U.s . via a stop over in Capetown , South Africa . Dale and his team spent a month or so at Lake Untersee in Antarctica This photo was taken shortly before Christmas . Dale is shown holding a patch for the Challenger Center for Space Science Education Larger view While there they conducted a number of research activities including diving underneath the ice into cold dark lakes . Many of the odd life forms they have encountered provide clues as to

  • The Moon sleighs me

    Updated: 2011-12-25 00:16:49
    One of my favorite astrophotographers, Alan Friedman, spied something odd on the Moon. Flying reindeer I’ll buy. But an inertialess propulsion system? C’mon. Happy holidays everyone! Credit: Alan Friedman

  • National Space Society Announces the 2012 Legislative Blitz

    Updated: 2011-12-23 21:59:13
    From Sunday, February 26 through Tuesday, February 28, 2012, the National Space Society and the Space Exploration Alliance will be holding the annual grassroots visit to Congress, known as the “Legislative Blitz.” With unprecedented budgetary pressures facing the legislative and executive branches of government, the debate continues about the future direction and funding of our nation’s [...]

  • Image of the Day: Stunning New Views of Saturn's Titan --A Prime Candidate for Life

    Updated: 2011-12-22 17:00:00
    This view from the Cassini spacecraft looks toward the south polar region of Titan's largest moon, Titan, and show a depression within the moon's orange and blue haze layers near the south pole Titan has water frozen as hard as...

  • NASA 10-Year Snow Map of Earth (VIDEO)

    Updated: 2011-12-22 16:07:22
    NASA has released a video that highlights where snow graced the Earth during every month for more than 10 years. The clip starts with a snow-covered map of the Earth on February 2000 and runs all the way up until...

  • Moon Mines: Visionary or Senseless?

    Updated: 2011-12-22 03:39:20
    Editorial by Al Globus, December 2011 Do lunar mines make sense? The answer depends on what you want to do in space. If what you want is something close to what we have now: a booming commercial communication satellite business and government programs for science and exploration, then no. Lunar mines built entirely with tax [...]

  • 'The Daily Galaxy' December Contest --Two Days Left to Win a Free $500 Apple Gift Card!

    Updated: 2011-12-22 02:02:01
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...

  • NASA discovers two Earth-like planets in distant star system

    Updated: 2011-12-21 18:59:00
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Dec 21 2011 NASA discovers two Earth-like planets in distant star system by mdr 0 comments in Earth and Space Science and The Universe Kepler's Earth-like planets : Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f line up against Earth and . Venus Courtesy NASA JPL-Caltech T . Pyle NASA announced this week

  • 2011's most memorable spaceflight stories

    Updated: 2011-12-21 16:12:59
    Science Buzz Be a part of the Buzz Register or log in Site Navigation Site Navigation Blog Topics Future Earth Weighing the evidence Archive Features Experimonth : Identity Object of the Month Scientist on the Spot Changing Seasons Browse Images Browse Tags Links Community Latest comments Contribute Buzz points Scientists Teachers Community Guidelines Member Gallery Exhibit Buzz kiosks About Where is Science Buzz Awards Credits Your feedback will help us improve this website Copyright Information Privacy Help Science links 2011's most memorable spaceflight stories by mdr on Dec . 21st , 2011 Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome , . Kazakhstan Courtesy NASA Carla Cioffi As a brand new year approaches , It's the time for

  • Another Kepler milestone: Astronomers find two Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star!

    Updated: 2011-12-20 18:18:33
    Astronomers have achieved a big milestone in the search for another Earth: the two smallest confirmed planets ever found orbiting another star… and they’re both about the size of Earth! Artist’s illustration of the Kepler-20 planets with Earth and Venus for size comparison. The planets are called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, and as you can see [...]

  • Tyler Cowen at Singularity Summit 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-20 10:08:39
    Accelerating Future Tyler Cowen at Singularity Summit 2011 Tuesday , Dec 20 2011 events and futurism and science and videos Michael Anissimov 2:08 am Trackback URI Leave a Reply Click here to cancel . reply Name required Mail will not be published required Website : Categories aerospace 3 AI 200 animal rights 14 anthropics 7 art music 2 articles 2 BCI 13 bioethics 10 biology 30 brain 14 chemistry 3 comics 5 cryonics 35 cybernetics 5 environmentalism 4 ethics 8 events 99 friendly ai 114 futurism 148 humor 18 images 61 intelligence 39 interviews 17 IQ 7 kurzweil 1 life extension 79 lifeboat 10 manufacturing 5 math 2 me 12 meta 62 nanotechnology 131 nuclear 20 philanthropy 13 philosophy 69 physics 12 policy 5 politics 12 random 78 rationality 13 religion 8 risks 145 robotics 50 science 32

  • Peter Thiel at Singularity Summit 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-20 10:07:17
    Accelerating Future Peter Thiel at Singularity Summit 2011 Tuesday , Dec 20 2011 events and futurism and science and videos Michael Anissimov 2:07 am Trackback URI Leave a Reply Click here to cancel . reply Name required Mail will not be published required Website : Categories aerospace 3 AI 200 animal rights 14 anthropics 7 art music 2 articles 2 BCI 13 bioethics 10 biology 30 brain 14 chemistry 3 comics 5 cryonics 35 cybernetics 5 environmentalism 4 ethics 8 events 99 friendly ai 114 futurism 148 humor 18 images 61 intelligence 39 interviews 17 IQ 7 kurzweil 1 life extension 79 lifeboat 10 manufacturing 5 math 2 me 12 meta 62 nanotechnology 131 nuclear 20 philanthropy 13 philosophy 69 physics 12 policy 5 politics 12 random 78 rationality 13 religion 8 risks 145 robotics 50 science 32

  • Max Tegmark at Singularity Summit 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-20 10:04:57
    Accelerating Future Max Tegmark at Singularity Summit 2011 Tuesday , Dec 20 2011 events and futurism and science and videos Michael Anissimov 2:04 am Trackback URI Leave a Reply Click here to cancel . reply Name required Mail will not be published required Website : Categories aerospace 3 AI 200 animal rights 14 anthropics 7 art music 2 articles 2 BCI 13 bioethics 10 biology 30 brain 14 chemistry 3 comics 5 cryonics 35 cybernetics 5 environmentalism 4 ethics 8 events 99 friendly ai 114 futurism 148 humor 18 images 61 intelligence 39 interviews 17 IQ 7 kurzweil 1 life extension 79 lifeboat 10 manufacturing 5 math 2 me 12 meta 62 nanotechnology 131 nuclear 20 philanthropy 13 philosophy 69 physics 12 policy 5 politics 12 random 78 rationality 13 religion 8 risks 145 robotics 50 science 32

  • Extreme Futurist Festival was a Success!

    Updated: 2011-12-20 06:05:03
    Check out the writeup at LA Weekly.

  • Lockheed Martin Reusable Booster System

    Updated: 2011-12-19 16:26:05
    Lockheed Martin has been selected by the U.S. Air Force for a contract award to support the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experiments program. The value of the first task order is $2 million, with a contract ordering value of up to $250 million over the five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract [...]

  • NSS Space Settlement Journal

    Updated: 2011-12-17 15:35:46
    The NSS Space Settlement Journal has commenced publication this month, beginning with two new papers: A Contemporary Analysis of the O’Neill – Glaser Model for Space-based Solar Power and Habitat Construction by Peter A. Curreri, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and Michael K. Detweiler, Amadeus Consulting Abstract: Solar Power Satellites, SPS, is a technology that promises unlimited [...]

  • NSS Hails Stratolaunch Initiative – A Pioneering Investment in Space

    Updated: 2011-12-14 14:50:18
    The National Space Society (NSS) hails the announcement of Stratolaunch Systems, a Paul G. Allen Project, as a pioneering investment in space transportation. The company has been formed to build a mobile air-launch-to-orbit system that will include three primary components: • A carrier aircraft, developed by Scaled Composites, the aircraft manufacturer [...]

  • Stratolaunch Systems: New Space Launch System Announced by Paul Allen

    Updated: 2011-12-13 19:48:44
    SEATTLE, WA, Dec 13, 2011 – Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced today that he and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have reunited to develop the next generation of space travel. Allen and Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne was the first privately-funded, manned rocket ship to fly beyond earth’s atmosphere, are developing a revolutionary [...]

  • Viewing Times and Tips for Saturday Morning’s Lunar Eclipse

    Updated: 2011-12-09 20:20:48
    By Steve Edberg The last lunar eclipse until 2014 will grace the sky on Saturday, Dec. 10. Steve Edberg, an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shares the best viewing times and tips. For more lunar eclipse resources and to join NASA/JPL’s “I’m There: Lunar Eclipse” event, visit http://1.usa.gov/uBfAI8. Keith Burns submitted this winning photo of the [...]

  • Getting the Lowdown on Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2011-12-05 18:59:40
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This 3-D video incorporates images from the framing camera instrument aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from July to August 2011. The images were obtained as Dawn approached Vesta and circled [...]

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