Friday, December 30, 2011
Viper
Hmmm... not such a good video - doesn't really fit IMO, and looks kind-of dated (not in a good way).
Friday, December 23, 2011
The Long Astronomical Perspective
From The Sagan Series, part 7 - The Long Astronomical Perspective
The Sagan Series:
Part 1 - The Frontier Is Everywhere
Part 2 - Life Looks for Life
Part 3 - A Reassuring Fable
Part 4 - NASA Per Aspera Ad Astra
Part 5 - SETI Decide To Listen
Part 6 - End of an Era: The Final Shuttle Launch
Part 7 - The Long Astronomical Perspective
Prometheus
Ridley Scott's first science fiction film in more than 30 years.
Prometheus is released June 8 2012.
Friday, December 16, 2011
End of an Era: The Final Shuttle Launch
From The Sagan Series, part 6 - End of an Era: The Final Shuttle Launch
The Sagan Series:
Part 1 - The Frontier Is Everywhere
Part 2 - Life Looks for Life
Part 3 - A Reassuring Fable
Part 4 - NASA Per Aspera Ad Astra
Part 5 - SETI Decide To Listen
Part 6 - End of an Era: The Final Shuttle Launch
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
What If You Died At 38 But No One Found You For 3 Years?
Her extraordinary story is the subject of a movie, Dreams of a Life, by film-maker Carol Morley:
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Industry
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
SETI Decide To Listen
From The Sagan Series, part 5 - SETI Decide To Listen
The Sagan Series:
Part 1 - The Frontier Is Everywhere
Part 2 - Life Looks for Life
Part 3 - A Reassuring Fable
Part 4 - NASA Per Aspera Ad Astra
Part 5 - SETI Decide To Listen
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Unidentified Structures in Gobi Desert
Vast, unidentified, structures have been spotted by satellites in the barren Gobi desert... In two images, available on Google Earth, reflective rectangles up to a mile long can be seen, a tangle of bright white intersecting lines that are clearly visible from space. Other pictures show enormous concentric circles radiating on the ground, with three jets parked at their centre...
From and article by Malcolm Moore for The Telegraph
All of the sites are on the borders of Gansu province and Xinjiang... Photos: GOOGLE EARTH
Read the full article here »
Friday, December 2, 2011
NASA Per Aspera Ad Astra
From The Sagan Series, part 4 - NASA Per Aspera Ad Astra
The Sagan Series:
Part 1 - The Frontier Is Everywhere
Part 2 - Life Looks for Life
Part 3 - A Reassuring Fable
Part 4 - NASA Per Aspera Ad Astra
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Boring Machine
Awesome image from Reuters Best photos of the year 2011:
“After the intersection of the first 35.41 mile long tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on October 15, 2010 the final break-through in the second parallel single track tunnel took place on March 23 this year. More than twenty years of planning and construction work at the world’s longest railway tunnel crossing the Swiss Alps took a crucial hurdle.
Together with miners and a group of journalists I was shuttled from the Alptransit construction camp in the southern Swiss town of Faido by bus through a side access tunnel to the station of a mining railroad deep in the mountains. It took us 45 minutes by train to reach the venue of the intersection ceremony underneath the St. Gotthard massif.
A sound and light show accompanied the noise and heavy vibrations of the giant 4,500 horsepower strong boring machine ‘Heidi’, with a diameter of nine yards, on its way through the last meters of granite. As the machine had finished its job a miner climbed over the fallen rocks to welcome his colleagues from the other side of the intersection.”
Caption: A miner climbs on excavated rocks after a giant drill machine broke through at the final section Sedrun-Faido, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel March 23, 2011. Crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016. The project consists of two parallel single track tunnels, each of a length of 57 km (35 miles). REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann