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Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:07:20 -0500

unknownskywalker: The Future of Human Spaceflight NASA released...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:04:40 -0500

The Future of Human Spaceflight

NASA released a new interactive infographic that attempts to give a picture of future of human spaceflight activities and where NASA might be going. The new Space Launch system and the Orion MPCV figure prominently in going to future destinations such as the Moon, Mars, Asteroids and even LaGrange Points.

Download larger poster version (PDF, 332 KB) | Interactive flash version.

elledark: No .. they haven’t, but that was never the...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:58:02 -0500

elledark:

No .. they haven’t, but that was never the point.

Those who used the phoney ‘war on terror’ to legitimize riding rough-shod over civil rights and the constitution, turning America into a surveillance state, won.

Those who used ‘terrorism’ as an excuse for foreign wars of choice that the public wouldn’t have otherwise supported won.

Those who’ve make fortunes out of the unnecessary foreign wars and the vast ‘terror industry’ at home and abroad won.

They’re the winners. The American people are the ones who lost, along with the hundreds of thousands dead in the middle-east who lost even more.

Elle Dark: The Long Suicide of Stumbleupon

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:56:29 -0500

Elle Dark: The Long Suicide of Stumbleupon: elledark: I noticed a Stumbleupon ‘news flash’ today...

unknownskywalker: JWST Deployment This graphic shows how the...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:53:06 -0500

unknownskywalker:

JWST Deployment

This graphic shows how the James Webb Space Telescope will deploy after launch. There is also a video animation of deployment on YouTube: youtu.be/vpVz3UrSsE4.

Download Original Image: 2550×7902px - JPG, 2.70 MB

scienceisbeauty: Wind tunnel test of F-16 Scamp model with...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:50:52 -0500

scienceisbeauty:

Wind tunnel test of F-16 Scamp model with laser illuminated smoke cross-sections.

Source&Credits: F-16XL Scamp Flow Visualization Test, NASA

awesome-everyday: thesmithian: “When I decided to be a singer,...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:17:06 -0500

awesome-everyday:

thesmithian:

“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.” —Whitney Houston

She died today. Houston was 48.

RIP whitney

unknownskywalker: Stars, Milky Way, String Lake, Grand Teton...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:16:15 -0500

unknownskywalker:

Stars, Milky Way, String Lake, Grand Teton NP by Royce Bair

unknownskywalker: Pole to Pole Stars by Royce Bair

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:14:46 -0500

unknownskywalker:

Pole to Pole Stars by Royce Bair

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Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:12:41 -0500

Whitney Houston died today at the age of 48, see...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:01:00 -0500

Whitney Houston died today at the age of 48, see http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46355482/ns/today-entertainment/t/singing-superstar-whitney-houston-dies/#.Tzcbj1tbxNs

August 9, 1962 - Feb. 11th,2012 Rest in Peace

unknownskywalker: Up the East Coast of North America This video...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:29:14 -0500

unknownskywalker:

Up the East Coast of North America

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken January 29, 2012 from 05:33:11 to 05:48:10 GMT, on a pass from just southwest of Mexico to the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Newfoundland.

unknownskywalker: European nighttime Parts of a number of...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:27:49 -0500

unknownskywalker:

European nighttime

Parts of a number of European nations appear in this nighttime image taken from the International Space Station in Feb. 2, 2012. The scene shows the British Isles (left, partially obstructed by one of the space station’s solar array panels) with London just right of bottom center; the English Channel, which is dark; Paris (lower right corner); and the Netherlands (right side). The greenish airglow is fairly uniform and minor until it transitions to daybreak on the right.

Richard “Lord British” Garriott video game designer...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:26:35 -0500

Richard “Lord British” Garriott video game designer (and creator of the Ultima franchise of PC games) story of his $30 million trip to the International Space Station (lucky bastard)! See here for the story.

Click here to stop the newest threat to Internet freedom

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:07:04 -0500

Click here to stop the newest threat to Internet freedom: A new global treaty, ACTA, could allow...

French Rafale’s fighter/bombers coming off...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:42:45 -0500

French Rafale’s fighter/bombers coming off Dassault’s production line which just won a production contract in India (over it’s rival the Eurofighter Typhoon).

unknownskywalker: NASA eyes plan for deep-space outpost near...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:28:02 -0500

unknownskywalker:

NASA eyes plan for deep-space outpost near the Moon

NASA is pressing forward on assessing the value of a “human-tended waypoint” near the far side of the moon — one that would embrace international partnerships as well as commercial and academic participation.

According to a Feb. 3 memo from William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, a team is being formed to develop a cohesive plan for exploring a spot in space known as the Earth-moon libration point 2 (EML-2).

Libration points, also known as Lagrangian points, are places in space where the combined gravitational pull of two large masses roughly balance each other out, allowing spacecraft to essentially “park” there. A pre-memo NASA appraisal of EML-2, which is near the lunar far side, has spotlighted this destination as the “leading option” for a near-term exploration capability.

EML-2 could serve as a gateway for capability-driven exploration of multiple destinations, such as near-lunar space, asteroids, the moon, the moons of Mars and, ultimately, Mars itself, according to NASA officials. A capabilities-driven NASA architecture is one that should use the agency’s planned heavy-lift rocket, known as the Space Launch System, and the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle “as the foundational elements.”

Above: Artist’s concepts of astronauts working in a possible space station near the Moon, with a docked Orion spacecraft. [source]

I’d rather see them put some radio telescopes on the dark side of the moon first, but this is a cool concept (shame we’ll probably never see funding for this though).

unknownskywalker: Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area This...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:25:01 -0500

unknownskywalker:

Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area

This nighttime image, photographed in Feb. 2, 2012 by one of the members of the Expedition 30 crew from the International Space Station, features the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area strung along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan.

The region is partially covered by clouds, probably low-hanging, or even fog. Meteorologists say there is a fine line between low thin clouds and fog. Fog is not common in the Great Lakes area this time of the year (usually too windy), but this has been an exceptionally mild winter.

The faint gold line of airglow—caused by ultraviolet radiation exciting the gas molecules in the upper atmosphere—parallels the horizon or Earth limb. Minor auroral activity (Borealis) is visible in upper right.

popmech: Cylon Teddy Bear is just one of our DIY gift ideas for...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:22:00 -0500

popmech:

Cylon Teddy Bear is just one of our DIY gift ideas for your geek Valentine.

It’s frakkin’ sweet. And I know Halloween is a loooong ways away but, there are also plans for a Cylon Jack O’Lantern

scanzen: Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1983 when a NASA...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:16:50 -0500

scanzen:

Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1983 when a NASA delegation and the Enterprise mounted on a Boeing 747 visited the airport Cologne/Bonn in Germany. The Cologne/Bonn airport served as one of 19 non-american abort landing sites throughout the shuttle program.

Photo by Frank Kehren

The Space Shuttle Enterprise (which never went into orbit, it was a prototype to test the gliding characteristics) will soon be on display at N.Y.C.’s U.S.S. Intrepid see http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/shuttle/