Tag: space
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions [Review]
port1080.
Posted to SciTech on Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 11:26:42 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the US space program, NASA and the Discovery Channel recently released a new 6 part documentary chronicling the history of American space flight, from the early Mercury missions right up to the present. The documentary revisits many iconic images, but also contains much footage from the NASA archives that is being shown for the first time.
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Take Us To Your Cool Ranch Doritos
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 02:58:39 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Have you ever wondered what mankind's first encounter with space aliens would be like? Would they be hostile to us or would they come in peace? How, when we're just one among billions and billions of places in the Cosmos, do we go about letting any intelligent forms of extra-terrestrial life that Earth is here and would like to hook up? Do we rely upon radio and TV transmissions (and other "historical documents") we have thrust out into the Cosmos over the past 100 years? Nope, the real answer is, if we want to get our message "out there" we have to market ourselves.
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Kick The Ass Of That Asteroid Before It Kicks Ours
MayorBob.
Posted to SciTech on Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 03:02:03 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Among cataclysmic predictions for how life, as we know it, will end on Earth, asteroid strikes rank right up there with super viruses, thermonuclear wars, and the rapture. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is ill-equipped to fight viruses, control nuclear arms, and intervene with supreme deities. Thus, their area of interest is in the matter of asteroids or any other extraterrestrial object colliding with the Earth. Although it seems like the plot of a Hollywood movie, NASA is looking at plans to send humans in space ships to knock asteroids off a collision course with Earth.
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My Very Excellent Mail Carrier Just Served Us Nine Pina Coladas. Ugh!
3fingerspointback.
Posted to SciTech on Fri Aug 18, 2006 at 03:53:26 PM EST. RSS.
Two years ago, the International Astronomical Union met to debate whether "small" objects in the solar system such as Pluto should be counted as planets. On August 16, they released a draft definition of a "planet" that not only counts Pluto, but raises the number of planets in our Solar System to at least twelve.
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