Archive for the 'space' Category

This would be a good substitute for flying cars, Science.

Water bears can survive under the very very harshest of conditions. Also they are sort of cute and terrifying at the same time. And now they have made and survived (mostly) an unprotected near-earth orbit.

Full-resolution photo taken by the Hubble of a teeny-tiny segment of the sky, which is also of course huge beyond imagining. 11.3 days of exposure, et voila. Just over 100mb of space.

Great high-resolution photo of a shuttle launch. Reminds me a little of Mark Tansey's Action Painting.

Two directories with some space-related audio clips, the first from NASA's INSPIRE project (very low frequency radio waves) and the second a recording of a radio burst caused by a solar flare on 4/9/2001.

ROBOTS / FUTURE CITIES / STAR TRAVEL (star travel?).

"Each time, when I repressed the airlock, opened the hatch and welcomed two tired workers inside, a peculiar odor tickled my olfactory senses. At first I couldn't quite place it."

A big cylinder launched into space as a platform for experimentation. Experiments happened on its surface, but it itself did not constitute an experiment.

I can't even begin to imagine why.

A not particularly carefully OCR'd pdf of Clynes' and Kline's groundbreaking article on the plausibility of modifying the human body to adapt to extended periods of spaceflight. Might be worth considering in the face of the doping scandal, might not.

The list of artificial objects on the surface of the moon article has been sitting in my RSS reader for months. This is one level up.

Excellent, though sort of needlesslay flash-heavy interface for hearing/seeing the golden record sent out with the Voyager. Amazing: "Johnny B. Goode" is on there. via kio.

The new terra incognita.