Beautiful time lapse view of Earth from the space station
No words… just beautiful… http://vimeo.com/32001208
View ArticleKonstantin’s cable & Google’s tethered space station
NASA artists impression of Konstantin’s cable Surprisingly it was not a science fiction writer who came up with the idea of tethering a space station at a point on the equator via a hugely long cable,...
View ArticleHendrix Reads Aldiss
How about this gem of a photo that @penguinbookaday tweeted recently. OK so technically Jimi Hendrix isn’t actually reading dad’s work (his name is on the cover as the editor), but I am still impressed...
View ArticleRoad trains: the future of connected driving
The utopian futures of urbanisation as depicted films like Minority Report, Star Wars and Blade Runner (utopian?) came one step closer recently when Volvo announced real world trails of something that...
View ArticleAutocells, The Origin of Life and Gaia Theory
The famous Martian meteorite ALH 84001 contains a “fossil” that was ruled out as life because of its small size, however it could still be an autocell – a precursor to life. Credit: NASA The World...
View ArticleNASA Travel Posters
Wow look at these beautiful pieces of poster artwork commissioned by NASA themselves to help inspire a generation to stay on board with the space discovery missions being run by NASA. Commissioned to...
View ArticlePerry Rhodan: most successful science fiction ever
I was amazed to read in Wired Magazine that this series of Science Fiction novels that has been running since 1961 has been publishing novella’s (that’s at least 17,500 words) EVERY WEEK! I mean that’s...
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