Posts Tagged ‘space’
A Long Way Home Arrives on Android
- Indie Developer Jonathan Mulcahy is pleased to introduce A Long Way Home for Android. You have been stranded 100 light years from Earth, can you survive the long way home? A Long Way Home is an action / physics / puzzle game set in space. Making you way through 100 levels across 10 stages you must jump from asteroid to asteroid collecting enough [...]
Will This Current Solar Maximum Hurt the Fledgling Private Space Flight Industry?
Will This Current Solar Maximum Hurt the Fledgling Private Space Flight Industry? By Lance Winslow "To boldly go where no man has gone before," a phrase we all know, and one we grew up with. Today, it is more than likely that private citizens will actually get that chance. No, they may not go very far into space, but they may very well [...]
Comet turns into a Christmas star
Comet turns into a Christmas star. If anyone questioned whether Comet Lovejoy would become the star of the season — and a lot of people did — the pictures of the past few days have removed any doubt. In the Southern Hemisphere, the death-defying comet is truly this year's "Star of Wonder." Not only do we have an amazing video of the [...]
NASA Works On Growing Food In Space!
NASA Works On Growing Food In Space! By Freddy Caple We've all seen the movies and television shows that portray space travel as being more than just a few days or weeks living in space, which is a far cry from reality. The media tends to show an exciting future where living in space for very long durations is possible. But, what about food [...]
Space! Where Solar Energy Is Limitless
Space! Where Solar Energy Is Limitless By Debbie Shockley The plan behind Space Based Solar Power is to send satellites in orbit around earth equipped with solar panels to collect the sun's energy, thereby; converting it to microwaves which are sent back to earth to be picked up by special by a special antenna called a "rectenna." It sends it [...]
Could Titan’s seas harbor life?
Could Titan’s seas harbor life?. By Alan Boyle A fresh photo from the Cassini orbiter shows the hydrocarbon-rich seas and dunes of Titan, a Saturnian moon that might be capable of sustaining life as we don't know it. The picture, published today on the websites of NASA's Saturn [...]
A Parallel Analogy Between Supernovae And Cosmology
Free Shipping on everything at Panasonic.com from 11/20 thru 12/31! A Parallel Analogy Between Supernovae And Cosmology By John Prytz Cosmology is the study of the evolution of our Universe as a whole - from birth to death, or maybe birth to death to rebirth. Stellar objects and events, like nova and supernovae are in the [...]
Dark Asteroids Found Near Earth : Discovery News
Dark Asteroids Found Near Earth : Discovery News Posted using ShareThis A new infrared telescope has found 16 previously unknown asteroids that swing close to Earth. By Irene Klotz | Thu Mar 11, 2010 02:45 AM ET Comet Siding Spring appears to streak across the sky in this infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared [...]
The Canals of Mars
The Canals of Mars By Steve Challis Discovery In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli of Italy was looking at Mars through his telescope and saw what he described as canali. I cannot speak Italian, and would probably guess that this meant canals. This is what many English speaking people did at the time, but apparently it means channels, not specifically [...]
Is the American Space Program Coming to an End?
Is the American Space Program Coming to an End? By Thomas Ajava The cold war was not good for much, but it was a great time to be in the space program of either the USA or USSR. The governments were racing to be the first in space in this way or that, which led to the funding needed to do things like walk on the moon and send probes around our [...]
