Interstellar

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• Pentagon Plans Zombie Pig Project: Night of the Living Swine?

  
  Gadgetreview — Authority: 581
  Now, you might look at the above title, and conclude that I’ve finally gone whistling fruitcrackers clear round the bend.  Or maybe just thoroughly insane for those who don’t like colorful metaphors.  But I assure you it is true–the Pentagon is currently hard at work spending your tax dollars on creating a ...
  10 hours ago

• SpaceShipTwo Debuts; Next Stop Space Tourism!

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 487
  Nearly a year ago, PopFi covered billionaire/maniac Richard Branson’s desire to start a space tourism industry.  Well, the spaceship model he developed has finally become a reality, as the real SpaceShipTwo has been revealed to the public after countless thousands of dollars in engineering work.  Not only is ...
  3 days ago

• World’s largest telescope spells golden age of astronomy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Toronto, Dec 3 (IANS) Hailing it as the beginning of a golden age of astronomy, researchers say the latest data beamed back to earth by the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO) is providing them a rare peep into distant galaxies. Herschel is the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space.It carries one-piece ...
  1 week ago

• Data from Herschel to shed new light on star formation in nearby galaxies

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, December 2 (ANI): The latest data delivered back to Earth by the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO) is providing astronomers with a better understanding of the composition, temperature, density and mass of interstellar gas and dust-the fuel for star formation-in nearby galaxies and star-forming ...
  1 week ago

• Black-hole Starship Drives: Future or Fantasy?

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  In mainstream science, especially rocket science, building a rocket that is capable of attaining the speed of light is akin to fantasy, like using a mirror to enter Wonderland. Now however, there are two physicists who insist that using black-holes (or singularities) to power spaceships is not only possible, but ...
  1 week ago

• Charlie Stross: we’re probably never going to build starships

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 616
  Here’s a second piece of punditry for your Monday morning, this time from the inimitable Charlie Stross. He’s been poking the traditional sf mythology of the starship with a sharp stick over the last few months, and the end result is a suggestion that – as far as realistic speculation about the future is ...
  1 week ago

• Herschel space telescope observes biggest star’s death throes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 28 (ANI): Europe’s Herschel space telescope has observed the death throes of the biggest star known to science.According to a report by BBC News, the observatory, launched in May this year, has subjected VY Canis Majoris, to a detailed spectroscopic analysis. It has allowed Herschel to identify the ...
  1 week ago

• EVE Morning Report provides news-style daily snapshot of games economy

  
  Massively — Authority: 671
  EVE Online is a game that can be different things to different people. While some players are intent on the destruction of their fellow capsuleers, others prefer to focus on other aspects of the game like trading and mass production. After all, EVE s setting of New Eden is one largely dominated by ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Shape for the Heliosphere

  
  Centauri Dreams — Authority: 124
  One problem with journeys that are beyond today’s technologies is that we forget, in our zeal to get a payload to the target, how little we know about the regions we’ll pass through along the way. It’s amazing how little we know, for example, about the heliosphere around the Solar System, yet any probe pushing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wonky Planet Discovery and Algae Against War

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  The theory of planetary formation is now being questioned. A discovery of a planet that orbits its parent star in reverse of its spin is certainly an oddity; only three have been discovered to date. Now planetary scientists are scratching their heads about how this phenomenon can occur: Astronomers have found an ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Vatican, Alien Life and UFOs

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  As the discovery of the number of planets outside of our little Solar System increases (the count is now 400 ), the possibility of discovering earth-type planets (or moons) increases also. Among which perhaps 10% of the estimated total in the whole galaxy could approximately be at least 10 Billion worlds . And ...
  4 weeks ago

• EVEs Quarterly Economic Newsletter focuses on impact of anti-RMT operation

  
  Massively — Authority: 671
  One of the strengths of the sandbox game EVE Online is its player-driven economy, which developer CCP Games monitors through a small team of researchers headed up by Lead Economist Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson (aka CCP Dr.EyjoG ). They observe all manner of player interactions and sift through a tremendous amount ...
  4 weeks ago

• Paracast’s Tribute To Mac Tonnies and Project Kugelblitz

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 124
  Gene Steinberg and David Biedny celebrate the life of Fortean/science-fiction writer Mac Tonnies on the November 1st, 2009 Paracast with guests Greg Bishop, Patrick Huyghe, Paul Kimball and Nick Redfern, people who were close friends or worked with Tonnies on various projects. A very touching send-off for ...
  5 weeks ago

• Scientists find ‘ultra-primitive’ particles in comet dust

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 3 (ANI): In a new study, samples of comet dust collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos.The stratospheric dust includes minute grains that likely formed inside stars that lived and died long before the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ultra-primitive Particles Found In Comet Dust

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  Dust samples collected from the stratosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, scientists report. The dust includes presolar grains and material from interstellar molecular clouds. This "ultra-primitive" material likely wafted into the atmosphere after the Earth passed through ...
  5 weeks ago

• Interstellar Marines Unlocked Vault Teaser Trailer

  
  Gaming Today — Authority: 147
  This trailer shows off just over a minute of gameplay footage from Interstellar Marines and features the entire Vault in the game that is now open to the public. Get the video here Share and Enjoy:
  6 weeks ago

• Hot Dust Affects View of Eta Carinae

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  In a paper to appear in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, available online now here , astronomer Nathan Smith of UC Berkeley, concludes that dust grains “composed of corundum or similar species that condense at high temperatures” are responsible for the infrared (IR) spectral energy densities ...
  6 weeks ago

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