Many of us were glued to the computer last night, watching NASA’s latest Mars mission. The Curiosity, a new exploratory vehicle, was successfully dropped/flung to the Martian surface. Some have pointed out the interesting fact that Apple’s iPhone 4s is four times more powerful than the new rover. This has an additional cool factor too […]
I’m sorry I dumped you for a Virgin. They seemed so exciting at the time, but now I know the truth. I need a more experienced partner. Since we broke up, I’ve done a lot of thinking. I realize now that I focused on all the negative things, and I ignored all the positive contributions […]
NASA CIO Linda Cureton recently blogged about NASA decommissioning the last of their mainframe computers this month. Although not the massive, room-sized machine depicted in so many sci-fi movies, NASA’s seven-year-old IBM z9 was still about the size of a large refrigerator. While there are organizations out there that require the capabilities of a mainframe […]
Twenty-four men have been to the moon; of those 24, only 12 have ever walked on the surface, and, even in his alternate history novels, none of them was Newt Gingrich. This didn’t stop Gingrich from making absurd promises to a gathering of 700 space industry employees and their families this past Wednesday on Florida’s […]
It’s over. We’ve both known this was a long time coming. Things just feel stagnant, you know? I mean, at first, we were both exciting and passionate. You gave me the moon! You took me places I’d never been before! But now, well, we’ve gotten into a rut. We just go to the same place […]
According to C-3P0, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1. According to NASA, the odds of someone getting hit by a piece of falling satellite this week are slightly better, at 3,200 to 1. On approximately September 23, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a dead six-ton satellite decommissioned […]
While the rest of us are busy boarding up windows for Hurricane Irene this weekend, astronaut Ron Garan is busy in space snapping photos like this one. And probably pointing and laughing at us. Taken three days ago from the International Space Station, it shows Irene brooding menacingly over the Caribbean. Must be nice to be […]
Apparently, while I wasn’t paying attention, the world got real Syfy on me. I recently found out that we’ve successfully grown and implanted a trachea grown from stem cells. Somehow, I missed the entire evolution of this process, but it’s pretty damn amazing, nonetheless. I know we’ve been trying to grow bits and pieces of […]
Grossed out yet? Then you may not want to read about the Forward Osmosis Bag. The Forward Osmosis Bag (FOB) system is designed to convert dirty water into a liquid that is safe to drink using a semi-permeable membrane and a concentrated sugar solution. FOB looks at the forward osmosis membrane in a space flight […]
