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Apr 7 '12
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Mar 18 '12

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Mar 3 '12
rhamphotheca: Best Mars Sky Show of the Year to Happen Saturday by Mike Wall Mars will make a close approach to Earth Saturday (March 3), and interested skywatchers can follow the action live online. Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars align such that the two planets form a relatively straight line with the sun. This cosmic event is called an opposition, because the Red Planet sits on the exact opposite side of Earth from the sun… (read more: Space.com) (image: Artist’s rendering of a Mars opposition, when the Red Planet and the sun sit on exact opposite sides of the Earth (Distances are not to scale) - NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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Best Mars Sky Show of the Year to Happen Saturday

by Mike Wall

Mars will make a close approach to Earth Saturday (March 3), and interested skywatchers can follow the action live online. Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars align such that the two planets form a relatively straight line with the sun. This cosmic event is called an opposition, because the Red Planet sits on the exact opposite side of Earth from the sun…

(read more: Space.com)

(image: Artist’s rendering of a Mars opposition, when the Red Planet and the sun sit on exact opposite sides of the Earth (Distances are not to scale) - NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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Jan 26 '12
inothernews: ELECTRIC BLUE   This new “Blue Marble” image of Earth was produced by the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. The composite image was assembled from image data captured from a number of swaths of Earth’s surface on Jan. 4 and is the best-known high-resolution images of our planet.  (Photo: NASA / NOAA / Suomi VPP / VIRS / Norman Kuring via MSNBC.com)

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ELECTRIC BLUE   This new “Blue Marble” image of Earth was produced by the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. The composite image was assembled from image data captured from a number of swaths of Earth’s surface on Jan. 4 and is the best-known high-resolution images of our planet.  (Photo: NASA / NOAA / Suomi VPP / VIRS / Norman Kuring via MSNBC.com)

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Sep 6 '11

I LOVED Gundam Wing

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Aug 29 '11
“There is an asteroid, discovered in December 2004, called Apophis. Named for the Egyptian god of death and darkness. It was named only after its trajectory was identified to intersect that of Earth… Turns out, in the year 2029, in the month of April… Apophis will come so close to Earth that it will dip below our orbiting communications satellites. And it is the size of the Rose Bowl. It will be the largest, closest thing we have ever observed to come by Earth. The orbit we now have for it is uncertain enough—because these things are hard to measure and hard to get an exact distance for—that we cannot tell you exactly where that trajectory will be. We know it won’t hit Earth, but we know it will be closer than the orbiting satellites. There is a range, a 600-mile zone, called the keyhole. If the asteroid goes through the middle of the keyhole, it will hit the Earth 7 years later. It will hit the Earth 500-kilometres west of Santa Monica. Now, that’s if it goes through the centre [of the keyhole]; if it goes through the centre, it hits the Pacific Ocean, plunges down into the Pacific to a depth of 3 miles, at which point it explodes, cavitating the Pacific in a hole that’s 3 miles wide, three 3 deep. That will send a tsunami wave outward from that location that’s 50 feet high. 5 storeys.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Revolving & Evolving  (via cocknbull)

o sheesh y’all.

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Aug 17 '11
inothernews: Four NASA astronauts from the final space shuttle mission tonight presented host Stephen Colbert with a pretty fucking cool artifact — a “frangible nut.”  As Commander Chris Ferguson explained, The space shuttle is actually held to the launch pad with eight very large nuts. …At the moment that the solid rocket boosters — the big  white ones — fire, there’s charges in either side of that nut that will split that nut in half and actually release the space shuttle from the state of Florida (!!!) so that it may ascend in(to) orbit. Stephen then snarked, “As if launching a rocket were not phallic enough, you literally bust a nut when you go into space.” Learn something new every day!  Also, may your nuts never be frangible.

inothernews:

Four NASA astronauts from the final space shuttle mission tonight presented host Stephen Colbert with a pretty fucking cool artifact — a “frangible nut.”  As Commander Chris Ferguson explained,

The space shuttle is actually held to the launch pad with eight very large nuts. …At the moment that the solid rocket boosters — the big  white ones — fire, there’s charges in either side of that nut that will split that nut in half and actually release the space shuttle from the state of Florida (!!!) so that it may ascend in(to) orbit.

Stephen then snarked, “As if launching a rocket were not phallic enough, you literally bust a nut when you go into space.”

Learn something new every day!  Also, may your nuts never be frangible.

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Aug 17 '11
inothernews: Stephen Colbert, offering (Tang) libations “for my homies at NASA.”

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Stephen Colbert, offering (Tang) libations “for my homies at NASA.”

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Aug 13 '11
mothernaturenetwork: Dark alien planet discovered by NASAScientists are unsure why the planet is blacker than coal, but believe it could be a chemical they ‘haven’t even thought of yet.’

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Dark alien planet discovered by NASA
Scientists are unsure why the planet is blacker than coal, but believe it could be a chemical they ‘haven’t even thought of yet.’

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