Twilight Zone - The Cold Equations - S3:16 - January 1, 1989
A spaceship captain finds a stowaway on his ship and when no fuel can be spared, something has got to go.
Rusted sailor (arhtleftis, my left hip) I am writing Sci-Fi novels for my children and grandchildren. Looking at today's publishing world it will be hard to get them published, no existential conflict. Just a serial adventure. explorers out finding new planets. For the traditionalist there are...
Lets explore what it takes to be a human being. Starting with the basic requirements. Many of us delude ourselves into thinking we could not live without things. As I see it, there are only a few actual requirements to live.
Such as;
Air-
We need air to breathe. Not just any air, a specific...
I was very moved recently by an article about the first dog into space, the Soviet space dog Laika.
I had heard of her and I knew she was the first dog in space but I never knew what happened to her, I kind of assumed she had been euthanised prior to oxygen depletion, as was the official...
The Martian (2015) - IMDb
An astronaut, stranded on Mars, struggles to survive.
Based on the Novel by
Andy Weir
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Announcement Article at Space.com
Ridley Scott to...
"Engage warp drive! Nasa reveals latest designs for a Star Trek-style spacecraft that could make interstellar travel a reality
A Nasa scientist in Houston worked with an artist to create the concept
The interstellar spacecraft builds on previous designs that thoeretically allow distant travel...
Wow, here's a pretty cool shot of how Earth looks like just another speck in the sky from Mars. :cool:
The rover's view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth.
The images, taken about 80 minutes after sunset during the rover's 529th Martian day (Jan. 31...
Hubble Unveils a Deep Sea of Small and Faint Early Galaxies
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Scientists have long suspected there must be a hidden population of small, faint galaxies that were responsible during the universe's early years for producing a majority of stars now present in the cosmos...
The World's Tallest Mountain
Fourteen mountain peaks on Earth stand taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). The tallest of these “eight-thousanders” is Mount Everest, the standard to which all other mountains are compared. The Nepalese name for the mountain is Sagarmatha: “mother of the...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 25 flight engineer, is pictured in the Cupola of the International Space Station on Oct. 14, 2010. NASA has selected Kelly for a one-year mission aboard the station in 2015. Kelly will join Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko on a mission that will collect...
Interesting to note that NASA has placed a large number of sounds online for people to grab, in MP3 and iTunes format for people to place on their phones.
Audio and Ringtones
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President Barack Obama looks at a photo presented to him while meeting with the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the U.S. Commander of the ISS Expedition 26 in the Oval Office, Aug. 2, 2011. From left to right: STS-134 Pilot Gregory H. Johnson...
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This oblique view of the lower mound in Gale Crater shows layers of rock that preserve a record of environments on Mars. Here, orbiting instruments have detected signatures of both clay minerals and sulfate salts, with more clay minerals apparent in the...
The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft will fly by another planet today (March 18, 2011). However, the robotic craft won’t be taking any images as it zooms past Uranus’ orbit at about 6 p.m. EDT, 3.8 billion kilometers (2.4 billion miles) away from the gas giant (and 2.0 billion km (1.8...
NASA Picture Of The Day
A Strange Ring Galaxy
Is this one galaxy or two? Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that...
NASA Picture Of The Day
Islands of Four Mountains
The picturesque, but snow-capped volcanoes, composing the Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska's Aleutian Island chain look suspiciously like an alien world in this August 2010 image from the ASTER camera aboard NASA's orbiting Terra...
NASA Picture Of The Day
Hydrogen Sulfide and Dust Plumes on Namibia's Coast
Cloudless skies allowed a clear view of dust and hydrogen sulfide plumes along the coast of Namibia in early August 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured...
NASA Picture Of The Day
Anaxagoras Crater
This image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the floor of the moon's Anaxagoras crater, including a portion of the crater's anorthositic central uplift. The boulders perched on ridges are eroding out of densely fractured bedrock. This image...