Fifty years after his death, people are remembering where they were when it all happened. I was minus twenty and therefore have no clue. All over the radio – because that’s my main source of news as I travel from work to a geocache – there were people who were there, or were children at […]
Now then, 1963 was the year that Doctor Who was first broadcast. As I type this, I’m in my Doctor Who themed t-shirt of a knitted style TARDIS and Dalek. So, I quite like the programme. Today the BBC announced that David Bradley will play the first Doctor William Hartnell in a BBC drama about […]
When I saw the above headline, I had a Metal Sonic image in my head… however, since it is plastered all over the internet at the moment, as the related articles below show, there is some merit in this story which I saw on The Verge. A team of researchers thinks that small, spiked robots […]
Simply fascinating. This collection by Analytic Graphics Inc. shows real-time (updated every 30 seconds) positions of 13,000 satellites around the Earth. The positions come from a government-sponsored database which shows all satellites. You get the idea that our near-earth space is getting kind of cluttered don’t you? Play with a plug-in here.
NASA‘s latest space telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is delivering unprecedented images of our local star. The telescope was launched Feb. 11. NASA released the first tremendously exciting data from the mission today. “These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in more than 40 years of solar research,” said Richard […]
An astounding infographic, showing space missions by target, country and whether the missions were successful. The bottom of the chart shows the most distant probes (the Voyagers and the Pioneers) and how far away they are (Voyager I is at ten billion miles). If you have a 4000 pixel monitor, this is what it’s for. […]
This is pretty cool. A US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon, revealing hardware and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface. The release of the images coincides with the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The descent stages from the lunar […]
Well, since the shuttle landed safely a few minutes ago, I thought I’d write my thoughts about the whole set of shenanigans. The thing is clearly unsafe… and badly designed. All I’m surprised about is that more shuttle disasters haven’t happened previously. However, my opinions are based on little more than what I’ve heard or […]