Coolest video/cg I’ve seen this week. With a combination of science and 3d Animation, Scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory made this nifty movie which brings to life complex magnetic fields. Take a look and read the back story.
Finally, make sure to turn the sound up. In addition to the trippy visuals, the crackle and pop of [...]
Two interesting pieces of “News from the Moon” lately.
First, European Space Agency scientists, at a conference in Strasbourg last week, discussed the possibilities of building a “Lunar Doomsday Ark” on the moon. The concept is to have a repository of all the necessary information needed to rebuild civilization on earth, should a catastrophic event ever [...]
Darn, not this time. Just when I thought we were making some progress with the SETI@home project, it comes out that the whole story of SETI finding a valuable signal was just twisted around by some reporter.
Here’s how it went down: Dan Wertheimer, an astronomer, told a reporter from KTVU that he may have heard [...]
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