Bad Astronomy Blog/Best. Image. Ever. Here’s an image of the lander taken from the orbiter. This is so awesome . The coordination is so great that we can take a picture of one probe with another one. Chaulk up another great success for NASA. Now to wait for the science.
Scientific American: You Say “Ga,” I say “Ba,” but Everyone Hears “Da”. This is just a very creepy auditory illusion. It turns out that when you watch someone saying GA, and the sound is over dubbed with BA, you really hear them saying DA. Got it? Check out the link and […]
Phun - 2D physics sandbox. A research product, watch the youtube video. It’s fun to play with. It’s interface is simple, but can get very complicated depending on where you go with it.
Phoenix descent video. Bad Astronomy is on the scene with the phoenix descent video. Phoenix is the next Martian lander which is equipped with devices to look for water and do basic soil element detection. More at NASA Phoenix
Chemistry can be fun. It’s true, and finally it’s presented in a form that I can relate to.
Since the announcement of the Google X prize, plenty of company and schools are competing to get to the moon. Team FREDNET - Race to the Moon is an open source collaboration to build a community to accomplish the task. I think it’s a brilliant idea. They have to raise the funding […]
I don’t usually post about things like this, but this latest Perpetual Motion machine is making it’s rounds. I find the concept interesting, but mostly impossible. If there is some breakthrough it’s probably going to be some efficiency increases in inductive motors. Now that’s not a bad thing considering we want to […]
Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on […]
A great article from the New York Times about hobbyist tracking of government spy satellites. It turns out there is a group dedicating to predicting orbits and guessing at function of these top secret satellites.
NASA has published more Cassini-Huygens: Multimedia-Images. This time it’s a gorgeous picture of Saturns moon Iapetus. It’s an amazing image. With this shot, the images from Mercury, and all the science that’s getting done, it’s a glorious time for NASA. Another job well done NASA.