Sounds like Missile Command to me.
[hattip: TPM]
April 12th, 2011
50 Years After Gagarin, What’s The Outlook Of Space Exploration?
Fifty years after the first man went to space, our space program is in a state of flux. We are closing in on the final missions of the space shuttle era and funding remains in limbo for NASA’s new space capsule and heavy lift rocket. Where will the impetus to invest in exploration come from?
The private sector’s answer is to race to put rich people in space. Just two weeks ago, Richard Branson unveiled Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo that will take anyone willing to pay $200,000 into suborbital space.
Will Branson’s version of space tourism become the norm of space travel and what would be implications to governmental space travel? Space.com looks forward to 2061.
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April 12th, 2011
50 Years Ago Today We Left Earth
[Photo courtesy of National Geographic]
Fifty years ago today, Yuri Gagarin boarded Vostok 1 and became the first man to break the chains of gravity and explore the unknown of space.
During the height of the Cold War, this achievement was not celebrated as the triumph of humanity that it should have been. Unfortunately, fear of Soviet technological supremacy and the possible military implications of successful manned space flight clouded our view of Gagarin’s mission.
April 7th, 2011
I Am Definitely On A Space Kick Today—-Cosmological Fantasia
[hattip: Geeks Are Sexy]
April 6th, 2011
Richard Branson—The Most Interesting Man In the World
Richard Branson doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, it’s in his space shuttle deep sea submersible.
March 24th, 2011
Qatar Might Build Artificial Clouds For the World Cup
While I am sure I should be impressed by the engineering skill involved in these artificial clouds, I just can’t get past what would happen in a strong breeze. Basically the thing is a motorized kite.
BLDGBLOG looks at the regional engineering history that goes into these clouds:
However, justifiable skepticism aside, there is something fantastically interesting in the suggestion that a regional architecture, whose formal and technical history includes several centuries’ worth of portable tent design, would—and I exaggerate—leapfrog past the idea of stationary, permanent construction altogether and instead go for something like an on-demand spatial robotics, such as the “artificial clouds” seen here.
February 22nd, 2011
Man recreates M.C. Escher’s Waterfall
If you can figure out how this was done, then you are a better man than I.
[hattip: New Scientist]
