Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
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Google Earth VR is the Most Mind Blowing Virtual Reality Experience I've Had To Date! #VR #HTCVive #VirtualReality


Introducing Google Earth VR, our next step to help the world see the world. With Earth VR, you can fly over a city, stand at the edge of a mountain, and even soar into space. Google Earth VR is available now on Steam for the HTC Vive. Learn more at g.co/earthvr



Wow!  This is cool.

For those of you who know me, you've heard me rave about my experiences with virtual reality since I bought an HTC Vive a few months ago.   I think it's the best experience on the market and it just keeps getting better and better.

Today was the best.  Google released an app for Google Earth VR and it is mind blowing.  Tonight, I was sitting in the middle of my living room but it felt like I was flying all over the world including Paris, New York City, San Francisco, and perhaps weirdest of all for me, directly in front of my childhood home. 

I floated all around Niagra Falls, the great pyramids in Egypt, and Devil's Tower in Wyoming.  It was very surreal and I stayed up an hour past my bed time enjoying it.  If you haven't experienced the HTC Vive yet, make arrangements to do so and check this out.  You will be amazed!

Todd Swank



Elon Musk Reveals Grand Plan to Colonize Mars​


SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ​unveils his ambitious plan to inhabit Mars and shows a concept video of the interplanetary transport system he's designing for the mission.


The Space Between Us Movie Trailer #Mars #Space


In this interplanetary adventure, a space shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that one of the astronauts is pregnant. Shortly after landing, she dies from complications while giving birth to the first human born on the red planet – never revealing who the father is. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Gardner Elliot – an inquisitive, highly intelligent boy who reaches the age of 16 having only met 14 people in his very unconventional upbringing. While searching for clues about his father, and the home planet he’s never known, Gardner begins an online friendship with a street smart girl in Colorado named Tulsa. When he finally gets a chance to go to Earth, he’s eager to experience all of the wonders he could only read about on Mars – from the most simple to the extraordinary. But once his explorations begin, scientists discover that Gardner’s organs can’t withstand Earth’s atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner escapes the team of scientists and joins with Tulsa on a race against time to unravel the mysteries of how he came to be, and where he belongs in the universe.

New Star Trek TV Show coming to CBS in 2017! #StarTrek #Trekkies


At the CBS Upfront presentation at Carnegie Hall in New York on May 18, CBS unveiled the logo for the new STAR TREK television series within the first-ever promotional video for the highly-anticipated program.

Massive Meteor Caught On Police Car Video Camera

American Meteor Society Event #1750-2016 caught by a Police Officer of the Plattsburgh Police Department.


SpaceX Rocket Launch Animation. Falcon Heavy will lift off for real later this year!



Published on Jan 27, 2015
When Falcon Heavy lifts off later this year, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. Thrust at liftoff is equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft operating simultaneously.

The Universe is Really, Really Big



Published on Jan 6, 2015
First & Last photo by Cory Poole: https://www.facebook.com/CoryPoolePho...

Super-high resolution image of Andromeda from Hubble (NASA/ESA): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/...

Music is 'Koda - The Last Stand': https://soundcloud.com/kodachrome/kod...

Space is crazy.

PS, Hi Elon :)

The ISS crosses the moon



Published on Dec 28, 2014
The International Space Station (ISS) crosses the moon! It required some setup and find the exact location as even one kilometer difference in the location will change the pass position.
Please read my full article with moe explanations and details
http://www.thevenustransit.com/2014/1...
I used two cameras, the first clip is from a Canon 700d with Simga 18-250 at max zoom and the closeup is with Canon SX50 at max zoom (1200mm equiv).

I was not sure that I actually got it or that the ISS really passed the moon, and even when I looked at the small camera screen just after taking the photo I was not sure if it is good. Only at home on a regular screen I was very happy that I manage to take the video.
Hope you will like it

תחנת החלל חולפת על פני הירח

An Astronaut's Guide to Optimism



Published on Dec 27, 2014
Our world is not as bad a place as we often feel it to be. It is easy to look to the future and lament on how far there is left to go, but sometimes it is helpful to stop and reflect on just how far we've come.

This New Years, my resolution is to help make our world a better place. What's yours?
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Little Girl Amazed By Space Shuttle Launch



Published on Aug 22, 2014
Shaylee watching a space shuttle launch on tv.

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Proof We Landed on the Moon: It's In the Dust



Published on Aug 22, 2014
Want to read more about the rooster tails on the Moon? Check out this article from Vintage Space: http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vi...

Title image via NASA. Music "New Perspective" from Music Loops.

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Questions or comments? Leave them below! Let's talk about space!

Pluto and Giant Moon Charon Imaged By Probe | Video



Published on Aug 11, 2014
NASA’s New Horizons snapped the big dwarf planet and its nearby moon for 5 days (July 19th-24th, 2014). Charon is 750 - 753 miles diameter, the largest known compared to the size of its host planet. Some consider Pluto-Charon a binary planet. -- What Are Pluto's Other Moon Named? - http://goo.gl/ws0Gro

NASA Captures Photo of An Alien On The Moon



Published on Jul 18, 2014
*This video is not a claim*

For a balanced look at this THING, check out this article:
http://www.examiner.com/article/colos...

Remember the 1967 NASA image referred to as "The Shard"? A strange and very large tower type figure that appeared in one still image captured by Lunar Orbiter III (I think). Well, this thing spotted by Jasenko could be eerily similar. An irregularly shaped dark spot he noticed on Google Moon looks like it could be a cast shadow from a massive standing object, or figure. At first I thought maybe it was something drawn into the picture but after going to G. Moon, whatever it is or isn't.. uh, is there. You get the idea. Go check it out and of course decide for yourself. Debunk it, shred it, figure it out.

The music:
http://soundcloud.com/wowforreeel/man...


Thanks Jasenko!

Check out Jasenko's YT channel here and give him a shout:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTIp...

Coords:
27°34'26.35"N 19°36'4.75"W

Image credit - NASA and Google Earth (Moon)

Music by Wowforreeel

Wicked sounds in the trees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVpH0...

LDSD: Supersonic Test Flight (HD)



Published on Aug 8, 2014
Ian Clark, principal investigator of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, takes us through a play-by-play of NASA’s recent 'flying saucer' Test in Hawaii, using high-definition video shot from cameras on board the test vehicle.

Bill Nye: We May Discover Life on Europa



Published on Jul 30, 2014
Bill Nye (The Science Guy!) describes the possibility of discovering life on Europa, arguing that we might make such a discovery in as little as 20 or 30 years. Bill is the CEO of the Planetary Society (http://planetary.org/).

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Bill Nye: What we at the Planetary Society do is do our best to advance space science and exploration. We strongly believe that the search for life is worthy because it would change the world. So, the two logical places to look in the solar system are Mars and this moon of Jupiter called Europa. And if you've never seen Europa I encourage you to go out there and take a look. You need a telescope or binoculars and look at Jupiter. Jupiter is a very bright object. Go to Planetary.org we'll show you where it is. And you can see they look like pinpricks of light, the same pinpricks of light that Galileo himself observed when he took what was nominally a military instrument, a telescope for looking at the other team, your enemy on the other hilltop, and pointed it at the sky. Not only did he point it at the sky, he pointed it at the sky at night. And so he found Jupiter and he found these four moons, which we nowadays call the Galilean moons after him. But meanwhile dozens of other moons have been found, dozens.

And the reason we talk about Europa so often and so much in my little space community is because it has twice as much seawater as the Earth. And for years people who looked at Europa did not think it was good or well advised to plan a mission there because of the great expense. You would have to have a lander and then you'd have to have some kind of amazing drill to drill through, pick a number, 20 or 50 km of ice to get to this seawater. And so the surface of Europa is frozen. It's a crust of ice, water ice, but below it is liquid water and it's kept liquid by the gravitational or what we call tidal action of Europa's orbit with this massive Jupiter. Europa's orbital period is 85 hours. And I got to tell you imagine the moon going around the earth every two days, every three days. Instead of a month you'd have a three-day period. It would be really short, a short month. And so this keeps - like squeezing a rubber ball it keeps Europa warm so there’s seawater.

So, it's people who have looked at what it takes to be a living thing, which nowadays these people nowadays call themselves, we like to call ourselves, itself astrobiology. Astrobiologists have thought deeply about what it takes to be a living thing. You've got to have a membrane or a wall, something that separates you from what's not you and you'd probably have to have a liquid, a solvent. And the best solvent anybody can come up with is water. so with the gravitational action and the frozen icy crust, Europa shoots geysers of water out into space all the time. So now it would be possible, instead of landing there and building some exotic drill and declaring the whole mission way too expensive to ever do, you would build a much more modest spacecraft that would have to go the extraordinary distance out to Jupiter and get an orbit out there around Europa, but, you would have it fly through the geysers, actually the orbit would be around Jupiter, have it fly through the geysers, and like looking at bugs on the windshield. I mean it would be extraordinary if there are living things there.

It would be a great, it would be a worthy thing. We may discover life. Now, John Culberson, Congressman from Texas, from West Houston, believes he's sure of it. There's got to be life on Europa because it has all these wonderful literally elements of life. The chemicals that make up life are mixed in the seawater. This has been determined using magnetometers and spectrometers on the Galileo Spacecraft, which has been in orbit out there for a long time. Europa has seawater, squirting it into space. You can send a relatively inexpensive mission. And that's a relatively inexpensive is $2 billion. But $2 billion spread over ten years is barely the cup of coffee per taxpayer once. And that pays for the whole mission over ten years. And my feeling is people buy a lot more than one cup of coffee every ten years.

So that's why somebody in authority, somebody with reasonable insight at NASA said we'll find life in the next 20 years. I would say the next 30, but 20 is great. Let's say if we could launch, we could get in the orbit of Jupiter and Europa by 2022, you'd get results back by 2025 and then things don't happen as fast as you think they would so add ten years. Yeah, so 20 years. Twenty years from 2014, that's possible.

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10 Weirdest Things Found in Outer Space



Published on Jul 27, 2014
10 Weirdest Things Found in Outer Space

Right now zombie stars and cannibalistic galaxies are roaming through outer speace, Watch the video to discover more of the weirdest thing travelling through the galaxies



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The Moon Illusion





Published on Oct 24, 2012 by 
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"Look how big the moon is!" you've shouted before. But what if I told you that the moon never really changes size, and it's simply your brain playing a trick? Find out what The Moon Illusion is, and why it happens!

Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).

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Music by Mitchell Moffit
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Art by Gregory and Mitchell
http://www.gregorybrownart.tumblr.com
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Some Sources---

1) http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1963-02291-001
2) http://retina.anatomy.upenn.edu/~bart/scriptie.html
3) http://bit.ly/Tw4Dkv

CONAN Exclusive: World's Shortest Freefall!



Published on Oct 16, 2012 by 
World's highest freefall? Pfft. SO last week. Prepare for four inches of pure excitement! More CONAN @ http://teamcoco.com/video

Felix Baumgartner Space Jump: Unreleased Audio



Published on Oct 15, 2012 by 
SB Nation uncovered the unreleased audio of Felix Baumgartner's world record freefall from 24 miles above the earth.

FULL VIDEO Felix Baumgartner Jump - Red Bull Stratos



Published on Oct 14, 2012 by 
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