How would you like to send your name and a haiku straight to the Red Planet? Who’s it for? Who’s gonna read it when it gets there? These are questions I can’t answer, but NASA is giving everyone this unique ...
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Rock samples collected on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover have revealed that the Red Planet may have, at one time, supported life. “Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon — some of the key chemical ingredients for life ...
Read More »Evidence Of Fossilized Vertebrae Found On Mars?
You know, I just can’t help perusing conspiracy forums now and then. It’s where all the cool people hang out. And by cool, I mean…well…let’s just get right to today’s peculiar find.
Read More »Asteroid 2012 DA14: Too Close For Comfort?
On February 15, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will glide past Earth, coming within 27,700 km (or 17,200 miles), closer than our orbiting geosynchronous satellite ring. As you can see in the above animation created by NASA, this will definitely be ...
Read More »Astronauts En Route To Mars Might Get Lazy
Back in 2011, I wrote about the “return” of six volunteers who had, for a period of 520 days, embarked on an imaginary journey to Mars. It was a simulation designed to study the effects of such a long mission ...
Read More »A Crash Course In Galaxy Collisions
Don’t make any plans for about four billion years from now. That’s when our distant neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, will collide with the Milky Way.
Read More »Weekly Roundup: Signing Out For The Holidays
So. Holidays. This is the time of the year when I pretend to be a normal person and take a short break from blogging. But don’t worry; new posts will return once again on December 29, along with… something else… ...
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Stranger Dimensions Proving we actually live in a b-movie since 2011