Hurricane Earl is expected to wreak some havoc on the East Coast this Labor Day weekend. According to the the National Hurricane Center , Earl is expected “pass near the North Carolina outer banks tonight [Thursday]… and approach southeastern New England Friday night.” President Obama has declared a state of emergency for North Carolina, and FEMA has deployed teams to North Carolina, Massach...
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Three compilations of historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr , the fruit of a collaborative effort between Flickr , NASA and the Internet Archive. Although all of the photographs in these sets have been available to the public via NASAimages.org since 2008, NASA on The Commons allows the photographs to be tagged, annotated and given keywords. It also widens the opp...
Three compilations of historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr , the fruit of a collaborative effort between Flickr , NASA and the Internet Archive. Although all of the photographs in these sets have been available to the public via NASAimages.org since 2008, NASA on The Commons allows the photographs to be tagged, annotated and given keywords. It also widens the opp...
NASA joined The Commons on Flickr today, creating 3 sets with 180 beautiful historic photographs from various points in the agency’s rich history. If you love looking at launch photographs, one of the three sets is dedicated to those .
As with most media that comes out of NASA, their photographs on Flickr aren’t under copyright .
NASA on The Commons (via Flickr Blog )
Thirty three men trapped in a 500 sq ft passage by a rock collapse 18 days ago
may not be rescued until Christmas.
Image via Wikipedia
On Tuesday night, U.S. chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra visited the Commonwealth Club, the country’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, to deliver a talk at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The talk, called “Building a Future for Technological Innovation,” covered the recent highlights and future goals of a range of areas the Obama admi...
NASA Time Trials allow for almost any car to compete for the fastest lap time on a legitimate race course. One guy rolled up in his daily driver Lexus and crushed everyone. More »
After a cooling system breakdown, astronauts plan to hook up a critical spare part that can be delivered only by (the soon-to-be retired) space shuttle.
A teszt során fagyáspont alatti több száz foknak tették ki őket, hogy biztosak legyenek benne, az űrben is működni fognak. A teleszkóp hatalmas, berillium tükreiből hatot teszteltek mínusz 248 Celsius-fokon, így a mérnökök részletesen megvizsgálhatták, a hűtés során hogyan deformálódik alakjuk. tovább
Dimitar Sasselov at TED TED
Some big news dropped quietly during a recent TED talk in the UK: Kepler co-investigator Dimitar Sasselov jumped the gun -- and likely angered a few colleagues -- with one of his presentation slides, letting the audience (and the world) know that Kepler has identified at least 140 "candidate" planets in the Milky Way that are "like Earth." That is, they are sm...
Yes, I know I just linked to a David Mitchell video the other day, but this one is so good I figured why not.
Ha! That’s from the UK show "That Mitchell and Webb Look", which is a great satirical show. There are about a gazillionty billion reasons the Moon Hoax folks are wrong, but M&W have boiled it down to its very essence. Well done!
Tip o’ the spacesuit visor to ...
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WASHINGTON — The House science committee on Monday unveiled a new guideline for NASA policy that threatens to upset a carefully-crafted compromise worked out by the Senate and White House last week.
The measure, authored by the top Democrats and Republicans on the committee, calls for NASA to “restructure” the Constellation moon rocket program to help in the development of a new government roc...
Late Monday the House Science and Technology Committee announced that it has completed its draft of a NASA authorization bill and plays a markup session Thursday morning (10 am, Rayburn 2318). The press release states that the committee “is releasing the legislative text of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010″, although the text of the legislation itself ...
Van valami sármos abban, hogy nem a Google Earth (Google Föld) képeit nézegeti az ember, hanem a NASA fotóit . Érdekes dolog a marketing, meg a márkaérték. A Google értéke vitán felül nagyon magas, a hitelessége szintén nem megkérdőjelezhető. Így csak reménykedem abban, hogy valaki meg tudja magyarázni, mitől tűnik egyeseknek "valódibbnak" az űrkutatók fényképei, mint a Google megvásárolt és ...