Watching The World Change
Most people remember the apocalyptic movie “Armageddon,” that is about a specialized NASA team sent into space to deflect an asteroid from hitting the Earth. Well it seams that this doomsday scenario might be now closer to fact than fiction. The Business Standard website is reporting that a specialized NASA team is currently being trained…
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Warp drive. It’s the stuff of pure science fiction. It propels ships in Star Trek to brave new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations. But give NASA a few years, and warp speed may become science fact instead of science fiction. “Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such…
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Everything we understand about our own universe has to come from information gathered through the senses. And while the eyes and ears can have quite abstract concepts ferried to them, it’s still impossible to actually observe these complex ideas in everyday life. We can only really observe analogies. So where we have come to understand…
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After a “no-go” mere days ago at the launch pad, the private space industry is giving the industry another shot as they carry their dragon supply craft up into space. The trailblazing SpaceX company fired its shuttle from the Space Complex at Cape Canaveral and made its next foray into space without incident. The launch…
As the planet’s first Annular Solar Eclipse in 18 years passes over us, NASA is still examining the findings of a recent survey of our immediate orbit. In the exploration, the space agency noted that there could be up to 4,700 potentially hazardous near Earth objects in our vicinity. Of these, only a fraction have…
An asteroid only spotted after it had already passed by Earth is expected to return in 2013 to miss yet again. But with an object passing by so frequently and so closely as this object, many sky watchers are concerned that it could soon be on a collision course with Earth. The asteroid is expected…
What sounds like a series of propositions for a villain from a James Bond movie may actually be the answer to one of the greatest conundrums facing the future of space travel. And now scientists are examining the possibility of several measures that could help solve one of the most pressing concerns regarding the future…
With NASA’s space shuttle program on indefinite hiatus and political pundits attempting to make a case for space travel in the future, some have turned to the numbers and asked if the numbers add up for space travel in the future. Is there big business in space? Are we looking at the end of an…
Very few constructions proposed by scientists are nearly as ambitious as one project designed by a Physicist utilizing the help of his students. Gerard K. O’Neill’s proposal suggests something so large and so monumental that many scientists can’t imagine ever accomplishing it. Of course it should be noted that “impossible” is a word that scientists…
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It’s the scene in the disaster movie where the plot really starts rolling. At 4:30 in the morning a phone rings and a respected astronomer receives a call informing him that an asteroid is heading toward Earth. After a moment of talk, the astronomer looks dead into the distance and makes an expository appeal that…
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