The fact that we failed to notice 99.999% of life on Earth until a few years ago is unsettling and has implications for Mars.
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Brady rants about astronauts dressing up as superheroes at 34:05
“Epoch is an experimental film intended to take you on a voyage through our solar system and beyond. It is a personal project orchestrated to share our enjoyment and admiration for science fiction films and literature.”
“In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark about the foundations of science, our current understanding of the universe, and the risks of future breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.”
“i say, while everyone is trying to jump to mars for no clear reason, we gently embed a ship into a carbony asteroid and figure out how to live off the carbon and then spend 5 generations hopping from one to the next, progressively figuring out how to live further and further from the sun, eventually leaving the oort cloud entirely and settling up to live off the tidal forces a satellite feels when orbiting a rogue gas giant…”
talk by Charlie Loyd from Eyeo 2016
“[Vision] is really a very inexact and artistic, personal interpretation of some form of reality.”
gamma-ray bursts explained
Dustin goes to a NASA training center to experience hypoxia
“The first topographically accurate lunar globe, displaying the current lunar phases at any given time.”
1st place in PC 64k compo at Revision 2016
“We’re taking astronaut pee… and we’re burnin’ it. And we’re looking at the color… of burned astronaut pee.”
“NASA: Decade long flight across the solar system. Arrives within 72 seconds of predicted. No errors. Me: undefined is not a function”
“The Solar System’s solid surfaces stitched together”
Tony Stark presents a spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to near orbit
“[…] unmanned NASA and ESA programs have been putting landers on Titan, shooting chunks of metal into an inbound comet, driving rovers around Mars and continuing to gather a variety of priceless observations from the many active unmanned orbital telescopes and space probes sprinkled through the Solar System. At the same time, the skeleton crew on the ISS has been fixing toilets, debugging laptops, changing batteries, and speaking to the occasional elementary school over ham radio.”
“In 30 years time the Earth may once again capture J002E3 for another brief tour around its home planet.” — NASA, 2002
by Sunita Williams
“I’ve crawled that archive, pulling down the location for each of the 1,129,177 photographs taken from the ISS.”
talk by Donald Pettit, who has been on International Space Station for a total of 370 days
order of 30 MB of transfer to share (per day)