National Geographic’s ‘Mars’ is one of the shows that’s stayed with me over the last year or so Cutting between a fictional future expedition and interviews with scientists and thinkers about the costs of that mission it managed to balance the joy of ‘SPACE!” With some pretty solid factual stuff. ‘Grounded’, the second episode …
Curiosity, on Mars, making it’s way through Artist’s Drive Valley. Looks like a nice day, and it’s this week’s Sunday Moment of Zen.
The Beagle 2 Mars lander deployed on Christmas Day 2003. The hope was that the small ship would make it through the atmosphere, land and unfurl an array of sensors to being studying our nearest planetary neighbour. The project’s principle investigator was British scientist Colin Pillinger who threw himself headlong at both the science and …
That’s a photo from Orion’s test flight earlier this week. NASA’s first manned spacecraft since the space shuttle, Orion is step one in a journey that we’ve wandered down no less than three times; putting humanity on Mars. I remember reading the issue of Spaceflight Magazine detailing Pathfinder, the President Bush-led initiative. The first President …
Even as manned, governmental, spaceflight moves ever further away from practicality, robotic spaceflight is having some extraordinary successes. The Curiosity rover is a standout, a car sized robot rover that has trundled around Mars for months. The images Curiosity has sent back are remarkable because of their immediacy. There’s no saluting spacesuited figure telling us …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5SK-P2h5o&w=560&h=315] FROM: Psychological Operations Department, Esoterics Subdivision TO: Control, Diogenes Club RE: The Quaid Imprint ABSTRACT That an agent or rogue agent can be turned by having their memory overwritten, placing them in a deep cover position where they will be close to a target or able to gather valuable counter-intelligence without ever knowing …