Month: August 2015
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Could Wormholes Cause Star Gate-Like Transport?
Wormholes – are they really the stuff of Science Fiction? We have two articles in this issue for you. The first is all about how magnetic fields may travel undetected through space, and the second is just how that might be useful. What would really get interesting is if we could create a device that…
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(Video) Self-Healing Material May Save Future Spacecraft From Disaster
A material that heals itself – think of the possibilities Think of it, a self-healing material just like something you would see in a Terminator movie. But that’s exactly what the combination of science and materials just accomplished. And it has applications that are both Earthly and beyond. It is a special liquid that is…
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Nitrogen Glaciers On Pluto?
New Horizons’ exploration of Pluto is incredible Pluto continues to impress. Photos from the New Horizons mission are continuing to come in and as can be seen from the article below, some indicate there are glaciers on Pluto, perhaps similar in nature to glaciers on Earth. But one big difference here … the glaciers…
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I Repeat, There Is No Asteroid Threatening Earth
Asteroids will kill Earth in September? OK, I like a good story and when we were kids, the ghosts that threatened fellow campers long ago were fodder for fun at the evening campsite. But when internet rumors of death and destruction run wild enough that NASA itself has to come out with an official statement…
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Do These Look Like Asteroids?
Asteroids? Actually, the cover photo may look like a organized group of alien spaceships, but if you read just a bit of the below article, you will see that this is in fact a single asteroid in time lapse photography to show its track. Hence the title of the NASA article. But on a…
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Cassini Says Farewell to Dione
The last Cassini flyby of Dione I love science, and this is one of those occasions. Cassini is about to make a flyby of the icy moon Dione for the last time. It sent photos back in Dec 2004. And again in April 2010 that were simply remarkable. Then again Dec 2011 that were…
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(Video) Top 10 Amazing Things Found In Space
Space is beyond amazing – take a look to see why … A planet candidate for colonization … Raspberries and Rum, yup, that’s what I said. the Sagittarius B2 cloud contains billions of liters of the substance that tastes like Raspberries and smells like rum. An ice planet so densely packed that it cannot…
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(Video) NASA’s Stunning Footage Of Earth
NASA released video of Earth is breathtaking I don’t care how many times you see Earth from a satellite photo, or from an artist’s concept, the video that NASA released below is just awe-inspiring. It shows Earth from a perspective that only NASA can do, and as the video title says, it is “stunning”.…
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(Video) Death Of Our Universe
Our universe is dying When one theory said the expansion rate of the universe should be slowing, it was found to be exactly the opposite. And although that the universe is dying was known as early as the 1990’s, I have to admit, this is the first I’ve heard of it. But just because it’s…
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Colonize The Moon – Really?
Now NASA is talking about colonizing the moon I kind of jokingly put up a Facebook post last week that asked “would you live on the moon”? It surprised me that anybody even responded, but they did. The “share” there was to an article discussing that the new head of the European Space Agency…