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more about #esa more comments → dfp3050: This might just be the graphic designer in me talking- but did anyone else notice the typo in the official illustration? more » PotteryBarnClearanceSale: Sounds expensive. more » Curves: I saw the vehicle pic and the first thing I thought was "fleshlight". I may be reading Giz too much. more » The5thElephant: I don't understand how they determine Mach factor so high up in the atmosphere. Mach is the speed of sound, but the speed of sound is progressively s... more » mercury_marine: But is it non-caloric and silicon based? more » blash: Spock is more awesome than James T. Kirk. more » The Lab: First, this is awesome. Second, if I remember Physics 7B well enough, magnetic fields only interact with charged particles. Perhaps the upper atmosp... more » Killjoy: After which they'll slap one on the tip of a railgun projectile and see how much faster it hits the ground. If they haven't already. more » Duckspwn: Completely eliminating friction? Is that possible? more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: To anstosa: " If something can't be proven. It's either wrong, or should not be treated with caution and skeptecism until it can be proven." You hit... more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Beautiful. more » :negated:: I refuse to believe that any self-respecting omniscient deity would choose to live in a cloud of dust leftover from the remnants of previous generatio... more » BeyondtheTech: I looked at the title and thought "God is Home." And to think, I didn't scrub the rings around the toilet or pick up some rugelach on the way home. more » 32ndnote: To put the size of this thing into perspective, the closest star to us is about 4.22 light years away... more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: Do they need someone to annoy everyone else? Because I'll take that job. I can be intolerable in close quarters, extremely condescending, and very p... more » -
#space
Magnetic Shields to Protect Spaceships From Re-Entry and Klingon Attacks
Do you know why James T. Kirk is happy? Because those crazy Europeans are developing a magnetic shield that will protect spaceships when entering the Earth's atmosphere. Well, that and because he's thinking about doing naughty things with Uhura. More » -
#space
God's Home
This is NGC 7023. It's also called the Iris Nebula, an immense six-light-year-across cloud of dust located in the constellation Cepheus, 1,300 light-years from planet Earth. I like to call it God's Home. Get inside with this zoom-zoom video: More » -
#space
Volunteers Wanted For 520-Day Pretend Trip To Mars
The European Space Agency is looking for volunteers to spend 520 days isolated a Moscow facility where they'd simulate traveling to, living on, and coming back from Mars. Not bad, except the pretend travel lasts 250 days each way. More » -
#personalcommunicator
Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
My second biggest Star Trek fantasy? Being able to tap a badge to communicate. Silly, but not to a Finnish company who is improving on Star Trek design and my fantasies with flexible, fabric communicators toting built-in GPS to boot. More » -
#spacejunk
Too Much Space Debris? Try a Weak Laser or a Strong Water Cannon
There are 18,000 pieces of tracked space debris in orbit—and millions more smaller bits—all potentially fatal. To nudge them towards the atmosphere to burn up, one scientist proposes lasers, another proposes water. More » -
