China to Launch Mission to Moon's Far Side on Monday
China’s mission to explore the Moon’s far side is set to launch in part on Monday (Sunday in the US). As the Guardian reports:
Some of the EPA's Climate Change Pages Came Back, But They're Missing Something
It’s been nearly six months since the Environmental Protection Agency unceremoniously axed its climate change webpages under the auspices of updating the site to reflect the Trump administration’s priorities.
What China's Yutu Rover Learned on the Moon
A team of scientists has finished analyzing rocks collected by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu in 2013 — the first geologic sampling effort to hit the Moon in forty years. The regolith is unlike any we’ve seen before, and it suggests that the Moon’s history is far more complex than we realized.
Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind
While rumors of a 12-inch MacBook Air have been merrily percolating these last few months, the most interesting aspect of Apple's upcoming redesign turns out not to be the size after all. It's the apparent abandonment of ports.
China Gets A Step Closer To Their Lunar Sample Return Mission
China's Chang'e 5 test vehicle has successfully completed the most recent stage of its lunar return technology demonstration. Launched on October 24th, the spacecraft swung around the far side of the moon, snapped a gorgeous photo of home, and safely returned to Earth on Halloween.
Crazy people change two wheels while driving the car
Why stop to change your tires when you can keep driving on two wheels and have your passengers go out the car to change them as you keep driving? Sploid reader Officer Mike posted a video similar to this on the comments. Apparently, this is something common in arab countries: It's called hagwalah.
NASA snaps a pic of China's Yutu Rover from 93 miles overhead
China's Yutu rover has been spotted by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LRO). The 60-inch wide robot can be seen as a pair of white pixels just east of a 1,500 (450 m) foot impact crater. Thanks to the image, we now know Yutu's exact location.
Watch China's Chang'e 3 land on the Moon!
This weekend, China became the third country in history to put a spacecraft on the Moon with the soft-landing touchdown of its Chang'e 3 probe and deployment of the Yutu rover. Here now for your viewing pleasure is the footage of its picturesque lunar arrival.
Human Poop Is Killing the Coral
This is what coral is supposed to look like. The bad news is that a bacteria from human sewage is killing coral in the Florida Keys and making it look like this.
The World's Fastest SDXC Card Still Can't Compete With Compact Flash... Yet
Delkin's new 64GB SD card may well be the "fastest SDXC card in the world" and with respective read/write speeds of 95 MBps and 45 MBps, it's not hard to believe. But at $540, who's it for?
Solid State Drives Are About to Get 7x Faster if Phase-Change Memory Catches On
Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled phase-change memory drive is expected to up the ante quite a bit.
Our Choice for iPad and iPhone
While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there's no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choice, the latest volley in Al Gore's noble crusade for climate change, is evidence that when crafted with care, the…
Dying Borders Tells Amazon to Go to Hell In Most Passive Aggressive Way Possible
What do you do when your business model and way of life has been obliterated by the internet? Put up a bitchy sign, of course! I will say—it's a clever little middle finger of a flyer. [via Consumerist]
How to Change a Wheel Faster and (Almost) Painlessly
If you ever got caught with a flat—how about that—you know how much it sucks to jack up your car, especially in the middle of a storm, which is when these things usually happen.
I took blurry 5MP phone pics of a girl, and I liked it
Last night, I joined the NY Giz team (and a throng of several hundred strangers) for a Microsoft-sponsored evening with Katy Perry. It was fun. But it was also clear that smartphones have distorted concerts forever. Is that good?
Metal From "Outer Space" Falls Down on Chinese Villages
What would you think if you saw this fall from the sky? Would you think it was from a passing airplane, or scream that the sky was falling like Chicken Little? Would you think that it was from a spaceship?
Science fiction is about the inevitability of change, whether you welcome it or not
"Science fiction is naturally melodramatic and extreme... It asks two great questions, "What if?" and "If this goes on?" And it wants its answers — its disasters — to be big enough to be visible and understood. Is this depressing? Not necessarily. There is a line that comes (I think) from Isaac Asimov. It may be the…
NASA's Earth Day Gift Runs On a 56,832-Core, 128-Screen Climate Research Supercomputer
Earth Week is upon us, and NASA has prepared a very special gift for the blue planet: a planetary data-crunching tool that uses a 56,832-core, 128-screen supercomputer for helping scientists work together toward better climate change research.
President-Elect Obama Loves the Internet, Pledges to Bring it Everywhere
In today's Change.gov YouTube video, President-Elect Obama sounded off on a few tech ideas that have, frankly, been a long time coming. He notes that the States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption, and lays out his plan to bring networking to all public domains.
Humans Will Need a Second Planet by 2030
One Earth just doesn't cut it anymore. As our population grows and we continue to consume resources at an alarming rate, we’ll need the equivalent of a second Earth by 2030 to maintain our current lifestyle. That’s the finding of the latest report from the World Wildlife Fund. And since we don’t have a spare lying…
