Space/Science Private Company to put Robot on Moon (For some reason, this sounds like a terrible idea to me. Sounds like a good way to leave trash everywhere and mess up scientific missions.) Last Rollout of Space Shuttle Discovery (video) Recycling
Friday Round-up
Space/Science Nabokov’s Butterfly Theory Proved Correct NASA spots 54 Potential Life-Friendly Planets Scifi/Fantasy io9’s February Scifi/Fantasy Calendar 12 Revolutionary Uprisings in Scifi 10 Greatest Starships of All Time Utopianism in Steampunk February Fantasy Book Releases Free Read: Chenoire by Suzanne
Friday Round-up
Thank Landsquid it’s Friday, amirite? Space/Science Extreme Planet Makeover (Might be fun for world-building scifi/off-world fantasy) Some confusion over the existence of the Triceratops First One-Fingered Dinosaur Found (It is apparently Dinosaur Week. But that’s okay, because dinosaurs are awesome.) Picture of how
Friday Round-up
Space/Science Discovery Astronaut Hurt in Bike Accident (Poor shuttle astronauts. They are having a bad month.) Darkness on the Edge of the Universe First Mammoth Cloning Experiment Officially Underway (Poor mammoths. They are going to look around and wish they’d just been
Friday Round-Up
I’m moving the round-up to Friday this month as I’m trying out a new posting schedule. Let me know if you prefer Thursday or Friday. I work on the round-ups all week long, so it doesn’t much matter to me
Happy New Thursday Round-up!
Greetings, friends! Here’s what exciting in the new year thus far: Science/Space Round-up of Space Science Performed in 2010 Titan May Be Capable of Creating DNA Awesome Solar Eclipse Picture (with bonus ISS) Mars Rovers Celebrate 7 Years on the
What did I read in 2010?
In 2009 I started keeping track of what books I read, what genres they were, and what I thought about them. I have weird bouts of organization like that. 2009 was so much fun that I repeated it for 2010
Thursday Round-up
Things have been a bit slow this week. I suspect everyone’s eaten too many cookies. Science/Space NASA’s New Idea on Cheap, Easy Launches Discovery is returned to the VAB in an attempt to figure out external tank issues Time lapse
Thursday Round-up
Science/Space High Definition Video of the ISS from the Space Shuttle NASA Solarsail Lost in Space Saturn Stripped Icy Moon to Create Rings Forests May be Detectable on Extrasolar Planets First Exoplanet System Imaged Voyager 1 has Outdistanced Solar Wind
Thursday Round-up
Science/Space NASA Creates Material Ten Times Darker Than Black Secret Space Plane Pictures NASA Ejects Nanosatellite from a Microsatellite (With bonus spacesail) Dark Matter Galaxies Orbit the Milky Way Total Lunar Eclipse on the Winter Solstice (Mmm, the writer in me likes
