Tag: space geekery
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Ovaltine
Catching up on my Twitter feed this morning. Ran across a Tweet from science writer Pamela Gay describing the exploration of the asteroid Vesta by the Dawn probe. “Vesta melted, formed iron core, may have an Ovaltine crust.” Wait, what? Oh. Olivine, not Ovaltine. Okay, then. Read.
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stripes
It’s another too-tired-to-blog post. Today’s eye candy: Saturn. Read.
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curiosity
Hey, we landed another robot on Mars! On the screen in the left background there are a couple of images sent back from the robot just minutes after it touched down. The image on the left is the robot’s shadow on the ground. Too tired to come up with more than that. Off to bed Read.
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voice
This is your “I’m too tired to write drivel, believe it or not” video. You may not have seen this film in science class, but you know that voice. Read.
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flames
The whole world is on fire! In a time-lapse video shot from the windows of the International Space Station, your home planet burns so brightly it’s hard not to wonder how anything can be alive down there. Cities are ablaze, lightning flares through the cloud tops, and the atmosphere itself swirls with the yellow-green flames Read.
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glow
I know our problems down here on earth are so very huge that it seems nobody has the enthusiasm left over to care about what’s going on it orbit or on the moon or even on Mars, but take a gander for just a moment, won’t you, at this awesome freaking photograph. (If you click Read.
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geeking out
I’ve wasted an indefensibly huge amount of time surfing through these photos of PR photos from the original Star Trek television series, but then I’ve wasted an indefensibly huge amount of time watching every episode of the series at least half a dozen times, too. But don’t judge me. Space geekery is a disease. I’m Read.
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apollo model
My basement workshop filled with the reek of burning plastic as I cut the hatch out of my scale model Apollo command module this afternoon. I want to display it with the hatch open and the model doesn’t come with a removable hatch, dammit. What would be so hard about that? It’s probably better that Read.
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