There are a lot of world records and the truth is, a lot of them are really boring. Fortunately, this isn’t one of them. A team of thirty-two people working at the Lego Model Shop in Kladno, Czech Republic spent 17,000 hours and five-million Lego bricks constructing a 43-foot-long, 45,980-pound …
Landsat 5, an observational satellite that was launched into space almost thirty years ago, is celebrating its last holiday season, as the US Geological Survey will soon be shutting it down. It was originally launched in 1984 and intended to have a three-year run, which expanded into almost three decades, …
Science fiction has long been the precursor to ancient science and that relationship has changed this world dramatically. While I was about to write that this year has been no different, the truth is that it has been different. We’re seeing more scientific breakthroughs than even before and that exponential …
That’s no moon, it’s a space station – or it may be soon, if the White House takes this latest petition seriously. The White House’s “We the People” website allows people to start petitions, and if they reach 25,000 signatures, they’ll get an official White House Response. Now the Obama …
If you’re any kind of science fiction fan, then you know about warp drive and Star Trek. As one of the most compelling pieces of technology inspired by the show, the concept has eluded us due to the massive amounts of energy thought to have been needed to drive such …
Happy 40th birthday, ERTS-1. You’re officially over the hill. The ERTS-1, the first Landsat satellite, was launched into space on July 23, 1972 by NASA for global observation purposes and has since become the oldest of its kind. I was going to get it a card, but Hallmark didn’t have …
Planetary Resources, a new space exploration venture backed by the likes of filmmaker James Cameron and Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, among others, is looking to pioneer a new industry and introduce a new type of natural resource. The company is currently scheduled to reveal all in a …
Mars Next Generation, NASA’s name for its Mars exploration program, was among one of the projects hit the worst when the agency’s 2012 budget was severely slashed. Fortunately, NASA has been able to scrape up around $30M by taking money from other programs, such as missions to explore the outer …
If this is all an elaborate prank, color me disappointed. A construction company named Obayashi Corp announced that they’re building an elevator to space that should be completed by 2050. The elevator will be built with carbon nanotubes, which are 20 times stronger than steel, and will take 30 passengers …
Electronic Arts is giving away early copies of the upcoming BioWare sci-fi RPG Mass Effect 3–scheduled to be released on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on March 6th–by launching the discs into space and letting them come back down. The games will be fastened to weather balloons and released into …
The current generation may be more familiar with the Tom Cruise vehicle of the same name than the original science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. Maybe they know about the radio series performed by Orson Welles in the 1930s. Well, it’s time to revisit that tremendous tale again, but in …
