Never mind those made-up planets as #scifi settings. This book features stories set on known exoplanets. http://t.co/wUfhxoiyAv
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Capt. Xerox
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Project Icarus’ goal is to achieve interstellar flight by 2100. Meanwhile, we haven’t left Earth orbit in 41 years. http://t.co/gAxkLJYUUN
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Capt. Xerox
How *does* copyright work in space? The Economist explains. http://t.co/YU165sjaZy
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Capt. Xerox
36 km may not sound like much, but it’s the extraterrestrial driving record and it’s now owned by Opportunity on Mars http://t.co/LndmI9uCkO
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Settling a colony on a distant star would cost more than all of Earth’s GDP for the life of the universe. Sigh. http://t.co/9yYYNeMjvK
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Is time travel even possible? Perhaps theoretically, but the engineering to make it happen seems impossible. http://t.co/Wmo2l6uzaQ
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Here are some of the people who would volunteer for a one-way ticket to a Mars colony (and pay $40 to apply) http://t.co/jPnrxzSVwp
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avdezign (Cosmic)
The $40 is just to make sure you only get really interested people… with suicidal tendencies
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In the future, we’ll be using 3D printers to build houses on the moon. Now that’s thinking ahead. http://t.co/YXlnkRHbvr
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So would you volunteer for a one-way mission to Mars to be on a TV reality show? Count me out. I wouldn’t even watch. http://t.co/KOlHJorRts
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It’s likely there are aliens out there somewhere, but, as this writer explains, we’ll likely never meet them. http://t.co/jKXe6kYFM2
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The Guardian writes about the rise of the #robot and how #scifi is blurring with reality. http://t.co/1wP94f0DBb
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A very cool write-up on how some keen amateurs located Russia’s lost Mars 3 lander using modern orbiter images. http://t.co/Bs9R9q2dxz
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Forget what you see in #scifi movies. Exposure to vacuum in space isn’t good for you, but you won’t explode. http://t.co/Qye4UTUT9s
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Capt. Xerox
Twice as many American believe in Bigfoot than they do in the moon landing being a hoax. I guess that’s progress. http://t.co/XoGq4w6PZq
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Wondering why humans haven’t landed on Mars yet? Maybe it’s because it’s a tiny target that’s really, really far away http://t.co/l9dxWL1NMl
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Have you visited NASA’s Space Food Hall of Fame yet? http://t.co/1XSjJ2dRsW
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If astronauts can’t fly to an asteroid, then fly the asteroid to the astronauts. That’s what’s NASA’s planning. http://t.co/LLwULaSS1u
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NASA or MOMA? Is it art or a photo from a space probe? Pretty easy to tell the difference, if you ask me. http://t.co/r2GpbRMXbm
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avdezign (Cosmic)
I wish they would have had Google Earth links to show where these images came from
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Lazarus
I guess you could make it kind of a game and see if you could Google Earth similar images yourself. Then is Google Image search on “MOMA” (or other artistic key words) and find other pics that could be NASA images.
I guess it’s true. We ARE living in a Google world.
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avdezign (Cosmic)
Australia was especially special
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Lazarus
That was fun. I got most of them as soon as I looked at the picture, but there were a few that I really couldn’t tell and had to scroll down.
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Capt. Xerox
Ripped out of the pages of #scifi is this interesting piece about genetically engineering animals for war. http://t.co/koGJksql8X
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This is super cool. Bezos Expeditions has recovered F-1 engines from the Apollo missions. http://t.co/SW24FRooB8
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Astronomers conduct first remote reconnaissance of another planetary system. Spock would be proud. http://t.co/JT9Nfkq8L9
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Some scientists say they’ve found algae fossils in meteorites. Are they from Earth or are they extraterrestrial? http://t.co/Jf39hDCEpn
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I’ve seen plenty of balloons-to-the-edge-of-space videos, but nevert one that has a radio-controlled glider. http://t.co/UTku2aCnho
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Will artificial intelligence doom humanity to extinction? Deep thinkers ponder the fate of mankind. http://t.co/z2yseJYMd9
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These 3D animations of nebulae are pretty cool. http://t.co/udIkOmhLIc
Lazarus 9:06 am on May 29, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Just to be clear, the Icarus project is for non-manned interstellar flight.. We haven’t left orbit for manned missions in the last 41 years, but we’ve certainly launch a few long range craft. The Icarus site you linked has a number of ongoing projects, (the Icarus project proper being one) some manned, some not. I also found it interesting the Icarus project itself was started in 2009 and was supposed to be a 5 year project, so if they are on track, they would be winding down by now. But the link asking for volunteers is still up so I suspect they are falling a bit behind on that schedule. And the last bit of interesting tidbit was that one of the groups that founded the project was the “Tau Zero Foundation”. I initially assumed they are familiar with Poul Anderson’s great novel “Tau Zero”, but now I’m wondering if the Tau constant with regards to interplanetary flight speed was something that predated the novel. (I’m well aware that the Tau constant was certainly around long before that. I still remember the capacitor dis/charging formula.)