A fantastic collection of pictures assembling the NASA Shuttle. The scale is impressive!
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does it make you cry?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
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It brought Robert Scoble to tears… and I can see why. This is the sort of software Microsoft should be releasing. The seamless integration, very similar to what Google Earth did for looking around our little blue-green planet, makes it that much more accessible. I’ve tried downloading [...]
why we |should| do it
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
For whatever reason, I am often posed the following question…
“Why should we continue to fund space exploration? Why should we continue to fund NASA?”
Neil Tyson breaks it down pretty succinctly (and editorialized over at BA). The ready response I’ve developed for myself parallels their arguments fairly well. However, the answer I always want to use [...]
beauty
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Maybe its the way I’m wired… I don’t know if others feel this way. Images this beautiful make me choke up… just imaging being in an expanse of space where I could look and see something like this larger than life… and why I’m so disappointed that unless some really weird quirk is discovered in [...]
pale blue dot
Monday, June 18th, 2007
When I was about 9 or so, my grandmother gave me an old hardback edition of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. That was really the start of my interest in space in general and my love of theoretical literature from the likes of Graham Greene and Stephen Hawkins. Its pretty woefully out of date [...]
NOVA — The Elegant Universe
Monday, May 14th, 2007
You have to love public television. PBS has made the complete Nova production Elegant Universe available online. If you haven’t read the book, I highly recommend it. The TV production is a bit overly dramatic, but incredibly well done nonetheless. Greene is a great writer and is able to breakdown incredibly abstract subjects like string [...]