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3D Resources - NASA Science

https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/
The 3D Resources hub stores 3D models related to NASA's various missions. Some of these models are 3D printable! All of these assets are free to download and use. They are also mirrored on GitHub. Refer to the NASA Images and Media Usage Guidelines.
#3dprinting #nasa #space
archive.org #38740

Stellar Harvest — Center for PostNatural History

https://www.postnatural.org/stellar-harvest?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_medium=FuckOff&utm_campaign=FuckOff
Pell designed the Stellar Harvest project to use the light-concentrating power of a large reflecting telescope to gather light from the brightest available star in the night sky for the smallest light-loving microorganisms on Earth - phytoplankton. The project will examine the ability of a type of phytoplankton known as diatoms, which are found in every aquatic environment on the planet and responsible for a significant amount of the oxygen we breathe, to grow off the light from a star.
#art #science #space #stellarharvest
archive.org #38060

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever. There are multiple reasons for this, but they all amount to saying that the kind of electronics needed to make a datacenter work, particularly a datacenter deploying AI capacity in the form of GPUs and TPUs, is exactly the opposite of what works in space. If you've not worked specifically in this area before, I'll caution against making gut assumptions, because the reality of making space hardware actually function in space is not necessarily intuitively obvious.
#datacenters #electronics #space #sysadmin
archive.org #38049

Trump Executive Order Declares NASA Is Now a Spy Agency

https://futurism.com/trump-executive-order-nasa-intelligence?utm_source=FuckOff&utm_content=FuckOff
The Trump administration issued an executive order late last month, quietly declaring that NASA will operate as a national intelligence and security agency going forward. The order stipulates that the agency will now "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work." It's a major departure for the agency, which has historically focused on space exploration, as well as space and Earth sciences over its 67-year lifespan.
#space #trump #ugh #uspolitics
archive.org #37716

Elite 40th Anniversary

http://www.elitehomepage.org/fourty/index.htm
Today, 20th September 2024, is the 40th anniversary of the day the world first experienced Elite, the 3D space trading and combat game written by Ian Bell and David Braben, first on the BBC Microcomputer in conjunction with Acornsoft. To commemorate this, I have added further sources (Apple, Atari, C64, NES, SNES (unfinished) "Elite"; and BBC "Elite II" (unfinished)) to the Elite Archive.
#elite #gaming #retro #space
archive.org #30499

Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/space/an-astronaut-and-a-writer-at-the-movies.html
As we recall from bitter memory, the Hubble and the space station are in vastly different orbits. Getting from one to the other requires so much energy that not even space shuttles had enough fuel to do it. The telescope is 353 miles high, in an orbit that keeps it near the Equator; the space station is about 100 miles lower, in an orbit that takes it far north, over Russia. To have the movie astronauts Matt Kowalski (Mr. Clooney) and Ryan Stone (Ms. Bullock) zip over to the space station would be like having a pirate tossed overboard in the Caribbean swim to London.
#gravity #imported:pinboard #movies #science #space #to:fb
archive.org #24246

New Hardware Rave: Freespace 2 Looks F%#*ing AMAZING! | Space Game Junkie

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/oped/hardware-rave-freespace-2-fing-amazing/#more-4149
So a couple of nights ago, I went through the familiar steps of manually adding the Freespace Source Code Project files to my GOG copy of Freespace 2. This time, however, I added all the extra high-resolution stuff from the MediaVPs (i.e. all the optional stuff) because I figured my new rig could run it (my last one totally choked when I added all the optional MediaVPs). Once it was all said and done, I ran the launcher and set up everything as ordered (as well as adding Spidey’s lighting settings) and ran the game at maximum resolution with everything set as high as possible for my first time ever. What resulted was nothing short of breathtaking.
#freespace #freespace2 #gaming #imported:pinboard #space #to:fb
archive.org #32678

New Hardware Rave: Freespace 2 Looks F%#*ing AMAZING! | Space Game Junkie

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/oped/hardware-rave-freespace-2-fing-amazing#more-4149
So a couple of nights ago, I went through the familiar steps of manually adding the Freespace Source Code Project files to my GOG copy of Freespace 2. This time, however, I added all the extra high-resolution stuff from the MediaVPs (i.e. all the optional stuff) because I figured my new rig could run it (my last one totally choked when I added all the optional MediaVPs). Once it was all said and done, I ran the launcher and set up everything as ordered (as well as adding Spidey’s lighting settings) and ran the game at maximum resolution with everything set as high as possible for my first time ever. What resulted was nothing short of breathtaking.
#freespace #freespace2 #gaming #space #to:fb
archive.org #22583

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth

http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/news.htm
A BBC team have been working closely with Dr Venn's team to help recover the signals. BBC Television historian Peter Wells, explained "We now know these are original broadcasts. So far we have recovered about 7 weeks of old television signals from space. Every day in our lab is like traveling back in time. And speaking of which we have just started the digital recovery of signals that contain lost Doctor Who episodes.
#awesome #cool #drwho #science #scifi #seti #space #tv #whoa
archive.org #20201

Radio hams pick up Mars rover Curiosity's signals • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/radio_hams_curiosity_signals
Amateur radio enthusiasts using a restored dish antenna in Germany say they have successfully picked up telemetry from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, now outward bound for Mars carrying a one-ton nuclear powered robot rover named Curiosity towards a date with destiny in the Elysium Planitia.
#hams #mars #nasa #nifty #radio #space
archive.org #19986

NASA working on nuclear rocket for manned Mars trips • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/15/nasa_nuclear_rocket_report
Since being redirected away from Bush-era plans for a base on the Moon towards a manned Mars mission, NASA has realigned its nuclear-tech-in-space efforts away from a Moonbase powerplant and towards an atomic-powered rocket able to get astronauts to the red planet quickly, without receiving dangerous exposure to cosmic radiation.
#nasa #space #tech
archive.org #19693

So Long, Launchpads: Pentagon Wants Jets to Send Sats Into Orbit | Danger Room | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/darpa-satellite-launchers
The technology to launch an orbiter from the sky, rather than the ground, already exists. The Pegasus rocket launcher, for example, has performed over 40 aerial launches: A carrier aircraft flies the rocket up, and then fires it off — satellite included — into the stratosphere. But to refine that system, then strip it of human personnel, is a tall order — the launching system would need to be entirely self-sufficient. Indeed, Darpa notes that ALASA is looking for a launcher requiring “no recurring maintenance or support, and no specific integration to prepare for launch.”
#darpa #googlereader #ifttt #satelites #space #tech
archive.org #19537

NASA says we've been looking for Martian life in all the wrong places

http://io9.com/5855891/nasa-says-weve-been-looking-for-martian-life-in-all-the-wrong-places
Don't worry—if we do find evidence of Martians, it will still be on Mars, we'll probably just have to dig a little deeper to find it. A new NASA study has concluded that if life ever thrived on the Red Planet, it probably did so underground, just below the planet's surface. In other words, life...
#life #mars #space
archive.org #19380

Must Watch: Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Pamela Gay, and Lawrence Krauss discuss our future in space

http://io9.com/5851956/must-watch-bill-nye-neil-degrasse-tyson-pamela-gay-and-lawrence-krauss-discuss-our-future-in-space
The video, originally shot back in July at TAM 2011 Las Vegas, is of a panel featuring Bill Nye, astronomers Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Pamela Gay, and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss—and the entire discussion is moderated by Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait. The subjects raised are consequential, the discussions thought provoking, and the opinions of the panelists refreshingly diverse (and often conflicting).
#astronomy #science #space #videos
archive.org #19320

City lights could reveal alien civilizations | ExtremeTech

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/102661-city-lights-on-other-planets-could-reveal-alien-life
New research conducted by Abraham Loeb from Harvard and Edwin Turner from Princeton shows that electric, artificial lights on remote planets could be detected using next-generation ground and space telescopes. The basic approach is simple: planets that are exclusively illuminated by a local sun will have one “light signature,” while a planet with artificial lights will have another. Loeb and Turner say that this technique, with our current telescopes, would be able to pick out a major terrestrial city on the edge of the Solar System, in the Kuiper belt (50 AU) — but future telescopes, or the telescopes belonging to advanced, alien races, could see farther.
#aliens #civilizations #science #space
archive.org #19292

Charlie's Diary: The myth of the starship

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the_myth_of_the_starship.html
"If we succeed in doing it, it's going to look nothing like the Starship Enterprise. Or even New Horizons. The whole reference frame we instinctively assume when we hear the word "ship" is just so wrong it's beyond wrong-ness: it's on a par with Baron Munchausen's lunar exploits as seen in light of the Apollo Program. We need a new handle for discussing and analyzing such a venture. And the sooner we consign the "-ship" suffix to the dustbin of failed ideas, the better."
#exploration #scifi #space #spaceships #starships
archive.org #12651

Out of this world: British teddy bears strapped to helium weather balloon reach the edge of space | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1091896/Out-world-British-teddy-bears-strapped-helium-weather-balloon-reach-edge-space.html
"It's not often that Britain can claim a win in the space race. But these teddy bears drifting nearly 20 miles above Earth have become the first soft toys to take part in extra-vehicular activity (to use correct NASA jargon) at such an altitude."
#balloons #science #space #teddybears
archive.org #11741

Damn Interesting - Outer Space Exposure

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=741
"Though an unprotected human would not long survive in the clutches of outer space, it is remarkable that survival times can be measured in minutes rather than seconds, and that one could endure such an inhospitable environment for almost two minutes with
#medicine #science #space
archive.org #8084

NASA - How We'll Get Back to the Moon

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/cev.html
Finally waking up from the shuttle disaster? (The whole program, that is.) "Building on the best of Apollo and shuttle technology, NASA's creating a 21st century exploration system that will be affordable, reliable, versatile, and safe."
#moon #nasa #space
archive.org #5663

Private craft heads for space

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html
"The rocket plane SpaceShipOne separated from its carrier aircraft and launched toward the outer limits of Earth's atmosphere at 7:50 a.m. Monday (10:50 a.m. ET), controllers said."
#space
archive.org #2867

China 'Shocked' at U.S. Cold Shoulder in Space

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?cid=570&e=18&tmpl=story&u=/nm/space_china_dc
'"What if, in 10 years, the Chinese are on their way to the moon and the U.S. effort is diminishing. Would that be acceptable to the U.S. public? I don't think so," she said.' Let's go China! We need a competitor in space.
#science #space
archive.org #2372