ZOMG!  Just like Osama! *shakes fist* OBAMAAAAAAA!! WHY DO YOU HATE AMURICA?!

Last edited by Zarban (2012-09-18 13:05:38)

So Water-Ice has been confirmed on Mercury.

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

Nope.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/scien … ggest.html

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

A fascinating tour of the ISS. It's both bigger and smaller than I thought it was, and reaffirms my strong desire to not go to space. I like my home with gravity, large air-filled spaces, and bedrooms bigger than phone booths.

The video also shows just how different current space travel looks from the sci-fi visions (Alien, Star Trek, Sunshine, etc.). Things such as having to detach their exercise bike from the wall so that it doesn't vibrate the solar arrays... it's a whole different way of thinking and living.

Also, I love her hair.

Wow, that hurt a bit.

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Just saying.

Or you could go the more cynical route of:

(That's the Russian rocket Soyuz TMA-05M that NASA is buying flights on to get astronauts up to the ISS)

That Ford on the right is hardly an exemplar of innovation.

The automobile internal combustion engine, invented in the 1890s, is still standard. They've been working on electric cars for decades but they didn't haven't achieved critical take-off in the marketplace, so to speak.

Basically anything electronic has progressed dramatically from 1970s - present.
Anything to do with physical transport has stagnated during the same period

Last edited by avatar (2012-12-11 13:10:09)

Since everything on the right is a luxury item, replace the Ford with the Tesla Model S, the first really practical EV. Seats 5 with two trunks; 265 miles of  range; recharges in 1 hr at a Tesla Super Charger or 5 hrs at home; costs $80K; accelerates like a super car.

Bonus: Like SpaceX, Tesla is also an Elon Musk joint.

Last edited by Zarban (2012-12-15 18:27:27)

Yep - just need to get it down to $20K and common people will start buying (rather than the eccentric rich). Bring on the EVs and self-driving cars and hypersonic jets, etc. What I'm sick of is hearing how it's just around the corner (for decades now) or even worse, always "20 years away" (like fusion) or worse still, regressed (e.g. Concorde/Shuttle/Apollo is something we had then lost).