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"Methods have been developed to silk a spider forcibly."
I thought they moved to getting spider silk out of genetically modified goat milk a while ago.
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I only know what I read in the wiki piece, but they mentioned some version of that. I imagine goat teats transformed into web-slingers, but apparently the field is hot enough everyone is keeping their research under wraps...and we're still only talking maybe one order of magnitude stronger than steel. Carbon fibers are a perennial favorite among beanstalk proponents as well, but I know arguably less about that material.
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Now this is what I call a reusable booster. Damn, SpaceX. You scary. 
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drewjmore wrote:
I only know what I read in the wiki piece, but they mentioned some version of that. I imagine goat teats transformed into web-slingers, but apparently the field is hot enough everyone is keeping their research under wraps...and we're still only talking maybe one order of magnitude stronger than steel. Carbon fibers are a perennial favorite among beanstalk proponents as well, but I know arguably less about that material.
It's good for lightsaber blades 
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The ISS EVA today was terminated early due to water build up in Luca Parmitano's helmet. Quite scary....
http://www.universetoday.com/103503/spa … ation-eva/
“Imagine having a fishbowl on your head with a half a litre of water sticking to your face, ears and nose. Then imagine you can’t take the fishbowl off your head for a minimum of 20 minutes, feel the panic?”
My hat goes off to Luca, who remained calm throughout the ordeal.
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redxavier wrote:
“Imagine having a fishbowl on your head with a half a litre of water sticking to your face, ears and nose. Then imagine you can’t take the fishbowl off your head for a minimum of 20 minutes, feel the panic?”
Ed Harris is not impressed.
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Hell's yeah that's scary. Wow. The article said it was the second shortest spacewalk on record because of the malfunction.
Any number of things can go wrong at any moment up there. Fuckin' astronauts, man—they put their safety at risk for science. Bad asses, all of them.
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LADEE Launch seen from Chesapeake Beach. (iPhone, Zoomed)
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Might be old news but I thought this was cool:
http://www.space.com/23084-mars-explora … 3012819274
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Two of the theoretical physicists who initially proposed the Higgs boson just got their Nobel Prize. (What about the experimental physicists at CERN who actually discovered the particle?)
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Just read the news that Scott Carpenter, one of the Original Seven Mercury astronauts, has passed away. He flew only one flight with NASA, on Aurora 7 in May 1962.
Apparently, John Glenn is now the only one of the original seven still alive.
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Sorta space related.
I recently turned Teague and Paul onto the awesome web series Man at Arms, where a master blacksmith recreates your favorite nerd weapons (Keyblade, WOlverine Claws, Buster Sword, etc.) This episode, he takes the Meteor sword from Avatar: The Last Airbender Something Something Korra, and forges it....OUT OF REAL METEORITE.
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Whenever SpaceX decides to go public, buy ALL the stock
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They won't, not for a long time. They don't need to and it would only make it more difficult to do what Elon made SpaceX for in the first place - moving to Mars.
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So, the Olympic Torch has made it into space.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24846606
I love the caption for this photo on the BBC:
The torch will not be lit on the International Space Station
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The ISS turns 15 today!
The first module, Zarya, was launched on November 20, 1998.
Here's a cool infographic:
And a highlights video:
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It's also the star of one of the biggest movies of 2013!
SPOILER
Oz the Great and Powerful
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The Emperor's Star Destroyer was only built in three years, but with non-union labor.
not long to go now...
- BigDamnArtist
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You hear that? That's the sound of my brain breaking.
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Here's a depressing graph if you're a space nerd... basically funding for planetary science is slashed by around 40% for the rest of the decade.
not long to go now...
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And China's on the moon.
The lander (top arrow) and Yutu (bottom arrow) cast shadows across the Lunar "soil"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25559061
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It's almost 50 years since we've first done this already. What's a bit underwhelming is that we've had the entire electronics and telecommunications revolution in the meantime, and yet this rover's capabilities aren't that much different from the ones that landed in the 1960s. Over a few months, it'll scratch around in the regolith a bit and take some higher-res shots. Okay [shrugs shoulders].
Good on China I suppose. Now get your arse to Mars.
not long to go now...
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