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An Antidote to Apathy

dustin — 2011-04-14T06:33:17-04:00

Dave Meslin gave an excellent 7 minute talk at TEDxToronto about possible ways to break down barriers to participating in shaping our public realm.

Fire!

vinny9 — 2010-12-12T15:23:23-05:00

Incredible space shuttle video with great technical narration.

Space Shuttle Assembly and Liftoff

vinny9 — 2010-05-22T21:42:52-04:00

http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/Shuttle-Time-Lapse.html

Fwoosh!

vinny9 — 2010-04-27T10:01:52-04:00

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

30 seconds of raw Apollo 11 Saturn V launch footage stretched out across 8 minutes through the lens of Camera E-8, which is running at 500fps.

Narrator: Spacecraft Film exec. producer Mark Gray.
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Up, Over, Around and Through

vinny9 — 2010-04-21T00:17:31-04:00

Cassini's Saturn mission extended by 7 years

They used 75% of the fuel on the first 2 missions from 2004-2010. Now they use Titan's gravity to extend the remaining fuel over the next 7 years.

Osmos - Relaxation Game

dustin — 2010-03-23T06:02:38-04:00

Osmos is a fantastic game based around the concept of planetary orbits, and set in a relaxing ambient space environment. I highly recommend you try it when you're in the mood for a chill activity.

Watch this video trailer for the game, or download the free demo to dive right in.

This Is A Real Hubble Image, Not An Artist Rendition

vinny9 — 2010-02-02T16:14:42-05:00

(right-click and view image for bigger pic)

Predator Telescope

vinny9 — 2009-06-20T11:05:45-04:00

Herschel Space Observatory has started calibration

Looks great!

Sometimes People Are Smart

vinny9 — 2009-04-24T12:01:44-04:00

I like this idea.

The gist is that self-organized molecules (ie: life) will build themselves in a single chirality (organic molecules can exist in two mirror images, chirality is the term to distinguish them; think your right and left hands). Light that reflects from organics will contain a tell-tale signature (polarization) depending on the chirality. This could be used to detect evidence of "life" on other planets. Clever.

Humans.... In.... Spaaaaace

vinny9 — 2009-03-30T15:02:05-04:00

Colossal waste of money? Maybe. Good idea? Maybe. Impressive? Gotta be.

Big version here

I Shoot Them (into my mouth)

vinny9 — 2009-02-19T15:33:23-05:00

Space Invader cookies

There's Plenty of Space Up in Space!

vinny9 — 2009-02-19T08:10:29-05:00

Garbage in low earth orbit: Kessler Syndrome

Whither Cast Our Eyes?

vinny9 — 2009-02-11T11:04:52-05:00

To visit Europa or Titan?

Break It Down

vinny9 — 2009-02-07T22:51:06-05:00

Demographics of some big social media sites

ISS Tour

vinny9 — 2009-01-24T15:21:55-05:00

This is part one of four.

Mars Science Lab uses a Sky Crane

vinny9 — 2008-10-20T23:59:47-04:00

NASA is using some awesome mind-altering substances these days

Last Set of Specs

vinny9 — 2008-09-02T11:45:38-04:00

Pictures of Shuttle preparation for the final Hubble service mission

It's scheduled for this October.

You Take A Block From the Bottom

vinny9 — 2008-08-06T14:55:43-04:00

Animation of the International Space Station being assembled

Nothing on the Schedule Today

vinny9 — 2008-07-31T16:03:48-04:00

NASA is paying people to not move (well, as little as possible) for 90 days in a controlled environment so they can study the effect of long-term immobilization on the human body.

One of them is blogging the experience.

Now That's Super

vinny9 — 2008-05-21T17:33:25-04:00

Supernova caught in real-time

Normally, people only catch these things quite a while after the fact but this one happened right in a spot that was under surveillance for another project. With so many eyes on the sky these days, I suppose it was inevitable but it's still great news.

Defragmented Drive

vinny9 — 2008-05-08T11:00:16-04:00

Data recovered from a hard drive that was on Space Shuttle Columbia.

It had data from an experiment on Xenon viscosity in microgravity. There are pictures of the drive in its current state here.

Wanna be a Space Cadet?

vinny9 — 2008-04-01T12:20:57-04:00

Canada to recruit new astronauts

I might apply for kicks (provided I'm eligible). Who doesn't want to be an astronaut?

V-Ger

vinny9 — 2008-02-29T13:40:40-05:00

A velocity anomaly is seen on the NEAR spacecraft. The original velocity anomaly was found on Pioneer 10.

It's likely to be something silly like some gas escaping but to find it on another vessel is going to raise some eyebrows.

1100 huff puff 0010

vinny9 — 2007-09-03T10:04:58-04:00

Voyagers 1 and 2 are still successfully transmitting.

Don't Judge Me; That's My Job

vinny9 — 2007-08-08T12:09:17-04:00

Eating Disorder Encouragement Groups on Facebook and MySpace

Two Fer

vinny9 — 2007-06-28T11:29:25-04:00

Photos and info from "What the World Eats"

Photos from the last Shuttle mission
You can see the cockpit and the blanket gap they had to fix. Plus some very nice EVA pics and Aurora Borealis from space.

2001 Was So 1968

vinny9 — 2007-02-21T16:46:44-05:00

Current status of NASA's shuttle replacement, the CEV

Space Jail

Chronomorph — 2007-01-21T18:54:32-05:00

Hey guys,
I may be in London, but I still know that you should check out Space Jail at Theatre Ste-Catherine. That's what I'd be doing, if I was around. Jeez, you guys.

1200 people playing Capture The Flag in Toronto

dustin — 2006-12-08T07:16:35-05:00

Here's a funky video of 1200 people playing Capture The Flag in downtown Toronto.

It was a product of Newmindspace. Check out their site, it's wondrous.

Top 20 Myspace Profiles

dustin — 2006-11-07T00:40:48-05:00

I googled for myspace in the myspace.com domain, and it popped out a nice list of the top profiles. I weeded out system pages, and here are the top 20 myspace users according to google: