Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times. The video is accompanied by audio of conversations between the crew and Mission Control. This video is only available … Continue reading →
↑Chris Hadfield, currently on board of the ↑ISS (in mid-March he will take over command of the space station), having a chat with ↑William Shatner (on 07 February 2013).
Continue reading →NASA Johnson Style is a volunteer outreach video project ↑created by the students of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. It was created as an educational parody of ↑Psy’s Gangnam Style. The lyrics and scenes in the video have been re-imagined in … Continue reading →
My physical inbox today was graced by the presence of the newest issue (60/2012) of the ‘Berliner Blätter: Ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge’ [Berlin leafs: Ethnographic and Anthropological Contributions], a German language anthropology journal. It bears the title: ‘Räume durch Bewegung: … Continue reading →
Martin Hunt invents great origami models depicting things out of the star wars universe and shows them off at ↑starwarigami. Unfortunately he withholds most of his diagrams as he wants to publish a book in which all of them are … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #47 Between which worlds is the man the depicted hand belongs to travelling? Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click … Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #46 What is the tiny shiny artefact displayed by the hands? From which movie does the screencap stem, and what role in the plot of that movie does the artefact play? Just leave a … Continue reading →
Conceptual art for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s airborne aircraft carrier, the ‘↑Helicarrier,’ as seen in ‘↑The Avengers‘ (Whedon 2012). ↑Christopher Weuve, among other things a naval analyst and science fiction geek, ↑talked with Michael Peck of Foreign Policy about the dialectics between naval … Continue reading →
Neil Armstrong just went far, far away. Farther away than he appears reflected in Buzz Aldrin’s vizor above, and even farther away than where he took the picture—Neil Armstrong was the very first human being in all humankind’s history who … Continue reading →
Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 in New Mexico Click it, then hit fullscreen and enjoy the martian landscape in its full glory. via ↑entry at ↑kueperpunk
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