Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit
Attired in a training version of his Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum participated in spacewalk training in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Wild Weather- blame La Nada
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard; man’s nature cannot carry
The affliction nor the fear … from Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Lear
Record snowfall, killer tornadoes, devastating floods: There’s no doubt about it. Since Dec. 2010, the weather in the USA has been positively wild. But why?
VoltAir electric powered airliner
After the ZEHST concept plane hypersonic airliner, another EADS concept aimed at the more immediate future. It’s called VoltAir, and it’s a proposed all-electric airliner that could be flying within 25 years.
Alien Civilizations will be discovered within 20 Years
Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades. “The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms … Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years,” said Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Applied Astronomy Institute, according to the Interfax news agency.
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London Olympic Stadium with ligthts
The London 2012 Olympic Stadium illuminated for the first time.
Easy Open
Easy Open designed by Gonglue Jiang. It’s designed on the lines of a can ring; a quick clip maneuver and the bottle cap pops open.
Urban Stargazing- Royal College of Art 2011
The article: UFO Fleet over London (June 26), has smething to do with that one?
Over time, society has developed a complex rhythm that demands we live in an environment artificially lit twenty-four hours a day preventing us from experiencing the natural lights coming from billions of light years away, shining and twinkling as soon as the Sun sets to the west.
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Exomoons Could Be Excellent Incubators
Artist’s impression of the view from a hypothetical moon around a exoplanet orbiting a triple star system. Credit: NASA
Trimaran Adastra
Described by Boat International as “one of the world’s most amazing super yachts, that could spell the future for efficient long range cruising”, the striking 42.5m Trimaran Adastra is being built in China for a Hong Kong clients Anto and Elaine Marden.
Firefighters scramble to protect Nuclear Facility
Flames from the Las Conchas fire burn in the hills above Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear facility in New Mexico.
