March 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
‘Preliminary traverse map of the landingsite’ - (original - more)
Strangemaps, You’ll Never Moonwalk Alone:
“On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. He didn’t moonwalk alone – ‘Buzz’ Aldrin joined him on the surface – and he didn’t walk far.
After travelling hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the landing crew of the Apollo 11 lunar mission barely covered an area the size of a football pitch.”
NASA History website
Tags: apollo 11,buzz aldrin,maps,moon,neil armstrong,space
March 5th, 2008 · Comments Off
HiRise, The Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars (PSP_005558_9040):
“This is an image of Earth and the Moon, acquired at 5:20 a.m. MST on 3 October 2007, at a range of 142 million kilometers, which gives the HiRISE image a scale of 142 km/pixel and an Earth diameter of about 90 pixels and a Moon diameter of 24 pixels. The phase angle is 98 degrees, which means that less than half of the disks of the Earth and Moon have direct illumination. We could image Earth/Moon at full disk illumination only when they are on the opposite side of the sun from Mars, but then the range would be much greater and the image would show less detail.”
Tags: earth,mars,moon,space
October 25th, 2007 · Comments Off
In Event of Moon Disaster: “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” (Via Cynical-C Blog.)
Tags: apollo 11,bill safire,buzz aldrin,lunar landing,nasa,neil armstrong,richard nixon,space,speech
June 21st, 2007 · Comments Off
Space.com:
“During the simulation, men and women “Martianauts,” as you might call them, will watch Earth disappear into the blackness of space as they munch on the same kinds of food available on the International Space Station. ESA will even attempt to simulate the 40-minute time delay for radio signals to travel from the craft to Earth and back, as the volunteers work and live in extremely isolated conditions.”
Tags: esa,mars,space
May 20th, 2007 · Comments Off
Nature: “There’s no escape, but how can you maximize your remaining time?”
Tags: black hole,space
April 25th, 2007 · Comments Off
Space.com: “An Earth-like planet spotted outside our solar system is the first found that could support liquid water and harbor life, scientists announced today.”
Zie ook: Planet Hunters Edge Closer to Their Holy Grail.
Tags: astronomy,gliese 581 c,space
February 17th, 2007 · Comments Off
BBC: “A draft UN treaty to determine what would be have to be done if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth is to be drawn up this year.”
Tags: asteroid,nasa,neo,space,un
January 8th, 2007 · Comments Off
Space.com: “Astronomers have mapped the positions of vast, invisible isles of dark matter in the sky, within which normal “bright” matter galaxies are embedded like glittering gems. The three-dimensional map [image] spans not only space, but also time, and stretches back to when the universe was only about half its present age.”
Tags: dark matter,space
January 1st, 2007 · Comments Off
Tags: astronomy,mapping,space
October 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing “a” from Armstrong’s famous first words from the moon in 1969, when the world heard the phrase, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”"
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“Is there anyone more qualified to create healthy and delicious meals for marathoners than a chef who runs?”
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“The third and most compelling reason to believe that the designer era is over lies in the cultural landscape. “
Tags: brand,design,fashion,food,marathon,moon landing,neil armstrong,quotes,recipe,running,semantics,space,wining and dining
August 19th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: space,voyager
June 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.” - Nooit meer slapen.
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“Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had never heard about the moon landing. “
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“The rainmaking army uses rockets, artillery and aircraft to sow chemicals and artificially induce rain in times of need, said an official with the bureau’s Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation.”
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“Rockets launched with chemicals to trigger rain after huge storm”
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“Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination be appropriate to that context and obey the governing norms of distribution within it.”
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“New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.”
Tags: burkina faso,china,cloud seeding,culture,data mining,literature,marco boggio sella,meteorite,moon landing,norway,nsa,privacy,space,w.f. hermans,weather
May 4th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“… He partitions space with curtains made of drops of water frozen by strobe lights… or he converts fog into a building material, neatly carving a cubic meter of emptiness by slicing through a foggy room with spotlights.”"
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“The Times Book Review ran an essay this weekend on the problem this poses for literary historians, biographers and archivists, who long have relied on collected letters and papers to fill in the gaps between a writer’s published work. “
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“Reinhold and Klein were inspired to start the label after a trip to Buenos Aires organised by the Goethe Institute in 1998 where the pair acted as ambassadors for German electronic music.”
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“Eri Matsui (…) designed a wedding dress which looks beatiful both under gravity and zero-gravity”
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“Sell Your Place In Line” Sic!
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“When technology serves its owners, it is liberating. When it is designed to serve others, over the owner’s objection, it is oppressive. “
Tags: art,dave eggers,design,dominik eulberg,economics,email,fashion,literature,minimal house,music,security,space,technology
April 25th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Airbus has been quietly pitching the standing-room-only option to Asian carriers, though none has agreed to it yet. Passengers in the standing section would be propped against a padded backboard, held in place with a harness…”
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“Scrap-metal dealers wait for a rocket to crash, 2000.”
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“De schrijver en dichter werd vooral bekend door zijn boeken ‘Weekendpelgrimage’, ‘In de straten van Tepalka’ en ‘De morgen loeit weer aan’. “
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“Stream recorder (…) records RealPlayer streams as MP3s and imports them into iTunes.”
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Bianca Tan op bezoek bij A. de Kef, Franse kaasmakers te Amsterdam.
Tags: airbus,amsterdam,at5,bianca tan,cheese,food,kazakhstan,literature,os x,recipe,scrap yard,space,tip marugg,travel,wining and dining
March 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Onderzoeker Johan Pouwelse (l) en content manager William Valkenburg (r) van Omroep.nl schudden elkaar de hand op de vanmiddag uitgesproken intentie om samen te gaan werken. “
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“In October 2003, Peace Art Cambodia began a metalwork skills training programme for apprentice artisans using thousands of these weapons as raw material.”
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“Terrestrial rocks blown into space by asteroid impacts on Earth could have taken life to Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have announced.”
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“Scientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen.”
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“you want your aggregator to present you with the more important stuff first”
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“Pukka (…) is a minimalist posting client for del.icio.us.”
Tags: art,asteroid,biology,bittorrent,cambodia,del.icio.us,nano technology,netnewswire,os x,p2p,panspermia,pukka,science,space,titan,weapons
March 14th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“The interplanetary internet.”
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“Curators Remove 12-Year-Old’s Gum From Frankenthaler”
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“Here are ways to backup your bookmarks for this 24×7 world.”
Tags: art,back up,del.icio.us,internet,space
February 24th, 2006 · Comments Off
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The Soviet Anthem (With Lyrics.)
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“When I encourage people to start a blog here’s what I suggest they do.”
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“Meredith Finkelstein and Cindy Jeffers developed five robots for Heddatron, a play written by Elizabeth Merriweather, directed by Alex Timbers and produced by the Les Freres Corbusier theatre company.”
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“Astronomers have detected a new type of cosmic outburst that they can’t yet explain. The event was very close to our galaxy, they said. The eruption might portend an even brighter event to come, a supernova”
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“This is a video directed by Stephanie Van Houtte for the Ute Lemper version of the Kurt Weill classic, Mack The Knife. This clip features Stephanie Van Houtte and Steve Van De Casteele and was filmed in Ghent, Belgium. Summer 2005. Edited by Dwid Hellion
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Tags: anthem,astronomy,bbc,music,robots,rufus wainwright,space,supernova,theater,ussr,ute lemper,video,weblogs
