Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
• Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com • Secular Humanism on Facebook: tinyurl.com Hubblecast 38: Hubble in popular culture – Inspiring People With Awe For The Universe. When Hubble was launched in 1990, every astronomer knew it had an opportunity to make profound breakthroughs in science. A few realised its potential as a tool for inspiring people with awe for the Universe. But could anyone have predicted how deeply Hubble would become embedded in popular culture? — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — In many ways the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is is the world’s most sophisticated digital camera. Over the years, its photo album has featured many members of the cosmic family — ranging from baby stars to elderly galaxies. With all these amazing shots of space, it’s easy to forget that Hubble is a superstar here on Earth, too. Hubble, for many people, has become a byword for “science”. That’s why, this summer, we asked you to send us your favourite examples of how Hubble has been used, or abused, in the daily life of us earthlings. We liked some of your suggestions so much that we wanted to share them. Hubble snapped this glowing planetary nebula, NGC 2818, ejected by a dying star more than 10 000 light-years away. But this scientific picture has also inspired art and design — for example this striking electric guitar. The guitar isn’t the only example of how the world of music has …
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Vatican searches for Aliens. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. “The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration,” said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory. Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology — the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos.
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Famous Serbian TV journalist Mira Adanja-Polak spent several days at CERN preparing a report for the Serbian National Television.
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What makes life – and what would it look like? playlist link www.youtube.com
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What makes life – and what would it look like? playlist link www.youtube.com
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READ HOW IT’S DONE HERE! ( www.popsci.com ) Boing Boing Video teams up with PopSci and Theo Gray ( MAD SCIENCE author) for an eerily beautiful science experiment — how to cast solid, if fleeting, shapes from normally liquid mercury — just keep it at 320 degrees below zero, with liquid nitrogen. Snip from Theo’s experiment, documented in this video: “What you consider solid, liquid or gas depends entirely on where you live. For example, men from cold, cold Mars might build their houses out …
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What makes life – and what would it look like? playlist link www.youtube.com
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What makes life – and what would it look like? playlist link www.youtube.com
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When I heard that NASA was going to be retiring the Space Shuttle in 2010 I was very shocked and depressed. I believe that this is the most elegant and majestic space craft that exists and the day that it retires is a day, that for me, will live in infamy. Make sure to watch the WHOLE thing. I take no ownership rights of DJ Toxic music nor NASA or FOX related pictures or video files that may or may not appear in this video.
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READ HOW IT’S DONE HERE! ( www.popsci.com ) Boing Boing Video teams up with PopSci and Theo Gray ( MAD SCIENCE author) for an eerily beautiful science experiment — how to cast solid, if fleeting, shapes from normally liquid mercury — just keep it at 320 degrees below zero, with liquid nitrogen. Snip from Theo’s experiment, documented in this video: “What you consider solid, liquid or gas depends entirely on where you live. For example, men from cold, cold Mars might build their houses out …
Tags: frozen, popular, scientific, popsci