Archive for the ‘Real World Science’ category

Stalking R2D2 at Star Wars Celebration V

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on August 15, 2010 at 6:29 am | No Comments

Target Acquired - Geek Speak Blog at Star Wars Celebration V

Just a tip of the visual Hoth iceberg from my day at Star Wars Celebration V, yesterday…. Here’s a quick – and very low tech – film clip of one of the many fabulous R2D2 droids rolling amok at the convention, this weekend. I secured this covert footage using the iVideoCamera iPhone app. If it [...]

Virgin’s First Passenger Spacecraft Christened VSS Enterprise

Posted by GeekSpeaker | Posted on December 9, 2009 at 11:22 am | No Comments

Richard Branson stands before the newly christened VSS Enterprise (LA Times via TrekMovie.com)

TrekMovie.com has reported that Virgin Atlantic has christened their first private commercial passenger spacecraft with a name that resounds with many of us in the geekworld: Enterprise. That’s right…you can book passage into space flying on a spaceship named Enterprise. How frakkin’ cool is that?! Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Atlantic, has been working [...]

NASA Announces Discovery of Ice on the Moon

Posted by GeekSpeaker | Posted on November 13, 2009 at 2:07 pm | No Comments

The Moon Has Water!

It’s official, folks! NASA announced today that their Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. They made the official announcement at a press conference held today. You may recall that the LCROSS craft and a similar rocket both made impacts in the Cabeus crater on [...]

NASA Launches Tweetup For Space Shuttle Atlantis Liftoff

Posted by GeekSpeaker | Posted on October 14, 2009 at 3:45 pm | 1 Comment

NASA holding it's first Tweetup. 100 lucky people will get front row tickets to the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis in November

After moving the space shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad today for it’s planned liftoff on November 12th, NASA also announced plans for a new contest, allowing the winners to get front-row seats for the launch. The space agency is holding it’s first ever liftoff Tweetup for people who use Twitter. The first 100 NASA [...]

Can you string your X & Y chromosomes together for poetry?

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on July 8, 2009 at 3:27 pm | No Comments

Ken MacLeod, writer in residence at the Genomics Forum, conceived this idea to collect short forms of writing, such as poetry, short stories, flash fictions, etc., all inspired by genes and genomics.

Rise of the Real Machines!

Posted by GeekGyrl | Posted on June 10, 2009 at 4:34 pm | No Comments

If you’d like to blend your fandom with philosophy and a healthy dose of real world science, and you find yourself in New York City this week, you may want to drop in on the World Science Festival Friday.
Fans of Battlestar Galactica will recognize the names