Archive for the ‘Real World Science’ category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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