Category: space

These freaks named their child Adolf Hitler and now they are pissed that the bakery won’t inscribe the 3 year olds birthday cake. Poor fucking kid. Those parents should be charged with neglect, what a thing to do to a kid. On a lighter note, check this out: Link...

No government funding required. (from Wired) SpaceX’s Falcon 1 became the first privately built space ship to orbit the Earth tonight, following in the footsteps of SpaceShipOne which became the first privately built spaceship to fly suborbitally in October 2004. One other thing they both have in common? All...

Just as the U.S. begins it’s sharp decline in the world’s of economics and political power, we are also set to hand over the mantle to the Chinese in the exploration of other worlds. Check this story out from wired: Chinese researchers claim they’ve confirmed the theory behind an...

Dear Terror Suspect, I’m worried about Florida and the Republicans, what should I do? yours, KM Hi KM, Don’t worry, here is why I love the idea of Florida: Police in Port St. Lucie are on the lookout for a cross-dressing man who snatched a 74-year-old woman’s purse. As...

First of all, the rumours that Al Gore has placed his infant child in a rocket and sent it to space are true. Gor-al has sent his son to another world. On a slightly more scientific note, is recent evidence that says Jupiter’s moon Titan, is covered with oceans...

In returning to the purely mundane for a minute…the great american beer (I’m not describing quality here btw) Budweiser is no longer American. The Belgian company InBev has reached a $52 billion deal with Anheuser-Busch to purchase the American beermaker for $70 per share, which upon shareholder approval will...

In a study published today in Nature, researchers led by Brown University geologist Alberto Saal found evidence of water molecules in pebbles retrieved by NASA’s Apollo missions. This of course changes the rules of the game considerably. Does it mean that we go back to the moon? I hope...

Have you ever had a conversation with one of those people that just won’t stop talking? Or worse yet, someone who seems to be having a conversation with you, but in fact does not react or respond to anything you say but only doggedly keeps talking about whatever it...

I like this term because it evokes images of privateers and pirates scouring the seven seas in search of freedom and adventures. The thing I don’t like about it is hearing it from the lips of the men and women that are suppossed to be our leaders. I recognize...

Well, phew. I guess we can just keep trashing this solar system then. Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of...

Takuo Toda, head of Japan Origami Airplane Association, folds a space shuttle-shaped paper plane at the Japan Airlines’ facilities in Tokyo, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. Toda had nursed the idea of flying a shuttle-shaped paper plane since NASA launched its first spacecraft Enterprise in 1977. CANOE — CNEWS: Can...

Surfs down man! SOUTH PASADENA — Scientists say they have found the best evidence yet that an ocean of liquid water may be hidden below the surface of Saturn’s giant moon Titan. If the results are confirmed, it would be a starting point for further study into whether the...

What a cool fucking name for a spaceship. I hope this trend continues with the Isaac Asimov, the Ray Bradbury, and the H.G. Wells among others. cd Jules Verne, a massive unmanned cargo ship built for the European Space Agency (ESA), is set to launch toward the station late...

This might be one of the only ways I would consider killing myself… cd from gizmodo A One-Way, One-Person Mission to Mars: Who Wants In? Would you go on a mission to mars? What about if it was a one-way mission? And you were by yourself? Yeah, that changes...

The last full lunar eclipse until 2010 happens tonight and the navy is going to shoot down a ‘spy’ satellite and now this…strange goings on in the heavens above… cd SEATTLE, WA — The bright flash of a meteor in the dark skies over the Pacific northwest was caught...

A great post from Gizmodo Good news for rich guys with spaceman fantasies: Virgin Galactic is on track to start launching commercial space flights in 2009, and they just announced their new spaceship designs. SpaceShipTwo is the spaceship that’ll actually go into space, while White Knight Two is the...

STEPHENVILLE, Texas – In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many believe is a UFO. Several dozen people — including a pilot, county constable and business owners — insist they have seen a large silent object with...

Put that on your OC Housewife ! Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds). The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000...

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Turning 90 on Sunday, British science fiction writer and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke has three birthday wishes: For E.T. to call, for man to kick his oil habit and for peace in his adoptive Sri Lanka. Marking his “90th orbit of the sun,” the prolific...