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September 18, 2008 at 2:16 am · Filed under Space
It is speculation time. My roommate and I were watching a story this morning on CNN by Sanjay Gupta about how astronauts lose bone mass while in space. One of the limitations with space travel is that because of the absence of gravity, your bones steadily deteriorate. Load bearing exercise is required for bone maintenance.
To compensate for this, the people at NASA have all manner of contrivances to let the astronauts do load bearing exercise. Read the story. There is even a vertically oriented treadmill.
Anyway, this story stimulated a discussion between my roommate and me about how much of a hassle it is that we don’t have magical gadgets like artificial gravity to put on space ships. We were talking about what current technologies exist to provide artificial gravity and thus prevent bone loss (in addition to making work in space much easier).
The one […]
Original post by Jake Young none@example.com
September 9, 2008 at 8:29 pm · Filed under Pictures, Space, Science & Tech
The Boston.com website has compiled a set of 25 impressive photos of hurricanes, as seen from orbit.
The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last Thursday - one in a long series of great NASA photographs of hurricanes from space.
Link - via kottke.org
Original post by GeekAlerts
June 19, 2008 at 12:17 pm · Filed under Space, Luxury
Space transportation provider Rocketplane Kistler Japan has teamed up with wedding planner First Advantage to begin hosting weddings aboard the Rocketplane XP suborbital spaceplane. A cool 240 million yen ($2.2 million) buys you a wedding ceremony aboard a 1-hour space flight that reaches an altitude of more than 100 kilometers (62.1 miles). In addition to a photo and video album, original dress, wedding certificate and other ceremonial items, the otherworldly price tag includes the cost of transportation to and from the launch site, accommodations, a live broadcast of the ceremony to friends and family at a reception hall on the ground, and 4 days of rehearsal. The space wedding services are scheduled to begin in 2011, but the group will start accepting applications early next month.
[Link: Space Wedding]
Original post by Edo
May 14, 2008 at 11:23 am · Filed under Space, Paranormal
An “e-mail” message from aliens inhabiting the Altair solar system could reach Earth within 7 years, some astronomers suggest. The alien message would come in response to a radio-wave signal sent toward Altair 25 years ago by Japanese astronomer Hisashi Hirabayashi, who suggests we may receive a reply as early as the year 2015 if intelligent aliens received, decoded and responded quickly to the message. Altair is located approximately 16 light-years from Earth.
Hirabayashi, a former researcher at the University of Tokyo Astronomical Observatory (now known as the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), along with colleague Masaki Morimoto, sent the message via a US radio telescope in 1983 on the Tanabata holiday, a traditional Japanese star festival celebrating the annual meeting of two stars — Vega (which represents the goddess Orihime) and Altair (which represents the god Hikoboshi) — in the night sky.
The message, which is believed to have […]
Original post by Edo
May 1, 2008 at 9:59 am · Filed under JAXA, Video, Space
JAXA has finally gotten around to releasing video of astronaut Takao Doi’s successful space boomerang toss conducted inside the International Space Station’s Harmony Module in March. (Watch it.)
[Source: JAXA via IT Media]
Original post by Edo
April 2, 2008 at 2:26 am · Filed under General, Space, Hacked, Mad Science, Historic
Looks like the mega corps Virgin Google have decided to reach higher than anyone has ever thought possable. They have she their goal on a journey to the red planet Mars
(from the PR page) "Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Virgin Group today announced the launch of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated […]
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Original post by John
March 6, 2008 at 5:36 pm · Filed under Space
Do boomerangs return when thrown in zero-gravity? Japanese astronaut Takao Doi will soon find out by throwing some around inside the International Space Station.
Space boomerangs to be tested aboard ISS
When the Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on March 11, Doi will be carrying a pair of paper boomerangs presented by Yasuhiro Togai, a 2006 world boomerang champion and space enthusiast from Osaka. Togai, who long wondered how boomerangs would fly without the downward pull of gravity, suggested Doi conduct boomerang experiments in space after they met several years ago. Doi agreed, and Togai taught him how to throw. Togai believes the space boomerangs will spiral up and away without returning, but he says he is looking forward to the results.
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