This video is absolutely crazy: “there is currently no known material that could resist this”.
Melting Rock Using Sunshine
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Star Walk: Awesome iPhone Astronomy Application
I’ll admit to have been jealous of my good friend Xopher‘s Nexus One phone and its nifty Android-based, augmented reality Google Sky Map. But I knew I’d find a similar one for the iPhone.
Lo and behold, while in Seaside, a friend showed me Star Walk running on his iPad.
One thing the video doesn’t showcase is that the application makes use of the built-in compass, GPS and gyroscope. This lets you simply point your device anywhere and get a picture-perfect representation of what astronomical objects are in your field of vision as well as get all the details you could want about them.
At $2.99 for such a complete app, I think it’s a very good deal and entirely worth the expense.
Copernicus would be stoked. :)
Nature by Numbers
A short movie inspired by numbers, geometry and nature. Created by Cristóbal Vila.
Google Announces Lunar X Prize
From: “Google Shoots For The Moon – Forbes.com“:
The company on Thursday announced the first 10 teams of competitors in its $30 million contest to send a spacecraft back to the moon to gain greater insights into the solar system and to find new sources of clean energy.
More info is available on the Google Lunar X Prize web site.
Google. Space. Clean Energy. $30M. What’s not to like?
Via Digg.
Second Employee Leaves Job over Sale of Space Contractor
From “Second employee leaves job over sale of space contractor“:
For the second time in as many weeks, a satellite engineer has resigned from Canada’s leading space contractor over the company’s sale of its space division to an American weapons maker.
Ethics are a powerful force.
