All Blog Posts Tagged 'mars' (9)

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In which John Green gives advice to students returning to school for summer break, discusses the reasons public education exists, and celebrates the landing of…

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Submerged in a link about Skylons vs SLS that Vertigo_One put in a discussion the other day was this:

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org

It's a website by an engineer named Dan who seems to have figured out how to build The Enterprise spaceship using existing technology.  He thinks it can be done in 20 years with a mere $1 trillion,  and of course, it would take…

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In which Hank discusses NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion space vehicle, which are (unlike the space shuttle) designed exclusively for deep-space missions to places including our moon, the asteroids, and Mars.

In other news, I also made a video about the Invisible Children / Kony 2012 campaign because, of course, how could I help myself. It will be at…

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So the Space Shuttle program is ending after more than 30 years. I grew up in Orlando, regularly watching the shuttle take off. It had a huge effect on me.



Now, with the program ending, we will need to find new ways to reach low-earth orbit, and also new ways to expand manned exploration beyond low-earth orbit and into the rest of the solar system.



Well, I got to talk with Mike Massimino, the Astronaut who's always going on Conan, Bobby Braun,… Continue

 

 

In which Hank talks about the 0.45% of the federal budget devoted to space education, and what NASA is doing with that money. 



Just an aside, my friends often say that we shouldn't be spending money on space when we have so many problems here on Earth. And I understand that argument. But I think that mentality is flawed. We can't wait until…

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hello ok a warning I may start to ramble on a bit but I have been touched by the majesty of the human race so before I start driviling I just want to say that I will be speaking on the basis of what I believe David logan calls level 5 tribe basically I'm great, your great, life's great ok now I've got that out of the way oh and I also know that alot of people have said this before but please run with me.

Ok recently I've been thinking about war's,difference's,life and all that…

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So I figured there's nothing more perfect than my first blog on the NF Ning being a Doctor Who related one. Because NewWho pretty much epitomizes my geekyness.



If you haven't seen the newest episode, Waters of Mars, then you probably want to skip this until you have watched it.



I won't go in depth into the whole storyline and the ups and downs of the episode, but I do want to focus specifially on one of the issues brought up in the last part of the episode.



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I have collected further evidence that my math teacher is an alien!

I became discouraged recently when I discovered that he was not from the North of somewhere but in fact from the South of somewhere. However, lots of planets have a South as well. It… Continue