Category Archives: Cosmos
Abiogenesis
YouTube – The Origin of Life – Abiogenesis – Dr. Jack Szostak How stable, self-replicating structures might develop, entirely through chemical processes. (via Slashdot thread)
links for 2010-03-25: they’re made of meat
Meat Terry Bisson's short story, one of the first that ever came my way over the net, back in the early 90s, coming around again (they always come around) via the Daily Grail (tags: Terry-Bisson meat scifi story SETI consciousness)
One night over Texas
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo. (via Robot Wisdom on delicious)
you are here
APOD: 2008 June 6 – Two Armed Spiral Milky Way It’s been a good old while since I reposted an APoD. This one’s the largest scale “you-are-here” map I’ve ever seen, taking a point of view some thousands of light … more…
Plan59 :: Future Rocketship by Bohn, 1944
Revolutionary Rockets! | Bohn Aluminum & Brass, 1944 Plan59 has lots of mid-twentieth century techno-fantasy illustration along these lines. Looking over these pictures of beautiful streamlined rocket ships (like the cars and planes of the time), I wonder at what … more…
links for 2008-01-23: Pioneer anomaly, Sterling’s Kiosk
Universe Today » A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies See previously (tags: astronomy physics space Pioneer Unruh-effect) Bruce Sterling – Kiosk What happens when 3D fabricators are capable of fabricating fabricators? (tags: Bruce_Sterling scifi fabrication technology)
Giant Armillary Sphere
Armillary Sphere, signed by Antonio Santucci, constructed 1588 to 1593; Florence. Wood and metal; 2420 mm in diameter This enormous armillary sphere, more than 3 metres in height, was begun on 4 March 1588 and completed on 6 May 1593. … more…
links for 2007-10-24: wordpress hackery, Deadnauts
scompt.com » Adding custom columns to the WordPress manage posts screen Tutorial for adding columns to post management page in WordPress admin (tags: wordpress, dev, plugin) Deadnauts, by Ted Kosmatka A great short story of space travel, though not the … more…
links for 2007-10-20: Martian landscape photography
HiRISE | MSL Color Releases Lots and lots of high resolution images of the Martian surface, showing candidate sites for the proposed Mars Science Laboratory. (via Pruned) (tags: NASA photography Mars images landscape)
Voyager pictures
I’m not really sure how I found these, but: The Voyager spacecraft carried a collection of images selected by a committee (chaired by the great Carl Sagan) which depicted Scenes From Earth. To save you a bit of clicking, most … more…