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robot guyrobot guyI generally cover space and technology issues, along with politics from a libertarian viewpoint. They called me mad at the academy, mad I tell you... the villagers say that I am insane, but my monster will show them that I am really kind and benevol Articles
no more anonymous comments
2007-11-06 04:22:00 A spammer from http://www.boxsweeper.com has been leaving a whole bunch of comments on my last few posts. I suspect that it is either a person with way too much time on their hands or else a spambot has found a way around the Captcha system. Well, I had enough of that BS; from now on, only registered users can leave comments on the blog. If anyone wants to leave me a comment without registering with Blogger/Google, then they can find my email address in the sidebar. Note that clicking on the badge in the sidebar doesn't bring up my email address - you actually have to read it and copy it yourself. Die spambots, die.Update: That spammer from boxsweeper is one persistent expletive deleted. I have disabled all comments for now, at least until I can come up with a new commenting system that will block this spammer. More About: Comments , Anonymous , Anon
Space Video of the Day - 071105
2007-11-06 02:49:00 In today's space video of the day, Woody Woodpecker explains rocket science (from the 1950 movie Destination Moon).Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071104
2007-11-05 03:08:00 Today's Space Video of the Day is the first installment of This Week In Space, produced by the Rockets Away! blog, and hosted by Louise Riofrio of A Babe In The Universe.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071103
2007-11-04 05:21:00 Today's space video of the day shows astronauts performing a tricky repair on a tear in a solar panel array on the international space station. Parts of the video have been sped up to fit what was a more than seven hour spacewalk into this ten minute video.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071102
2007-11-03 04:36:00 Today's space video is a BBC: Horizons documentary on supermassive black holes, and their role in the formation of galaxies.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071101
2007-11-01 14:52:00 This past weekend at the X-Prize Cup, Armadillo Aerospace was the only team to compete in the Lunar Lander Challenge. They came oh so close to winning, too, needing only to hover for a few seconds longer. Today's space video shows their first attempt to win the prize at this year's cup. It looks to me like the Module 1 craft started to oscillate after having hovered for a fairly long time, which probably led to sloshing withing the tanks, which made the oscillations worse, and so on. It ended up crashing from a height of a few feet. Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071031
2007-10-31 14:53:00 The International Space Station suffered a bit of a problem during the redeployment of a solar panel array. As the panel array was being extended, a two and a half foot long rip appeared, halting the redeployment operation. Today's space video shows the redeployment procedure right up to the operation abort.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071030
2007-10-30 15:12:00 Today's space video is the conclusion of War of the Worlds, in doll-o-vision, with audio as presented by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre troupe 69 years ago today.Part 2 Chapter 1Part 2 Chapter 2Part 2 Chapter 3Part 2 Chapter 4Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071029
2007-10-29 15:11:00 Today's space video of the day continues the War of the Worlds week with part 1, chapters 5 through 8. Chapters 1 through 4 may be found here.Part 1 Chapter 5Part 1 Chapter 6Part 1 Chapter 7Part 1 Chapter 8Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071028
2007-10-29 01:22:00 69 years ago, on October 30, 1938, Orson Welles scared the hell out of radio listeners with a reading of H.G.Wells' War of the Worlds. Today and for the next couple days the space video of the day will be an animated (with dolls) version of the Mercury Theatre radio play. (hat tip to The Discovery Enterprise)Part 1 Chapter 1Part 1 Chapter 2Part 1 Chapter 3Part 1 Chapter 4Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071027
2007-10-27 16:48:00 George Lucas made the term "Death Star" famous. His version of the Death Star was a manmade object capable of destroying the planet that it orbited. Well, nature has done George Lucas one better. There are real Death Stars throughout the universe, natural objects that would wipe out all life on Earth from a vast distance; if one went off three hundred light years away, it would cook the Earth with the energy of a million suns, like a nuclear blast everywhere on earth at once. Today's space video of the day is a BBC documentary (in five short parts) on these natural Death Stars, the sources of Gamma Ray Bursts.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071026
2007-10-26 15:38:00 People have long been fascinated with the possibility of alien intelligence. A common theme in fiction has been the potential of an invasion of Earth by aliens, whether it was Orson Welles scaring the hell out of everyone with a radio performance of War of the Worlds or the campiness of Independence Day. Video game designers have also tapped into this theme for decades. One of the first such examples of this is also one of the first arcade video games, Space Invaders. Today's space video of the day shows a unique animation of this classic video game, using people as pixels and a theater as the dot matrix.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071025
2007-10-25 08:01:00 Today's space video of the day won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It is also an extra on the Men In Black 2 DVD. Man, I wish I was this funny. Be sure to watch through the credits for a surprise ending.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071024
2007-10-24 16:11:00 Yesterday the space shuttle Discovery launched to the international space station, lofting the Node 2 (Harmony) module. Today's space video of the day shows the flawless liftoff.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071023
2007-10-23 16:28:00 The Cassini mission has been sending back some spectacular pictures of Saturn 's neighborhood. Today's space video was taken by Cassini as it flew by Saturn's moon Iapetus. The mountain ridge in the center of the moon is over ten kilometers tall (Mount Everest is 8.85 kilometers tall), so these are some of the tallest mountains in the solar system; only Maxwell Montes on Venus and Olympus Mons on Mars are taller.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071022
2007-10-22 15:04:00 Today's space video of the day is unlike anything I've posted before. Alien Irwin productions is putting together an animated film, using marionettes such as the ones in Thunderbirds or Team America: World Police, but with human mouths overlayed upon the marionette's mouths. Today's video is a demo clip from the movie, Space scape. The action is set in Earth orbit, in and around the first space hotel. Much of the technology shown in the video is very well thought out, and borrowed from serious space development projects. For instance, the hotel is built out of expended space shuttle external tanks, using orbital maneuvering vehicles. The craft used by the hero while in space is a Lockheed-Martin X33. Th story is pretty good too; this demo was put together in the hopes of securing enough funds to make a feature film, or at least further episodes.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071021
2007-10-21 18:44:00 I used to love the Muppet Show when I was a kid. One of the regular features on the show was Pigs In Space . Today's space video is a collection of several Pigs In Space episodes.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071020
2007-10-20 17:13:00 A few days ago someone asked me for an RSS type feed that would describe the celestial events of the evening. Obviously this would vary from place to place aroud the earth, so it would be very difficult to have a single feed that would encompass all possible viewing areas on the planet. Instead, there are a number of free software programs available that allow one to view the night sky from anywhere on the earth, cloud-free and with labels. The program discussed in today's space video is Stellarium, but there are a number of other programs like Celestia, Distant Suns, and the Sky Screen Saver. Also, Space Weather has up-to-date information on meteor storms, aurorae, and other events happening in our planetary neighborhood. Further visalization programs are available in the Images, Models, and Simulations category in the Big List O' Space Links on my Space Feeds aggregator. I hope that helps, Nick.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071019
2007-10-19 16:58:00 OK, so I didn't post a video yesterday, so today's space video of the day is actually two videos: parts 1 and 2 of Return To Venus.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071017
2007-10-17 16:14:00 Today's space video of the day shows some of the companies involved in the new private spaceflight industry, as highlighted by Michael Belfiore in his book Rocketeers.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071015
2007-10-15 14:47:00 The University of Arizona wants to send a spacecraft called OSIRIS to collect a sample of the Near Earth Aseroid RQ-36. They have put together the retro-look video Destination: Asteroid to explain their mission plan.Space Video of the Day Archive
hiatus
2007-10-11 06:49:00 Something has come up this week, and it's going to keep me busy all week; I may or may not get a chance to post this week, but I'll be back for sure on Monday. More About: Hiatus
Space Video of the Day - 071008
2007-10-08 15:10:00 Today's space video of the day is a collection of video taken on the various Apollo missions, set to the music of Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071007
2007-10-07 16:53:00 Today's space video shows the tail of a comet being ripped off by a coronal mass ejection from the sun.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071006
2007-10-06 18:21:00 Here's Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield describing one of the mundane but crucial elements of human exploration of outer space: the Space Toilet.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071005
2007-10-05 19:47:00 Yesterday wasn't just the anniversary of Sputnik. Three years ago Space ShipOne, built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, won the Ansari X-Prize by being the first private manned and passenger-capable vehicle to rocket up past 100km in atltitude twice within the space of two weeks (the Scaled team actually did it twice within five days). Today's space video of the day shows (I believe) Brian Binnie on the winning second launch.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071004
2007-10-04 20:12:00 Fifty years ago today, the world freaked out as the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite: Sputnik.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071003
2007-10-03 17:13:00 I used to love the TV series Space :1999 when I was a kid. Today's space videos are both taken from that show. First, the opening sequence:Next, here's what Space:1999 might have looked like if it were a silent movie. This is Space:1899. (warning: some naughty language)Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071002
2007-10-02 23:07:00 The early US space program was sort of hit-or-miss as far as sucessfully getting rockets off the ground goes. Today's space video shows some of the early US rockets, both successful and not so much, set to the music of (among other pieces) Pomp and Circumstance and Flight of the Bumblebee.Space Video of the Day Archive
Space Video of the Day - 071001
More articles from this author:2007-10-01 20:54:00 Today's space video isn't really about space, but it is a rocket - a rocket belt. Oh hell yes, I want one.Space Video of the Day Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
