Earlier this month Russia launched Phobos-Grunt, a probe that was going to “probe” Phobos, one of Mars moons. The launch was a success, and the probe was going to make two engine burns to send it out towards Mars, unfortunately, the engines failed, and once again we have to deal with a satellite full of
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The video above is from Neil deGrasse Tyson, a very smart man… just in case you’re wondering, he was recently on BigThink where they were asking him a series of questions about physicist of the past etc. They asked him who he though the greatest Physicist in History was, and he said Newton. From his
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I tried to get into the whole RC Plane and toy helicopter craze when it first came out a about 10 years ago, but money got in the way, parents didn’t want to get involved, and it was one of the biggest disappointments in my life – right behind dropping a jelly covered sandwich face
Typo Squatting and spelling errors on domain names can make your shopping experience at Amazon a living hell. A scammer will typically purchase a domain name that resembles that of a major company and install malware or worse yet, steal hundreds of dollars from your bank account. Because of these scammers, Amazon has taken proactive
The brain is an interesting piece of equipment that Nature somehow created. We’re still trying to learn everything there is about the brain, one of the things that we’re still having problems understanding is -Deja Vu. The term déjà vu is a French word that means, “already seen.” It’s a term that is used to describe something that
For nearly a Year and a Half, a crew of volunteer astronauts who joined the Mars500 mission, were locked up in a small capsule. NASA wanted to see if the isolation was going to have some sort of psychological effects on the astronauts. The Mars mission technically, never really left the Earth, but they did
Click on the image to the left to see an animated image about how close the asteroid is going to get to the earth. According to NASA, they just recently took a picture of an asteroid that has been rushing towards the Earth for some time now. Using the Arecibo Planetary Radar Facility in Puerto
We all know how good the idea of living forever sounds, stories about the elixir of life have been around for centuries, and movies like “In Time” have made it even more appealing. Thanks to French researchers from Fonctionnelle Genomique Institute, we may be able to live forever… sooner rather than later. The theory that
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