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Space pictures make me happy
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Space pictures make me go crazy-go-nutz:
First, we have a rogue asteroid, which is cool, but scary, because it’s real, and present danger. We could find out tomorrow that a rock the size of the state of newyork is on it’s way to meet us from space. Luckily, we have either Bruce Willis or Morgan Freeman to save us all from certain and utter destruction.
Second, is something that’s just plain ol’ exciting: Space elevators!
A space elevator is a hypothetical structure designed to transport material from a planet’s surface into space. Many different types of space elevator structures have been proposed. They all share the goal of replacing rocket propulsion with the traversal of a fixed structure via a mechanism not unlike an elevator, hence its name, in order to move material into or beyond orbit. Space elevators have also sometimes been referred to as beanstalks, space bridges, space lifts or space ladders.
The most common proposal is a tether, usually in the form of a cable or ribbon, that spans from the surface to a point beyond geosynchronous orbit. As the planet rotates, the inertia at the end of the tether counteracts gravity and keeps the tether taut. Vehicles can then climb the tether and escape the planet’s gravity without the use of rockets. Such a structure could eventually permit delivery of great quantities of cargo and people to orbit, and at costs only a fraction of those associated with current means.
Both are from Mondolithic‘s website, which is friggin awesome and stuff.
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Satellite Picture of Kennedy Space Center
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I believe this is from Google Earth, but I’m not sure…either way, this is the Kennedy Space Center down here in Florida. You can see the crawler (upper left on the roadway) that transports the fully assembled shuttle from the hanger bay to the launch pad. I’ve been to the space center a couple times, and while it’s damn interesting, it can be boring, because the place is simply so damn huge, and much of it is offlimits now. (thank you terrorists!)
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Serenity / Firefly Movie Posters
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I simply cannot belive that I haven’t purchased this movie yet. /sigh being poor does suck sometimes, yeah?
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Mars panorama
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From a mars panorama pictures website. Pretty cool stuff, I just made one of them my desktop.
And on a side note, the author of that site is on crack. He’s boasting about firefox (only the best broswer in the known world) and crackin on IE, while at the same time, displaying one of the worse choices in webpage colors and fonts I’ve seen in a long while. I’m surprised he didn’t use the blink tag anywhere.
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Spaceship Lego Goodness!
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I’m not sure what show this particular ship is from, but I would bet it’s a space anime type show. I was just really damn impressed with the beauty of it, seeing that I love both space ships and lego!
Anyone know what show it’s from?
