space

  • Domino’s Japan working on first pizza restaurant on moon

    It seems like space had a bit of a resurgance in popularity in 2011. Marketing companies started using the vast beyond in advertising again. Richard Bronson worked tirelessly on his Virgin Galactic endeavor, moving the first commercial space crafts to New Mexico. And the Japanese branch of Domino’s Pizza...
  • NASA satellites get video of possible alien spaceship

    Two different NASA satellites caught what looks like an alien spaceship on video this week. Needless to say, the science world is a buzz. Could this actually be the first real footage of a space ship that’s not from Earth? Even more exciting is that it seems as if...
  • Sun remains innocuous, even with solar flares

    The invention of the Internet, by science guru Al Gore in the early 1970s, coupled with higher costs of anti-psychotic drugs and the economic crisis in the US, are having some interesting side effects. The Internet, is giving a platform for everyone, and I do mean everyone, to voice...
  • Happy birthday Neptune!

    It’s your first birthday planet Neptune, and unlike your neighbor Uranus, nobody makes fun of your name, and unlike Pluto, nobody’s going to demote you to “solar object” status because you’re small or whimpy. Yep, it’s the planet’s discovery’s first anniversary, in Neptune years (164.79 Earth years and obviously...
  • Huge explosion on the sun captured on video.

    This video shows a huge explosion on the Sun, estimated in size at be over a million km across. The light from the explosion was ultraviolet – invisible to the naked eye – but thanks to the miracles of modern technology it has been colored orange for our viewing...
  • The Mountain [video]

    A couple of weeks ago, filmmaker Terje Sorgjerd climbed his way up El Teide, the highest mountain in Spain, to take a week-long time-lapse video. His plan was to shoot the Milky Way, but a sand storm came in from the Sahara and shook things up a little. Things...
  • Astonishing new images prove Earth is not round!

    Relax though, it’s not exactly flat either. This incredible computer rendition of the Earth, has been compiled using data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE). The satellite which has been in orbit for two years, has accomplished its mission to map out...
  • Iran announces the world’s first flying saucer

    In a remarkable move, scientists in Iran, a country more renowned for being unwilling participants in Hollywood blockbusters, than for their technological program, have announced that they’ve built a fully functional aircraft they call a flying saucer. They claim it is designed to carry reconnaissance, aerial imagery and other...
  • As expected, Supermoon is a non-event

    This morning, in my area, the moon hung low, like a testicle. Also low is the residual buzz from the whole Supermoon excitement, after all, according to a leading ASTROLOGER, Richard Nolle, “the Earth was supposed to split in half, and apocalyptically be-swallow us whole!” (For more effect, use...