Briefing materials for the announcement of 1,284 newly validated Kepler planets Source: Briefing materials for the announcement of 1,284 Kepler planets
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Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Writing Streak
Sunday, May 1, 2016
This might work for some people. I think that if you are going to write, you don’t need it. If you are not going to write, it won’t help. Write fiction every day! Source: Writing Streak
Letters of Note: Why Explore Space?
Sunday, May 1, 2016
In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when […]
Capabilities & Services | SpaceX
Sunday, May 1, 2016
For 62 million dollars, you too can go to Mars. “SpaceX offers open and fixed pricing for its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch services. Modest discounts are available, for contractually committed, multi-launch purchases. SpaceX can also offer crew transportation services to commercial customers seeking to transport astronauts to alternate LEO destinations.” Source: Capabilities & […]
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley vs Orwell | High Existence
Sunday, May 1, 2016
A clever comic over on the accuracy of George Orwell’s predictions about future society over those of Aldous Huxley. It’s informative and scary at the same time. “In short, Orwell feared that what we hate would ruin us. Huxley that what we love will ruin us.” It’s unfortunate that Huxley got it right because the […]