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Reality, Virtual
Left: The 5-sense virtual reality system. Right: A scene from the NASA MMORPG (Mark Richards/NASA) Computer technology is reaching new levels of sophistication, limited only by our imagination (and...
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No Bucks for NASA Without Buck Rogers
Guest article by Nina Lincoff An interview with Jeff Foust, Kathryn Thornton and Ian O’Neill. SpaceX Falcon 9 on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral (SpaceX) On Feb. 24, 2009, a quarter of a billion...
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Space Exploration Isn’t an Economic Stimulus. It’s a Humanity Stimulus
A scene from X3: Terran Conflict (©Egosoft) When I said this on Twitter today, it struck up a lot of support. It actually came out as a throwaway comment in Wednesday’s Astroengine Live when I was...
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The Brian Bat Foundation
“Remembering the voluntary and accidental endeavours of animals in human spaceflight” — BrianTheBat.org Just in case you haven’t heard, one little free-tailed bat from Florida caused quite a stir this...
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Listening Out for the Magnetospheres of Habitable Exoplanets
Searching for Earth-like exoplanets (© Mark Garlick*) Is there a new way to hunt for habitable Earth-like exoplanets? According to a US Naval Research Laboratory researcher there is an obvious, yet...
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The Carnival of Space Week 96
Hello and welcome to the 96th Carnival of Space on Astroengine.com! Before we begin, I want to wish the Universe Today a Happy 10th Birthday! Fraser Cain started the website way back on March 23rd,...
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Could Extraterrestrial Genes Be Like Ours?
DNA and amino acids. Not just a terrestrial thing? (©CG4TV) This is probably one of the biggest questions that hang over science fiction story lines: Will extraterrestrials have any resemblance to Life...
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NASA’s Continuing Foray Into Pop Culture
Guest article by Greg Fish (blog: world of weird things) Oh what havoc faux-conservative pundit Stephen Colbert wrought on NASA and the ISS! To think that a little publicity stunt would actually put...
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C.A.T. Scans of the Solar Wind
Guest article by Dr. Mario M. Bisi (Research Focus) A cut in the ecliptic plane through a 3D reconstruction on 08 November 2004 at 0000 UT using white-light data from SMEI. The view is from directly...
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@Astroengine Got CNN’d (and other epic things)
I’ve been pondering a word that could describe today. I drew a blank. It’s a very hard day to sum up in one word. In fact, this entire week has been something of a unique one. From a space point of...
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