Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
Founder: Joseph Barone
Contributors: crookedindifference, bumerangue, propagandery, rocketmagic, rostenbach
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Valentina Tereshkova and Neil Armstrong
Starry Night necklace by Lana Pineapple on etsy!
Good advices!
Hi. This isnt really a submission, but just a question. Do you know any way to join NASA or any other organization or corporation of such? Do you a list of them? And the qualifications and everything? [popsiclesregiment]
Thank you for the question popsiclesregiment. If you dream of working in the space industry do the following:
- Stay in school
- Study math(s) and science
- Say NO to drugs
- Eat your vegetables
Initiative, problem solving skills and and a bit of creativity will help too.
Here’s a website to get you started: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/dictionary/NASA.html
Good luck and remember: SPACE RULES
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Vitor/bumerangue: Had to reblog this clever post by space rules!
death in space
http://itsfullofstars.tumblr.com/post/7159684137/death-in-space
not sure how else to get this to you. just use google search next time ;)
Vitor/bumerangue: WIN! Actually, you win, I fail. :o) Still, search tool sucks.
Natural Philosophy (Short Film)
Promoting the importance of science in an often-irrational world.
Link: http://vimeo.com/16468054
Submitted by DF (DFpercept@gmail.com).
A bright future ahead for space enthusiasts!
Popsci.com has detected the top 10 best jobs of the future and 3 of them are related to space: commercial space pilot, satellite making and architect for cosmic outposts.
Among other important future jobs, there’s organ designer, fetus healer and managing fusion reactors. Wild!
Submitted by Vitor Diel/bumerangue.
This was published here in IFOS a couple of months ago, but as we have gained more followers since then, and questions about careers in space still coming, it worths a reblog!
brybell: Watch this video. I think it really would be perfect for this blog. It is a long video, but it is amazing!!!!
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Yes, many of those thinkers to whom I owe my mental freedom were religious, like Newton, a Christian, who believed God made the Earth but who then showed me why the Earth would have formed without a god’s help. Or Plank and Schrodinger, two more Christians, who believed God ruled the Universe but showed me how God could not control a single electron. The discoveries these and many other people made, the laws they are famous for, are the very things that make gods getting humans pregnant, or angels whispering to prophets in caves, look infantile. I could never and would never question their intelligence. Their honesty and intellectual consistency are a different matter.
Weird…
I can stand on the shoulders of giants and see what even they seemingly could not.
I’m not against the Creator(s), if they exist, if they ever existed. I’m not against the search for the Creator(s). What blows MY mind is that people think religion has anything to do with it at all.
Me as a Flight Controller, with my dad, who’s not dressed up as anything.
My Halloween costume this year— so excited and proud to go as Carl Sagan!
G-forces in space.
Are the g-forces associated with acceleration in space equal to the same amount of force that you would experience on earth?
Yes, in space, if you accelerate at a constant rate of 9.8 m/s2 then you will feel the forces equal to that of 1g on Earth, as that is the free fall acceleration created by Earth’s gravitational pull. “G-force” is a term used to describe the forces exerted on an object at factors of Earth’s free fall constant, so 2g’s is 19.6 m/s2, 10g’s is 98 m/s2 and so on… it is the Newtonian “equal and opposite force” exerted on the object.
Don’t mean to be a buzzkill here but uh..
A Planet Is Too Hot for Life, but Another May Be Just Right
Thinking about Gliese 581c and the colonization of it is pretty awesome. Imagination fuel to the nth degree. But, hopefully some other people can gain similar insight I gained from this: We are DAMN lucky to be on this planet. The ideal balances that exist to support life in such vast quantities are like, miraculous.
You Are Here
Earth as viewed through the rings of Saturn (via Nicholas Deleon’s blog on CrunchGear).
Hubble's Best Photos
(via Discovery Channel)
Baja California Timelapses
