Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading

posted by eric3579 5 days 10 hours ago • 210 views • 9:55

From YouTube, "A CSB safety video about the September 21, 2020, hot work incident at the Evergreen Packaging Paper Mill in Canton, North Carolina. A fire erupted in a confined space when a heat gun fell... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 month 1 week ago • 352 views • 11:44

Artemis 1: Which will consist of an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon, where the next generation of spacecraft that will take humans to the... continue reading

posted by BSR 1 month 2 weeks ago • 55 views • 12:48

Scientists have long been marveled by the secrets of the Universe. However, the more they discover, the much more they realize they haven't even started scratching the surface! Much of the limitation... continue reading

posted by BSR 1 month 4 weeks ago • 43 views • 10:32

Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 months 2 weeks ago • 17 views • 6:56

From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 6 months 3 weeks ago • 309 views • 11:46

When a theory makes a prediction that disagrees with an experimental test, sometimes it means we should throw the theory away. But what if that theory has otherwise produced the most successful predictions... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 months 4 weeks ago • 436 views • 12:36

Destin from Smarter Every Day looks into how the James Webb Space Telescope works.

posted by w1ndex 7 months 3 weeks ago • 187 views • 29:46

From Youtube, "NERC's Space Geodesy Facility, hidden away in the English countryside, fires lasers at satellites. Because it turns out that knowing a satellite's position exactly is really, really difficult.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 8 months 2 weeks ago • 611 views • 3:17

The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading

posted by BSR 11 months 3 weeks ago • 141 views • 10:03

From YT: In This Video I Show You A Comparison Between The Greatest Space Telescope Ever, My Universities $32,000 Telescope and my very own Telescope!

posted by Nephelimdream 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 474 views • 14:32

From Youtube, "The night sky seems peaceful and orderly. But in reality, stars are careening through the galaxy at speeds of hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Not bound by static formations... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 326 views • 9:46

Science fiction and science fact are often intertwined. As Kate Mulgrew took on the role of Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, she found a passion for space, science, and exploration.

posted by Ashenkase 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago • 79 views • 2:48

From Youtube, "The launch of SpaceX's DM-2 mission taking NASA astronauts to the Space Station was the culmination of years of development, and more importantly years of political and management decisions... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 15:55

The stereotypical modern playground — with its bright colors and rubberized flooring — is designed to be clean, safe, and lawsuit-proof. But that isn't necessarily the best design for kids. US playground... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years ago • 111 views • 5:44

NASA's current fleet of spacesuits was built in 1974, and each was reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million. Today, that would be about $150 million. Having not built any new mission-ready... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 2 years 2 weeks ago • 100 views • 10:41

Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 3 weeks ago • 1,109 views • 6:40

YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 68 views • 2:46

From Youtube, "Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it's just not theoretically possible... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 114 views • 14:25