Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Man floating in space is awesome.
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Bruce McCandless II performing the first untethered spacewalk in 1984. In this picture he’s 100 meters away from the shuttle, orbiting the Earth at a likely velocity of 7.7 km/s, with nothing but a jet pack to get back on board.
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 23 April 2009
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The city of Venice has announced a plan to utilize algae in a different way than we’re used to hearing about. The Italian city plans to produce 50 percent of its electricity needs from an algae-based power plant instead of fossil fuels.The water-filled city is turning what has become a nuisance [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 22 April 2009
On a related note, people against gay marriage say that it’s going to destroy the family. What to think of a pair of same-sex creatures getting married after proving they were the best parents in the zoo?
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They were once given the cold shoulder at the wildlife park in China for
stealing heterosexual [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 21 April 2009
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we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it?
To answer these questions, [...]
