Tag Archives: space exploration

Nukes… in… Spaaaaaace…

December 11, 2003 – 10:32 am

Now there’s something that’s been missing from NASA‘s spacecraft: uranium fission power plants. The planned Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) is a nuclear-powered monster, around 18 to 30 meters long.
Jimo also would bristle with fins to dissipate the intense heat from its reactor.
Yeah, I’ll bet it would. You could also set up a Jovian espresso [...]

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Great Zeus!

November 19, 2003 – 11:18 am
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Black holes sing

September 15, 2003 – 4:03 pm

The Chandra X-ray observatory has detected sound waves coming from a black hole in the Perseus cluster. It’s a constant B flat, 57 octaves lower than middle-C, which has been sounding for around 2.5 billion years.

Black holes sing. Simple things like this just make me happy. Today has been worth living, simply because it brought [...]

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Real LEGO astronauts

June 13, 2003 – 11:01 am
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Hiding from SETI@Home

May 8, 2003 – 11:46 am
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Encyclopedia Astronautica

April 25, 2003 – 1:52 pm
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