Tag: space
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Networking the Solar System
When the human race inevitably expands off planet Earth, we’ll naturally want to take our internet with us – over the past 15 years or so, the internet really has become an integral part of our lives! In fact, even as you’re reading this, 300 gigawatts of electricity worldwide will have been used to transfer…
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Mars One: The Martian Chronicles or Big Brother Live on Mars?
This week we have seen beautiful Venus transiting directly between the Earth and the Sun, which brought plenty of the media attention, and yesterday one of the greatest science fiction writers Ray Bradbury died during Venus transit. He was best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories collection The Martian Chronicles. Both the Earth…
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Dragon’s Rendez-Vous Day
For those who may not be familiar, The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is developed, and built by the American company Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, as it is more commonly known. You may find very informative and interesting article on SpaceX Dragon written by Kevin Orrman-Rossiter. Today SpaceX #Dragon is proceeding toward rendezvous with #ISS. The International Space Station mission management team completed a…
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Space worms
We begin with a confession. There comes a time in every boy’s life that they realise, or rather they make peace with the fact, that they’ll never play professional sports. Basketball, rugby, football, hockey… the sport of choice changes, but the realisation stays the same. I mention this only as an analogy. A segue into…