Very cool, well explained video about all the dimensions (we know of), which is, believe it or not, 10! Everything is explained very straightforward and, though the ideas are complex, in a way that even I was able to get. I’m considering picking up the book; if not for me, than for my father, who I would think would be very interested in these kind of things.

Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the tenth? This project starts from the unique argument that time really is just one of the directions in the fourth spatial dimension, and our spacetime universe is being created one planck length at a time as we twist and turn in the available branches of the fifth dimension. This “new way of thinking about time and space” is not the traditional position of mainstream science: still, many people around the world feel this new idea has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality.

Official Site | Via +KN

Tags: dimention, imagine, science, space, time, universe, Vision
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Incredible photos! The above (one of my favorites) is of a dust storm over Mali, Sahara Desert.
Via Dark Roasted Blend

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The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Quoted from WorldWide Telescope

Tags: Google Earth, Social technology, space, space exploration, World Wide Telescope
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First Space Lawyer Graduates
A student at the University of Mississippi will leap into the final frontier of the legal system Saturday when he receives the first-ever space law certificate in the United States.

Michael Dodge of Long Beach, Miss., earned the special distinction along with his law degree through the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law at the university’s law school.
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You can ignore me for a few minutes, if you want… I’m just going a little stir-crazy, today. This whole “office life” stuff really gets to me from time to time. I was going to post pictures of the final bird painting, but I forgot my USB connector and the frame wasn’t finished, anyway. There’s not enough caffeine in the country to get me motivated, right now. I need to take a nap or something. I need a window and some sunlight. But noooooo, I don’t get one of those. It’s not a good idea to stick an artist in a tiny office with no visual stimulation. They’re gonna start drawing on the walls or stacking furniture. *Sigh*

I want to give you something for putting up with me, in my current state. Here’s a neat article about the creator of those dreaded cubicles, Robert Propst. Thank you for your time. I promise, I’ll be better next time.

Tags: crazy, cubicles, office, Robert Propst, space
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Whoa!

Google, the Internet search powerhouse that in recent years has expanded to include mapping of the stars as well as the surfaces of the moon and Mars and which has an ongoing collaboration with NASA’s Ames Research Center, provided a small seed grant to fund development of the wide-field digital cameras needed for the satellite. Because of the huge amount of data that will be generated by the satellite, Google has an interest in working on the development of ways of sifting through that data to find useful information.

Dubbed the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the satellite could potentially be launched in 2012. ‘Decades, or even centuries after the TESS survey is completed, the new planetary systems it discovers will continue to be studied because they are both nearby and bright,’ says George R. Ricker, senior research scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT and leader of the project. ‘In fact, when starships transporting colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward a TESS-discovered planet as their new home.’

Found on MIT News, from io9

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I am really happy to see that a company is doing something worth while with corporate sponsorship, These numbers are not huge in the world of big business marketing.

ie: NASCAR owners operate on a very slim margin. Most top tier teams require $25million/year in sponsorship money to make ends meet.

It really makes me want to support a company like Google when they can make the decision to support human kind as a whole. Support science, discovery and the human spirit as opposed to putting shoes on some idiot Jocks feet.

Thank you Google!
-Jack

February 21, 2008, Mountain View, CA – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google, Inc. today announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.

ABOUT THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE
The $30 million prize purse is segmented into a $20 million Grand Prize, a $5 million Second Prize and $5 million in bonus prizes. To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth. The Grand Prize is $20 million until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15 million until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation. For more information about the Google Lunar X PRIZE, please visit www.googlelunarxprize.org.

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