Don't forget Pallas! It was once considered a planet.
Good thing they already have the theme song!
"It's been a bit nippy out lately. And by "a bit nippy," I mean the world we once knew has been replaced by an ice-bound hellscape."
You guys are all crazy, because Galaxy Quest most definitely comes first on that list.
Galaxy Quest. 100%. Because - unlike comedies where the geek is the butt of the joke - with this movie, if you're a geek, you're in on the joke. It's a funny movie, but if you're a Trekkie, it's hysterical. And the more you know about Star Trek, the better it is.
I think there's a lot to be said for male/female relationships that stay at the level of friendship, without any pressure forcing them into romance. Hermione shouldn't have to end up with anyone (nor should Ron or Harry), and one of the great things about her not ending up with Harry is that then Harry and Hermione…
NIAC is a terrific example of NASA actively seeking out forward-thinking ideas and giving them the initial boost to go from a whiteboard doodle to a proof of concept. My own research got support from NIAC, and we took our concept all the way from the "sniff test" to a flight technology demonstration through another…
Also: screw you, autocorrect! :hangs head:
It's no surprise that groups with a stake in the game are serious about studying climate change. Oil companies, for instance - the ones bankrolling tobacco-style tactics to deny climate change is happening at all - are happy to formulate plans for how to use all the new ocean access they'll get as the arctic melts.
A very relevant piece on how NASA recovers from disasters and desserts our support: http://m.space.com/24438-challeng…
It's probably just coincidence with small-number statistics. Given three events, the probably that they all happen in the same month is not negligible. Look up the "birthday paradox" for a related problem.
Any kind of green!
My, what an ironic header image you have there, io9, given that last season!
Ten billion stars for you!
I think the most important piece of advice to wintertime city cyclists is this: follow road rules.
I don't think that explanation is quite right.... Many adherents to religions are perfectly aware that their beliefs are, quite literally, articles of faith. I am using the term "belief" to refer to something that a person thinks to be correct without any prior evidence or argument to back it up - and I think that…
Aluminum does interact with magnetic fields: it experiences eddy current effects. Those interactions are very different from ferromagnetic attraction, but they do generate drag forces - just what we need to get an orbit to decay into the atmosphere!
The Dean Drive, in converting rotary motion into a crackpot pseudoscience blah blah blah...
Which scientific ideas do we need to get rid of?