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Sunday Punch: Sometimes You Just Want to Be Batman Riding a Dinosaur

Have some Dinosaur Batman Forever by Joe Carr. Prints available here.

via time travel and rocker powered apes

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Our Strange Sky: Canadians Launch a Lego Man Into Space, Films it All. Awesome Journey, Eh?

They claim to have more video on how they did it and extended footage in the works. We’ll keep an eye on their Facebook page for these bits.
Official site http://www.facebook.com/legomaninspace

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Our Strange Sky: Father, Son Space Balloon Launch REMIXED

In October 2010, a father and son launched an iphone and HD camera into space to film low earth orbit.

We talked it up back then.

A Space Balloon Remix video set to a cut from Brian Eno’s 28 DAYS LATER soundtrack quickly followed. We just found out about that this year.

via +Sean Cowen

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Podcast Listens: Shameless Plug Edition: Blast Shields Down, Episode 2: MOON, Hard-SciFi at It’s Best

Hold on to your spacesuits, faithful listener. The Blasters get incredibly nerdy and philosophical on this one.

Discussed in this episode: Mellow Sam vs Angry Sam, the future of energy, will robots become better liars than humans and why @C_Duncan is wrong about his “improvements” to this hard science fiction classic.

This episode has the distinction of being the most popular download in the Blast Shields Down series. Find out why.


HOST :@Groonk


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NASA’s Astounding Photo of Earth as It Hangs in Space, See the Earth as it Truly Is

This photo of the world as stitched together from NASA’s weather satellite Suomi NPP is the very definition of amazing. We can’t stress enough how much you need to follow this link to the high definition image on NASA Flickr.

Download and have a look at our world, standing alone, in the black.

Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth - Blue Marble 2012

Because we could not leave well enough alone, and perhaps this image stirred a bit of our poetic spirit, we found a website of Space Quotations devoted specifically to the big blue marble that is Earth.

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves a riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

— Archibald MacLeish, American poet, ‘Riders on earth together, Brothers in eternal cold,’ front page of the New York Times, Christmas Day, 25 December 1968

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Music Break: Evolution, the Greatest Show on Earth

Symphony of Science brings in another melody of life.

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ISS Crew Greets Puny Earthlings 2012 New Year with a Video…FROM SPACE

Six space station astronauts ushered in 2012 together: European astronaut Andre Kuipers, American Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, American Dan Burbank, and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Anatoly Ivanishin. According to NASA, the crew will also commemorate Russian Orthodox Christmas on January 7, 2012.

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Merry Christmas, LHC! Santa knows what Every DisCERNing Scientist wants this Year

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“We’ve Been Studying the Elephant’s Tail,” an Animated Comic Explains the Basics of Dark Matter

Did you ever think that you needed a layperson’s explanation on what is dark matter? We have. On many occasions. It’s strange but the more we read about it, the more it confounds and fascinates us. No wonder scientists are obsessed over it. PHD Comics broke down the basics of dark matter and drew it up comics style.

Comics save the world again.

BTW, in other universal news, we know CERN‘s announcement on whether we’ve found the Higgs Boson particle is coming later today. Keep an eye on our Twitter feed(look right) or G+ for an immediate reaction. A thought out response should be appearing around these parts later on.
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Found: Ardnamurchan Viking Boat Burial, Fully Intact & Shipwreck of Kublai Khan’s Lost Feet, Possibly

First, the viking:

The term “fully-intact”, used to describe the find, means the remains of the body along with objects buried with it and evidence of the boat used were found and recovered.

The Ardnamurchan Viking was found buried with an axe, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, a shield boss and a bronze ring pin.

About 200 rivets – the remains of the boat he was laid in – were also found.

Previously, boat burials in such a condition have been excavated at sites on Orkney.

Now, the shipwreck:

In Japanese legend they are known as The Kamikaze — the divine winds — a reference to two mighty typhoons placed providentially seven years apart which, in the 13th century, destroyed two separate Mongol invasion fleets so large they were not eclipsed until the D-Day landings of World War II.

Marine archaeologists now say they have uncovered the remains of a ship from the second fleet in 1281 — believed to have comprised 4,400 vessels — a meter below the seabed, in 25 meters of water off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan.

via guardian, bbcnews, cnn

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