Category: StarTrek

because of unprofessional journalism (no sources given to the origin of the pictures) it is not clear if those pictures are real pictures taken by a space probe and send back to earth or some CGI 3D renderings! SHAME ON […]

Almost 10 years after it’s release – Mass Effect 2 grafix are still pretty pretty 🙂 the Mass Effect 2 setup was not working. When one inserts DVD2 and hits “retry” nothing happens. “simply copy all the files from the […]

“God has given mankind a stage – how the story ends – is up to you” … with the first pogo free Saturn V. “THE PERILS OF POGO” by Werner von Braun: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/ch-3-5.html

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/ Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Left to right, are Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtgeschwindigkeit 1.080.000.000 km/h Eine Milliarden km pro Stunde 25.920.000.000 km / day in Worten 25 Milliarden km pro Tag 181.440.000.000 km / week in Worten: 181 Milliarden km pro Woche 5.443.200.000.000 km / month in Worten 5 Billionen km pro […]

Will StarLink be sufficiently protected against “space weather”? StarLink  while it is a cool project, promising cheap (? hope so?), fast and global internet and phone (?) connectivity, it comes with some problems: if a solar flare “1859 Carringont Event” style […]

Should we go to Titan instead of Mars? Man likes to colonize – ask the British – they know best – but also the Spanish, the French, the Americans and even the Germans know – so where should we colonize […]

cognitive disconnectedness between governments and science: the non-sustainability mess Let’s face it… the fossil fuel powered steam engine economy … once started… is very hard to stop or slow down. also or because of: “Scientists working on the issue have […]

A lot of things are not “Rocket Science” but Rocket Science is Rocket Science, which means: it involves solving a lot of technical problems. And just as in car racing… things are fast dangerous and sometimes crash… which gives it […]

Why is quantum computing important: optimization Update: Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy The tech giant unveiled its x-quantum computer chip Bristlecone in March 2018 (src: cnet) original nasa paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082Lc-kdD/view book: https://deepai.org/machine-learning/researcher/eleanor-g-rieffel https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Introduction-Engineering-Computation/dp/0262015064 Scott’s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ! […]

multiple problems: distance, temperature, water, funding the discovery of exoplanets many light years away means: we shall take good care of our blue planet and share it peacefully and instead of putting all efforts into destroying each other and all […]

“time is estimated at around 00:20 ACST (19.05.2019 at 14:50 UT)” (src: imo.net) even with pretty good sound (GoPro Hero 3? :)… nope different model.) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-22/suspected-meteor-spotted-across-the-sky-in-south-australia/11136648 Update – Large Asteroids over Australia – 19 and 21 May 2019   2013 […]

NASA wants to return to the Moon with Humans For the first time in over 10 years, we have money in @NASA’s budget request for a return to the Moon with human-rated landers. #Moon2Mars pic.twitter.com/x7cR1nRyzA — Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) March […]

as far as i understood the “string theory” and also Einstein’s Theory is that on the smallest building blocks Matter = is actually = Energy, in “string theory” this energy is resembled as a vibrating string, if it vibrates in […]

short story: inside the Dragon X Space Capsule after docking – the zero G puppet starts floating around – indicating that gravity has left the building. first time SpaceX Dragon SpaceCraft probably replacing the Soyuz capsule (first flight 1966) – […]

How many arms does our Galaxy have? 2x major 2x minor = 4 Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighbouring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and colour […]

Our solar System: including orbits 40 light years away…   Despite the very unsexy name – “TRAP“-IST-1e and the other TRAPPIST-1 planets released in 2018 determined that the planet is one of the most Earth-like worlds (ever) found It is […]

update: The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight)[1] mission is a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars.[1][11][12] by Lockheed Martin, managed by NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most payload instruments […]

Problems with Mars missions: Radiation, Solar Flares, Meteoroids and Dust Storms “it receives occasional lethal blasts that occur with strong solar flares” (src) Maybe an “Underground” Mars colony would be good to shield against deadly radiation? src: https://www.space.com/21353-space-radiation-mars-mission-threat.html Radiation: “The […]

All 3 years you will have a major Dust storm on Mars that lasts for weeks or months and reduces sunlight to 10% making solar energy almost worthless in this time. While – of course – good batteries (that can […]

due to the lack of magnetic field solar radiation is said to have nocked away most of Mars’ water… (every drop of water instantly either freezes or vaporates) – there seems to be “enough” water in frozen form that just […]

src: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4y1WDl-WP8 The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.[1] Estimates of the length of one orbit range from […]

Strange Cigar Shaped visitor Asteroid Oumuamua and ice clouds “the first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named ‘Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems.” (src: NASA) Scientists conclude that interstellar object […]

“Any future colonization efforts directed at the Mars all share one problem in common; their reliance on a non-existent magnetic field. Mars’” which got lost 4 billion years ago. (src) Venus – the Roman goddess of love, beauty, fertility and […]

You probably now that Stephen Hawking (never got a Nobel Price) was on BigBang A LOT. And he writes to speech synthesis and eye-tracker. And he is giving hilarious funny interviews with this thing DECtalk DTC01… While also saying that AI […]

live stream camera and radio chatter from iss: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream ISSpresso is the first espresso coffee machine designed for use in space, produced for the International Space Station by Argotec and Lavazza in a public-private partnership with the Italian Space Agency […]

update: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/strange-new-worlds/ https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1544/tour-55-cancri-e-in-360-degrees-get-the-travel-poster-and-more/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASA_TESS&utm_campaign=NASASocial We're excited to be back online. There were several exciting TESS developments over the past month including the first three TESS planet discoveries, and our second data release. pic.twitter.com/aph3wvpDyb — NASA_TESS (@NASA_TESS) January 30, 2019 new tool: […]

you can listen to radio chatter and real live stream from iss here (tested last 2018.08.02): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/9408562 not HD quality but well… at least it works and is really live. some nice pictures from the 360 tours: US Google Version: […]

https://t3n.de/news/ki-deep-learning-alternative-1092781/ Elon Musk: (EM) “the big aerospace companies had no interest in radical innovation, all they wanted to do is try to make their old technology slightly better over the years. Particular in rockets it is pretty bad. … People […]

Organics on Mars, but what about life? One of the studies details organic compounds found by the rover in preserved rock that dates back about 3 billions years. Organic compounds are incredibly important when hunting for life elsewhere in the […]