Tag: Space
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Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, discusses his vision for space settlement with GeekWire’s Alan Boyle at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles. (Keith Zacharski / In The Barrel Photo) LOS ANGELES – Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the…
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Amazon reportedly talks about reviving ‘The Expanse’ after Syfy cancellation
Frankie Adams plays a Martian Marine in “The Expanse.” (Syfy / Alcon TV Group Photo) Just days after the Syfy channel announced it was canceling “The Expanse,” sparking a fan campaign to save the space opera, The Hollywood Reporter says Amazon Studios is in talks to keep the show going into a fourth season. Variety and…
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‘Eggs’ for alien Earths? At 94, physicist Freeman Dyson’s brain is still going strong
Physicist Freeman Dyson’s latest book is “Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters.” (Dan Komoda / Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ USA) Alien megaspheres … rockets powered by nuclear bombs … freeze-dried life in outer space: These are just some of the ideas that have flowered in the brain of physicist Freeman Dyson, and…
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Even after death, Stephen Hawking stirs up fresh cosmological tiffs and tributes
Physicist Stephen Hawking visited the Large Hadron Collider’s underground tunnel in 2013. (CERN Photo / Laurent Egli) The ashes of the late British physicist Stephen Hawking will get a fitting resting place in Westminster Abbey, near the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. But you could argue that the true monuments to Hawking’s memory…
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Did space scramble Scott Kelly’s genes so much he’s no longer a twin? Um, not really
Retired astronauts Mark Kelly and Scott Kelly are still identical twins. (NASA Photo / Robert Markowitz) My Twitter feed was buzzing this week with reports that Scott Kelly’s genes were knocked permanently out of phase because he spent a year in space. Some of the reports made it sound as if Scott Kelly was no…
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Elon Musk Q&A: First Mars spaceship is being built, with flight tests set for 2019
Billionaire Elon Musk (in the black hat) and his brother, Kimbal Musk (in the white hat), join in a rendition of “My Little Buttercup” at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. (SXSW via YouTube) SpaceX is building its first Mars transport vehicle, also known as the BFR, and “making good progress” toward short-hop test flights…
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Kirk or Picard? Star Trek geek Jeff Bezos makes his choice at Oscars photo op
Kirk, Picard or Janeway? That choice of Star Trek captains is a standard question on our Geek of the Week list, and now Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has let all of us know where he stands. Kirk or Picard? Picard! #FinalFrontier #GoBoldly pic.twitter.com/mEohTVuKIs — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) March 10, 2018 Bezos’ choice may seem surprising,…
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‘Hidden Figures’ no more: New Barbie dolls honor NASA’s Katherine Johnson and 16 other women
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is immortalized as a Barbie doll. (Mattel Photo) “Hidden Figures” mathematician Katherine Johnson may have missed out on the Lego toy treatment, but she and 16 other women are getting the Barbie doll treatment just in time for International Women’s Day. Today Mattel announced that it’s rolling out 17 new Barbie…
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Asteroid Institute adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners for asteroid tracking
The Asteroid Detection Analysis and Mapping software, or ADAM, can plot the courses of multiple asteroids and other celestial bodies, as shown in this visualization. (B612 Asteroid Institute via YouTube) Google Cloud and AGI (a.k.a. Analytical Graphics Inc.) have gotten on board with the B612 Asteroid Institute to develop a cloud-based platform for keeping track…
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Robotics pioneer Red Whittaker wants to put a robot on the moon, and land Amazon in his backyard
Red Whittaker, founder and director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Field Robotics Center, with Cave Crawler, a robot developed to autonomously map underground mines. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) PITTSBURGH — Asked if he will eventually land a robot on the moon, William “Red” Whittaker doesn’t hold back. “Oh, hell yes,” says the Carnegie Mellon University…