Tag: Space
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Marijuana fans mix with space fans at The Goodship Company’s Seattle SETI salon
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak (far left) takes questions from the audience while The Goodship Company’s art director, Greg Lundgren, looks on. GeekWire’s Alan Boyle is the guy with his head down in the front row. (Goodship Photo / Ben Lindbloom) Is Seattle’s Goodship Higher Education Series about bringing together cannabis users? Or is it about deep…
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Far out, man! SETI astronomer will explain the search for aliens to potential potheads
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak has been seeking alien signals for more than two decades. (SETI Institute Photo) You don’t have to be stoned to appreciate SETI scientist Seth Shostak’s perspective on the search for extraterrestrials – but it wouldn’t hurt. That’s what the Goodship Higher Education Series is counting on when the SETI Institute’s senior astronomer…
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Buzz Aldrin and Bill Nye the Science Guy turn into shiny objects for New York’s 2035 fashion show
Bill Nye the Science Guy joins forces with Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin at a New York fashion show. (Buzz Aldrin via Twitter) To be a fashionable geek is usually a contradiction of terms, but Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and Bill Nye (“the Science Guy”) pulled it off during New York Men’s Fashion Week.…
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What’s next for science and tech? Key posts are in limbo as Trump takes charge
Donald Trump met with tech industry leaders including venture capitalist Peter Thiel and Apple CEO Tim Cook last month. (Pool via YouTube) Although President Donald Trump says he’s ready to delve into the mysteries of space, he still has to make key appointments at NASA and other agencies dealing with science and technology policy. And…
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Tech shines as bright spot in Donald Trump’s dark inaugural speech
Donald Trump vows to “Make America Great Again” in his inaugural address. (Pool via YouTube) Donald Trump’s first address as president may have sounded like a “Make America Great Again” campaign speech, but he did include at least a few bright words about the promise of science and technology. “We stand at the birth of a new millennium,”…
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Happy 75th birthday, Stephen Hawking! Here’s a stratospheric balloon tribute
Party balloons and a spacey view: Not a bad way to mark Stephen Hawking’s birthday. (NEAR via YouTube) Famed British physicist Stephen Hawking has long wanted to go into space, so what better way to celebrate his 75th birthday than sending him a greeting from near-space? The greeting comes courtesy of a stratospheric balloon experiment,…
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Mannequin Challenge jumps the shark in zero-G, courtesy of space station crew
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky stays immobile as he floats in a Superman pose for an out-of-this-world Mannequin Challenge. (ESA via Twitter / Thomas Pesquet) Standing still for a Mannequin Challenge video is a faddish feat, but floating still in zero-G raises the degree of difficulty to the level of a true challenge. And the crew…
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From startups to spaceships: Ten top books for geeks to read in 2017
What’s Bill Gates reading now? We’re taking a guess. (Gates Foundation Photo) Geeks and books go together like athletes and balls, but just as there are different sports, there are different types of geek reading. We’ve put together a top-10 list of books on a wide spectrum of geeky topics, all published over the past…
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The Year in Aerospace and Science: Why gravitational waves wowed the world
A visualization shows gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. (NASA Illustration / C. Henze) The biggest science story of 2016 was a century in the making, and will surely earn someone a Nobel Prize. The first detection of gravitational waves from the crash of two black holes is important not only for the…
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How screenwriter Jon Spaihts worked the physics of starship travel into ‘Passengers’
The starship Avalon approaches Arcturus in a scene from “Passengers.” (Sony Pictures via YouTube) The science is under the hood in “Passengers,” a love story set on a giant starship – and screenwriter Jon Spaihts is the guy who put it there. Chances are most movie fans are going to the movie to see Hollywood stars…