Tag: Space
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GeekWire Calendar Picks: SpaceFest 2016, Jet City Comic Show, SciTech Northwest, and more
With Elon Musk’s announcement that he plans to colonize Mars within a century, space has been on a lot of folks’ minds this past month. And this weekend’s SpaceFest at the Museum of Flight in Seattle is the perfect place to keep diving into the big black. The event celebrates all things space, focusing on the…
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The inside story behind Jeff Bezos’ alien cameo on ‘Star Trek Beyond’
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos plays a Starfleet official (at right) who assists a rescued spacefarer (played by Lydia Wilson, at left). Credit: Justin Lin via Twitter When “Star Trek Beyond” comes out on DVD next week, you can freeze-frame on the big-name cameo appearance that zipped past so quickly in the theaters: Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’…
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Video: Jeff Bezos shares big ideas, from Amazon’s drone landing pads to a 10,000-year clock
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos shows off a tortoise cufflink during the Pathfinder Awards banquet at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. The tortoise symbolizes the approach Bezos takes with his Blue Origin space venture. “We believe slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,” he says. (Credit: Tania Shepard / Azzura Photography) Someday, you’ll be printing out a…
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Obama goes into full (and feisty) geek mode at White House Frontiers Conference
“Innovation is in our DNA,” President Barack Obama tells his audience at the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh. (Credit: White House) President Barack Obama stated the obvious today during what almost sounded like a farewell address to the tech community he loves. “I confess, I am a science geek,” he said at the White…
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GeekWire at the Movies: ‘Voyage of Time’ lays out a visual book of scientific genesis
“Voyage of Time” makes use of cosmic imagery like this view of Europa with Jupiter’s Great Red Spot as a backdrop. (Credit: Broad Green Pictures) Is it possible to create a visual gospel, to be seen on a movie screen rather than read from a parchment? If so, that’s what filmmaker Terrence Malick has created…
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Brooke Owens Fellowships will boost women in aerospace (and we’re helping)
Brooke Owens, a pilot and space policy expert, died of cancer in June at the age of 35. She was an alumna of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. (Credit: Brooke Owens Fellowship Program) Space industry pioneer Brooke Owens didn’t live long enough to reach the final frontier, but her life has inspired a fellowship program that will…
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Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views
An image from the Sentinel-2 satellite shows the Australian city of Brisbane and its surroundings. (Credit: ESA / Google) How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more than 30 years’ worth of satellite imagery from the Landsat and Sentinel-2 missions, for free. Satellite views…
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Has Leonardo DiCaprio signed up for Elon Musk’s trip to Mars? It’s just a joke, people!
President Barack Obama mixed it up with Leonardo DiCaprio during the White House’s South by South Lawn festival. (Credit: White House) For a time, the Internet was agog over Leonardo DiCaprio’s claim that he’s getting a ticket to Mars – presumably as part of SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk’s plan to send a million people to the…
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A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet
Musk’s goal is to send 1 million settlers to Mars within 100 years. Photo: SpaceX. Colonies on Mars are no longer restricted to the pages of sci-fi classics and the imagination of ambitious space geeks. These settlements are not only possible, they are moving closer to reality with each passing year, and this week SpaceX founder and…
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Stephen Hawking tours five favorite places in the universe in CuriosityStream video
A scene from “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places” shows the good doctor and his heads-up display in a CGI-created spaceship called the S.S. Hawking. (Credit: CuriosityStream) You’d think that physicist Stephen Hawking’s favorite place on Earth would be his native England, but it’s actually someplace completely different – as he explains in a new 25-minute documentary from…