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| Microsoft, NASA team up on 3D photo shoot of Endeavour |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 10:27 am |
| Tags: Endeavour, Microsoft, Nasa, Photosynth, Shuttle, Space, Space Shuttle, Spaceship, Spaceshuttle |
| Filed under: Digital Cameras, TransportationAs NASA awaits the newly rescheduled launch of its latest mission, Microsoft has been busy creating a "3D montage" of the space shuttle Endeavour. According to the team, this venture will enable individuals around the globe to "view 3D images of Endeavour and surrounding buildings at the Kennedy Space |
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| Moon Man: Get Your Mug on the Moon With the Lunar Legacy Program |
| Published: September 14, 2007, 3:20 pm |
| Tags: Earth, Image, Lunar Legacy Program, Moon, Moon Man, Notes, Rocket, Space, Space Craft, Spaceship, X Prize |
| In addition to the Robotic Moon Race that X Prize announced yesterday, they are also going to start the Lunar Legacy Program. This will allow regular geeks like you and me to upload a 1MB image and a quick note for $10. The collection of notes and pictures will then be copied on to a 17GB DVD and be placed on one of the spacecrafts heading toward |
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| Spaceship Remodel |
| Published: September 24, 2007, 7:03 pm |
| Tags: Los Angeles Monuments, Los Angeles Airport Spaceship, Encounter Restaurant |
| Looks as if this spaceship hit the ground too hard when it landed. The last time I photographed this far out piece of architecture it was doing fine. This building is home to the Encounter... for more see... |
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| Only one greasy-haired hippie named Steve built the first Apple [Spaceship Earth] |
| Published: December 10, 2007, 5:19 pm |
| Tags: Apple, Disney, Spaceship Earth, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Top |
| its centerpiece, Spaceship Earth. The ride within the iconic, giant silver golf ball documents the advances of human communications and technology. Recent renovations have brought Spaceship Earth into the Internet age, but when it emerged that the ride would include only one Steve toiling away in a garage to create the historic first |
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| Spaceship 2 Is Here At Last |
| Published: January 25, 2008, 12:56 pm |
| Tags: Space, Technology, Spaceship Two, Virgin, Galactic, Spaceship, Two, White, Night, Outer, Space, Atmosphere, Unveiled, Fly, Rutan, Burt, Branson, Knight, Spaceflights, Backs, Ships, Courtesy, Mankind, Behold |
| Behold the first images of Spaceship Two and White Knight Two, the ships upon whose backs mankind will see the first commercial spaceflights, courtesy of Virgin. They expect to start test flights later this year- I LOVE that this is happening and cannot express how excited I am that the new space race is not only in progress, it is going |
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| George Dyson On the Orion Project: A Nuclear, Saturn-Bound, Hotel-Sized Spaceship That Should Have Happened [Clips] |
| Published: February 26, 2008, 10:53 pm |
| Tags: Clips, Dyson, George Dyson, Orion, Orion Project, Ship, Space, Spaceship, Ted |
| The George Dyson video from 2002's TED just went live, describing the Orion Project, a deeply classified space vessel from the Atomic Age. It was nuclear powered. The size of a Marriott hotel and 400 tons. George Dyson's father worked on it, starting in General Atomic in 1957. Did I mention that scientists from the hydrogen bomb worked on this |
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| Lifeboat or Spaceship? |
| Published: June 15, 2008, 4:27 am |
| Tags: Philosophy, Burmese, Lifeboat, Orphans, Recourse Sharing, Spaceship |
| basic ideas; the world as a spaceship or individual countries as lifeboats. I was just curious as to how my different readers felt on the topic.Is the world in your eyes a holistic colony located in a spaceship in which we all need to ration and work together to survive? Or is the world divided up by lifeboats each of these boats being a |
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| Lifeboat or Spaceship? pt.2 |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 12:30 am |
| Tags: Philosophy, Deep Economics, Lifeboat, Spaceship |
| Last month I started talking about the two different popular ways to view the world. On one side the lifeboat aphorism and on the other the spaceship aphorism. You can find the previous article here. When I wrote I initially asked for responses to what you my readers thought. A response which was not only [...] |
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| Interview: Virgin Galactic Pilot...Space Pilot [Spaceships] |
| Published: July 28, 2008, 1:14 pm |
| Tags: Spaceships, Awesome, Ships, Space, Spaceship, Spaceshiptwo, Top, Virgin, Virgin Galactic, Whiteknighttwo |
| training program to pilot a spaceship. You'd never believe a man who looks like a cross between Chuck Yeager and Clint Eastwood and who dresses like Johnny Cash would ever experience something like giddiness, but that's what I detected when interviewing him at today's WhiteKnightTwo unveiling. What's the training like? The program has yet to be |
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| City Gateway Looks Like Stranded Alien Mothership [Architecture] |
| Published: August 12, 2008, 6:07 am |
| Tags: Architecture, Rak Gateway, Ras Al Khaimah, Spaceship |
| The United Arab Emirates keep building their Blade Runner-ish cities in the middle of the desert, with buildings like the Ras Al-Khaimah Gateway, a 2.9 million square feet hotel, conference and exhibition complex that looks like some kind of alien mothership from outer space. Construction will start later this year and Norwegian architects Sn |
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