By Tim Stevens The Google Lunar XPrize is the next great space race, with a $30 million purse offered to commercial teams. Check out Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic’s test, which won the team $750,000.
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By Casey Chan
A belt is so simple, it’s just fabric that ties together to hold up your pants. But in this video, you see how considered the process of making a leather belt is. Each feature of the belt, whether it be the holes or the rivets or the buckle or the color, is carefully handled and made. I love watching this much attention to work.
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By Jesus Diaz
Just when I thought I had enough of Rosetta’s photos of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA has released this four-image mosaic that shows an incredible cliff more than one kilometer (0.62 miles) high. The image was taken from a distance of 20.1 kilometer on December 10. Here’s another version, zoomed out.
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By Jesus Diaz
Just when I thought I had enough of Rosetta’s photos of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ESA has released this four-image mosaic that shows an incredible cliff more than one kilometer (0.62 miles) high. The image was taken from a distance of 20.1 kilometer on December 10. Here’s another version, zoomed out.
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By Jesus Diaz
Hookai. So I just saw this video by our friend Nikola Slavkovic, and my mind exploded. Because what I thought I was seeing, I actually can’t see. I thought I could see the cutting edge of a knife but, in reality, it is invisible. Our eyes can’t see it because they can’t see something so small—much smaller than a red blood cell.
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By Ty Pendlebury Tidal is a new subscription streaming service which offers truly lossless music — and the promise of a better deal for the artists.
A new deal announced today between DirecTV and Disney will make live and on-demand ESPN content available to subscribers of the satellite service, finally extending WatchESPN and ESPN3 to its 20 million subscribers.
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What’s more impressive than this 26-foot long version of Taiwanese artist Hung-Chih Peng’s …
By Matt Novak
You’ve probably heard the story by now: On Christmas Eve 1955, a young boy in Colorado Springs dialed a Sears-sponsored hotline that let kids talk with Santa Claus. But instead of reaching Santa, he was connected to the red phone at CONAD, the military command center charged with patrolling the skies for any nuclear missiles coming from the Soviet Union. The local newspaper had mistakenly printed the wrong number.
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