A giant meteor broke up over Russia last night, injuring hundreds. The footage is absolutely incredible. Here are some legitimate news sources:

BBC coverage
Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy)

Don't forget - tonight the Curiosity rover lands at the Gale Crater on Mars! Curiosity is the largest Mars Rover to date measuring at 3 meters long, with a nuclear power source to allow it to function in low-sunlight areas (like the Gale Crater) and a high-powered laser for studying rock compositions (by vaporizing them ( Read more... )

Astronomers discover planet falling within the "habitable zone"

I can tell you, folks, I am super proud of my alma mater right now. And also HECK YEAH NEW PLANETS! eeeeeee

It's two in the morning, and we just got home from seeing "Star Wars Uncut". The Star Wars Uncut project is a fan-made recreation of the original Star Wars film in all media; people submitted their own versions of a five minute stretch of "Star Wars"; of these submissions, 15-second segments were selected and spliced together to produce the entire ( Read more... )

Happy Gaudete Sunday, all. Rejoice at all times ( Read more... )

I really have no words.

Scientists consider various scenarious of contact with extra-terrestrial intelligences.

The Whovian in me has to say: BUT WHAT ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND LIZARD PEOPLE???

(scenario 2 is basically Stargate. I love that!)

EDIT:

As goonlord so excellently put it: "The entire point of science fiction is so that you can say the same ( Read more... )

So, I've been meaning to post for, well, a month. All sortsa things have been going on. Let me see if I can do them justice at all.

( Valentine's Day )

So, I totally failed to get a driver's license yesterday. I thought that if I went in to renew within six months of expiration, all I would need to do was a written test. Correct - if my expired license had been for Ohio. Since it was out of state, I need a brand new license from scratch the moment it expired in June. Well, team, the reason I ( Read more... )

The future is now, people.

NASA starts plans for a one-way manned mission to colonize Mars

...woah.

Canadian newspaper article on letterboxing

The quote that struck me, because it mirrored my own first impression very closely, was:

"It was like finding out that fairies exist.”Yes! Precisely that! A ubiquitous secret, just under the skin of the world, waiting to be discovered if you know how to look. A little something making the ordinary a ( Read more... )