Space Base Beyond the Moon
Not just science fiction anymore
Would keep time even after the universe's heat death
Will end up on display at California Space Center
The punch line probably involves a Planck length
Would work kind of like what you might imagine Star Trek's warp drive to work like
It has microbes on its drill that could transfer to water Curiosity finds
Those signs of flowing water in the past? Might've actually been lava
Just happened last week
Doesn't prove life exists out there, but shows the building blocks of life can form before planets do
Could only create galactic blobs before, can now simulate a more realistic formation process
Money is just for an experiment so far, but $3 million feasibility study is eventual goal.
Curiosity is to play a new Will.i.am track, the first music to be played on the Red Planet
XCOR Aerospace to fly suborbital vehicles.
The universe is shaped like a fractal, scientists say, but the mathematical form breaks down at large enough scales
Various tests passed. Curiosity will be getting curiouser tomorrow.
The massive cost estimates tossed around by NASA are, let us say, based on the bureaucratic factor
Curiosity snapped a photo of its backpack's crash landing is what it was
One of the largest structures in the universe, it has been nicknamed "Phoenix."
The rover's apparently just been extending its limbs and taking photos so far
Or "Mars," as some are insisting on calling it.
NASA isn't clear on why the Morpheus lander crashed
70 billion cubic light years are represented on the new map
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