Vol. 2 / Issue 80
Space
2015-07-17
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Joseph | Book
Packing for Mars
"What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? When you can’t have sex? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk?" -
Jenifer | Article
How does copyright work in space?
I’m somewhere between incredulous that this is a ‘thing', and impressed that 'months were spent hammering out details with Mr Bowie’s representatives’. Someone’s written a paper “Space Copyright Law: the new dimension” for gawd’s sake! -
Mathew | Resource
A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. -
Jamie | Video
The Sound of Space
“Although space is a virtual vacuum, this does not mean there is no sound in space. Sound does exist as electromagnetic vibrations. The recorded sounds are the complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the Solar Wind, ionisphere, and planetary magnetosphere.” -
Ben | Video
Powers of Ten
Classic human visualisation of the vastness of space (and the tinyness of matter). -
David | Video
The Earth live in HD from the ISS
The space station orbits Earth about every 90 minutes, so if it’s night time check back in half an hour and you will see daylight. -
Erin | Photos
Photos of Soviet Union's abandoned space shuttle
Taken at the abandoned Baikonur Cosmodrome