ve7kjr Report post #1 Posted November 8, 2012 The video is a bit long, but some cool stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VAS Report post #2 Posted November 8, 2012 Whoa! Thank you for sharing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Johnny Karlsson Report post #3 Posted July 9, 2015 Thanks Jim!I enjoyed the video very much. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Miramontes Report post #4 Posted July 9, 2015 Fast and Light to PlutoBY Dennis Overbye, Jason Drakeford and Jonathan Corum | Jul. 6, 2015 | 13:21On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto and its five known moons. Nobody really knows what it will find.13+ minute video.http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000003783764/fast-and-light-to-pluto.html ( Quote from the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33459476 )... When it arrives at the dwarf planet, New Horizons will be travelling* at almost 14km/s -far too fast to go into orbit. (*sic. U.K. spelling)... New Horizons' difficulty is getting all that information back to Earth.The distance to Pluto is vast - more than 4.5 billion km - and this makes for very low bit rates.It will take 16 months to send back all the science acquired over the coming days.I hope they're not transmitting all that info on 2.4gHz. =) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cloud Wang Report post #5 Posted July 11, 2015 love it so much,thanks for sharing this ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
new mexico Report post #6 Posted September 21, 2015 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Laurence Report post #7 Posted September 22, 2015 Very nice, new mexico. When I was in 8th grade I made a scale model of the solar system by taking hundreds of sheets of paper and taping them together into a big toilet paper roll of planets and space, where the sun was basically just a vertical line. But driving through the desert to make that video looks like a lot more fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gerard-NYNY Report post #8 Posted September 22, 2015 (edited) i love this animation of the curiosity rover landing; note that this is accomplished all by autopilot and programming; there is no way to do this remotely in real time, because the distance from earth to mars is too far for radio relay to work in the 14 minute transmission window. Edited September 22, 2015 by Gerard-NYNY Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
new mexico Report post #9 Posted February 12, 2016 Published on Feb 11, 2016 Gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of spacetime -- aren’t just an Einstein theory any more. A team of international scientists announced Thursday that they confirmed the waves’ existence - after recording feedback from a black hole collision a billion light-years from Earth. Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Dave Reitze of the California Institute of Technology. And, straight from the horses mouth - (The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) News release 11 February, 2016: Re: "We did it!" https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
new mexico Report post #10 Posted February 13, 2016 I found this to be a fascinating read ... (From the 'New Yorker Magazine,' online.) Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them February 11, 2016 By Nicola Twilley http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them And, from the New York Times: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
new mexico Report post #11 Posted February 16, 2016 continuing from above posts: Published on Feb 12, 2016 "Is what we have just realized yesterday about the gravitational waves similar to, for example, discovering the structure of DNA? Is it that big?" Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, astrophysicist Janna Levin, New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye, and Walter Isaacson, author of "Einstein: His Life and Universe," explain the significance of the discovery of gravitational waves. - - - - "A great day for humanity" Brian Greene on gravitational waves (Feb. 12, 2016) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
new mexico Report post #12 Posted May 21, 2016 Published on May 16, 2016 February saw one of the most important astronomical breakthroughs of the decade, as a team of scientists “heard” gravitational waves -- a key postulate of Einstein’s theory of relativity -- for the first time in human history. Now, astrophysicist Janna Levin recounts that incredible discovery, and the human drama behind it, in her new book “Black Hole Blues.” Levin joins Jeffrey Brown for more. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites