An intimate tour of Earth’s most impressive landscapes captured by astronauts from the international spacestation.
Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA’s astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.
A recent article in the Guardian has thrown up some interesting ethical questions for the UK Ministry of Defence, can robots be used in war ?
In theory war without loss of human life, well any organic life for that matter should be applauded. But as the article indicates taking the human out of the equation could lead to more blood loss and loss of life on a binary scale – if a robot is programmed to kill all humans, it will kill all humans irrespective of their “side”.
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Maybe the MoD need to take a lesson from a ceratin James Cameron film and in all honesty, why not try it a different way… not fighting at all.
I’m not a fan of 3D TV, for a variety of reason but the main one is how much of a tool you look sitting around your front room wearing 1970s shades. But fear not because here’s a solution!
Amazing isn’t it 
via Big Matt who has a new comic here
This was inevitable although quite entertaining none the less.
And finally bringing us back down to Earth take a look at this beautiful time lapse of Lake Tahoe Milky Way Night Time Lapse by Justin Majeczky
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Keeping with the space theme NASA recently caught amazing images of a “monster prominence erupts from the sun”. Its amazing footage and we need some bright spark to put in the dot to represent Earth on there.
Seeing as solar flare effect satelites expect a few problems Tweeting while on the move over the next week!
This will just make you smile – “World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale”
via Annie
I stumbled across this last night and had to post it… boggles my fragile geeky mind in so many ways when I look at this ad on my iPhone…
