A Daily Antidote to Everything Else
What would it be like to actually land on Pluto? This movie was made from more than 100 images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft over six weeks of approach and close flyby in the summer of 2015.
Source: A Colorful ‘Landing’ on Pluto | NASA
Stunning. That we can throw something out into space, direct it as accurately as we do, and then get back these fantastic images as well as a bucket-load of other data about the cosmos just amazes me every time I think about it. #notallnewsisbad
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39030055
Yes, you know it’s a problem. Technology … solving real world problems. (OK, maybe first world, real world, problems when it comes to ketchup, but the solution applies to much, much more….) #notallnewsisbad
Via: BBC
https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-launches-its-first-rocket-from-iconic-florida-pad-1487516347
Cool for so many reasons. Less dependence on others, more predictability and reliability, and even as with the original space program: scads of innovations that make their way back here on to planet Earth. There will be failures, always, but the magnitude of the forward progress is nonetheless impressive. #notallnewsisbad
