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Moon Landing

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40 years ago today man first set foot on the surface of the Moon. The effect of the Moon landing can’t be easily measured. It inspired a generation to become pilots, engineers and scientists. So lets take a little time out of our day to thank all then men and women that make space flight [...]

Cold Fusion is Back Baby

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The idea of “Cold Fusion” got shat on back in the late 1980. But even with the big player in the Scientific Community calling it Junk Science many very smart people continued to work on the idea. As more and more labs are able to duplicate the experiments interest is growing. It’s main drawback at [...]

Carl Sagan's Cosmos

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For any SciFi geek growing up in the 80’s there was now better series on PBS then Cosmos hosted by Carl Sagan. The thirteen part series covered everything from the formation of the the universe to the ultimate end to our sun. The neat this was the Carl Sagan was not only a scientist but [...]

Kepler is Following Us

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For those of you who aren’t keeping up on the new coming out of NASA, Friday saw night the launch of the Kepler planet hunting space probe on the top of a Delta 2 rocket. The Kepler is equipped with a 95-megapixel camera and will keep track of a patch of the Milky Way containing [...]

Sticky-Tape X-Rays

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Now this is going to sound weird but unpeeling sticky tape produces X-rays. A group of science geeks at UCLA have built a machine for unpeeling sticky-tape in a vacuum at the rate of about 5 centimeters per second for the express purpose of generating x-rays. Now it’s not a lot of x-rays or very [...]

LHC Rap

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Being the part time science geek that I’m I had a good laugh when I came across this in a rant over at Applegeeks.com. The MC is a grad student who got permission to do some of the filming of the Rap video in the HLC tunnels the rest of the footage is from stock [...]

The Phoenix Has Landed

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As a part time Science Geek I keep half an eye on what Nasa is up to. Today what they were up to was the landing of the newest Mars mission Phoenix. The Phoenix mission is not a rover like the last couple of mission sent to Mars. Instead the Phoenix Lander will dig through [...]