We Choose to go to the Moon

The Apollo 11 Mission happened 40 years ago!
And for those who were not there you can follow it in REAL TIME 16-20 July on this great website.

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Tree of Life

This is the six-minute Tree of Life video that appeared on the BBC One programme 'Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life' narrated by David Attenborough.

Watch the video, play with the interactive version of the 'Tree of Life' and sign up to Tree of Life updates at http://www.wellcometreeoflife.org

Tree of Life (watch in HD)

How to drink coffee in Space

Engineers have sent men to the moon over 30 years ago and only just now engineered how to drink coffee from a cup. I thought life was all about priorities?
And with Deep Space Internet a success,
(NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet, using software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.)
,we can now only wait for the first Starbucks on the Moon, Mars and.....

Mythbusters - Fun with Gas

Adam Savage demonstrates how (and explains why) Helium (He) turns you into Donald Duck, and Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) into Satan.

Live Feed of Two Security Camera's inside the LHC

For all those people who are worried that the LHC means our imminent doom.
Here is a link to a live feed of 2 security cameras inside the CERN complex that houses the Large Hadron Collider. You'll be the first to know when/if things go wrong:
Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side.
Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room.

10/09/08 My Birthday and the End of the World?!

The Large Hadron Collider by CERN
On my birthday the world might end, this is what doom tellers think when CERN fires up it's Large Hadron Collider on 10/09/08.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva will fire subatomic particles into a 27-km long loop, making them travel it 11,245 times a second, and then smash them head on to seek answers to the birth of the universe.
Last week, Prof Otto Rössler and other naysayers of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment had hoped that the European Court of Human Rights would block it. They believe that the chances of a black hole — an intense gravitational field sucking in everything including light — being created by the experiment is very high. Rössler says that the worst case scenario will have the Earth sucked inside out “within four years of a mini-black hole forming”. The Court, however, dismissed the petition.


And this is what that might look like.

A big asteroid meets Planet Earth

Thanks to the Discovery Channel (Miracle Planet) and Pink Floyd - Great Gig in the Sky.

19367 Pink Floyd is an asteroid that has been named in honor of the English musical group Pink Floyd. It was discovered on December 3rd 1997. There is little information on the physical properties of 19367 Pink Floyd. Its diameter remains uncertain; range of 3 to 6 km is probable.19367 Pink Floyd's maximum brightness is estimated to be 1/14958 of the brightness of the faintest objects that can be seen with the human eye.The asteroid's name is unusual in that it is expressed as two words, instead of "Pinkfloyd" which is the format used by most other minor planets named for individuals or groups (although the asteroid named for the Rolling Stones is also expressed as two words).

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Horizon - Einstein's Equation of Life and Death (2)

In the summer of 1939 Albert Einstein was on holiday in a small resort town on the tip of Long Island. His peaceful summer, however, was about to be shattered by a visit from an old friend and colleague from his years in Berlin. The visitor was the physicist Leo Szilard. He had come to tell Einstein that he feared the Nazis could soon be in possession of a terrible new weapon and that something had to be done.

Szilard believed that recent scientific breakthroughs meant it was now possible to convert mass into energy. And that this could be used to make a bomb. If this were to happen, it would be a terrible realisation of the law of nature Einstein had discovered some 34 years earlier.

Part 1 Horizon - Einstein's Unfinished Symphony can be found here.

Thunderbirds are go!!

See a jet being launched from underwater.

Horizon - Einstein's Unfinished Symphony

As Albert Einstein lay on his deathbed, he asked only for his glasses, his writing implements and his latest equations. He knew he was dying, yet he continued his work. In those final hours of his life, while fading in and out of consciousness, he was working on what he hoped would be his greatest work of all. It was a project of monumental complexity. It was a project that he hoped would unlock the mind of God.

2057 The City

Cars without drivers? Humanoid robots in every household? Cyber-hacking? Intelligent camera surveillance systems? Learn about today's scientific advances that will shape our networked cities of tomorrow

To Infinity and Beyond.....

''To infinity and beyond.....''

Buzz Lightyear

That's what Yves Rossy must say every time he straps this rocket powered wing on his back

Mythbusters: Ruben's Tube

Jamie and Adam recreate this popular physics experiment where simply put fire represents sound waves.

The Rubens' tube, also known as the Standing wave flame tube, or simply flame tube, is a physics experiment demonstrating a standing wave. It shows the relationship between sound waves and air pressure.

Braniac: Things but very slowly

Wait for the slap in the face!!!

2057 The Body

2057 The Body

The Body
Flying ambulances? Intelligent clothing? Custom-built organs from scratch? Robotic surgery? Learn about today's medical breakthroughs that will extend our lives in 50 years.

2057: The World

The World
An invisible soldier? A space elevator to the stars? Transmit the inventory of the Library of Congress via laser beam in seconds? What are the real fuel sources of the future? Learn about technological quantum leaps that will shape our planet in 50 years.

Life After People

Life After People
What if...?
What if people ceased to exist as of now? Maybe due to a pandemic greater than the Spanish Flu or something else we made ourselves perhaps, something that wiped us all off the face of the Earth. What could happen to planet Earth? A great documentary by the History Channel.

My Pet Dinosaur

What if dinosaurs didn't became extinct? Would we be farming dinosaurs?
Horizon BBC.
You can do a dinosaur autopsy too in fact you may have done it already over Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Warning!: watching the full dinosaur autopsy might make you hungry.

Fight Science

Fight Science was on National Geographic the other day, unfortunately I couldn't watch the whole thing and I didn't think about taping it. But thanks to the wonders of the Internet.