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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at RNASA 2008

eric3579 (http://eric3579.videosift.com) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:26:04 -0700

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Space Communicator Award acceptance remarks at the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation Stellar Awards Banquet. April 25, 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J3mudwgz18&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxZxPSad77U&feature=related

Video has its embed code disabled, but I must share this with yall.

- eric3579

David Thompson has a request...

CaptainPlanet420 (http://spacy.videosift.com/member/CaptainPlanet420) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:36:05 -0700

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I think someone with superpowers needs to put this back where it belongs - the front page.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Psycho-at-NC-City-Council-Meeting

- CaptainPlanet420

Microsofts Worldwide Telescope! YES!

BicycleRepairMan (http://bicyclerepairman.videosift.com) — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:26:52 -0700

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If you havent already done so, I highly recommend checking out the WorldWide Telescope, yes, yes, Google-did-it-first with Google sky in Google Earth, but seriously WWT is more awesome, its got lots and lots of guided tours by astronomers and its generally much prettier.

Its an amazing tool for learning about stuff in the universe, and I'm sort-of bummed it hasnt gotten more attention.

I'd say this is just about the coolest thing MS has released, and its completely free too. Its still in Beta, so there are some bugs in there, but its still pretty awesome.

- BicycleRepairMan

Astronomy is cool: The Birth Cry of a Supernova!

BicycleRepairMan (http://bicyclerepairman.videosift.com) — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:44:58 -0700

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Phil Plait has written an article about a recently discovered supernova, this is one of the coolest science articles I've read recently, I highly recommend checking it out

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/05/21/birth-cry-of-a-supernova/

I can also easily recommend a Bad Astronomy daily intake, its one of the best blogs out there, IMO
http://www.badastronomy.com

- BicycleRepairMan

Magic Door Talk and Video Link ( and embed problems)

iwastheturkey (http://spacy.videosift.com/member/iwastheturkey) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:13:46 -0700

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Bathroom Door Magic from absolutwade on Vimeo

Does anybody recognize this door or this technology? (also, why won't the Sift accept this as a submission?)

Edit: embed problem solved, door found in a CSI epidode.

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Total Lunar Eclipse!

Fjnbk (http://spacy.videosift.com/member/Fjnbk) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:18:59 -0800

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Currently where I am the moon is fully eclipsed and all nice and reddish-orange. Anybody else who saw/sees/will see it?

Info about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21%2C_2008_lunar_eclipse

- Fjnbk

ISS - Installing the European Laboratory Module - LIVE

Shasdo (http://spacy.videosift.com/member/Shasdo) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:51:19 -0800

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It's not a video from youtube or any others sites that I offer you. It's a direct feed from the Space!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

Here you will see the astraunauts working to connect the new european laboratory module for the International Space Station.
It is using multiple cameras for multiple angles. There is even the Space Suit camera, making you see what the Astraunaut is seeing. And a nice Voice-over explains what they are doing.

Don't miss it, if you like the spacy things. The broadcasting will no last the whole night.

EDIT: It's 20h56 (GMT+1) and they are starting to taking out the module from the Colombus dock bay.

- Shasdo

'Mach 20' paper airplane could launch from Space Station

Thylan (http://spacy.videosift.com/member/Thylan) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:00:56 -0800

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http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=6514

It would be the farthest such flight by a long shot, and the most difficult. But a Japanese astronautics engineer is determined to throw a paper airplane from Earth orbit.

University of Tokyo Professor Shinji Suzuki is working with Japanese origami experts to launch a specially-designed origami aircraft from the International Space Station and return it to Earth, unassisted.

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During last week's preliminary trials, Suzuki successfully proved a smaller prototype paper airplane's ability to withstand such heat: Using a University of Tokyo wind tunnel facility (pictured below), Suzuki exposed an 8-centimetre version of the plane to Mach 7 speeds for ten seconds (pictured above), with temperatures reaching between 200 and 300 degrees Celsius.

There's a wind tunnel vid of this at the article too.
http://www.ctvdigital.com/discovery/reports/paper-airplane.wmv

- Thylan

In The Shadow Of The Moon - must see

eric3579 (http://eric3579.videosift.com) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:11:33 -0800

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This film will give you fantastic insight and appreciation for the Apollo missions and the men who flew to the moon.

In The Shadow Of The Moon

Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and very possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.

http://www.videosift.com/video/In-The-Shadow-Of-The-Moon-Documentary-Full-Film

- eric3579

Voyager 2 probe confirms 'dent' in our solar system

MarineGunrock (http://gunrock.videosift.com) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:49:30 -0800

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A very interesting article can be read at Reuters.

In 2004, scientists at NASA received data from Voyager 1 when it reached the edge of our solar system that showed an apparent dent in our heliosphere. They thought it was just an anomaly until it's twin, Voyager 2, confirmed that there is a supermassive alien space craf.... er, magnetic field affecting the heliosphere.

So.. planet, dark matter or aliens? You decide.

- MarineGunrock