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.

When a channel is mis-assigned on a video, you have to do *nochannel then add the other ones all back on one by one. Wouldn't it be easier to do *nocomedy or *nomusic instead? ... more inside ...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.