The Clouds and Beyond
by lunkwill

Astronomy and aviation. Space and space exploration. There and getting there. The universe and the attempts of Icarus. Just about anything that can fly is welcome here.

The odd psychedelic clip regarding space will find its way here, as well as things related to aviation that are firmly rooted on the ground (eg: ATC).


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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at RNASA 2008
posted by eric3579 3 weeks 3 days ago • 164 views
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.



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Channel Assigning by * Invocations
posted by randomize 1 month 2 weeks ago • 253 views
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 ...

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David Thompson has a request...
posted by CaptainPlanet420 1 month 2 weeks ago • 370 views
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

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Microsofts Worldwide Telescope! YES!
posted by BicycleRepairMan 1 month 3 weeks ago • 252 views
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.





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Astronomy is cool: The Birth Cry of a Supernova!
posted by BicycleRepairMan 2 months ago • 188 views
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

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Magic Door Talk and Video Link ( and embed problems)
posted by iwastheturkey 3 months 3 weeks ago • 428 views
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!
posted by Fjnbk 5 months ago • 449 views
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

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ISS - Installing the European Laboratory Module - LIVE
posted by Shasdo 5 months 2 weeks ago • 348 views
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.








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'Mach 20' paper airplane could launch from Space Station
posted by Thylan 5 months 3 weeks ago • 249 views
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

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In The Shadow Of The Moon - must see
posted by eric3579 7 months ago • 376 views
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

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Voyager 2 probe confirms 'dent' in our solar system
posted by MarineGunrock 7 months 2 weeks ago • 375 views
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.







A fun way to learn about the stars
posted by eric3579 8 months 2 weeks ago • 277 views
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