Robonaut 2: Alive and Suddenly Super Busy (FLASHBACKERY)

Aug 282015
 
Robonaut 2: Alive and Suddenly Super Busy (FLASHBACKERY)

NASA is finally letting Robonaut 2 do some stuff, and they’re sharing it with the public – there’s actually a steady feed of news, only mildly cheesy 1st-person commentary, and some decent R2 photos & video beaming down from the ISS.

 August 28, 2015  Posted by at 6:07 PM Astrophysics, General Motors, Here First or Best Here, NASA, NASA JPL, NASA JSC, Robonaut, Robot, Robots in Space, Space Technology, Technology, U.S.A.

[REPOST] Who Will be the 21st Century Sagan? Michio Kaku vs. Neil deGrasse Tyson: FIGHT!

Mar 092014
 
[REPOST] Who Will be the 21st Century Sagan? Michio Kaku vs. Neil deGrasse Tyson: FIGHT!

Kaku vs. Tyson – Who can bring the science? Who can BE the Sagan? And, do we really have to pick a team?

 March 9, 2014  Posted by at 1:36 AM Astronomy, Astrophysics, Carl Sagan, Cosmology, Here First or Best Here, Michio Kaku, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Physics, Pure Science, Quantum Physics, Space Technology, Technology, Technology & Culture, Technology & Education, Technology & Politics

Google’s 100,000 Stars & the Paradigmatic Disruption of Large-Scale Innovation Revisited

Nov 202012
 
Google's 100,000 Stars & the Paradigmatic Disruption of Large-Scale Innovation Revisited

Google’s built a beautiful galactic simulation. Go look at it. Oh, and private companies doing stuff like this, but on grand scales – is this the future of big, bold science?

 November 20, 2012  Posted by at 12:10 PM Astronomy, Astrophysics, Carl Sagan, Cosmology, Google, Internet, Internet Stuff, Multimedia, NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Physics, Private Space Race, Pure Science, Space Technology, Technology, Technology & Politics

On Leaving the Earth. Like, Forever. Bye-Bye.

Sep 262012
 
On Leaving the Earth. Like, Forever. Bye-Bye.

When one of the U.S. Air Force’s top future strategy guys starts dorking out on how we’ve gotta at least begin considering what to do when a progressively decaying yet apocalyptically belligerent sun begins BBQing the earth, attention is payed.

 September 26, 2012  Posted by at 12:52 AM Air Force, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Energy Technology, Existential Quandary Stuff, Human Augmentation, Kurzweil, NASA, Physics, Planetary Resources, Private Space Race, Pure Science, Singularity, Space Mining, Space Technology, Technology, Transhumanism, Universe

Remember NASA’s other Robot? Dear Robonaut 2, What is it that YOU do?

Aug 112012
 
Remember NASA's other Robot? Dear Robonaut 2, What is it that YOU do?

After STS-133’s February 2011 delivery, the handsome and sleek and high-tech NASA/General Motors collaboration has kept a pretty low profile. What’s he doing up there? Also, R2’s got competition and an impending Space Torso Love Triangle!

 August 11, 2012  Posted by at 2:40 AM Astronomy, Astrophysics, Curiosity, Cybernetics, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, ISS, Mars, NASA, Private Space Race, Robonaut, Robot, Robots in Space, Space Technology, Technology
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