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SF Papercraft
The SF Movie Paper Craft Gallery has elaborate paper models of spaceships and whatnot to print and put together. The site is in Japanese, but you should be able to get the idea. Link (via Neatorama)
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R.I.P., Mr. Wizard
Poop.
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Mars as Art
NASA has a lovely gallery highlighting the artistic range of colors and shapes on Mars. There’s also another one featuring the sun. Mars | Sun (via Neatorama)
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R.I.P. Wally Schirra
Astronaut Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA’s early space missions, has died at the age of 84, NASA officials confirmed Thursday.Link
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Hawking to Go Weightless
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will go on a “zero-gravity” flight on a refitted jet today. The jet creates the experience of microgravity in 25-second bursts of steep plunges over the Atlantic Ocean. “For someone like me whose muscles don’t work very well, it will be bliss to be weightless,” Hawking told The Associated Press in an…
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For Sale: Large Rock, Ample Water, Ready To Move In (In 50 – 75 years)
Astronomers have uncovered what could be the first Class M planet outside our solar system, and it’s in our own neighborhood too! Discovery News has the details, but it all boils down to “Location, Location, Location!”
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The X Prize for Cars
The X Prize Foundation, which awarded the Ansari X Prize for a privately funded spacecraft (won by SpaceShipOne in 2004) is now trying the same approach to spur invention of a super-efficient automobile.The Automotive X Prize winner will not only have to meet stringent emissions standards and get 100 miles to the gallon, it will…
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Caves Discovered Near Mars Equator
The Mars Odyssey satellite recently spotted seven dark spots near the Arisa Mons volcano that researchers believe could be entrances to underground caves. This is exciting stuff, because caves would offer protection against the harshest effects of the Martian environment and might preserve evidence of past or current microbial life. The caves might also provide…
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2007 Hugo Finalist *Correction*
Seems the Hugo Administrators made a goof. They mailed all the ballots out. I have mine. BUT! In the Dramatic Presentation (Long Form), “Pirates of the Carbbean” is not a finalist. “Pan’s Labyrinth” is. See www.nippon2007.us/hugo_correction_press_release.html
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Beware the Hotspot Hackers
Here’s an interesting new scam: Hackers are setting up “evil twin” wireless hotspots in public places, hoping to dupe users into connecting through them. The trick is simple: A hacker just creates a hotspot with the same name (or a very similar one) as a legitimate hotspot nearby, hoping to dupe web surfers into connecting…