kqedscience:

10 Badass Quotes From Former Astronaut Sally Ride

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notsoaveragejo:

Sony’s presentation in a nutshell.

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kqedscience:

Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons

“Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.

Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the Internet briefly on their home computers via translucent helium balloons that sail by on the wind 12 miles above Earth.

While the project is still in the very early testing stages, Google hopes eventually to launch thousands of the thin, polyethylene-film inflatables and bring the Internet to some of the more remote parts of the globe, narrowing the digital divide between the 2.2 billion people who are online and the 4.8 billion who aren’t.”

Wi-Fi Jellyfish

physicscaucie:

Animation showing the Crab Supernova explosion and its remant.

Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

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