America once dreamed of colonizing the Moon and putting a man on the planet Mars. Now it appears as though the United States has abandoned those dreams, in addition to those policies that create prosperity. Don’t fret. In this episode of Afterburner, Bill Whittle sees promise on the horizon, like the abundance of natural gas and promise of private sector space travel. H/T PJTV
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Today Hank Green uses his patented prognosticating abilities to tell you about some space news events to watch out for in 2013. What is the Curiosity rover going to spend most of the year doing? Why are we going back to the moon? And what two awesome things are projected to occur around Thanksgiving Day? Find out in this edition of SciShow News.
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What would happen if you were cast adrift in the vacuum of space? Would your head explode? Would you freeze to death? Or quickly reach a boiling point? Hank Green as explors all of the most pressing alternatives he answers a SciShow viewer’s question about what happens if the human body gets exposed to space.
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In this week’s SciShow news, Hank Green explains how earthworms are doing nanotechnology for us, Americans will soon be eating genetically modified salmon and the Russians are going back to space.
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Physicists estimate that dark matter accounts for about 23 percent of the known universe. The only problem is that no one really knows what it is. Hank Green delves into the mysterious, unquantifiable substance in this SciShow.
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The first Earthling to travel into space wasn’t a human being, but a dog named Laika propelled into orbit by the Soviets in 1957. In this imaginative animated short, Avgousta Zourelidi revisits Laika’s journey, her training to become the first canine cosmonaut and her prior life on the streets of Moscow. Zourelidi completed the work as her graduation short from the National Film and Television School. Visit her blog at avgoustazourelidi.blogspot.com H/T Kuriositas
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Anyone with some brains and lots of courage can build their own space rocket using everyday, off-the-shelf products. Vice recently flew to Denmark to meet the founders of Copenhagen Suborbitals, a non-profit open-source D.I.Y. space endeavor.
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Hank Green pays tribute to some of the great scientific minds we lost in 2012, beginning with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride. Green concludes by apologizing for some mistakes made in recent SciShow episodes.
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Hank Green of SciShow summarizes the five reasons why infrared telescopes were supposed to be impossible to build, and then describes how a team of scientists and engineers overcame those obstacles to build the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Scientists monitoring NASA’s Mercury-orbiting spacecraft, MESSENGER, have found evidence of a vast amount of ice at the planet’s north pole. The Wall Street Journal spoke with MESSENGER scientist Gregory Neumann about the findings.
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