Star Trek warp drive might be possible after all

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Pack your bags. Space.com reports that scientists may have found a loophole in that pesky “speed of light” limit making warp drives (drives that enable travel through space-time), as popularized in the television series Star Trek, possible after all.

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NASA finds evidence that it snows dry ice on Mars

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It might not be accurately termed “a snowball’s chance in hell” but it comes close.  NASA thinks it might be snowing on Mars, just not the sort of snow we’d expect.  NASA has obtained evidence that it snows Dry Ice, the stuff we use to simulate fog in haunted houses.  That’s pretty cool given that…

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Amazing photos of huge plasma filament erupting from the Sun

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NASA spacecraft have captured pictures of a huge filament of super-hot plasma being ejected from the Sun on August 31, 2012. The Sun is approaching a period of peak activity (in 2013) and coronal mass ejections (CME’s) such as this may become more common. NASA estimates the size of the eruption as 186,000 miles long…

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How does NASA remotely drive Mars Curiosity Rover?

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The $2.5 billion dollar, nuclear powered Mars Curiosity Rover is not autonomous.  On Earth, NASA engineers manually drive the robot around the surface of Mars.  If you are picturing a NASA geek, red hand clinched tightly around a joystick, with a ear-to-ear grin – you’d only be partially correct. Driving Curiosity is not done in…

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Mars Curiosity Rover leaves tracks visible from space

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Curiosity Rover has certainly left its mark on the planet Mars.  Photos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have been released showing the tire tracks left by Curiosity on the planet’s surface.  The bluish color spots are where Curiosity landed (named Bradbury landing after famous science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury) blowing Mars dust away from…

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Sometimes it Does Take a Rocket Scientist

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Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all travelling at maxi- mum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

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