inothernews: MAY THE BRICKS BE WITH YOU  A scale model of an X-Wing fighter, made from more than five million Lego bricks, went on display in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday.  It’s 11 feet tall, 43 feet long and 44 feet wide, it’s the largest Lego model ever built.  Coming soon: a life-size Lego Jar Jar Binks to ruin everything.  (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP-Getty via The Telegraph)

inothernews:

MAY THE BRICKS BE WITH YOU  A scale model of an X-Wing fighter, made from more than five million Lego bricks, went on display in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday.  It’s 11 feet tall, 43 feet long and 44 feet wide, it’s the largest Lego model ever built.  Coming soon: a life-size Lego Jar Jar Binks to ruin everything.  (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP-Getty via The Telegraph)

man-and-camera:

Lady MacDonald Hike, Canmore ➾ Luke Gram
understandingtheuniverse: Your Age On Other Worlds This is a cool website that lets you calculate your age had you lived on any of the other planets in the Solar System. It not only gives your age in days and years but also tells you when you can celebrate your next birthday if, say, you lived on Mars. 

understandingtheuniverse:

Your Age On Other Worlds

This is a cool website that lets you calculate your age had you lived on any of the other planets in the Solar System. It not only gives your age in days and years but also tells you when you can celebrate your next birthday if, say, you lived on Mars. 

themagnificentunknown:

“And that is my view about God”

The best of British right there!

You need to watch this interview. I almost had a braingasm.

http://youtu.be/E79Bg7ebroc

kvntrn: Harry Kaufmann

kvntrn:

Harry Kaufmann

crookedindifference: The Engine Burns Blue This image shows a cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., that uses xenon ions for propulsion. An earlier version of this solar-electric propulsion engine has been flying on NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid belt. This engine is being considered as part of the Asteroid Initiative, a proposal to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. This image was taken through a porthole in a vacuum chamber at JPL where the ion engine is being tested. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech I spend half my time at work on ion propulsion so I’m into this NASA image of the day.

crookedindifference:

The Engine Burns Blue
This image shows a cutting-edge solar-electric propulsion thruster in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., that uses xenon ions for propulsion. An earlier version of this solar-electric propulsion engine has been flying on NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid belt.

This engine is being considered as part of the Asteroid Initiative, a proposal to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. This image was taken through a porthole in a vacuum chamber at JPL where the ion engine is being tested.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

I spend half my time at work on ion propulsion so I’m into this NASA image of the day.

the-science-llama: Jupiter Occultation Maurice Toet - July 15, 2012

the-science-llama:

Jupiter Occultation

Maurice Toet - July 15, 2012

plasmatics-life: NOVA science NOW: Franklin Chang-Diaz

plasmatics-life:

NOVA science NOW: Franklin Chang-Diaz

astronemma:

ESO’s Top 100 Images: 6-10

6. The Centre of the Milky Way (middle right). Credit: ESO/S. Gillessen et al.

7. NGC 2467 and Surroundings (top). Credit: ESO

8. The Horsehead Nebula (middle left). Credit: ESO

9. The Carina Nebula imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope (bottom right). Credit: ESO. Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

10. A deep look at the strange galaxy Centaurus A (bottom left). Credit: ESO