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The first ever photograph of a black hole, and it looks like the Eye of Sauron

April 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It looks like the Eye of Sauron due to a halo of superheated gas, glowing a dark red, falling into the inescapable hole at the centre of the phenomenon.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: photographs, space

NASA highlights their favourite 3D-printed Mars habitats

April 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

NASA is running the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, paying out $3.15 million in prices to see what the best designs for buildings on other planets might be.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: 3d printers, mars, NASA, space

Mike McCraw’s Heliocentric

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Foil Four are Boxer, the dog, Campbell the hamster, Herman the tortoise and Verve the aloof monkey.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: animation, space

This d20 is forged from a meteorite

July 29, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gil Ramirez is a blacksmith known as the Vlogsmith on YouTube and he likes to make interesting dice. His most recent project took a meteorite and made a d20. The dice was electro-etched to carve in the numbers on each face.…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, space, vlogsmith

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr and deadly space porn

December 13, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Neocore’s forthcoming Warhammer 40K open RPG looks amazing. Inquistor: Martyr is set in the Caligari Sector of space, where whole regions can get blocked off from the rest of the Empire at times and where shadows lurk.…

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: games workshop, Inquisitor – Martyr, neocore, sci-fi, space, trailers, warhammer 40k

Short film: Death in Space

May 16, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Thomas Lucas is onto a winner. This animation is a series of 2 second scenes and people die in each one. What’s not to like? The whole video was put together by Tom in his spare time.…

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, humour, short film, space

This black velvet space cake is full of stars

April 27, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s called a black velvet nebula cake, it’s made by Sprinkle Bakes and is full of stars. Inspired by pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope the cake has 5 ounces of white confetti sprinkles in the batter.…

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cake, space

Short film: Lone

April 20, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An astronaut sets off on a search for life another planet. With no sign of life anywhere nearby; what a gamble to make. This short animation does a great job at remind us how huge space it and how lonely a trip away from Earth would be.…

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, short film, space

New Shepard makes space history as the first reusable rocket ship

November 24, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Sit back and watch New Shepard, 110,000 LBs of thrust, mach 3.72, 100 KM in height and a perfect landing. The company Blue Origin is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and they’ve just become the first to create a reusable space rocket.…

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: blue origin, new shepard, space

A look at Xtronaut: The Game of Solar System Exploration

October 8, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This Geek Native post has a look at some of the Gravity Assist cards from the Kickstarting Xtronaut. Xtronaut is designed by Dante Lauretta who actually led NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return.…

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: board games, kickstarters, space, Xtronaut

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