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Titanium and sapphire space wristwatch has both Mars and Earth time

July 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The roller type dual time means the watch can show the time simultaneously for Mars and Earth, and with different time zones.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Behrens, space, watch

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. Then the space d20 was acid etched to bring out the Widmanstatten lines. The […]

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. You’re an Inquisitor in this persistent and open world sandbox of an RPG. That means the actions you […]

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. As it happens he works as an animator for his day job and that goes a long way […]

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. Hungry?

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. Time to watch one more? Click this teleport […]

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. The space vehicle (can we call it a spaceship?) is called the New Shepard […]

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

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