Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Wednesday launched a search for eight people to join him as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. He had originally planned to invite artists for the weeklong voyage slated for 2023. Reuters reports: The rejigged project will “give more people from around the globe the chance to join…
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Stone Age humans chose to voyage to Japanese islands over the horizon
After tracking buoys drifting in the oceans, archaeologists argue that an epic Stone Age voyage from Taiwan to Japanese islands likely occurred deliberately Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261813-stone-age-humans-chose-to-voyage-to-japanese-islands-over-the-horizon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Recipe is different but Saturn’s moon Titan has ingredients for life
Catherine Neish is counting the days until her space launch. While the Western planetary geologist isn’t space-suiting up for her own interstellar voyage, she is playing a key role in an international mission—dispatching a robotic drone to Saturn’s moon Titan—set to blast-off in 2027. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-recipe-saturn-moon-titan-ingredients.html…
What is a galaxy?
We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. But there is so much more to know about these grand and glorious star islands in space! Click in here, and prepare to have your mind expanded. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/definition-what-is-a-galaxy…
Thieves’ Guild: a BBS Game With the Best 1990s Pixel Graphics You’ve Never Seen
“The sky is clear, the breeze is strong. A perfect day to make the long sea voyage to Mythyn,” writes BBS history blogger Josh Renaud. “You prepare your galley, hire a crew of sailors, and cast off. But a few hours into your trip, the dreaded words appear: ‘Thou seest rippling waters…'” He’s describing the beginning of a 27-year-old game that…
Cosmology’s new advances show our voyage of discovery is far from over
An incredible map of the universe and mind-bending revelations about a supermassive black hole are evidence that the advance of science is far from over – it has plenty of new shores yet to explore Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732933-800-cosmologys-new-advances-show-our-voyage-of-discovery-is-far-from-over/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
5 years after New Horizons flyby, 10 cool things about Pluto
Here are 10 of the coolest, weirdest and most unexpected findings about the Pluto system scientists have learned thanks to the New Horizons spacecraft’s flyby of the distant world in 2015. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/new-horizons-flyby-10-cool-things-about-pluto…
10 cool things we learned about Pluto from New Horizons
Five years ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto. For the first time ever, we saw the surface of this distant world in spectacular, colored detail. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-cool-pluto-horizons.html…
Humanity on Mars? Technically possible, but no voyage on horizon
Robotic landers and rovers have been touching down on Mars since the 1970s, but when will humanity finally set foot on the Red Planet? Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-humanity-mars-technically-voyage-horizon.html…
Self-Driving Startup Built a ‘Car Without Wheels’ For Remote Driving
Self-driving startup Voyage built a physical “Telessist Pod” with software that allows a remote operator to give instructions to a self-driving car.
Iwastheone shares a report from Ars Technica “For all of this to work safely, it had to basically be a car without wheels,” Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron told me in a Thursday phone interview. “It had to have a real…