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Japan’s Concept of Moon Includes Extra Cheese
by Josh Clark | September 9, 2011
We like to give the moon a hard time here at Stuff You Should Know, but for the most part it’s all in good fun. In fact, I’m QAing an episode on the moon that comes out next week. I was a bit concerned that perhaps we were too harsh toward the moon in it, but it turned out we weren’t and the episode is even better than I thought. As with the Asteroid Mining ep, we made the very good point that the moon stands, currently unused, as a perfectly wonderful staging and launch site for deep space exploration.
Have you looked at the moon lately? It’s fascinating. And, if a certain Japanese construction firm has its way, it could also become the answer to Earth’s burgeoning energy crisis. Look, I know it might sound like I made this one up, but it’s true: The R&D group at Shimizu, one of Japan’s largest construction firms, [...]
It must be exhausting being a tenacious skeptic of the variety that exerts effort to point out to other just how unlikely or dumb their ideas are. While you’re just one rational humanist, there is a seemingly limitless supply of what you consider really bonehead beliefs: God, UFOs, perpetual motion, hollow Earth, the Mars face, witchcraft, Piltdown man, chupacabras, chemtrails, hypnosis — it just keeps going on like this.
We all experience gravity every day, but many of us are confused about how it works. Part of that misconception comes because gravity and aerodynamic drag are usually mixed together. So we get the impression, through experience, that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects in a gravitational field, when in fact what we are [...]
The first private moon mission has a contract to fly
by Marshall Brain | February 7, 2011
The Google Lunar X Prize is giving private companies an incentive to head for the moon. Now the first private company has signed a contract for its launch, perhaps in 2013: Astrobotic Contracts with SpaceX for Falcon 9 Launch of Lunar Probe This video describes the lander and the mission: Fun facts: – Lander – [...]
Mr. O’Reilly, Thank you for your recent question, “How did the moon get there? Can you explain that to me?” as seen in this video: This a classic HowStuffWorks kind of question. The following videos give a general summary of the current scientific thinking around the Moon’s origin: The basic idea is easily stated: A [...]
…and David and I are up to watch it in the backyard. It is 2:15AM eastern and everything was going well until this huge bank of clouds moved in. Whyyyyy? Update – It’s 2:42AM eastern. The clouds broke enough for us to see it. It is an eclipsed moon with a very faint orange-ish color. [...]
Tonight is a once-every-few-centuries event – Winter solstice lunar eclipse
by Marshall Brain | December 20, 2010
Tonight’s lunar eclipse is going to be unique, and this NASA article paints a nice picture of what we should see: Solstice Lunar Eclipse Why red? A quick trip to the Moon provides the answer: Imagine yourself standing on a dusty lunar plain looking up at the sky. Overhead hangs Earth, nightside down, completely hiding [...]
What would it take to create a colony on another planet?
by Marshall Brain | September 8, 2010
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What would it take to create a colony on another planet? — Daniel, Munich, Germany
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Why doesn’t the moon pull other things like it pulls ocean water?
by Marshall Brain | August 11, 2010
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Why doesn’t the moon pull other things like it pulls ocean water? — Anish, Ulan, Namibia
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