Category Archives: Science and Technology
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight [VIDEO]
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On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone included with the SuperCam instrument aboard Perseverance captured the humming sound of the blades and the din of wind.
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SpaceX Crew-2 Docks With Space Station in These Awesome Views [VIDEO]
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Watch the soft capture of the SpaceX Crew-2’s Crew Dragon Endeavour on April 24, 2021 in these International Space Station camera views.
Read moreNASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight [VIDEO]
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Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Read moreWhat Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage? [VIDEO]
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When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and finger-pointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. In this great video by Practical Engineering, they provide a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm with no political spin in the explanation.
Read moreTesla Killer? Spy Photos Of First Ford F-150 All-Electric Pickup Emerge
Ford is set to introduce an all-new model for the Ford truck lineup, called F-150 Electric. Details have been limited so far, but new spy pictures from Autoblog show the truck is the “real deal.”
Read moreHow To Fight Deplatforming: Decentralize [VIDEO]
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Meet the visionaries building a new, un-censorable, peer-to-peer web using the tools of encryption and cryptocurrency.
Read moreNASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate Advisor
In an effort to ensure effective fulfillment of the Biden Administration’s climate science objectives for NASA, the agency has established a new position of senior climate advisor and selected Gavin Schmidt, to serve in the role in an acting capacity until a permanent appointment is made.
Read moreBlinn Alumnus, aerospace scientist Michael Harrison to Speak on Dark Matter
Blinn College District alumnus/aerospace scientist Michael Harrison will demystify the mysterious realm of dark matter during a Zoom presentation on Monday, Feb. 8.
Read moreNASA TV Coverage Set for Upcoming Spacewalks
Two NASA astronauts are scheduled to venture outside the International Space Station Wednesday, Jan. 27, and Monday, Feb. 1, for a pair of spacewalks
Read moreIn “Staggering” Lack Of Self-Awareness, Twitter Lectures Uganda On Principles Of ‘Open Internet’ [VIDEO]
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In a “Staggering” Lack Of Self-Awareness, Twitter Lectured Uganda On Principles Of ‘an Open Internet’ after being on a days-long massive purge of pro-Trump accounts in the US which began when the president himself was permanently banned.
Read moreFacebook Played Major Role Coordinating ‘Capitol Riot’ As Sandberg Deflects Blame
We are now learning that Facebook also had a giant role in coordinating the so-called ‘Capitol Riots’ which President Trump was just impeached over on Wednesday for allegedly inciting the incident. According to the Washington Post, a “growing body of evidence shows that Facebook played a much larger role” than COO Sharyl Sandberg claimed in a Monday interview livestreamed by Reuters, in what the Post described as ‘deflecting blame.’
Read moreWalmart To Expand Autonomous Box Truck Deliveries In Louisiana [VIDEO]
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Walmart is set to expand its autonomous vehicle program with Gatik, a Palo Alto-based technology company, to make deliveries between New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana, in 2021, according to a Walmart corporate update. Walmart’s autonomous vehicle program began last year when it started picking up customers’ orders on a two-mile route between a warehouse and store in Bentonville, Arkansas. The autonomous vehicles have safely recorded more than 70,000 operational miles in autonomous mode with a safety driver.
Read moreFeds and 46 States File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook [VIDEO]
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The federal government and 46 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook on Wednesday. The social media giant is being accused of using illegal tactics to squash competition.
Read moreNASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Arrive at Space Station, NASA Leaders and Crew to Discuss Mission
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience successfully docked to the International Space Station at 11:01 p.m. EST Monday, transporting NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
Read moreNASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023.
Read moreNASA, International Partners Advance Cooperation with First Signings of Artemis Accords
International cooperation on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program is taking a step forward today with the signing of the Artemis Accords between NASA and several partner countries.
Read moreAmazon’s In-Home Security Drone Is Company’s “Most Chilling Surveillance Product” Yet [VIDEO]
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Ring announced the Always Home Cam during the Amazon event on Thursday, a “compact, lightweight, autonomously flying indoor camera” that can fly around the home, searching for disturbances. Though the technology sounds wonderful (who wouldn’t want a personal security drone monitoring their home) it will undoubtedly raise some red flags about privacy. Big Brother Watch, a non-profit British advocacy group, described the drone as the “most chilling home surveillance product” yet.
Read moreNASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor’ Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star [VIDEO]
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has reported what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf, the dense leftover of a Sun-like star, only 40% larger than Earth.
Read moreGlobal Survey Using NASA Data Shows Dramatic Growth of Glacial Lakes
In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change.
Read moreNASA TV to Air Departure of Japanese Cargo Ship from Space Station
This will be the final station departure of JAXA’s Kounotori, or “white stork,” model cargo craft, nine of which have delivered more than 40 tons of supplies to space station crews. JAXA is developing a new fleet of HTV cargo craft, the HTV-X, which is targeted for its first launch in 2022.
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