I just stumbled across this group of videos of a documentary explaining this. I have no comment to make yet as I haven't found the time to watch it (and might not today) but it's a question that gets brought up quite often so I'm sure it's worth watching. A bonus: it's also subtitled in Dutch. And Patrick Stewart is narrating it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/ Director: Duncan Jones User Rating: 8.0/10 8,709 votes Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller Plot: Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Bad Astronomy reports astronomers have spotted a potential Type Ia supernova in our own galaxy. This is a white dwarf that orbits a normal star like the Sun, it draws material off and as this matter piles up on the dense core of the white dwarf it can eventually detonate like a stellar thermonuclear bomb. The object is about 25,000 light years away and may go supernova within a couple of thousands...
Out of clouds flur owls. White tinder, tumbling through the gulf, black earth their touch paper. Lambs sing and suckle. Irises shrink, tossing and turning in their beds. Night is gnawed by stags. The blue moon, circus girl with silver studs and cherry lips, bares a breast. The chandelier hemisphere pricks with stars, litters glass over the fields. One owl tears out of its dive, silently arcs in suicide...
Astrobiology is a fascinating and complex field of science. It is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, and is a relatively new field of science incorporating astronomy, biology, geology, palaeontology, physics, mathematics and other disciplines. It is even more fascinating given that we have never actually discovered life anywhere else in the universe!...
TIME magazine has announced its 50 best inventions of 2009, with the NASA Ares rocket shooting straight to the top. The Ares rocket is a masterpiece of engineering, being that it is 327 feet tall and packs in some uber-powerful J2 engines. But the reason it is top of the list is due to the fact that it is man's great hope for re-igniting space travel to the moon – which is set to take place...
Okay, it’s late at night and everyone on the face of the earth is watching New Moon. Even Kellan Lutz apparently because he was at the Landmark’s Sunshine Cinema in New York City to watch it. I am so happy his hair is blond again. And maybe he should remember that if we ever get [...]
Out of clouds flur owls. White timber, tumbling through the gulf, black earth their touch paper. Lambs sing and suckle. Irises shrink, toss and turn in their beds. Night is knawed by stags. The blue moon, circus girl with silver studs and cherry lips, bares a breast. The chandelier hemisphere pricks with stars, litters glass over the fields. One owl tears out of its dive, silently arcs in suicide skyward...
Only a relatively brief post on a rather haunting passage from the 14th Century poem, Gawain and the Green Knight . I've given the Middle English below, and then a translation of my own which doesn't attempt to recapture either the organisational alliteration, nor the rhyme in the shorter 'bob': Bot þen hyȝes heruest, and hardenes hym sone, Warnez hym for þe wynter to wax ful rype;...
Amazing rotating earth simulation as seen from Moon to Earth distance of 384,403 kilometers/238,857 miles. DOWNLOAD NOW Email this to a friend'Share this on FacebookShare this on del.icio.usDigg this!Post this to MySpaceTweet This!Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponSubscribe to the comments for this post'Buzz up!Share this on RedditShare this on TechnoratiShare this on LinkedinAdd...
(photo of John Kessel's Nebula Awards copyright John Kessel ) For those of you who can nominate for the Nebulas, here is what is eligible from Electric Velocipede (that being stuff published from July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009 ): Issue 15/16 Fiction Novelettes Corey Brown - Child of Scorn Claude Lalumière - Destroyer of Worlds Darren Speegle - Strains of the Lost Oktober Short Stories Olivia...
The Crescent Earth as seen from the Rosetta spacecraft on November 13 (Image Credit, ESA ) The Rosetta spacecraft , on its way to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko did another flyby of the Earth-Moon system . This striking image of the crescent Earth is my favourite, but there is a number of images and an animation of the approach to Earth here .
Have to apologize to you, my friends. I’m doing the National Write a Novel in a Month thing and have not spent the time I usually do looking for interesting tidbits to share. Instead I’ve actually been (gasp) writing! Now the goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I’ll be happy if I write 20,000 (I just went over the 10,000 word mark.) I’m working on the seventh...
Last month, NASA set its sights on the moon. Forty years after the historic Apollo 11 landing and 37 years after the last American shook moon dust from his boot, our lunar neighbor is looming large in the imagination. This time, the world's scientists are excited by a mile-high dust cloud kicked up when a NASA probe slammed into the moon's surface at 5,600 miles per hour on Oct. 9. NASA commanded...
Want to download Moon full movie online ? Moon is the latest blockbuster to hit the screens in US. Read on as I share with you more about the movie and where to download Moon. Moon - The Plot Sam Bell (Rockwell) is nearing the end of his contract with Lunar. He's been a faithful employee for 3 long years. His home has been Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone, mining Helium 3. The...
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There's only one legitimate place I've found to watch it, the rest seem like scams :-/ You can see it over here though: http://freeonlinemovies.us/watch28015.html
Moon movie watch online English hollywood latest new film video songs download review overview trailers clips cast crew story. This 2009 independent sci-fi thriller is directed by first time feature film length director Duncan Jones (who made a bunch of French Connection clothing line commercials) and stars Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, a solitary man who is contracted by the company Lunar to mine on the...