Moon Exploration is Coming Back in a Big Way

Video by Verge Science

You may assume that the height of Moon exploration is long past with the last of the Apollo missions. However, that notion is rapidly changing due to private companies joining with governments and privately financing lunar exploration and the establishment of permanent stations on the Moon.

Read more about the Israeli-built spacecraft Beresheet launched into orbit on one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and scheduled to land on the Moon April 11, 2019.

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19-02-15 Linx of the Preternatural, Prodigious, and Propaedeutic

A low flyover of Jupiter's moon Europa using recently processed data from NASA's Galileo orbiter. Uses high-resolution grayscale and low-resolution color images were taken between 1996 and 1998. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

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Q and QAnon Conspiracy BS (via RationalWiki)

Bourrée Duet from Space

I've been a fan of Jethro Tull since discovering an abandoned cassette copy of Benefit at my grandfather's house (No, Grandpa wasn't so hip -- I think it belonged to one of his step kids or something). Sure, I had heard the standard radio tracks -- Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, Thick as a Brick, etc., but most of Benefit was new to me. I thought the album was fantastic from beginning to end and it made me a fan.

Eventually, I would go on to collect everything Jethro Tull had ever recorded and a few years later, when I was managing a record store in Atlanta, I scored some passes for one of those "meet and greets" backstage with the band at the Fox Theatre. My Rock Island poster and original gatefold vinyl pressing of Living in the Past, autographed by both Ian Anderson and Martin Barre, adorn the walls of my home office to this day (almost twenty years later).

They've been around for over 40 years now and some 24 musicians have passed through their ranks, but they're still recording and performing to this day.

Though I must say that both Ian Anderson and I have a lot less hair than we did back in the '70s. :)

Hubble Ultra Field in 3-D Makes You Feel Really Insignificant

Teenager Fights to Reclaim Gus Grissom's Spacesuit from Smithsonian

Fifteen-year-old Amanda Meyer takes on the big dogs of the Smithsonian Institute and the U.S. Government in her fight to reclaim the spacesuit of her hero, Astronaut Gus Grissom who died in a flash fire accident aboard a Gemini space capsule in 1967. Amanda uses her web site named "Victory For The Suit" to build an online petition and to solicit for corporate sponsors to aide her in her battle. She has petitioned every member of the United States Senate and wants to have the suit permanently stored in a memorial museum that is easily accessible by the Grissom's family.
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Skycars Ready to Fly

Holy George Jetson, Batman! Check out the great article and videos (click the picture to the left) about the Skycar that's just like the ones predicted in the old 1950's pulp magazines. While you're there don't forget to look at the videos about the Cartercopter breakthrough and the NASA Highway in the Sky navigational system. Now all I need are some giant robots to make my day.