Comments on: Science Friday: Martian Snow, ‘Dark Flow’, Bionic Hand & Fusion Man!

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:56:25 +0000

Once again, cool sci-news round-up, Kayla.

- I want to know when Jet Man is going to start fighting crime.

- Is is just me or does “Tsunami invisibility cloak unfortunately only invisible to tsunamis.” sound like a headline from The Onion?

- It’s pretty sad how boring concept cars have gotten. Now, in the 1950s — THOSE guys knew what a concept car should look like:

http://tinyurl.com/4mfmz8

Scott B. out.

By: Brett Campbell

Brett Campbell — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:30:16 +0000

#9 – boJac: Have you or your astronomy class seen the program in Google Earth where you can locate objects in the galaxy — and other galaxies? Go into G.E. and click on the Saturn-like planet icon. Then you can type in terms such as “Neptune,” “Polaris,” “Andromeda Galaxy,” and so forth, and it will zoom you along through the heavens to satellite-snapped photos of these objects. Check out “Horsehead Nebula” — there are some pretty cool shots.

The program has its bugs. Just like the G.E. program of our own beloved Mother Earth, for example, where if you type in “North Pole” it take you to shots of a location in Alaska instead of into Santa’s back yard. For example, it doesn’t recognize the names of any of Jupiter’s Galilean moons, but it’s still a quite amazing little program.

I just thought that you, or your teacher and class, or any other visitors to this weekly post, might like to check it out if you haven’t already done so.

Have a pleasant weekend, all.

Oh, and in the G.E. program, if you want to get back to finding locations on Earth rather than in the heavens, just click on the planet icon once again.

By: colin

colin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:32:25 +0000

Of these stories, I am the most impressed with the ExoFly. For over a hundred years, humans have been attempting to duplicate the natural movements of the dragonfly. They finally did it, and it looks fantastic. Kudos to the design team.

By: max

max — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:55:29 +0000

a tal shia on whoever linked these stories to FOX news.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:28:50 +0000

I look forward to this column every week…thanks.

By: ARGTREK

ARGTREK — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:06:04 +0000

Very nice sci non fi . thanks Kayla.

By: biodredd

biodredd — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:38:45 +0000

#9 – That’s nothing… I’m going to be ON Mercury. :)

By: boJac

boJac — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:50:08 +0000

My Astronomy teacher is going to be at mission control for the next Mercury flyby. How cool is that?!?

By: Wings

Wings — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:42:12 +0000

Great photo of mercury! Love the news about snow on Mars and the clay thing was very educational.

Concept cars! I bet they’ll show up in Europe and Asia first as the real thing.

By: MONGO

MONGO — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:22:04 +0000

Mongo want to hear what Mars sound like. Also think jet pack pretty cool, but think feet might get hot or burn fur. Maybe make bigger version of dragonfly machine to put on Mongo back. Mongo look like he from Kasshyyk.