A team created by the B612 Foundation including NASA Astronauts and directors, planetary scientists and astronomers, and a Program Manager for Kepler Space Telescope among other titles, is building a real life Sentinel to protect Earth from asteroids. The Sentinel Mission will use a privately funded spacecraft with instruments both proven and cutting edge in design, and is expected…
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It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! Mars on Earth
You may have gotten a chuckle about the first manned mission to Mars, but millions of dollars have been spent all over Earth in the last decade, researching how man will survive physically and mentally in the inhospitable environment. Last year in Russia a worldly crew consisting of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Columbian and a Chinese citizen survived…
It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! We are like Hunters
In the Halo Universe Lekgolo are a mass of eel or worm-like creatures that form together with a single consciousness, into the hulking beast known as Hunters or Mgalekgolo. Out of the approximately 100 trillion cells that make up the human body, only about 10 percent of them are actually human. The rest are from aliens within us. Our symbiotic…
It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! 3D Printer
Remember in Fifth Element, when military scientists of the future create a fully-formed, model-like redhead from a single cell? How far away do you think we are from that technology? It’s possible that in that future, the precursor to the Lee-Loo builder was a 3D Printer. 3D printers create objects in a process called additive manufacturing, where successive layers of…
It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! Asteroid Catcher
This artist’s illustration is of a contraption that NASA is planning to use to capture an asteroid – – and place it into orbit around the moon. The mission would entail an unmanned “probe” capturing a 25ft wide asteroid whose journey through our solar system swings it by Earth. The robotic ship would then drag the asteroid into an orbit…
It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! Wanted: Couple for Mars
Dennis Tito, “World’s First Space Tourist” and retired scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is looking for “a middle-aged couple” to be the first in our history to set eyes on Mars. “…Inspiration Mars Foundation believes in the exploration of space as a catalyst for growth, national prosperity, knowledge and global leadership. History has shown that strong nations…
It’s not Halo, but damn it’s cool! Robot Warriors
It may not be a floating basketball-sized ancilla with the capability to nuke you with it’s third eye, but the X-47B unmanned aircraft seen in this image has the capacity to fly a mission with no help from man. Other robotic creations have been developed to identify and engage targets with missiles, and go on reconnaissance and intelligence gathering missions,…