Remember the post from two days ago of the entire interior of a room being painted with Musou black, the world’s darkest commercially available paint, absorbing 99.4% of light that hits it? I certainly hope you remember, otherwise we might have a The Notebook situation on our hands. I would
Because sometimes you have to razzle-dazzle the crowd with a fireworks show to renew interest in your project, this is a video of a SpaceX Starship exploding while attempting to land after a successful high-altitude flight test. Afterwards, Elon Musk congratulated the team for gathering the data they needed during
Space: the final frontier. Captain Kirk said that so it must be true. This is a video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) of a massive plasma eruption taking place, played in both visible and invisible wavelengths for reference. Some more info while I pretend it’s actually the devil trying
The Arecibo Telescope, probably better known for its appearance in GoldenEye than for any of its scientific discoveries, made an unplanned crossing of the Rainbow Bridge on December 1st after several catastrophic cable failures dropped the telescope’s 900-ton receiver through the dish below. The collapse was captured on video both
Because nothing quite captures the spirit of Christmas like Star Trek, this is the Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise Musical Tree Topper With Light. And apparently Trekkies have developed future farming tech capable of growing actual money trees to fruition, because this tree topper costs $150. A cost that, admittedly, made
This is some video from the lunar surface (read: a Hollywood backlot) of astronauts doing their thing, but with the footage sped up. Obviously, the low-gravity makes the footage appear particularly outlandish. You know it’s crazy we visited the moon six times in four years but haven’t been back since,
Excited about the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop remake by Netflix, fan Denver Jackson went and made a live-action remake of the title sequence himself. He did a great job. Honestly, I had almost forgotten Netflix was still working on this project. I suppose I have something to look forward to
This is a short video tour of the Star Trek themed man cave theater that Phil Stiller constructed in his basement. I especially like the hidden door, followed by the futuristic pocket door. The interior includes some Star Trek and space memorabilia, a small bar, theater seating for four, and,