Captured on video by NASA’s Perseverance rover near the nicknamed ‘Thorofare Ridge’ on Mars, this is a video (sped up 20X) of a dust devil some 200-feet wide, and 1.2-miles high. The pencil D dust devil was spotted traveling east to west along the ridge at approximately 12MPH, presumably on
This is a video of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield rating various space related movie scenes for realism. Movie include: ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Life,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,’ ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon,’ ‘F9: The Fast Saga,’ ‘Space Cowboys’, ‘Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi’,
This is a video of The Epic Spaceman (aka Toby Lockerbie) trying his best to explain the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy, and our place in it. In order to help our feeble minds, “he shrunk the hazy cluster down to such smaller perspectives as the diameter of the
This is a video of the astronaut sculpture created by ex-physicist (once a physicist, always a physicist in my opinion) and artist Julian Voss-Andreae. It’s constructed of cross section slices of mirrors, and almost seems invisible when viewed directly head-on (or back-on), but appears more solid as you move around
Seen here pooping on a console as usual, this is another compilation video from Trekkie John DiMarcio (previously), this time featuring Data’s pet cat, Spot. That’s cool, but as someone who was born in space I happen to know firsthand that cats aren’t allowed on spaceships. They’re too much of
In wayback news (my favorite kind, all new news is bad news), this is a video from the Australian Public Broadcast service on August 31st, 1962 asking Sydney residents if they think there’s life on other planets. The answers range from “no” to one guy having seen a UFO. Most
This is a clip from a 2011 episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in which a contestant (who already used all three lifelines in the firsts four questions) is asked which planet out of four was derived from Greek mythology instead of Roman. While talking out her answer,
This is another compilation created by Trekkie and editor John DiMarco (previously), this time highlighting 40 years of various Star Trek characters saying ‘Engage!’. Oh you thought it was just Picard? Some fan you are. The Enterprise crew has been engaging since the original series! Probably in freaky deaky alien