The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 11: High Skool Reunion. This week we get old school, all the way back to high school. We talk common themes in school movies and see how our own school adventures compare. In beer 30, we sample the Left Hand Brewing Wake Up Dead, and
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 10: Parody Wars. This week our nerds venture into a galaxy far far away and take a look at parody movies and fan films inspired by Star Wars. We sample some Space Balls beer in Beer 30, and talk lasers, new planets, and life on
This week, the ESO crew takes a look at things to come via the science fiction magic 8-ball. The “Very Doubtful” Director Faber, the “Reply Hazy” Mike Gordon, and the “Most Likely” to be an award-winning author Bobby Nash and joined by “Without a Doubt” Dan Haight and “Outlook Good”
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz When I was a kid, my dream was to become an astronaut. I’m pretty sure I checked out just about every book on space my local library had to offer, and at night I would stare up at the sky and imagine what it
The Red Bull Stratos Space Jump aired live on The Discovery Channel and across the internet today. The ESO Network congratulates Felix Baumgartner on his history making leap.
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com A few months ago, we heard that NASA’s determined to launch some kind of new Mars mission by 2018 regardless of budget cuts. Now a proposed plan for just such a mission has been revealed, and it’s one of the most ambitious searches for Martian
By Mike Wall , SPACE.com Senior Writer Space.com | SPACE.com, Source: Yahoo.com / Space.com A newly unveiled company with some high-profile backers — including filmmaker James Cameron and Google co-founder Larry Page — has announced plans to mine near-Earth asteroids for resources such as precious metals and water. Planetary Resources,
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com Manned missions into the cosmos were always going to be a dicey affair, given the multitudes of things we don’t know (and the fact that NASA’s funding is a fraction of what it should be). But if there are actually hyper-intelligent dinosaurs waiting for us,
By Evan Ackerman, Source: Dvice.com Our galaxy is home to about three hundred billion stars. That’s a lot of stars. New research suggests that for every one of those stars, there may be a hundred thousand homeless planets wandering the galaxy. If you’re counting, that’s like 30,000,000,000,000,000 planets, and some
By Evan Ackerman, source: Dvice.com That mysterious robotic spaceship that the U.S. Air Force sent into orbit for seven straight months last year may get a bit of an upgrade. Boeing is toying with the idea of expanding the X-37B into the X-37C, which could carry up to six astronauts
By Whitney Clavin & Trent J. Perrotto, Source: NASA.gov Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission indicate the family of asteroids some believed was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs is not likely the culprit, keeping open the case on one of Earth’s greatest mysteries. While scientists
By Nathalie Caron, Source: Blastr.com Awesome news, everyone! While we’re impatiently waiting for season 5 of Primeval to air over here in North America, news of a spin-off of the UK sci-fi series has just emerged. Titled Primeval: New World (Torchwood: Miracle Day was originally sub-titled The New World, BTW)
