Elon Musk Says Humans will land on Mars by 2026
Elon Musk, one of my favorite people in existence, recently said that his SpaceX spaceships will get humans to Mars by 2026 with OR without NASA. Musk spoke to CNBC today and said the he was “hopeful that the first people could be taken to Mars in…
The Moon’s Internet Connection is (likely) Faster than Yours
I think most people wish they had faster internet speed. Hell, Comcast being the jerks they are keep throttling mine every time I get within a days of the month’s end. Anyway, our problems could be solved once those moon colonies get up and…
The Pentagon Has Plan For Zombie Apocalypse
Everyone thought I was crazy at my last job because I had a bug-out bag in the event of the apocalypse, but who’s crazy now, huh?? The Pentagon revealed that it actually has its own zombie apocalypse plan in case “The Walking Dead”…
Check Out Venus By Day and Night in a Single Image
Image by ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA The above image of the planet Venus in both night and day. It was taken with the Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-Infrared spectrometer (VIRTIS) on board ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft. And it is beautiful.…
A Fully Flexible OLED That Wraps Around Your Wrist
I feel like I have been awaiting a flexible display phone or tablet for years. However, it seems like it is finally happening for us consumers. Plastic Logic has released a flexible OLED that can wrap around your wrist. The screen is completely bendable…
These Men Are Trying to Build a Real Time Machine – And I Love Them
If you aren’t at least secretively obsessed with time travel, then you probably aren’t someone I would hang out with, sorry. It is human nature to want to go back and fix mistakes or witness historical amazingness. It can be easy to give up…
Scientists Have Created “Alien” DNA
I really hope this does not turn into a “Fringe” event. It only took 15 years, but scientists have created a living cell that contains two unnatural DNA building blocks. What this means in the grander sense is that we (as humanity) are one…
Science Made the Most In-Depth Universe Simulation Ever
Prepare to feel tiny and very insignificant. Researchers just published finding from the first ultra-realistic simulation of our universe’s growth and not surprisingly it spans about 13 billion years. And in case you wanted to try this at home, it…
NASA Wants to Send Plant Life to Mars in 2020
NASA has decided that it is almost time we have life on Mars. The Ames Research Center has proposed sending plant life to the red dusty planet with the next Mars rover mission. The proposal is aptly named the Mars Plant Experiment (MPX). It aims to see…
Check Out This 300-Year-Old Guidebook to Every Conceivable Color
Most of us are aware how Pantone has DOMINATED the visible spectrum since dividing it into six-digit clot codes. However, a 300 year old color dictionary has been found. It is an amazing guide to painting with watercolors as it displays hundreds of…